In article . net,
"Steven P. McNicoll" writes:

"Peter Stickney" wrote in message
...

Uhm - the Jetliner ended up getting chopped as well. After about 4
years of some of the oddest restrictions on flying it.


The Jetliner made it's last flight on November 23, 1956, more than seven
years after it's first.

Yep. amd for the last four of those years, it could, by order of the
Canadian Government, only be flown in support of integrating the
Hughes radar fire control system into the CF-100. Now, they'd already
canned the idea of producing it, and, if nothing else, they could have
used it to stand in for the RCAF's Comet Is, when they were grounded
in '54, until they were rebuilt. Now, the Jetliner wasn't really
needed for test work - Hughes and the USAF used B-25s, and, in fact,
the RCAF picked up some of the Hughes-modified TB-25s to use as system
trainers. So it does raise a few eyebrows. It appears that flailing
around to cover controversial decisions wasn't limited to the
Diefenbaker government. Howard Hughes had flown the Jetliner, and was
interested in buying it as his personal Go-Kart, replacing his B-23.

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