Dandiego Posted August 13, 2019 Share Posted August 13, 2019 Every once in a while something a little exotic flies into Miramar. Today I saw a NASA WB-57. Pretty cool. I saw it take off. Much different look than the B-57. Larger engines and very long wings. Dan Out2gtcha 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b757captain Posted August 13, 2019 Share Posted August 13, 2019 Way back in the olden times I was based in El Paso. NASA had a facility there, mostly repairing and reworking T-38s for NASA but the airport was also a favorite storage site for lots of NASA airplanes. For a while the backup 747 shuttle carrier was there, and also one of the WB-57s. I got a nice up-close look at it one day - unfortunately in the pre-digital camera days and I lost the photos years ago. Fast forward to 2011. Taxiing out for takeoff from Kandahar, sitting in line behind a couple of C-17s and my FO points to an airplane in a revetment and asks "what kind of airplane is that?" It's one of the WB-57s!. It operated from Kandahar for a few months but I only got to see it take off once: can't tell from the pics but while it was in Afghanistan the NASA logos were removed. Cheers, Mark LSP_Matt, Out2gtcha and D.B. Andrus 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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