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    Project FICON Handbooks

    Brian Lockett

    Reprints of the Air Force Flight and Maintenance Handbooks for the Convair GRB-36D FICON carrier aircraft. It contains: Utility Flight Handbook USAF Series GRB-36D-III/RF-84F Composite Aircraft Utility Flight Handbook GRB-36D-III…

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    Flying Aircraft Carriers of the USAF: Wing Tip Coupling

    Brian Lockett

    During and after World War II, aircraft designers were faced with the problem of increasing the range of strategic bombers. Dr. Richard Vogt, a German immigrant to the United States…

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    Flying Aircraft Carriers of the USAF: Project FICON

    Brian Lockett

    Project FICON (Fighter conveyer): In the early 1950s, the Air Force conducted a series of experiments to establish the feasibility of carrying, launching, and retrieving jet reconnaissance airplanes from giant…

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    Painting Guide for the Boeing Stratofortress Motherships

    Brian Lockett

    This document tracks the changes to the appearance of the two Boeing B-52 Stratofortresses that were modified to carry and launch the North American X-15 rocket planes. The two NB-52s…

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    Balls Three

    Brian Lockett

    The NB-52A 52-0003 and its sister ship, the NB-52B 52-0008 were diverted to the special mission of launching the X-15 hypersonic research airplane in 1958 following their service as early…

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    Flying Aircraft Carriers of the USAF: McDonnell XF-85 Goblin

    Brian Lockett

    The P-85 Goblin was the only airplane that ever flew which was designed from scratch to be operated entirely from another airplane. The development of the B-36 by the Consolidated…

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    Balls Eight: History of the Boeing NB-52B Stratofortress Mothership

    Brian Lockett

    It has been asserted that the Boeing NB-52B Stratofortress, carrying Air Force serial 52-0008, can lay claim to being the airplane that has seen and participated in more history than…

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