On Feb 15, 12:50*pm, rlovinggood wrote:
The model in the background looks like a Gulfstream. *Probably a
Gulfstream II ? *The horizontal elliptical windows sure look like the
Gulfstream trademark to me. *I guess they installed the turboprop on
the jet powered aircraft to study effects of tailplane icing on a
turboprop aircraft, but with jet engines as extra safety items (?)
Maybe the jets would provide not only extra thrust but also some "de-
icing" power???

Ray Lovinggood
Carrboro, North Carolina, USA

After actually watching the entire, sobering, video, let me change my
answer: I still think the model is a Gulfstream II, but it had
NOTHING to do with the icing experiment. By the looks of the prop on
the turboprop engine, I say the model was a testbed for the propeller.

Ray