From: skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu To: skunk-works-digest@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V2 #4 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Precedence: bulk Skunk Works Digest Saturday, 14 November 1992 Volume 02 : Number 004 In this issue: Re: F-107 #3 F-107 JPEGs [none] F-107 pics in archive now archive site A-12 Funny aircraft nicknames See the end of the digest for information on subscribing to the skunk-works or skunk-works-digest mailing lists and on how to retrieve back issues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dnadams@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dean Adams) Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 07:21:53 MST Subject: Re: F-107 #3 brndlfly@Athena.MIT.EDU writes: >I have picked out about four good shots of F-107 #1 (AF #55-118) from >the Pima Air Museum shot last year and the year before. Sounds good. >What happened to F-107 Number Three (55-120)? That one supposedly crashed landed during a NASA (NACA) flight. ------------------------------ From: brndlfly@Athena.MIT.EDU Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 10:54:09 EST Subject: F-107 JPEGs Okay folks, last night I scanned the four best pix I have of the F-107. I just got them to Phil, they should be appearing on the archive soon. Enjoy! -T T Velazquez MIT Aero/Astro brndlfly@athena.mit.edu "Crayolas are one of the few things the human race has in common." -Robert Fulghum ------------------------------ From: wb9omc (Duane P Mantick) Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 08:46:15 -0500 Subject: [none] Some of the funniest nicknames are for transports and helicopters.... Transports: - ---------- Lockheed C5 Galaxy Aluminum Overcast, Fat Albert McDonnell-Douglas KC10 Extender Beech C45 Expeditor Bug Smasher Douglas C47 Skytrain Gooney Bird, Placid Plodder, Dowager Duchess, Old Methuselah, Grand Old Lady Cessna (U)C78 Bobcat Bamboo Bomber, Rhapsody in Glue, Useless 78, Double- Breasted Cub Fairchild C87 Packet Crowd Killer Consolidated C109 Liberator Cee-One-Oh-BOOM Fairchild C119 Flying Boxcar, Dollar Nineteen, Crowd Killer Lockheed C121 Constellation Connie, Flying Speed Brake Fairchild C123 Provider Douglas C124 Globemaster Old Shaky, Aluminum Overcast Lockheed C130 Hercules Herk, Bleed-Air-blimp, Hog LC130 (skis) Ski Hog Boeing KC135 Stratotanker Stratobladder, Flying Gas Station, Tank, GLOB - Ground Loving Old Bastard Lockheed C141 Starlifter StarLizard, T-tailed Mountain Magnet Helicopters: - ----------- Bell UH1 Iroquis Huey, Slick, Hog Bell AH1 Cobra Snake Sikorsky R4 Hoverfly Flying Eggbeater, Frustrated Palm Tree Hughes OH6 Cayuse Loach, Egg, Olive on a toothpick Vertol CH21 Workhorse Flying Banana Kaman HH43 Huskie Flying Shithouse Boeing CH47 Chinook Shithook, Hook Sikorsky CH53E Super Stallion Super Shitter Sikorsky CH54 Tarhe Skycrane, Crane Sikorsky UH60 Blackhawk Catfish - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nor have trainers ever been immune to picking up, er, interesting names.... North American T2 Buckeye Attack Guppy, North American Safety Jet Stearman N2S (PT17) Kaydet Yellow Peril North American AT6 Texan Awful Terrible Six Beech SNB (AT11) Kansan Slow Navy Bomber Vultee BT13 Valiant Vibrator, Bee Tee Ryan PT22 Recruit Maytag Messerschmitt Beech T34 Mentor Radial Interceptor Cessna T37 Tweety Bird, Tweet, World's Largest Dog Whistle, Convertor, Hummer Northrop T38 Talon White Rocket Cessna T41 Mesclero Chickenhawk Boeing T43 Gator, Strike Pig Convair TF102 Delta Dagger Tub ========================================================================== Some that just don't seem to fit anywhere else.... Lockheed SR71A(B) Blackbird Habu, SR, Lead Sled Lockheed U2, TR1A, ER2 Angel, Dragon Lady Northrop M2F2/M2F3 Lifting Bodies Flying Bathtub, Cadillac ------------------------------ From: "Philip R. Moyer" Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 11:58:09 -0500 Subject: F-107 pics in archive now The F-107 JPEG files are available in the archive on harbor.ecn.purdue.edu. Use ftp, login anonymous, password , cd /pub/skunk-works/pic, and get the files. Remember to use binary mode. Thanks, *very much*, to brndlfly for donating these pics! Good job! Cheers, Phil - ------- Forwarded Message From: brndlfly@Athena.MIT.EDU To: prm@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: F-107 JPEG Descriptions Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 10:49:52 EST f107_1.jpg: This is a side-on view or F-107 #1, 55-118, at the Pima Air Museum in Tucson, AZ. Neat looking bird. Also note the F-102 and YC-15 in the background. f107_2.jpg: What the heck is that??? Oh, it's just 5-118. Nasty thing to have to see right outside your canopy glass, tho. f107_3.jpg: Up close and personal with the dorsal intake on 55-118. At high angles of attack that thing could cause some real control problems, as evidenced by the excessive vertical tail area in f017_1.jpg. f107_4.jpg This is the best picture I could find of F-107 #2 (55-119) at the USAF Museum in Dayton, Ohio. The aircraft is stored in a hangar outside the actual museum. Said hangar comes equipped with wall-to-wall transom windows, which makes for really creative methods for eliminating backlighting. In this particular case I was leaning against the pitot tube of a retired research F-4 with about five friends holding their hands over my head so all that crappy light wouldn't get through to the camera. Note the X-10 (I think that's the X-10) in the background. - ------- End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------ From: andrem@pyrman2.mis.pyramid.com (Andre Molyneux) Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 10:03:50 -0800 Subject: archive site T Velazquez wrote: > Okay folks, last night I scanned the four best pix I have of the >F-107. I just got them to Phil, they should be appearing on the archive >soon. Enjoy! I appears that I haven't written down the location of the archive site. Could someone please let me know where it is? BTW, are there very many pictures stored at this archive? The few pictures of SR-71s and F-117s that I've gotten from other sources don't look very good on the monochrome display I have here at work. Thanks, Andre ------------------------------ From: rschnapp@metaflow.com (Russ Schnapp) Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 19:18:36 PST Subject: A-12 > By now, the list seems to have reached the number 12, with the advent of the > Avenger II flying wing carrier-based attack plane which is shortly to > make its first flight. Just a clarification: I assume this is an old message, since the A-12 program has been dead for at least a year -- the "Dorito" never got close to flying. Drowning in red ink, maybe... ..Russ ------------------------------ From: gak@n5abi.hou.tx.us (Gene A. Kennedy) Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 23:46:53 CST Subject: Funny aircraft nicknames >Helicopters: >----------- >Bell UH1 Iroquis Huey, Slick, Hog ^^^ "Hog" and also "frog" were used only for the armed variants of the UH-1 (the B & C models). Hog was also sometimes used for the Cobra, but in both cases, these names refered to the armament fitted more than the type aircraft. One you missed: Hughes TH-55A Osage Mattel Messerschmit >Stearman N2S (PT17) Kaydet Yellow Peril washing machine (because it washed out so many pilot trainees) - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Gene Kennedy - Ham Radio Operator, N5ABI - gak@n5abi.hou.tx.us - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V2 #4 ******************************* To subscribe to skunk-works-digest, send the command: subscribe skunk-works-digest in the body of a message to "listserv@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu". 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