tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6526572295670324822.post1468045666166002189..comments2024-03-27T14:47:30.757-05:00Comments on Replica in Scale: A Couple of Early Phantoms, The Way It Was, Who Knows What They're Doing, Just Lookin' For Trucks, And Some Germans in Texasphillip friddellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02427557905913078850noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6526572295670324822.post-43905912881470254262018-10-09T20:22:54.978-05:002018-10-09T20:22:54.978-05:00I like your pictures. The A-6E Intruder with the b...I like your pictures. The A-6E Intruder with the bag pipers and parade is VA-196 Main Battery/Milestone squadron out of Whidbey Island Washington. This plane #500 is the Carrier Air Group Commanders plane, hence the Black-colored tail. the BuNo is actually 159579 and this is the final flight of this plane as she will be flown to the Boneyard at Davis Monthan AFB. In 1997, the A-6s were retired and this was its retirement from service. Interestingly, fast froward 7 years from this post, this is one of two A-6s left. She right wnow is sitting at the Pima Air Museum waiting for funds to disasseble, transport and assemble at a museum in California. of 693 built she's one of a handful that survive.<br /><br />Roy McCarthyAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16441749272015207521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6526572295670324822.post-44570014468498203702018-08-16T18:21:21.622-05:002018-08-16T18:21:21.622-05:00I can't speak for the other photos, but that I...I can't speak for the other photos, but that Invader picture (44-35364) with the HU-16A was taken post-Korea. At least 1954 or later (as indicated by the preceding 0- in the tail number). That could explain the lack of nose art for that plane. Most of the rest of those photos are just taken from the wrong side to get photos of the nose art. Johnathan Claybornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15420750163719683444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6526572295670324822.post-53749725964667194852017-02-22T12:11:10.700-06:002017-02-22T12:11:10.700-06:00Phillip. Ref the early Phantoms. We have one of th...Phillip. Ref the early Phantoms. We have one of those first two AF airframes a 2-3 blocks down from my office. Definitely NOT typical RF-4C. The provenance of these two started on the McDonald Douglas line as RF-4Bs (thin, unslatted wings). Charlie models that started on the line as Cs were called Cs. Pulled off and reconfigured to AF specs. Initially designated RF-110A off the line. LATER designated as RF-4C. Pawpaw Stewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17251093402336751622noreply@blogger.com