What’s the plane in the 6th photo down with the crowd around it? Early-model Mustang?

Most probably. Distinctive canopy opening mechanism, the only well visible detail on the photo, would indicate an early Mustang indeed.

Well, “you can’t teach old dog new tricks” as You Anglo-Saxon fellows sometimes say? Paul178 is entitled to have his skewed opinion on the subject (not unusual amongst combat veterans), and will most probably take it to his grave. Fair enough.
I’d rather see, however, any history preservation institutions being run by people like Mr Pilkington. I think his post well describes what history preservation is all about.

Dko, we may not accept this sorry state of affairs easily, however, as Andy pointed out above, from Egyptians point of view we also may shove our “moral obligations” up our… ehm… known locations. The Egyptians have much more serious problems over their heads now and, in the end, their good will (or lack thereof) is going to be THE most important factor in any attempts to bring the plane and pilot remainings home.

A-6E
E-6A
EA-6A

…. and that’s under the new system…..

(Yes, I know what they all mean – I’m just poking fun)….

Ken

Point taken! I’m not into “modern” machinery (actually had to google this E-6A thingy – very interesting!) but looks like the system might still be a bit… puzzling indeed :).

Cheers – Art

Since we kinda hijacked the thread anyway… I’d just like to remind, that A-26 becoming B-26 didn’t happen “for no good reason”, but was a result of 1947 complete overhaul of USAF designation system, including “A” for “attack” being dropped and consequently any big thing flying with bombs being renamed to “B” for “bomber”.

Cheers – Art

What’s the point of spending funds on making it flyable then? 😀

Always love the photos of the YF-17 where you can see through the slots in the strakes.
What were Northrop trying to achieve aerodynamically with these?

If You’re talking about fourth picture in the last but one row, it has a description below, claiming these slots were the form of boundary layer control. The ones on F-18s are pretty simple deal – If you manage to prevent boundary layer from entering engine inlet, you gotta dump it somewhere and small slots / outlets above are perfect for this. I’m curious though why they were so much longer on YF-17.

Whoa, a damn fine link. Seems to be a good place for a start! Bookmarked.