Warbird Information Exchange

Here's another one of K-55 ... Not sure if I have any more as I only spent a few days at the base before I was sent out to the outpost ... Photos from there are mainly of 86's.

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Jerry
S/Sgt. - USAF Radio Operator '52-'56
C-119 "Flying Boxcar" - Korea & Japan

Volunteer: National Museum of the US Air Force (2007-2016)
LTM 381st Bomb Group Memorial Association

the quality is fantastic in every photo. It captures all the true detail of korea and the planes

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" I am a nobody in aviation, but somebody to my family."

Sir, can you please leave me alone? Kind regards,

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" I am a nobody in aviation, but somebody to my family."

Even if I'm the only one to say it -

More Banshees, plees!

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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)

Sorry, don't have any

Did anyone notice that "FA-452" appears to be a Lockheed F-94A Starfire, not an F-80 Shooting Star?

My copy of John W. R. Taylor's Combat Aircraft of the World, 1909 to the present has a photo of an F-94A with buzz number FA-503 and the serial number 92503 on the tail. (Ref. p. 517) Assuming that 92503 was actually 49-2503, I searched for both 49-2452 and just 452 in conjunction with F-94A on Baugher's serial number lists and came up with a block of F-89 Scorpions!

It's quite definitely NOT an F-89 Scorpion!

According to Baugher, the very first F-94A's started at serial nos. 49-2479 for F-94A-1-LO (Block 1) Starfires with Lockheed c/n 780-7001 through 780-7017.

Curious!

Is there any more info available regarding this photo?

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Natasha: "You got plan, darling?"
Boris: "I always got plan. They don't ever work, but I always got one!"

Remember, any dummy can be a dumb-ass...
In order to be a smart-ass, you first have to be "smart"
and to be a wise-ass, you actually have to be "wise"

Ah, just noticed that the tail serial number for FA-452 was preceeded with a 5 and not a 2 - as in 5452.

Baugher shows that to most likely be for this block of aircraft:

TAIL: 51-5307 ... 51-5512
Lockheed F-94B-5-LO
c/n 780-7261/7466

My bad!

I was already familiar with the F-94 series enough to know that the asymmetrical nose was common to the F-94A models and that the symmetrical nose with the ring of twenty-four 2.75 in. “Mighty Mouse” rockets indicated an F-94C. I should have read the text more carefully and noticed that the primary visual distinction between the F-94A and the F-94B was the tip tanks; they hung below the wing on the A model and were mounted centered on the wingtip on the B – just like in this photo. It just didn’t register that also meant that the B had the same asymmetrical nose as the A.

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“To invent the airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything!” - Otto Lilienthal

Natasha: "You got plan, darling?"
Boris: "I always got plan. They don't ever work, but I always got one!"

Remember, any dummy can be a dumb-ass...
In order to be a smart-ass, you first have to be "smart"
and to be a wise-ass, you actually have to be "wise"

319th FIS out of Moses Lake WA.

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F3D-2 VMF(N)-513