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Published: 2010-11-27 23:41:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 800; Favourites: 20; Downloads: 27
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For ~keichoku by request [link]QF-100F 56-3974 #410 that made an emergency landing at Luke AFB after the canopy cracked during a functional check flight.
The acft took off from the Sperry facility at Goodyear MAP, AZ about 10 miles south for the FCF and declared an IFE when the transparacy failed and landed at Luke!
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The orange paint denotes a drone, right?
Thanks for posting this!
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Yessir! This a QF-100F. The "Q" prefix means that it is capable of manned flight or remotely piloted flight for a drone mission.
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Ah! Ergo the "RQ" of the recent Predator drones?
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Yes, if we take a RQ-1A Predator, this MDS (Mission Design Series) designation of US acft and Missiles is called out in DoD 4120.15-L
This regulations defines that the prefix "R" is a "Modified Mission" designator denoting Reconaissance. The "Q" denotes the "Mission" as an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. The number after the "-" is the "Design" so a Predator is the first UAV in this numbering sequence. The A is the first model in the "series".
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I see! Thanks. 
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The Army used this type of designation system before WWII. The Navy's was very confusing and had the manufacturer play a large part in the designation so that an F4F-1 was the fistiteration of the fourth fighter design from Grumman. The F4U-5 was the fifth variation of the fourth fighter design from Vought.
Defense Secretary McNamara put an end to the Navy designation system in 1962 when there was a great congressional debate about the merits of the new Navy F4H-1 interceptor over the new USAF F-110A all weather fighter. In fact they were the exact same aircraft... The Phantom II
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Oh! I was wondering why the Navy designations abruptly shift in the early 60s! You've answered one of my oldest aircraft-related questions.
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That was the reason! All caused by the Phantom!
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I do not understand what you are asking, sorry.
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i meant whats going to happen to this plane now?
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It was destroyed as an aerial target.
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I do not have a date of the shoot down.
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What the heck is that comb looking thing fastened vertically to the nose needle blocking the intake?!
Nice pic by the way, I love the Super Saber, and I am really looking forward to photoing it for the first time at Castle.
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That is the pitot tube that bends vertically for stowage. The tube is very long and easily damaged when it is in the flight position. The tube has a protective cover installed on it.
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[link] is a pic of a Terre Haute Indiana ANG jet w/ the tube in flight position. It is long!
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You aint kiddin! I like the Green camo on it too
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