Deserted
An eclectic mix in the Arizona desert 'Boneyard' during October 1996.
In the frame are three colourful ex USAF Air National Guard Convair F-106 Delta Daggers including 59-0095, 59-0115 and centre stage, a two-seater F-106B model 58-0904.
There were fifteen F-106's stored there at the time.
To their extreme left, another ex ANG machine in the shape of a camouflaged Republic F-105 'Thud' Thunderchief - one of eleven still there then.
To the right of the Thud can be seen the prop and nose of a Lockheed P-2 Neptune with the tall fin of another - BuAer.No 147952/LS6 which were there amongst several others of these ex 1950's sub-hunters.
Lastly, to the right is another ex US Navy machine but this time a rare Grumman TC-4C Academe - BuAer.No.155728 previously with VA-42. Built as the military version of the turbo-prop powered Gulfstream I, nine of which were converted for use by the Navy and Marine Corps as Grumman A-6 Intruder trainers having the nose of the latter added to their forward fuselage. Of the nine delivered - seven were in store there that day.
Scanned 35mm transparency
Deserted
An eclectic mix in the Arizona desert 'Boneyard' during October 1996.
In the frame are three colourful ex USAF Air National Guard Convair F-106 Delta Daggers including 59-0095, 59-0115 and centre stage, a two-seater F-106B model 58-0904.
There were fifteen F-106's stored there at the time.
To their extreme left, another ex ANG machine in the shape of a camouflaged Republic F-105 'Thud' Thunderchief - one of eleven still there then.
To the right of the Thud can be seen the prop and nose of a Lockheed P-2 Neptune with the tall fin of another - BuAer.No 147952/LS6 which were there amongst several others of these ex 1950's sub-hunters.
Lastly, to the right is another ex US Navy machine but this time a rare Grumman TC-4C Academe - BuAer.No.155728 previously with VA-42. Built as the military version of the turbo-prop powered Gulfstream I, nine of which were converted for use by the Navy and Marine Corps as Grumman A-6 Intruder trainers having the nose of the latter added to their forward fuselage. Of the nine delivered - seven were in store there that day.
Scanned 35mm transparency