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Old May 30th 10, 05:05 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
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It looks like a P-3 Orion, but that's a Navy patrol plane. This is a
USAF plane.

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Michael
Can anyone identify this aircraft?


EC-121D Lockheed Super Constellation 53-0555 "Triple-Nickel" at the Air
Force Museum Dayton
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Old May 30th 10, 05:33 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
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On Sun, 30 May 2010 12:05:56 -0400, Michael
wrote:

It looks like a P-3 Orion, but that's a Navy patrol plane. This is a
USAF plane.


Hello,
This is a Lockheed EC-121D. You can learn more about it he
http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/fac...eet.asp?id=328
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On Sun, 30 May 2010 11:27:00 -0500, John Szalay
john.szalay.at.att.net wrote:

Michael
Can anyone identify this aircraft?


EC-121D Lockheed Super Constellation 53-0555 "Triple-Nickel" at the Air
Force Museum Dayton


Many thanks to both of you. I indeed took that photo at
Wright-Patterson AFB Museum back in 2003. I just failed to note the
model when I took the shot.
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Old May 30th 10, 06:44 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
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In article ,
Michael wrote:

It looks like a P-3 Orion, but that's a Navy patrol plane. This is a
USAF plane.

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EC-121 Lockheed Warning Star -- airborne early warning plane development
of the Lockheed Super Constellation airliner of the 1950s. The Navy also
flew their version of this aircraft.

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