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I wish I was alive back then. All the variety the U.S. Air force had back then....and lots of DAY GLO!
For those, like me, that like cold war stuff....watch!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4exGeLdK7Fo

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Thanks for posting that Nathan! What a fantastic show they had back then. I did see an air show/open house at Ellsworth AFB, SD in May 1960 when I was 10 years old and they had some nice aircraft and color there, but nothing like what they had at Edwards that year.

Love the variety of Cold War aircraft from the Fifties/early Sixties era and all of that great day-glo and orange! Love the C-133, the taxiing F-86F's and all the other great stuff.

How many people could say they were at an airshow with the X-15?

Andy

Checking the few readable serials, that's X-15 56-6671 now at the NMUSAF, the very first (J)F-101 53-2418 bearing the GE logo, which was at the Weisbrod museum but is now with Evergreen (although it's not on their website); then TF-102 54-1353 which was at Fox Field in Lancaster, now back home at Edwards; and F-106A 57-2457, which Baugher lists as crashed April 22, 1969. The F-86 with buzz number FU-171 is probably 51-13171; no info around on that one.

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All right, Mister Dorfmann, start pullin'!
Pilot: "Flap switch works hard in down position."
Mechanic: "Flap switch checked OK. Pilot needs more P.T." - Flight report, TB-17G 42-102875 (Hobbs AAF)

That was great.

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I remember the open houses at Biggs AFB when I was a kid. Like that one at Edwards there was always great stuff and always a lot of color. Unfortunately my father never took photos and I have found no one else did either!

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A big thank you for posting the video! Love the -104s.

Regarding that TF-102, IIRC we referred to her as "Dumbo". She was pretty much a hangar queen when I was there from June '66 to late May '69. Didn't fly a heck of a lot and the story was that she'd only make supersonic in a dive. We also had F-4 409 which was one of the very first ones built. The other two were 654 and 743. NASA also had one at North Base but I cannot recall the number.

Edwards was a great place to be stationed unless you didn't have wheels. Lots of different birds along with contractors aircraft and the periodic transient one like El Centro's B-66. There was even an Invader with some eastern college markings on it that was kept hangared up near Base Ops.

This is what I remember:

T-33, T-37, T-38, TF-102
B-52 (003 and 008), B-57, B-58
F4C, F-104 (including NF-104), F-106B, F-111 ( both types, seats and modules)
HS Kestrel, XB-70, SR-71, U-2, XC-142 (4 engine vertical take-off) and who knows what I have forgotten over the years.