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Aviation History
1955
1955 - 1409.PDF
FLIGHT, 23 September 1955 Off to Philadelphia —for America's National Show Part II BY THE ASSOCIATE EDITOR With photographs by Harold G. Martin Here being transferred from the Piasecki sheds to be placed on exhibition is the YH-16A turbine-powered helicopter—the largest, and also one of the fastest, in the world. THE Air Force's li-hr session (which had been washed outon Saturday, 3rd, in default of the decreed weather minimaof 2,500ft ceiling and five miles visibility) was blasted open on Sunday by twelve F-86Fs of Air Training Command in low passes and rolls at about 600 m.p.h. When they were clear a pair of F-94Cs scrambled thunderously with afterburners raging, though even so, they took their time unsticking. Another F-94C made up a composite formation with an RC-121 radar picket, an F-86D and an F-89D (this to illustrate early-warning capability and intercepter types of Air Defense Command) and successive fly-bys by nine each of F-89Ds, F-86Ds and F-94Cs culminated in fan-outs and reheat climbs. The "94s" lit up almost at the instant of breaking, and the cutting-in of each afterburner smote the ear like a sonic boom. Strategic Air Command contributed a JATO take-off by a vie of three F-84Fs, and Tactical Air Command laid on sixteen B-57s, in four waves, for a simulated airfield strike. On an actual mission they would have come boring in with 0.5in guns (eight apiece) and parafrag bombs, to be followed up by fighter/bombers with napalm, and at length by paratroops. Alas, what might 33132 Two transports of outstanding merit now in production for the U.S.AJ.: Above, ^Lockheed C- 130A and be low the Fairchild-built Chase C-123B. The C-130A is powered by four Allison T56 turboprops; the C-123B by two P. and W. R-2800 piston engmes.
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