Mutated A-3 Skywarriors

[Howard of Effingham]

Dont forget the NASA Laminar flow experimental B-66!


Shas B)

Yep, and there is a conversion kit available. Often wanted to do one.

who does this one dave? i've wanted one for years too.

trevor

[The Rat]

who does this one dave? i've wanted one for years too.

trevor

Sharkit (link)    

[The Rat]

Dint those Canadian chappies have a DC-3 with a Starfighter radar nose?

Yeah, having trouble finding a pic though.    

[B777LR]

Whats a supercritical wing? (whats the differences compared to any other wing?)

[The Rat]

Whats a supercritical wing? (whats the differences compared to any other wing?)

A Wiki explanation of Supercritical wings

[Shasper]

That particular B66 had a bunch of tiny holes put int the wing to duct air from the leading edge to the more rearward sections, thereby keeping the constant flow of smooth, or Laminar, air over the wing.

Pain in the butt really as it was very complicated to build & maintain.



Shas B)

[Scooterman]

Somewhere I have a pic of a A-4B or C with a F-11 tiger nose......

[Spey_Phantom]

ho my friends, the americans might have pimped the noses of those planes, but we do have the same thing here in Europe: meet the C-47B "Pinocchio"
a C-47 with an F-104 radar in the nose  
these C-47's were modified by the German company "Hamburger Flugzeugbau" by adding a Lockheed F-104G nose-cone, which inevitably gave them their nickname "Pinocchio". Belgium had 2 of these, and Canada also had 2.

here's a Belgian one.  B)
Below:  a Canadian one  B)

[B777LR]

Pratt and whitney canada uses a Boeing 707 for testing engines. It fits one engine in the nose, and one on the side of the fuselage

without engines

http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=1117...next_id=1028437

with engine

http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=0808...next_id=0236116

http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=0116...next_id=0151222

[Howard of Effingham]

Dint those Canadian chappies have a DC-3 with a Starfighter radar nose?

Yeah, having trouble finding a pic though.  

the italians [and some of the other european F-104 operators] had these too iirc.

there was also a USN T-39 used for airtesting the radar for the F-18A/B and i think
the USAF in the 1960's had a T-39 variant used for training in the use of NASARR
[something also to do with F-104's and F-105's].

i haven't seen a photo of the 1960's T-39 NASARR but the USN T-39 was widely
photographed in the late 1970's and early 1980's.

[Jennings]

I would be all over a resin conversion for the Supercritical Wing F-8 in a heartbeat, regardless of scale!  I can't believe it hasn't been done to date...  Saw that for the first time at Edwards back in 1984.  Gorgeous!

J

[Archibald]

I would be all over a resin conversion for the Supercritical Wing F-8 in a heartbeat, regardless of scale!  I can't believe it hasn't been done to date...  Saw that for the first time at Edwards back in 1984.  Gorgeous!

J

Sharkit has made a F-8 "supercritical wing"    

[Mossie]

Vulcan testbeds, first off, B.1 XA903


Blue Steel testing


With underslung Olympus 22R's for TSR2 engine development


With underslung Olympus 593's for Concorde engine development


Front view of underslung pod containg single RB.199 for Tornado intake & engine testing.


Rear view of underslung pod containg single RB.199 for Tornado intake & engine testing.

Vulcan B.2 XH537:


Carrying dummy Douglas Skybolts

Vulcan B.1 XA894.  This aircraft was also used for Olympus 22R testing, & was famously destroyed on the ground when resonance problems caused one of the engines to blow up, setting fire to the Vulcan.  Theres a series of pics of the fire here:

http://www.aviationarchive.org.uk/stories/...1&pnum=0&maxp=3