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Tue Oct 31, 2006 8:26 am
I stopped by the NASA hanger while at WOH and checked on the B-57. Yep it's still there. The plane was positioned cross ways inside the hanger.
With the wingspan I wonder if they have to dolly it out sideways or will it turn and pass through the doors. I've seen it sitting outside the hanger before but have never witnessed how they get it in and out...Tom
Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:40 am
The other one is deployed to Afghanistan at the request of the Afghani Govt.
Tue Oct 31, 2006 11:29 am
I wasn't aware NASA had two B-57's. I knew they had the one. I saw the story sometime back about a B-57 being deployed to Afganistan but I didn't know it was also based at Ellington...Tom
Tue Oct 31, 2006 11:43 am
Yep, they are the last two WB-57s flying in the world. Both based at EFD.
Tue Oct 31, 2006 9:33 pm
The WB-57 stopped over at BIA about a month ago, I assume on it's way back from the mid-east. Quite a site to see sitting on the hammerhead first thing in the am.
Fri Nov 03, 2006 12:25 pm
Thanks for posting this... I had no idea what the plane was.
I was telling people that I thought it was a U2.
If I can find the terrible (taken at 4 AM inside the hangar) picture I have of it I will post it.
The one at Ellington had six triage stations set up very near its wings during the Medical Evacs from Katrina.
The CAP group helped unload patients from New Orleans Hospitals out of the various C130s and other ANG transports as they arrived on the ramp, day and night for 4 or 5 days.
I worked two of the most gratifying nights of my sordid

existence and it was just so unreal to be doing the Medical thing with some of the most desparate (and grateful) people and look up and there's a high altitude wonder of modern (60s?) technology with NASA folks occassionally coming out to work on it... or at least check up on us.
Sun Nov 19, 2006 11:00 am
I missed it while it was at BED a few years ago too!
I was told they stopped into MIT for a gear problem.
I did get to see the Proteus fly away once, it looked goofy in the air.
Sun Nov 19, 2006 11:51 am
Good Moring Guys,
I was under the impression that the highly modified RB-57's were in storage and pickled. I do recall seeing one of these type of birds out at Pima several years ago. Didn't know that these were still in service. Nice shots.
Paul
Sun Nov 19, 2006 5:57 pm
IIRC one of these NASA a/c visited Oshkosh a couple of years back (relatively recently).
Sun Nov 19, 2006 8:53 pm
This AC was on its way home from a little recce work in the mid-east, if I have my facts straight. Glad you guy like the pics!
Don
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