Talk:Douglas F5D Skylancer

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Another Survivor

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.

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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]

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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.

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