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Republic XF-12 Rainbow In photo is the Republic XF-12 Rainbow, P-47 Thunderbolt and RC-3 Seabee. In October 1943, Republic was tasked with creating a truly strategic reconnaissance aircraft that turned out to be a very beautiful-looking aircraft that well

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  • A30yoyo said:
    In the hangar doorway is one of the Douglas C-54 transport Republic converted to civil airliners for American Airlines(70) and other carriers around 1946-1947...this was valuable bread and butter work in the cut-backs period

Republic : XF-12 : Rainbow

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  • Mustang Koji said:
    Mike Machat has written a great book on the Rainbow. His uncle was one of the chief engineers on the project.

Republic XF-12 Rainbow, Republic was tasked with creating a truly strategic reconnaissance aircraft that turned out to be a very beautiful-looking aircraft that well deserved the name Rainbow. That the finished product - the XF-12 - looked

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  • Stig Jarlevik said:
    The date must be wrong. I can't even make October 1945 to fit with what we know about the XF-12. To the right we have possibly the RC-1 (fore runner of the ultimate RC-3 Seabee). That aircraft had a first flight Nov 30th 1944. However the XF-12 had a first flight on Feb 7th 1946! Even if this is the first roll-out of the aircraft, I cannot imagine it sat idle for months before testing began. Admittedly I don't know the roll out date for the XF-12, but I doubt it was too many days ahead of the first flight. I would date this photo to late Jan or early Feb 1946. Stig