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Mark Nankivil
 Post subject: B-57 Intruder
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A nice flight shot of an RB-57B which is now in storage for the Udvar-Hazy Center per Joe Baugher's info. Also interesting to see both the airbrakes and the spoilers in action.

Seems certain aircraft attract cameras more so than most as I also have two B&W photos of the same aircraft while with the KSANG.

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Nice photo. Now, if only they would have put a proper bomb-bay in and a decent fixed canopy that could have been a halfway decent aeroplane! :lol:
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Whatever happened to the Black Civilian B-57 that was at Oshkosh some years back (had the original British cockpit configuration on it).


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There's one on the CAF ramp in Mesa, AZ that I was told belonged to an individual (can't remember who at the moment). If I recall, that one was black......but there was a second one across the field that supposedly belonged to the same fella...maybe that's the one I'm thinking of.

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Didn't NASA have a black one with extended wings??
No, not the U-2, a B57 variant.
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Didn't the spoilers (aka "dive fingers") extend on the bottom side of the wing also?
I don't think the moniker "Intruder" lasted very long, although it was popular among a certain faction in AF circles for a while.
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ww2John wrote:
Didn't NASA have a black one with extended wings??
No, not the U-2, a B57 variant.


The only NASA RB-57Fs that I have seen have either been silver, or white.

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NASA has one that flies out of Ellington, I see it every few weeks.
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a friend who lives in glendale arizona flew a b-57 out of japan in the 50's, / 60's & was on red alert after jfk was killed in 63 on 24 hour alert. he carried a nuke. on 1 mission his canopy flew off & he winged it from their.

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NMUSAF has both a B-57 and an RB-57 on display. THe RB came out of restoration in late 2004 I think.

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Elmira NY has a black USAF B-57. :D

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Tailspin wrote:
Didn't the spoilers (aka "dive fingers") extend on the bottom side of the wing also?
I don't think the moniker "Intruder" lasted very long, although it was popular among a certain faction in AF circles for a while.
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The British version did, I have a scar on my head to prove it!

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