Interesting training hulk.

A quick Google suggests a 2 seat US Navy F9F Cougar 🙂

i was inclined at first to say its a voodoo but the wing intake is too far forward for the F-101

looks almost like a two seat skyray, i know its on the edge of my tongue, but i cant quite finger it

Interesting training hulk.

It is a Grumman Cougar F9F-8T Trainer (Some 400 were produced, the last being delivered in February 1960; a new front cockpit was fitted after removal of two of the four 20mm cannon extending the fuselage by some two feet, but all other dimensions remained the same. This is from my era, and I’d scan a photo but results were too grainy : perhaps someone can do so to confirm beyond doubt – not that any remains in my mind as to the aircraft type! 😉

Or as Last lightning correctly suggested “I remove that statement (it’s a) TF-9J” as the F9F-8T was later designated.

It might not be a Navy aircraft at all as the guys in front are US army (M16A4,UCP camo) it does oddly look like a L-29 delphin but the lay out of the fired seats are wrong but the glass divider part of the canopy looks similar?

curlyboy

Typical set up for a training exercise.

” Aircraft crashed location XXX. Pilot ejected. Secure the site. Recover pilot and XXXX equipment from the aircraft “

They get a Cougar / Panther – I got a JP !

yep looks familiar but isnt, strange, could be a mockup, voodoo fuselage with f-9f intake and wings or it could be possibly an early MB-339 or derivatives there of :confused::confused::confused:

I remove that statement:)TF-9J

DAMMIT

Where was that picture taken?

It is an F9F-8T Cougar

See my next post – with full credit to owner !

For comparrison

Nah – as per my first post. It’ll almost certainly be a set up for training.

Look at the guys in the photo – all using blank firing attachments on their rifles – normal for an exercise – and the ‘pilot’ dummy

‘My’ training airframe at Halton:

http://www.demobbed.org.uk/image_display.php?otype=635&types=635,1046&aircraft=21283

Thanks for the replies.
Is it likely that the occupants ejected or could the seats have just been pulled out for scrap? The rails are up and the canopy is shattered. Or perhaps just made to look like an ejection for the training.

Sorry – just Googled it and it didn’t post the full link to the owners Flickr file:

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://farm1.static.flickr.com/234/459453654_76750b5464.jpg&imgrefurl=http://flickr.com/photos/35826972%40N00/459453654&usg=__UmFnGo02xgTD1MVFkNabZZ1-IYU=&h=374&w=500&sz=147&hl=en&start=62&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=Tb_eAQjrdnfsMM:&tbnh=97&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3DF9F-8T%26ndsp%3D18%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26start%3D54%26um%3D1%26ie%3DUTF-8

Apparently it’s Moton Field – Tuskegee, AL

Wiki has a nice photo of a F9F-8T (redesignated TF-9J 1962) on USS Saratoga CV-60 sometime between 1957 & 1959.

larger version:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/F9F-8T_on_USS_Saratoga_CVA-60.jpg

oh dear, isnt there a thread running in general with the best double entendres? 😀

i know its on the edge of my tongue, but i cant quite finger it

Sorry, but that made me laugh.. :p:D.