By: J Boyle - 31st March 2025 at 14:37
Early jet with two seats and a ton of vacuum tubes powered by early jet engines….I wouldn’t expect it to fly like a light Starfighter or Lightning.
The Heritage Fight Museum in Bellingham, Washington just recovered one from a trade school in Helena, Montana where it had set outside for who knows how many winters.
They posted photos on WIX when they took the wings off and opened the panels. It was pristine inside. You could sread the inspectors notes on the parts and the ” OK Remove from Jig” stamps.
The planes were certainly well built.
By: Good Vibs - 31st March 2025 at 14:37
heavy F-89
Some of the pilots who flew it & whom I have spoken to said they called it the B-89…it was so heavy!
By: oscar duck - 31st March 2025 at 14:37
Thank the Russians for that design…
A friend flew them and he said it was the original “lead sled”…
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