The Boneyard

[cpxxx]

Yes definitely a WB57 below and to the right you can see a B57 with the normal wings. Actually NASA still use two WB57s. So that one in the picture might be a spares source, the engines seem to be missing.

[Phaser11]

Yep on the WB-57 it is a high alt weather aircraft(or was), but the F-111's in the pucture got me all misty eyed.......

[Reschke]

Gotta agree with ya Phaser. Those F4 Phantoms in there were what I grew up watching burn big holes in the sky above and around my house in the valley's of Central Alabama. It was one of the coolest things to see when one came up the little valley about 100 fee over the trees thundering down through the area. The whole house would shake and then it would be so quiet because all the stuff around had just stopped.

I also watched one shear the wingtips off by clipping some pine trees running a NOE training run back in 1989 (I think) and it wasn't pretty because neither guy made it out of the bird before it made a fireball on the side of the hill.

[Vulcan]

For a minute I thought it might have been a NASA ER-2 but the wings are not the right shape. Then I got to thinking that the two below are B-57 Canberra's and did some looking around.

I think it might be a WB-57 based on the wing shape and the curvature of the tips on the leading edge.

WB or RB?

Yeah same as me, I was looking at it for a while thinking it looked like a canberra with longer wings.