How about 4 J-79’s lighting off for take off on a B-58 Hustler, now that’s loud. But what’s really loud is 4 B-58’s taking off one right behind the other!

I apologize folks, my dad looked at the plans wrong, it actually looks like a pitot tube in the wing. On a side note does anybody have any information on No. 307 sqdrn. Also would the Defiant had been better off with two fifties, instead of four .303’s? Would the pair of .50’s had more punch?

remarkable airplane for it’s time, had the first heads up system, and was a truly, great aircraft to the crew. Unfortunely the linear bomb bay was a dismal failure, and its time in the fleet was short lived.

Now that we are doing what if’s what about the Corsair over Europe say 1944?. and were there any attempts to put later editions of the merlin in a P-38? Just your thoughts on these two hypotheticals. 😎

I have 2 distant relations, first I have a relation to my family that fought in the War of Independance. You know , we were fighting agains’t taxation without representation, but that’s for another day. 😉 , second, I had a relation from Wisconsin, who fought in the Civil War for the Iron Brigade, which was decimated at the battle of Antietam, which 27,000 men were killed that day.

Paternal Side:
Grandfather; U.S. Navy WWII in charge of engine room on LST( LARGE SLOW TARGET ) participated in landings at Saipan, and Okinawa.
Father; Served honorably for twenty years in the USAF. Served in Vietnam at Camh Ranh Bay.
Uncle; U.S. Navy Res. on old Destroyer Escort out of Seattle, Wash, four years.
Great Uncle; B-24 Liberator pilot WWII, shot down over Berlin, POW, 30+years active duty USAF, 20 years at Hill AFB building wild weasels.
Great Uncle; 20+ years retired Maj. flew WB-29’s.

Maternal Side:
Grandfather; U.S. Army WWII landed at Utah beach D-DAY+1 served with a combined U.S. Army and British engineering, and construction battalion. I have a badge that they wore on their class A uniform that I have been doing research on.

Grandmother; War bride Manchester.

I must say, I like the lines of the Britannia, and the Viscount.

I saw XM573 a while ago and it hadn’t been re painted. It was looking a little faded from its time outside in the Nebraska summers and winters. It’s inside now – IIRC the Strategic Air and Space Museum (was SAC Museum) has been inside since 1998-ish.

OT – Now if the USAF could get the B-17F down the road at Offutt AFB indoors that’d be nice too. AFAIK It’s still sitting in the open

Rob / Kansan

I do believe that all airplanes at the Sac Museum are located inside.