Warbird Information Exchange

And what the heck is this? It reminds me of an F-16 minus the pilot, but I know it isn't.

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Wish I had a plane to put here... anyone got any leads on a (prewar) J3 Cub?

1952 Ford F6 Howe Fire Truck
1951 Ford F5
1949 Ford F6 Dump Truck
1978 Ford Mustang II
1970 Chevrolet Chevelle
1949 Ford 8N; 1948, 1949 & 1950 Baird Beavers

The mystery plane is a Ryan Firebee Target Drone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Firebee
Jerry

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"Always remember that, when you enter the ocean or the forest, you are no longer at the top of the food chain."

RYAN AQM-34 G thru V recon drone.
AMAZON.com has a book available (it ain't cheap) called 'Lightning Bugs and Other Reconnaissance Drones' That will raise your appreciation of these little worker bees as pre programmed recon drones dropped from a special DC-130 Herk in Viet Nam (and......maybe other places) and recovered by parachute on the fly after the mission. I read the book many moons ago and my level of appreciation went right to the top, Amazing little dudes, and pretty cheap too!

Just located a Chinese copy reverse engineered from an AQM apparently lost or shot down over VN and operated as the BEIHANG Wu Zhen-5 (WZ-5) and dropped from one of those retro fitted turboprop powered TU-4's the Chinese have or an AN-12 CUB.

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Don't make me go get my flying monkeys-

Wow. Dates back to 1955 and still in use today! I've never seen one or heard about them before.

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Wish I had a plane to put here... anyone got any leads on a (prewar) J3 Cub?

1952 Ford F6 Howe Fire Truck
1951 Ford F5
1949 Ford F6 Dump Truck
1978 Ford Mustang II
1970 Chevrolet Chevelle
1949 Ford 8N; 1948, 1949 & 1950 Baird Beavers

Most of these aircraft are part of the Marietta History Museum's Aviation Section. The Navy planes are ex-NAS Atlanta. The Jetstar and the C-141 are both Lockheed donations. The Mohawk came from the GA ANG facility on Dobbins. Don't know the origin of the Firebee. The B-29 is at the Dobbins front gate.

Walt

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If God had intended airplane engines to have horizontally-opposed cylinders, Pratt & Whitney would have built them that way.

Awesome pictures of the various aircraft there. I was wondering if AC-130 54-1623 Ghost Rider was seen as I have read some sources saying it is located at the base.

Thanks.

Dave in NJ

Look in the waters off Roosie Roads, Pt Mugu and Barking Sands and you will find more of those AQM/BQM-34's then you can count. Navy sure loved them but required a large fixed base to operate from. We used the BQM-74 with VC-6 as it was moblie and could be deployed on any ship that had a helo pad.