Interesting bodywork on the Dodge it’s hovering over, especially as it extends over where the bonnet usually is

It’s LHD and looks very much like an American milk truck (milk float).

I’d also recommed Pearcy’s Douglas Propliners….where he discusses all the classic Douglas airliners. a very handy one-volume source and one of my favorites.

Also, it’s a bit old, but a nice inexpensive resource….
The DC-3, 50 Years of legendary Flight by Peter M. Bowers.
As you can tell from the name it’s old, but worth having.

Remember, were discussing Cessna’s prototype FanJet 500. It differed significantly from production Citations so wouldn’t have been covered under the Citations type certificate.
If that’s the case, it was never sold on and re-registered.

To make an uneducated guess, it was either used as a sales or training airframe/mock-up/display, given to an aviation trade school (as is common with GA prototypes) or university for wind tunnel work, or scrapped.

And for what it’s worth….

Another great reason why you may not want to inflate them to ops levels, is
as tires age, it could be dangerous to inflate them that high while on the aircraft.

I’ve heard of engineers being killed while inflating them without the benefit of a safety cage.

Notice the Convair 880 above?
Must be the ex-USN example.

Not many B-1s, the first retired (as a money saving move) were very early examples that lacked some commonality.

Those B-52s are pretty much gone…pity.

a bit draconian to instantly ban the lot i think, …

Bureaucracy again my friend….
The FAA and CAA have more in common than their last two letters. 😀

That is sad news ,it will go where most of the money is , to the USA ,just like Grumpy,Tigercat, P47 ,and many others
Terry

Right now, the dollar is cheap against the Euro…so don’t assume it will come to the US.

Warbirds go to people who want them. Weeks ended up with his Mossi and Shorts after they went unsold in the UK.
Likewise, the Red Bull fleet went to Europe…presumably no American wanted them badly enough to pay the price.

Sadly, the Lockheed Orion went to Switzerland in an auction, it would be nice to have an example of a 1930s single-engine airliner at the NASM, but that’s the way it goes.

Also, don’t sound like the Vulcan threats: “It will go to America…”
Fact is, not that many Americans are in the market for a Hurricane (not much US history, and it might require some specialist maintenance) or Shack, or Vulcan….or come to think of it, a P-47 or P-51.

They do indeed get a full wash down afterwards…

I don’t think a helicopter would necessarily have to land in the water to need a wash. Any helicopter would need it after a low hover over the sea because of the salt spray kicked up by the rotor wash. Hovering over the North Sea in a Woodbridge-based HH-53 was almost like being in a snowstorm with the reduced visability.

When I attended the USAF Ocean Survival school, after landing in the ocean (via parasail) you had to inflate a dinghy and await a helicopter.
They’d hover over you and winch you to the door….then lower you back down because they didn’t want to get that much salt water in the aircraft.
They’d fly off, leaving you quite alone to wait for a launch to pick you up.
Fun stuff…:D