Duncan Az F-100F

steve dickey · **Posted:** Mon Jun 24, 2013 11:04 pm

Can somebody tell me what the pipe is for? Fuel dump?

peter · **Posted:** Tue Jun 25, 2013 6:40 pm

Windshield cracked.. canopy unlocked.. access panel hanging open.. flight controls all over the place.... definately not a well looked after bird... :oops:

mlenoch · **Posted:** Tue Jun 25, 2013 7:52 pm

I think that external pipe may have been for smoke system.
My best guess?

bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11324

Maybe if we knew the serial number we could figure out it's last duty station. Might have been used as a chase plane at Edwards. Would be an ignominious end to one of the Thunderbirds, that's for sure!

ChrisK48 · **Joined:** Tue Mar 15, 2011 2:40 pm **Posts:** 131

It's 56-3812.

steve dickey · **Posted:** Tue Jun 25, 2013 10:42 pm

Thanks for the info Chris.
Might not be in the greatest of shape but whose to know it was not like that before it was put
up on a plinth?? :roll:

Let the detective's begin! :wink:

According to the plaque it was put up in 1998

JohnB · **Posted:** Wed Jun 26, 2013 5:26 am

I think the T-Bird smoke system was similar but exited just above the tailpipe.
The fitting on the end looks jury-rigged...wonder if the rest was removed when they pulled the engine?

bdk wrote:

Would be an ignominious end to one of the Thunderbirds, that's for sure!

Better that than the scrappers around D-M. Or a one-way ride to the Goldwater range.

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