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RF-84F at 20th Fox studio circa 1966

Fri Dec 12, 2014 8:31 pm

Got a couple still images from the 1966 movie John Goldfarb, Please Come Home of an RF-84F shot at 20th Century-Fox.
(Note the "jetliner" on the far left of the first photo - it's the modified DC-6 from Fate is the Hunter.)
Any guesses as to the ID of this Thunderflash? It's playing the part of a U-2; might even be just a fuselage. Also note the nose gear is missing since the U-2's nose wheel is further aft. Anyone know where this thing came from, or ended up?

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Re: RF-84F at 20th Fox studio circa 1966

Sat Dec 13, 2014 10:23 am

I wonder if it's the same jet that had a brief cameo in the TV movie pilot film for the 1972 series The Delphi Bureau...which was filmed at Warner Brothers.

The plot concerned arms smuggling...and a F-84F was seen in a warehouse. I can't recall if it was an RF though.

Spoiler alert....it turns out Bob Crane...aka Colonel Hogan...is a big time bureaucrat who arranged for "F-101s" to be stolen from D-M...(featuring shots of F-104s landing)..and sold abroad, hidden in grain shipments.
Some great shots at the beginning of DM and particularly B-58s waiting for the axe.

Re: RF-84F at 20th Fox studio circa 1966

Sat Dec 13, 2014 7:56 pm

JohnB wrote:Some great shots at the beginning of DM and particularly B-58s waiting for the axe.

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Joe Baugher wrote:(60-)1117 to MASDC as BQ0076 1/14/70. Scrapped Aug 2, 1977
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