US 1951-04263 T-33A.jpg

"joet5" wrote in message
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WTF? Twin tailed?

In article , Byker says...

"joet5" wrote in message
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WTF? Twin tailed?


Hard to say...could be a T-33 missing a tail and they had the tail of an Erco
Ercoupe lying around and used it...or an Erco Ercoupe missing a fuselage/wings
and they had a T-33 fuselage/wings lying around and used it.

....it's a real mystery not lost on the model makers!



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On Tue, 3 Sep 2019 15:06:20 -0500, "Byker" wrote:

"joet5" wrote in message
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WTF? Twin tailed?

Seems Lockheed wanted to sell T-33s to the US Navy, but deck trials
showed some landing stability issues. This T-bird was modified to see
if it would help - which it did - but Lockheed went ahead and tweaked
the whole design into the T2V Sea Star with a larger fin and raised
cockpit.

This twin-tail was restored to original configuration and returned to
service.

I kinda like Miloch's hypothesis, though...