Warbird Information Exchange

While looking through archives of the University of Arizona yearbooks for car pictures I found something unusual... Remember when schools would drag in an old car and let the kids beat on it with sledgehammers to raise money for the school or a charity? Well, in 1958, they took it a step further:

F-87, huh? I guess UA had no aeronautics courses back then. This looks like an F-86D and already pretty stripped. Too bad we can't see a serial; this was the only photo.

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All right, Mister Dorfmann, start pullin'!
Pilot: "Flap switch works hard in down position."
Mechanic: "Flap switch checked OK. Pilot needs more P.T." - Flight report, TB-17G 42-102875 (Hobbs AAF)

Yeah...and those F-87s were hard to come by back in them days!

Mudge the nomenclaturist

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I'm not sure what smashing a jet fighter (even an old F-87) has to do with a "Gay 90s" theme. I guess no one was willing to donate an 1896 Benz to be smashed.

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I figure if you wanted my opinion on items unrelated to this forum, you'd ask for it.

nevermind

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"According to the map, we've only gone 4 inches."

Wow!