MQM-58 pics?
Sun Aug 19, 2007 8:16 pm
Hi all,
Yesterday on my way to Benton AFS I made sure I get a picture of this thing. I think its a MQM-58? Some type of drone airplane. It's funcky looking thats for sure.
And a few tail cones of I don't know what that spells out the towns name.
Enjoy,
Nathan
Yesterday on my way to Benton AFS I made sure I get a picture of this thing. I think its a MQM-58? Some type of drone airplane. It's funcky looking thats for sure.
And a few tail cones of I don't know what that spells out the towns name.
Enjoy,
Nathan
Sun Aug 19, 2007 9:14 pm
is that thing for real??? or is it a frankenstein aviation sculpture??? that radio direction tear drop is totally out of place, & makes no sense for the supposed era, & where are the prop blades???
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Sun Aug 19, 2007 9:59 pm
Looks like HVD IV finished his Harvard IV 
Re: ???
Mon Aug 20, 2007 9:32 am
Jack Cook wrote:Looks like HVD IV finished his Harvard IV
Mon Aug 20, 2007 10:07 am
MQM-58 is the best I could come up with. It looks almost identical to the pictures I saw. It was a reconnaissance drone of some type from the late 1950's. The photos I saw had a very similar body, wing and tail grouping, except that there were launch rockets on the wingtips, and the wing carry-through of the fuselage was higher... almost bolted on top of the fuselage, rather than running just through the top. There was no teardrop radome either. Everything else looked the same though... perahaps they are just slightly different versions of the same thing.
http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/m-58.html
Weird piece of hardware that I had never heard of before... thanks for posting!
Cheers,
Richard
http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/m-58.html
Weird piece of hardware that I had never heard of before... thanks for posting!
Cheers,
Richard
Mon Aug 20, 2007 6:00 pm
Except for the engine, the rest of it more closely resembles the Beech MQM-61/61A.
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Wed Jul 21, 2010 1:41 am
RMAllnutt wrote:MQM-58 is the best I could come up with. It looks almost identical to the pictures I saw. It was a reconnaissance drone of some type from the late 1950's. The photos I saw had a very similar body, wing and tail grouping, except that there were launch rockets on the wingtips, and the wing carry-through of the fuselage was higher... almost bolted on top of the fuselage, rather than running just through the top. There was no teardrop radome either. Everything else looked the same though... perahaps they are just slightly different versions of the same thing.
Thanks for the great sharing with your photography!!