Black Is Beautiful Baby

[Jack Cook]

P-61A 422nd NFS 9th AF 1944

[mustangdriver]

"Only the Yanks would have the balls to call something that big a fighter."- RAF pilot after first seeing a P-61.

[Pilotgrl24]

Great picture Jack, have anymore P-61 shots?

[mustangdriver]

Hey how is your Blackwidow project going in Reading?

[visaliaaviation]

Great photo but looks a little strange w/o the top turret. This one, as EVERYONE knows was known as the "no-back" model. LOL

[Jack Cook]

You'd be hard pressed to find any turret equipted P-61s that flew in combat. The turret was very heavy and nearly useless.
I like the razorback P-61s

[mazdaP5]

I've always wanted to see one fly.

[Pilotgrl24]

check out the website, there are a couple of new pics of the work on the tail fin.

www.maam.org

[visaliaaviation]

Does anyone know of what became of the late bubble canopied P-61 that sat deteriorating at San Jose Municipal Airport(now SJ Internat'l). As a kid, I recall taxiing by the relic back inthe 50's/60's, it collapsed on its gear and then was covered with a temp plywood structure. Also IIRC, it was one of the NACA P-61's used for drop tests of missle shapes by nearby Ames. My pop was a NACA "Model Finisher" at Ames and probably painted the test shapes.

[visaliaaviation]

Just did a search and came up with the following:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-61_Black_Widow


Nothing about the SJ aircraft.