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Aviation History
1956
1956 - 1367.PDF
21 September 1956 519 OKLAHOMA A view of America's National Air Show, staged at Oklahoma City from September 1 to September 3, pictured by Harold G. Martin and illustrating new aircraft in action and on static exhibition. In particular—and for the first time in any journal—showing Lockheed F-104A supersonic intercepters with their double-shock intakes unmasked. This shot of the second and eighth Lockheed F-104As is the first to show the adjustable double-shock intake. The stained belly of one machine suggests recent armament tests. Startling displays were daily carried out by the U.S. Navy's famed "Blue Angels" team, mounted on Grumman F9F-8 Cougars. Here they are making a slow run, while a probe-equipped Cougar flashes past in the opposite direction. A Douglas A4D Skyhawk attack air- craft is seen here being started by a Continental gas-turbine/compressor unit. Groups of the U.S.A.F. Air Defense Command are now equipped with the Convair F-102A delta-wing intercepter. Convair are delivering 30 of these PratUand- Whitney - engined machines per month from San Diego, and they are the first fully automatic carriers of homing missiles to reach squadron service.
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