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This RB-45C belonged to the USAir Force but was marked as a Royal Air Force plane and flown by an RAF crew for Operation Ju-Jitsu 1 in 1952, the first deep penetration reconnaissance of the western USSR. At the time NATO had announced that any Soviet attack on Western Europe would be met with nuclear retaliation against the USSR but that threat had no teeth until NATO planners knew where the targets were, and Ju-Jitsu was meant to find out.

Three planes flew routes towards Leningrad in the north, Moscow in the middle, and points south. A repeat mission was planned for 1953 but was canceled due to the death of Stalin; western leaders thought that the resulting instability in the USSR made the mission too provocative. It was repeated in 1954. After that, the CIA had the U-2 operational and no further deep penetrations by RB-45s were needed.

All USAF markings were removed from the Ju-Jitsu planes, but a few squadron markings remained, such as the hairy eyeball motif on the nose camera housing of this one.
 
looking forward to this one, fine work there Mick :encouragement: It looks like your missing some texture's if thats my scenery in the background, you'll need my Manston 45 scenery installed, an airfield visited by 45's regularly during the 1950's
 
ian elliot said:
looking forward to this one, fine work there Mick :encouragement: It looks like your missing some texture's if thats my scenery in the background, you'll need my Manston 45 scenery installed, an airfield visited by 45's regularly during the 1950's
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Yes, that’s your Sculthorpe. Sculthorpe was the primary B-45 base for much of the type’s NATO service.

I’ll have to get those textures. I thought I had all your sceneries installed but apparently not. I didn’t notice anything wrong - I just thought that building in the background was painted white.
 
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Here’s a plane from the 1954 mission, Ju-Jitsu 3. (Ju-Jitsu 2 was the cancelled 1952 mission.). Again we see all USAF markings removed but a few squadron marks left in place.
 
Pioneer

The B-45 was the first jet to drop a live atomic bomb. This is the one that did it, on November 1st, 1951.

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48-001 was the first B-45C built and one of the few to retain the C-model's distinctive tip tanks. Only ten C-model bombers were built, not enough to equip a combat unit, so they all went to the Air Research & Development Command. ARDC farmed some of them out to other USAF agencies for various test purposes, and to several private companies for jet engine and other test work, few of which required the extended range provided by the tip tanks.

If you look really closely at the nose you can see that the radome had been replaced by aluminum skinning with a small rectangular window at the tip of the nose. That's for the old Norden bombsight that was needed because the Tornado’s sophisticated bomb/nav system still wasn’t working.
 
Mick said:
The B-45 was the first jet to drop a live atomic bomb. This is the one that did it, on November 1st, 1951.

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48-001 was the first B-45C built and one of the few to retain the C-model's distinctive tip tanks. Only ten C-model bombers were built, not enough to equip a combat unit, so they all went to the Air Research & Development Command. ARDC farmed some of them out to other USAF agencies for various test purposes, and to several private companies for jet engine and other test work, few of which required the extended range provided by the tip tanks.

If you look really closely at the nose you can see that the radome had been replaced by aluminum skinning with a small rectangular window at the tip of the nose. That's for the old Norden bombsight that was needed because the Tornado’s sophisticated bomb/nav system still wasn’t working.
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I posted a picture! What happened to the picture?!

I’ll try again. Here it is. Or here it should be:

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A strange find in our national art museum

You don' t expect to find a plane in an ART museum (even if it's your02.jpg01.jpg NATIONAL ART MUSEUM :biggrin-new:)

hertzie.
 
hertzie said:
You don' t expect to find a plane in an ART museum (even if it's yourView attachment 88775View attachment 88776 NATIONAL ART MUSEUM :biggrin-new:)

hertzie.
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This Koolhoven FK23 Bantam (although officially the BAT FK23 Bantam) has quite a history. The remains of this (original) aircraft were purchased in England by the Koolhoven Aircraft Foundation in 1990. The aircraft was restored to its current state by a team led by Harry van der Meer, who was the technical curator of the Aviodrome at that time. So it was logical it was displayed in the Aviodrome once finished.


However around 2010 the Aviodrome ran into serious financial problems, which made it uncertain that this museum could remain open. To ensure the aircraft would remain on display the owner (The Koolhoven Aircraft Foundation) sold the aircraft to the National Museum (Rijksmuseum) for the restoration costs.


The National museum wanted to have the aircraft in their collection as it was (quote) :"Mechanization, mobility, weapon technology and Dutch design come together in the Bantam, making the aircraft a dream object for the Rijksmuseum. The Bantam will be part of the 20th century display and will be on display from 2013. The plane shows the influence on the formal language of modernism in the 1920s-1930s".
Due to the "even continuing" uncertain financial position of the Aviodrome, it is logical the aircraft had to leave there. I'm glad it remained in the Netherlands.


We had a similar story with the Farman from the former Air Force Museum at Soesterberg. When the rumours started the museum had to close and would merge into the new National Military Museum, the owner Louman took his aircraft back an put it on display in his beautiful car museum. Its a pity we can't have a national aviation museum in the Netherlands where all historical aircraft can be found under one roof. But I'm glad somebody at least took the effort to preserve these aircraft for the future. And personally And I think the FK23, has a larger audience in the National Museum than it had in the Aviodrome. Which fits with the purpose of the foundation, as their goal was/is to keep the name Koolhoven as aircraft designer alive (BTW Very nice people who were great support during the development of the FS9 Koolhoven FK58 fighter).

For the Dutch museums there is a lot to put on display. There are many beautiful and unique aircraft in storage. for instance we have a beautiful Fokker C.X replica stored somewhere at Soesterberg, there is a Fokker D.XXI hidden on a ceiling, there is a Fokker G.1 replica in stage, there is a Buffalo replica and a Curtiss replica hidden somewhere...... And when somebody wants to spend some money we still have an reasonable original Fokker C.V in the Aviodrome which desperately needs some preservation.


I'm very curious to see what will happen with the unique collection of the Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum. Most museums depend on the financial support of privateers, but in the end it is the owner who owns his aircraft. For the Netherlands you can wonder how long the Spitfires from Frits van Eerdt will remain with the KLuHV, now he has run in to some legal problems.

Cheers,
Huub
 
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"Stateside" was an RB-45C of Detachment 2 of the Strategic Air Command's 91st Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron deployed to Far East Air Forces in 1953, during the Korean War. It got from Alaska to its base in Japan by becoming the first jet to cross the Pacific non-stop. Based at Yokota, it flew deep penetration reconnaissance missions from Suwon and Kimpo, Korea, over North Korea, the People's Republic of China and the eastern Soviet Union. The RB-45 was t he first plane to routinely use aerial refueling on operational missions. The hairy eyeball and crocodile jaws were not actual unit markings but they appeared on some other planes that passed through Yokota.
 
I don't mean to hog this thread but we haven't had any new pictures for a couple weeks now. So here's another screenie from our upcoming B-45 Tornado project.

This is a B-45C-5, a very rare bird. There were only four of them converted to bombers from RB-45C-1s. All reconnaissance equipment was removed and the planes were equipped with the full offensive suite of the B-45A, except for the old Norden bomb sight, no longer needed because the designed-in bombing/navigation system was finally working after years of tinkering with it.

All that remained of the RB was the sheet metal nose, the tip tanks and the in-flight refueling receptacle. With its additional range the B-45C-5 was the most formidable of Tornado bombers.

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This one is the airplane formerly known as "Stateside," pictured above, when it was running deep penetration missions out of Japan over the PRK, PRC and USSR in the early 1950s.
 
Wonderful job there mick. Can’t wait to have a go of this beauty. David’s done another great job.

look forward to his “other” project too ;)
 
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