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Some detail on the "taboo" tailwheel-

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I have often wondered if the touched up photo was a marketing tactic to make the B-60 look as sleek as the BUFF. That makes as much sense as trying to make a recip powered WW II design into a jet. :)

About a year ago I really got into the B-60 and its history, so much so that I created "what if" drawings of the plane inservice.

First off, well it would have had to been assigned to Edwards at some point:

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A 6th BW silver B-60 (instead of the real B-52Es the unit got after the B-36 days):

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I always hated that the 95th BW went away when the B-52Bs went to MASDC. So a 95th Bomb Wing B-60 in the SEA scheme!

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And lastly; a 95th BW B-60 with Hound Dogs! :

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Wonderful idea to make optional color art!


Thanks! I did the same thing with the F-90.

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...That makes as much sense as trying to make a recip powered WW II design into a jet. :)


SAAB 21 and 21R:

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...That makes as much sense as trying to make a recip powered WW II design into a jet. :)


SAAB 21 and 21R:

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One I had forgotten.

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One I had forgotten.

Heh. Doesn't mean you weren't right. :lol: The 21R was apparently outclassed as a jet, and mainly intended for ground attack.

One of the great things about aviation is that somewhere, someone's tried just about everything. :rolleyes:

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JDK wrote:
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One I had forgotten.

Heh. Doesn't mean you weren't right. :lol: The 21R was apparently outclassed as a jet, and mainly intended for ground attack.

One of the great things about aviation is that somewhere, someone's tried just about everything. :rolleyes:


That is so true. Even the turbine is far older than I had imagined.

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One of the great things about aviation is that somewhere, someone's tried just about everything. :rolleyes:


EVEN PUTTING A PROP ON A JET!!! :?

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One of the great things about aviation is that somewhere, someone's tried just about everything. :rolleyes:


EVEN PUTTING A PROP ON A JET!!! :?

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And that thing is so goofy I love it!

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One of the great things about aviation is that somewhere, someone's tried just about everything. :rolleyes:


EVEN PUTTING A PROP ON A JET!!! :? ]

Thunderscreech? A real latecomer. :lol: First turboprop I'm aware of is the Trent powered Meatbox.

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And the Meteor actually held a world speed record, unlike the Screech's daddy.

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Don't forget about the Russians with the Yak-15. Taking a Yak-3 and stuffing a Soviet built Me-262 engine in it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakovlev_Yak-15
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JDK wrote:
AFML wrote:
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One of the great things about aviation is that somewhere, someone's tried just about everything. :rolleyes:


EVEN PUTTING A PROP ON A JET!!! :? ]

Thunderscreech? A real latecomer. :lol: First turboprop I'm aware of is the Trent powered Meatbox.

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And the Meteor actually held a world speed record, unlike the Screech's daddy.


That's a good looking bird. I didn't even know it existed.
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That's a good looking bird. I didn't even know it existed.

Basically a Gloster Meteor Mk.I (this is a Mk.III, IIRC, but essentially the same):

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With two RR Trent turboprops:

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royc ... rboprop%29

(Apparently the name Trent has been reused for some funny modern engine as well.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloster_Meteor

The Meteor took the world official speed record at 606 mph in November 1945, then to 616 mph in 1946.

The Yak 15:
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One of these:
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With one of these:
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