Static Jets at Lackland AFB

[JBoyle]

is it just me, or is there something weird about the nacelles on the B-58? They seem to crank down at the top, near the front.

They are just mock-ups. Apparently they were missing when the plane was recovered for display.

The story is the plane was put out to pasture at Little Rock after a mishap or something. It was sent to Kelly (perhaps they did B-58 PDM there) and the nacells were fashioned out of fiberglass. The display was later wrecked in the wind storm..probably didn't do the fiberglass any good.
I hear it was off display for awhile..glad to see it's back.

[Brad]

Brad,
Thanks for posting all the Lackland photos, you seem to have shot almost everything available!

Can you confirm how many F-100s are in the Security Police Training area please? You have shots of 25770 and 31684, but they also should have 31629.
Near to this is the Logistics Training Center, which should still hold the fuselage of ex USCG HC-130B 1341, although its now in USAF colours.
C-9A 10876 should be somewhere as well (Medical Center?).

You just need to get across to the Medina Annex for the F-101, F-104, F-105 and T-38, plus some F-16s

The dodgy Huey in USAF colours is in fact Army UH-1H 65-9641. Also the C-118 marked 52-6313, is in fact ex USN 131600.

Regards,
Andy Marden

USA Military Out of Service

Andy, 31629 is also present. I just forgot to attach the picture. That makes a total of three F-100s. I didn't make it over to Medina because of the weather. (Note attached P-47 photo) I arrived Monday evening for a Tuesday morning appointment at the hospital and it was cold as a well diggers butt. Tuesday and Wednesday morning all the bases were closed because of the ice and other assorted bad weather. I made it to Kelly just before they closed the bridge and didn't have time to make it to Medina. By Wednesday afternoon, I was pretty much blind because of the PRK laser surgery on my eyes and wasn't allowed to drive until Monday morning. I flew back out here to South Carolina (still somewhat blind) on Monday evening. I don't know when I'll be back out in San Antonio but I'll try to get over to Medina.

There is a C-9 across from the T-29 over at Wilford Hall med center, but it was too muddy and cold to get a good picture of it. As for the Herk in the Logistics center, I'm not sure. It was all closed up because of the weather. If you look back through the threads from late November/early December for my pictures of the XC-99, there is a picture of the other wingless Herk that was used for a load trainer. It's still sitting out at Kelly.

I'm also attaching another picture of the F-5 from about ten years ago. It's had many different guises over the years.

[retroaviation]

Thanks for all the pictures and info, Brad. I hope the ol' eyes are as good as new now.
Gary

[John Kerr]

Reference comments about the B-58A 59-2437 being pushed out in the weeds at LRAFB, AR and damaged by a wind storm at KAFB, TX. Well here are a few photographs of it in both places. Photos at LRAFB, AR taken in Nov 89 by John R. Kerr, Photo at KAFB, TX taken in Apr 94 by Criag Parchman. Sure did a lot of work on the old gal to make her even presentable for display.

[bdk]

Oh my!

My hat is off to the restoration crew!

[ang1sgt]

I like that!

Is the tail hook attached to the ground? The thing in the picture looks too small to be the tail hook.

Brad,

I doubt that they used the actual Hook itself, but they probably fixed a strut to the Hook mounting point to make the Phantom look like it's taking off. This is one of the strongest hardpoint on the airframe and would make for a very sturdy mounting place.

If memory serves me correctly, the tail hook on the Phantom is much longer than this strut shown here in this picture.

I hope this helps.

Chris