Aircraft Carriers (not the sea-going variety)

And this might be a bit recent…

Flood

Hardly historic but I must admit to a liking for the 120 ton mach 12 glider.

Distiller
Not pictured is the GRB-36F /RF-84K “FICON” parasite fighter combo from the 50’s. The bombers were based at farichild AFB Washington while the fighters were located at Larson AFB, in Moses Lake…about 150 miles west of Fairchild in the Central Washington desert…
One of the 25 production RF-84Ks is preserved at Dyess AFB, Texas collection….see attached photo.
I believe this was the only operational manned fighter parasite since the USN airships.

I would have to take issue with you there….

The Soviets used a TB-3/I-16SPB combo operationally in 1941 to bomb Romanian oilfields…

The first flight took place in July 1937 and the combination was used successfully on July 26 1941 to attack the oilfields at Constantsa in German-occupied Romania. Following this success, on the night of 13 August 1941, the Chernavado bridge that carried an oil pipeline across the Danube was attacked and destroyed.

For more info see :-http://vvs.hobbyvista.com/ModelArticles/Duffy/Aviamatka/index.php

And while the I-16SPB was not strictly a ‘fighter’ (it was a fighter-bomber), nor was the RF-84K used in the FICON Project.

Ken

Thanks Flood,been into aircraft all my life and this is the first time I’ve come across the ME 328.

Ah okay thanks for that.

TNZ

This is just my personal opinion, but since the idea of the theme of “Aircraft Carriers” was thought up by Mitchell Holman and he gathered all the photos, cleaned them up and then posted them on alt.binaries.pictures.aviation for your enjoyment, the least you could do is give the guy some credit. Public domain or not, it was Mitchell who made these images available.

Whilst it might seem harmless to harvest images from all over the web to re-post, the people who make their collections of original photographs available this way may become reluctant to do so if the feel that their generosity is being overlooked. That particular newsgroup isn’t anywhere near as busy as it used to be, but we still get some wonderful old photos posted – I hope that doesn’t stop.

Rob

I couldn’t agree more, Robbo, and I always do give credit to websites and owners of photos I repost (that are not copyright of course).

The site I borrowed these pics from is http://alt.binaries.pictures.aviation.xusenet.com/ and they have a superb collection of images there.

Cheers
TNZ

Distiller
The B-52 “mothership” is certainly historic, if not quite old enough for your liking. 🙂
It’s the sole NB-52B (52-008) and has lifted everything from the X-15 on its record breaking flights to more recent work with subscale models and the Mach 7 Scramjet.
It’s 50+ years old….so it’s older than a lot of less “historic” planes discussed on this forum.

And 50 years ago….

Not pictured is the GRB-36F /RF-84K “FICON” parasite fighter combo from the 50’s. The bombers were based at farichild AFB Washington while the fighters were located at Larson AFB, in Moses Lake…about 150 miles west of Fairchild in the Central Washington desert…
One of the 25 production RF-84Ks is preserved at Dyess AFB, Texas collection….see attached photo.
I believe this was the only operational manned fighter parasite since the USN airships.

Don’t suppose these count…;)

Flood

Is that how you get baby Ansons? 😀

Adrian

Turbo
yes the other airship was the Akron.
Interestingly the USn also employed another aircraft type from the airships.
It was a small Waco cabin monoplane (complete with hook), used for carrying the mail and personnnel to the airship. I’ve never seen more than one very poor quality picture of the Waco. Anyone got any pictures available of it?
Cheers
Andy

There’s a couple of pictures here:

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/ac-usn22/j-types/xjw.htm

Alistair

eerr..ummm….oops….they may have, Robbo.
I liked them so much I thought I’d add to my collection of piccies.

Are they public property from there or do I have to give credit ?
Not sure (honest !!)
If I have to then I apologise to the posters there.

TNZ

And this might be a bit recent…

Flood

Don’t suppose these count…;)

Flood

I remember the airshow act developed by Yves Duval around 12 years ago using a Broussard to carry a Cri-Cri into the air and after a few passes the Cri-Cri released. It then formated on the Broussard doing barrel rolls round it. Yves was a great innovator and is greatly missed. He was killed in a midair involving two Fouga Magisters.
Trapper 69

Thanks Andy,

I think there were 2 airships weren’t there ? USS Macon and Akron ?

TNZ

Turbo
yes the other airship was the Akron.
Interestingly the USn also employed another aircraft type from the airships.
It was a small Waco cabin monoplane (complete with hook), used for carrying the mail and personnnel to the airship. I’ve never seen more than one very poor quality picture of the Waco. Anyone got any pictures available of it?
Cheers
Andy

What’s that on top of the Dornier? :confused:

Looks like a Me328…

Flood

What’s that on top of the Dornier? :confused:

The CEV used an Heinkel 274 in 1948. I will scan photographs from the book Vols d’Essais, le centre d’essais en vol de 1945 à 1960, Jean Claude Fayer, E.T.A.I.2001

Its a Languedoc post-war French airliner , heavily modified for the Leduc Ramjet it carried.

TNZ

Short Maia/Mercury.

Flood

Now you can’t deny this isn’t historic !!
What a great picture..!!

TNZ

I have a couple of web pages – describing how I built models of the TB-1/I-4 combination (‘Zveno-1’) :- http://vvs.hobbyvista.com/ModelArticles/Duffy/Zveno1/index.php

and the TB-3/I-5+I-16+I-Z combination (‘Aviamatka-PVO’) :- http://vvs.hobbyvista.com/ModelArticles/Duffy/Aviamatka/index.php

Ken

Interesting !!
Did the TB-1 actually take off with all of those fighters on it ? It’s a fair weight !!

TNZ