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Another Survivor

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There's a Skylancer at the Ontario, Oregon airport. It was used extensively as an engine testbed as well as for other experiments by NASA. After being hacked and modified so many times, it was broken up and sold off for scrap. The pieces were bought and spent quite a while on some property tucked back in the hills near the Oregon/Idaho border.

It's been cosmetically restored and painted how it was during its time with NASA.

References

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https://web.archive.org/web/20110719081722/http://www.argusobserver.com/articles/2008/09/12/news/doc48c954dac9125264487805.txt https://web.archive.org/web/20140201222924/http://ontarioairfaire.org/Merle_s_Warbirds.php Bizzybody (talk) 03:10, 23 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment comment

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The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Douglas F5D Skylancer/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

I believe the test pilot on this airplane Alan B. Shepard Jr. LCMDR wrote in his report that

this is not what we (USN) need.

He argued that it should not be built and it wasn't after the first 5.

Shepard also suggested that the Tiger should no longer be constucted and its production ended at Grumman.

See Light This Candle, an unauthorized bio of Shepard.

Many errors of fact in the book about his personal life.

Last edited at 16:43, 12 June 2010 (UTC). Substituted at 13:44, 29 April 2016 (UTC)