RF-84F's HOT OFF THE PRESS

[Steve T]

Shay--

Yep, that looks like it. Front end is reminiscent of our homegrown CF-100 Canuck or an F-89. Now this RB-47 is up on plinths in the hangar with other aircraft parked around her, sort of like "Enola Gay" at Dulles.

S.

[DRobinson]

Any chance you could drop me a mail? A friend of my uncle (in the US) is building a database of F100s and has been after buying one for a long time...apparently he needs to find one that has, at one time, been sold/loaned to a foreign airforce (or find one that is currently for sale) due to some obscure rules!! If it isn't possible to buy this one he would still be after adding the details of this one to his database (he is trying to document the histories of all 2294 aircraft)

dave at rmrobinson.fsnet.co.uk

cheers
Dave

[Shay]

Ok everyone I'm all screwed up. Turns out according to another site that the Camoflage RF-84 is 51-1847 and also it's not a F-model it's a RF-84K in connection with the FICON project. Pre-Production making it one of the first. And then only 25 actual K's were ever produce/converted, 52-7254 through 52-7278. The photo below must have been taken in the Mid '90s. That's when I remember it sitting, as depicted in the picture, in front of the restoration facility.

Shay

[AirJimL2]

The B-47 was 53-2280, which was displayed for years in the open-air park next to the main AFM buildings. I heard later in the summer that it was slated to move to another museum for display...good news considering that the last Boeing bomber

The B-47 was supposed to come to MAPS. However, we would have to have kept it outside, and quite honestly I don't think we could have afforded to move it. Anyway, the Museum decided to get a bunch of fighters from the USAFM rather than the B-47.

Jim

[Mr. Scott]

> There is a complete F-84 behind a old gas station in Terre Haute, Indiana and I know where there is a overgrown lot with several aircraft F-100, T-38, T-37, A-4 and several B-58 parts and parts of many others but if you don't have cash and ready to buy forget it

OK, so where are they? E-mail me if you would.

[JBoyle]

To restore the RB-47 now on display they took another B-47 (from Platsburgh, I think) for parts and were going to send the rest of it to Ellsworth but it was found to be too rotten with corrosion...
What is the NMUSAF really going to do with the airframe.?
With only 21-22 B-47s built, I'd hate to see it really scrapped.

[TimAPNY]

To restore the RB-47 now on display they took another B-47 (from Platsburgh, I think) for parts and were going to send the rest of it to Ellsworth but it was found to be too rotten with corrosion...
What is the NMUSAF really going to do with the airframe.?
With only 21-22 B-47s built, I'd hate to see it really scrapped.

As of June I know that the B-47E in Plattsburgh NY was still there. Mike H took a drive this fall and took some pictures of it also.

Are you thinking of the B-47 at Pease AFB in NH, that one was moved. THe Redhook Brewery is where the B-29, B-47, B-52 and KC-97 where.

[mrhenniger]

As of June I know that the B-47E in Plattsburgh NY was still there. Mike H took a drive this fall and took some pictures of it also.

Pics can be found in this album...

http://community.webshots.com/album/197102282kTxatH

Mike

[RMAllnutt]

With regards to the scrappy who had F-84 and B-58 parts, it is near the former Grissom AFB in Indianna. I was there in 2000, and talked with the owner's son. I saw a lot of what they had, but wasn't allowed to take photographs. It is in absolutely awful shape... mostly moved around with bulldozers by the looks of things. Nothing is complete, or straight for that matter. The only major B-58 components that I could see were several of the large ventral fuel tank/nuke combi-packs that were so distinctive on the belly. He wanted $30k plus for these. He was looking for $100k plus for the smashed up F-84's.... utter nonesense!

Cheers,
Richard

[Broken-Wrench]

It's hard to enjoy yourself with a shotgun around! There are alot of good parts there! He does have a couple al F-100s in there taken apart and a complete A-4. I didn't exactly get permission when I visted so I got the grand tour