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 04/22/2005 10:24:13 AM · #1
I saw this the other day on my way back from the polise station. As I drove pase I thought I saw what looked like a jet parked behind a gas station. I was.


04/22/2005 10:25:40 AM · #2
Originally posted by sofap:
I saw this the other day on my way back from the polise station. As I drove pase I thought I saw what looked like a jet parked behind a gas station. I was.



i wonder if it takes regular or high octane.
04/22/2005 10:28:23 AM · #3
Don't know
 04/22/2005 10:37:02 AM · #4
That's an F-86 Sabre Jet. It saw a lot of battle in the Korean war, mostly to combat the Russian-made Mig-15. One of the best fighter jets at the time.
 04/22/2005 10:54:17 AM · #5
Well then maby the gas station has it to fight off his compition.
 04/22/2005 10:55:17 AM · #6
Not an F-86. Here's an F86:
//www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/ac/pg000106.htm

04/22/2005 10:57:38 AM · #7
OK so who knows what this jet is?
 04/22/2005 11:02:40 AM · #8
Looking at the given link, it looks like an 86 to me

04/22/2005 11:06:04 AM · #9
Originally posted by C_Steve_G:
Not an F-86. Here's an F86:
//www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/ac/pg000106.htm


don't see the difference...other than paint.
 04/22/2005 11:11:46 AM · #10
F-86: Rear wings not on tail, Main wings are on bottom, not in middle of fuselage, has distinct "hood" on top of intake.

I've been looking, but I gotta go to work, now.
 04/22/2005 11:11:57 AM · #11
Not an F-86; the giveaway is the location of the horizontal stabilizers partwat up the tail fin. On the F-86 they are on the fuselage. Also the F-86 has a little "snoot" over the front scoop. This airplane is an F-84 Thunderjet: //www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/airdef/f-84-0000001e.jpg

Robt.

Message edited by author 2005-04-22 11:13:09.
 04/22/2005 11:13:50 AM · #12
After looking at the links I can see the wing on a F-86 comes out of the borron fo the airframe and this one is up from the bottom. Still don't know.
 04/22/2005 11:14:27 AM · #13
Damn! I was pretty close though for going off of memory.
 04/22/2005 11:14:43 AM · #14
Originally posted by bear_music:
Not an F-86; the giveaway is the location of the horizontal stabilizers partwat up the tail fin. On the F-86 they are on the fuselage. Also the F-86 has a little "snoot" over the front scoop. This airplane is an F-84 Thunderjet: //www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/airdef/f-84-0000001e.jpg

Robt.


Thanks now I know.
 04/22/2005 11:17:07 AM · #15
And another pic... F-84F

//www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/air_power/ap44.htm

The F-84E did not have swept wings...

//www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/air_power/ap43.htm

Message edited by author 2005-04-22 11:19:09.
 04/22/2005 11:17:21 AM · #16
man I need to get my eyes checked...can't believe I missed all that.
 04/22/2005 11:25:03 AM · #17
OK now that we know that this is an F-84F


Who knows what this is

04/22/2005 11:25:25 AM · #18
Originally posted by sabphoto:
man I need to get my eyes checked...can't believe I missed all that.
Me too, I feel like an idiot! I gotta keep my trap shut before I do some reasearch. Thanks for the info Robert... you're the man!
 04/22/2005 11:28:46 AM · #19
Originally posted by sofap:

Who knows what this is


I know! That's a F-117! Yeah, I know my stuff! lol
 04/22/2005 12:20:50 PM · #20
Unless I'm mistaken, that looks like the old reliable Curtiss C-1, specifically one that set an Endurance record

Robin C-1 1929 (ATC 143, 2-192) = 3pChwM; 170hp Curtiss Challenger; span: 41'0" length: 24'1" load: 962# v: 120/102/48 range: 500. POP: about 165. (2-192) for 185hp Curtiss Challenger and modifications to landing gear. World endurance record in 1929 of 460 hours set by Dale Jackson & Forrest O'Brine [NR59H], who surpassed that feat in 1930 with an endurance flight of 647 hours (that's 27 days, and without a bathroom!), 25,500 miles (more than the circumference of the earth at the equator!)
 04/22/2005 12:27:40 PM · #21
Originally posted by skief:
Unless I'm mistaken, that looks like the old reliable Curtiss C-1, specifically one that set an Endurance record

Robin C-1 1929 (ATC 143, 2-192) = 3pChwM; 170hp Curtiss Challenger; span: 41'0" length: 24'1" load: 962# v: 120/102/48 range: 500. POP: about 165. (2-192) for 185hp Curtiss Challenger and modifications to landing gear. World endurance record in 1929 of 460 hours set by Dale Jackson & Forrest O'Brine [NR59H], who surpassed that feat in 1930 with an endurance flight of 647 hours (that's 27 days, and without a bathroom!), 25,500 miles (more than the circumference of the earth at the equator!)


Thats good this is the actual aircraft flowen by Linberg on the mail runs. It was on its way to St Louis when I photographed it from a Cessna 180 tail drager, with the right door removed. loads of fun.

Message edited by author 2005-04-22 13:25:01.
 04/22/2005 01:07:02 PM · #22
Originally posted by sofap:


Thats good this is the actual aircraft flowen by Limburg on the mail runs. It was on its way to St Louis when I photographed it from a Cessna 180 tail drager, with the right door removed. loads of fun.


Do you mean Linberg?
 04/22/2005 01:25:19 PM · #23
Originally posted by Prof_Fate:
Originally posted by sofap:


Thats good this is the actual aircraft flowen by Limburg on the mail runs. It was on its way to St Louis when I photographed it from a Cessna 180 tail drager, with the right door removed. loads of fun.


Do you mean Linberg?


YES
 04/22/2005 01:42:55 PM · #24
Presumably you folks mean Charles Lindbergh, not "Linberg". Coincidentally the airport in Brad's and my home town, Lindberg Field, is named after him. His transatlantic plane was built in San Diego by Ryan Aviation.

Robt.

Message edited by author 2005-04-22 13:47:10.
 04/22/2005 01:44:02 PM · #25
Originally posted by sofap:
Originally posted by Prof_Fate:
Originally posted by sofap:


Thats good this is the actual aircraft flowen by Limburg on the mail runs. It was on its way to St Louis when I photographed it from a Cessna 180 tail drager, with the right door removed. loads of fun.


Do you mean Linberg?


YES


Or Charles Lindbergh?
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