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Bruce R wrote:

Never heard of this one before. Obviously an operational a/c, when and
where did it serve and what was it's function??

It's a Douglas EB-66. The B-66 was a de-navalized and modified version of
the navy's A-3. It served in several versions, as a tactical light bomber
(A-26 replacement) as the B-66, as a reconnaisance plane as the RB-66, an
electronic countermeasures plane as the EB-66, and later as a weather
observation aircraft, the WB-66. The EB-66 and RB-66 were used over
Vietnam, the RB-66 also over Cuba during the Cuban missile crisis.

The first planes of this family were delivered to the US Air Force as
reconnaisance RB-66, the last ones were phased out by 1973.

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Never heard of this one before. Obviously an operational a/c, when and
where did it serve and what was it's function??

Bruce,

The B-66 and it variants were based on the Navy A3D Skywarriar. They were
built by Douglas Aircraft.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-3_Skywarrior
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-66_Destroyer

They entered service during the early to mid 1960s and saw service through
the Vietnam war.

Wayne
A-3 and A-6 Bombardier/Navigator

I ment to say early to mid 1950s.

Wayne
http://www.soaridaho.com/

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Never heard of this one before. Obviously an operational a/c, when and
where did it serve and what was it's function??

Bruce,

The B-66 and it variants were based on the Navy A3D Skywarriar. They were
built by Douglas Aircraft.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-3_Skywarrior
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-66_Destroyer

They entered service during the early to mid 1960s and saw service through
the Vietnam war.

Wayne
A-3 and A-6 Bombardier/Navigator

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Bruce,

The B-66 and it variants were based on the Navy A3D Skywarriar. They
were built by Douglas Aircraft.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-3_Skywarrior
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-66_Destroyer

They entered service during the early to mid 1960s and saw service
through the Vietnam war.
Skywarrior, I knew I'd seen the outline of that airframe before. There
was one of them on the deck of the USS Intrepid in New York Harbor. Sign
in front of it said it was the largest a/c ever deployed from a carrier as
an active member of the flight compliment.

Bruce

That is a true statement, it was the largest and the cat shot on a 27
Charlie class carrier was a very exciting ride. The landings were even more
exciting!!!

Wayne
http://www.soaridaho.com/Schreder