Here is Pat Rainwater
(I'm not making this up), Miss Lockheed-Georgia, showing why weather
reconnaissance acquired the WB-47E. These two foils for
collecting particulate debris from nuclear tests made up just part of
the atmospheric sampling suite.
This photo was taken in 1963 at the Lockheed-Georgia plant in Marietta, GA shortly after the first ex-SAC B-47 had completed modification and was cleared for its acceptance flight. Hand-me-downs again.... |