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Old 09-04-2015, 05:30 PM
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I will add some trivia as I worked in the experimental shop at Convair , 53, 54, 55 they built three birds # 1 was in the airframe stress bay under going test #2 was the first to fly and was the one that crashed, I don't have a clue how to find them but there are some Hi-speed film's of the fly-by and the break up, the cockpit was actually a separate modugal , # 3 was finished and in the engine test bay and the Navy canceled the program and for years no one would take #1 & 3 to display.

So it is interesting to me that the two remaining birds have found a home. One other thing the vibration from the slight ripple on the bay made the instrument panel shake so bad the pilot could not read any of them when on the ski's

Cheers Bob T

So I will be watching