Historic combat aircraft down the street.
Filmed in 1970, the following video shows how vintage combat planes were moved from the Air Force Museum at Patterson Field down State Route 444 to the new home at historic Wright Field.
What makes this footage unique is the impressive sight of some historic aircraft, such as an F-89 Scorpion, a B-17 Flying Fortress, a B-58 Hustler and even a huge XB-70 Valkyrie Mach 3 bomber transported down the street to the National Museum of the United States Air Force.
Retired combat planes “going down the street” to be moved from one place to another are not usual today either: in fact as we have already reported in a previous article, an F-15C Eagle has been transported last year by truck from Tyndall Air Force Base to its new destination the Haney Technical Center in Panama City, Florida.
Image credit: U.S. Air Force
During one of the moves (obviously not this one) they towed the North American X-10 in front of it. Looks somewhat like an XB-70 baby brother. Couldn’t find the picture though.
here you go
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_X-planes#/media/File:North_American_X-10_runway.jpg
The sole surviving X-10 s/n GM 19307 is located at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio.
This was the first X-10 to fly. The aircraft was delivered to the Air
Force Museum in 1957, upon completion of the program. It is displayed in
the Museum’s Research & Development Hangar.
source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_X-planes
Not picture of the X-10 (there are hundreds of those), I meant specifically a picture of the X-10 and XB-70 both being towed down the road.
Great video thx.
Interesting how similar the nose section of the XB-70 and the Tu-160, Tu-22m…
The laws of aerodynamics are the same for everybody. Look at how similar the SEPECAT Jaguar and the Mitsubishi F-1 are, despite being completely independent developments.
Probably not a good example there since the Japanese took a long hard look at the Jaguar before designing their T-2/F-1. It certainly had a lot of the same “inspiration”.
A great example of this is the F-86A and MIG-15.
But isn’t that just because they were both designed following access to Kurt Tank’s designs and wind tunnel tests on the Ta-183? Operation Paperclip and all…
Wow. These are some amazing images of aviation history!
That XB-70 just barely fit on that 2-lane blacktop…I see they removed the outer set of wheels/tires on the main Gear (see 2:00). The B-58 Hustler what a road hog!