prattwhitneywaspmajor

235 photos and 1 illustration tagged prattwhitneywaspmajor, from 3 members of Flickr Commons.

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2014

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Eagle0025 said:
B-50D-95-BO, s/n 48-096. Converted to EB-50D mothership for Bell X-2 program. Bell X-2, s/n 46-675, exploded while being carried by this aircraft during a captive liquid oxygen top off test on 12 May 1953. The X-2 had to be jettisoned and crashed into Lake Ontario. Sadly, Bell test pilot Jean "Skip" Ziegler was still strapped in the X-2 cockpit when it was dropped. Bell flight engineer Frank Wolko apparently also fell from the EB-50 in the explosion. Neither body was recovered. The EB-50D made an emergency landing at Niagara Falls Airport, NY, but was DBR and never flew again.

Veedubber79 said:
Republic XF-84E-15-RE (YF-96A) Thunderstreak 49-2430 under test as a parasite fighter (FICON = "Fighter Conveyor") with GRB-36F-1-CF Peacemaker 49-2707 (later re-re-designated as JRB-36F). Pilots were Maj Clyde Good and Lt Col Clarance E. "Bud" Anderson (WWII ace in "Old Crow" Mustangs). The Thunderstreak is now at the NMUSAF in the R&D section.