Great video guys! Great work by all to restore her back to glory. She’s certainly in the right place right now prep and paint. We’ve all been watching the progress, in bits and pieces, since it arrived. Several of us would like to attend any unveiling ceremony when scheduled. Maybe for the 50th anniversary of the original rollout?
Pleased to know it arrived safely and know it is in good hands with proper restoration which it certainly deserves. Asking which Ejection seat was found for it? Yes, Thank You for attempting to get the unique canopy opening strut system working! Guess it's a matter of figuring out how much preload, and one that fits close enough - may need to make some shims. Just another unique item of interest for the YF!
It would be great if you could get a toasted engine to mount in here so the compressor would be visible through the inlet and everything will look right from the tail and you wouldn't just have to tack the nozzle on the rear.
@@FtwAviationMuseum Is the Air Force generally willing to donate stuff that's no longer serviceable to museums? We have an F-89J at the EAA museum which is cool, but not having the engines in it is even more noticeable as the intake trunk is only three or four feet long. (Same with the exhaust as the end of the engine made up the back of the nacelle.) I would love for the EAA museum to be able to put a couple of J-35s in it!
The Air Force Museum doesn't DONATE anything. The aircraft is on loan to us. We had to go through a lengthy certification process with the. Same with the US Navy and Marine Corps. The Air Force rarely loans aircraft with engines to ensure they are not flown. We have done a couple of artistic inserts in the intakes. Print or paint the intake picture on sheet metal and form a distance it passes. Easier than dealing with engines, which are almost impossible to get.
