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XB-70 AV-1 "VALKYRIE"
On October 12, 1964, during its third test flight, its first supersonic, the paint of the XB-70 was torn off in entire patches on nearly 15% of the surface.

 

[Snotty]

Over 5000 produced and still in use by Turkey, Iran, South Korea and Greece.


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There's an F4 parked next to a B-17G in Tulare, California. The 17 is rumored to be Gen. Castle's plane, same guy that the Castle AFB was named after. (Today, a GREAT museum to visit! In Atwater CA.) They're right off of Highway 99 in Central California. I view them every time I drive by, and have been doing so since 1977! The Phantom did not appear until the '90s.

B-17 Flying Fortress and F-4 Phantom at Mefford Field in Tulare, CA (Google Maps)

 

[67newport]

Beyer Peacock Garratt steam locomotive #6029 (thank you George!) an articulated 4-8-2+2-8-4​

 

[67newport]

The Busch-Sulzer Bros. Diesel Engine Company​

The Busch-Sulzer Bros. Diesel Engine Company was founded by Adolphus Busch of the Anheuser-Busch brewing company, in 1911, as a joint venture with Sulzer Brothers of Switzerland.

from the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition world's fair in San Francisco, Ca In 1897, Adolphus Busch acquired rights to build d...

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Southern Pacific cab forward freight, Indio Yard, 1950's (switcher on siding)

 

[67newport]

Shifting a main engine for installation at Daewoo Shipyard, SK

 

[Snotty]

Southern Pacific cab forward freight, Indio Yard, 1950's (switcher on siding)
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I did not know the story behand the Cab-forward design until the last time I visited the Sacramento Train Museum, where they have one. As the trains were pulling through the long tunnels in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, the crews were being asphyxiated! So they moved the cabs to the front. Makes sense!

 

[amazinblue82]

Southern Pacific cab forward freight, Indio Yard, 1950's (switcher on siding)

Any of you "locomotive-philes" know who they shovel in the coal (unless this is an "oil burner - with all that black smoke?") to the firebox for these cab-forward rigs?

Ostensibly, tender is in the customary location (first car after engine), yet the smokestack (e.g., exiting the smokebox, typically signals the exhaust end of the boiler, while firebox would be opposite end?

Guess IF it were using oil as fuel to make steam, they could pipe oil from tender into the boiler? Anyway, typical configuration of coal burner below.

 

[67newport]

DRB Class 03.10 - Wikipedia

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DRG BR 03.10

 

[67newport]

Big Boy UP 4023 move in Omaha

 

[LocuMob]

unless this is an "oil burner

It is.

 

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The incredible story of how a paperclip avoided the loss of an XB-70 Valkyrie.

On Apr. 30, 1966, the second XB-70 prototype, the Air Vehicle 2 (AV 2), suffered a short-circuit in the landing gear retraction system shortly after the take-off from Edwards Air Force Base. As a result of this malfunction the nose gear was blown back into the partially retracted gear well door and the tires were slashed.

Al White and Joe Cotton, who were the XB-70 aircrew for the mission, attempted to lower the gear but the normal hydraulic system failed.

Until Cotton came out with an extreme solution. He opened his briefcase and among his notes and plans he found a binder-type paperclip: he grasped the paperclip, carefully reached in and short circuited the breaker.

 

[Snotty]

Any of you "locomotive-philes" know who they shovel in the coal (unless this is an "oil burner - with all that black smoke?") to the firebox for these cab-forward rigs?

Ostensibly, tender is in the customary location (first car after engine), yet the smokestack (e.g., exiting the smokebox, typically signals the exhaust end of the boiler, while firebox would be opposite end?

Guess IF it were using oil as fuel to make steam, they could pipe oil from tender into the boiler? Anyway, typical configuration of coal burner below.

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Firebox is up front, and they were oil fired.

I have pictures of the one in Sacramento, but I can't find them! Boo!

 

[Northcoast300h]

Americans are driving tanks...We're a silly country.

(Medium Sherman tank vs 2021 Cadillac Escalade, but true for Ford F150, Denali, RAM, Hummer etc.)

 

[Northcoast300h]

Wärtsilä-Sulzer RTA96-C. Worlds largest diesel engine.

I stand corrected. Finland is a silly place too.

 

[67newport]

https://m.facebook.com/ReynauldsEuroImports/photos/a.279722208761752/764850706915564/?type=3

 

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Today in MilAvHist, 12/26/1956, the first flight anniversary of the Convair F-106 Delta Dart, a primary all-weather interceptor aircraft of the USAF. It was in service from 1959 until 1988. There were 342 manufactured and flown by the USAF, ANG, and NASA and the last few years of operation saw the Delta Darts converted into drones for use as a high-speed target for weapons testing well into the late 1990's and the top speed was around Mach 2.3.

In 1971, an F-106 went into a flat spin over the skies of Montana. The pilot ejected and the force of the seat leaving the aircraft along with the drag chute, stabilized the spin and the aircraft continued flying on its own in a nose down attitude allegedly prompting his wingman to radio, "You'd better get back in it!!"

The aircraft belly landed and the thrust from the engine continued pushing along the ground. The local sheriff called the USAF base nearby and asked what to do, and he was told to keep clear and let it run out of fuel, which it did 1 hour and 45 minutes later! The aircraft was recovered and returned to service and now resides as "The Corn Field Bomber" at the Museum of the USAF in Ohio. (USAF Photos).