Hmm.. One could cheat on this image - Google brings up tail number 25016....
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Would that be the TF-86F, a two-seater version of the F-86 Sabre?
EDIT: And I think I found the original image.
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6089/6...9ff706fa_z.jpg
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Indeed it is, the TF-86F Transonic Trainer.
Only two were ever built, both were conversions from single seat fighters. North American was hoping to capitalize on the success of the F-86F, but this was not to be. Instead the two seat version of the F-100 was ordered.
The one in the picture chrashed, and the USAF approved a second conversion, this one served as a chase plane at Edwards AFB for a number of years before being scrapped. This ship was converted from the last F-86F ever built, tail # 53-1228 One fun fact is that a Gentleman by the name of Bob Hoover was involved in these projects.
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Here is another photo of the beauty:
Les sanglots longs des violons de l'automne blessent mon coeur d'une langueur monotone.
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Originally posted by ced ampo View PostThat was quick. Hats off!
Let us see, how many a/c do I know, that would deserve a b/w photography...
This is not a jet. And what do we see, two or three passenger windows?
But it's not a flightboat. And it's not
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_M20
?That's what airlines are good for, amongst others,
The Gold Member in the 747 club, 50 years since the first LH 747.
And constantly advanced, 744 and 748 /w upper and lower EICAS.
Aviation enthusiast, since more than 35 years with home airport EDDL.
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It's beginning (with those windows), to look like the caravan that James Mays of UK's Top Gear "piloted" under a gas bag in one of their episodes.
Now is when Brian will post a very obscure component in the lower left, like a tie down since he's aware of his audience's total frustration.Live, from a grassy knoll somewhere near you.
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