F-89 Scorpions In Formation

[Jack Cook]

[HELLDIVERS]

Looks like Alaska to me

[Jack Cook]

Same flight

[K225]

Did they also fly out of Thule Greenland ?

[Sokolove]

Can anybody tell me how much fuel those things hold in each tip tank? Those things have got to be some of the biggest tip tanks I've ever seen. I was checking them out the other day at the NMUSAF hoping there might be a placard next to the filler caps but there wasn't.

[jph712]

I know that F-89s were also flown out of Iceland, out of Keflavik. My mothers' boyfriend was a ground crewman stationed in Iceland working on F-89s.

[Larry Kraus]

The F-89C's in the pictures were the last in the series to have guns with six 20 mm cannons in the nose.The tip tanks on these airplanes carried 300 gallons each.With the F-89D model,the armament was changed to all unguided 2.75 in folding fin rockets.52 of these were carried in the front portion of each of the tip tanks.The rear portion held 308 gallons of fuel.The F-89H had three Falcon guided missiles on retractable lauching rails mounted in the forward part of each tip tank,along with 21 f/f rockets.The F-89J's,which were all rebuilt F-89D's,carried the guided missiles (Falcons and Genies) under the wings and most had 600 gallon tip tanks.The Genie missiles were capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.The "Good old days" of the 1950's weren't much on ecology with nuclear depth charges and torpedoes,as well as air to air rockets and artillery shells.To me,they all come under the same heading as a white phosphrous hand grenade.I was never able to throw one of those farther than it's bursting radius.

[Swiss Mustangs]

I know that F-89s were also flown out of Iceland, out of Keflavik. My mothers' boyfriend was a ground crewman stationed in Iceland working on F-89s.

so you might want to take a peek at a neat reference site here:

http://www.verslo.is/baldur/57th_fis/57th.htm

Cordially
Martin

[HELLDIVERS]

Hi,

If you look at the decal on the vertical stab it looks like Alaska air guard. I have a few shots of these on the ground.

Thanks Mike

[HELLDIVERS]

Hi,

If you look at the decal on the vertical stab it looks like Alaska air guard. I have a few shots of these on the ground.

Thanks Mike

[Sokolove]

The F-89J's,which were all rebuilt F-89D's,carried the guided missiles (Falcons and Genies) under the wings and most had 600 gallon tip tanks.

That explains it then. The one at the NMUSAF is a J model. I've seen these aircraft a few times before but not until I saw the one at the NMUSAF did the size of the tip tanks jump out at me. We were guessing 3000 lbs of fuel each side. Looks like 3600 lbs in actuallity. Pretty cool. Thanks for the info.

[Warbirdnerd]

Here is a shot of the tip tank rockets that Helldivers sent to me: