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Bonneville Salt Flats Discussion => Bonneville General Chat => Topic started by: kiwi belly tank on September 20, 2013, 12:31:56 PM
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Belly Tanks.
Since people are always talking about wanting tanks, I thought I'd throw this in the ring. I have a few & know where there are a few more but I'm here & you're there so this might help the other deranged people deal with their illness. :evil:
Sid.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/eBay-Motors-/6000/i.html?_nkw=belly+tank&_frs=1
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Old-Orig-WWII-P-38-BELLY-TANK-/130993213989?pt=Vintage_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories&hash=item1e7fcdd225&vxp=mtr
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Old-Orig-WWII-BELLY-DROP-TANK-/171125520150?pt=Motors_Aviation_Parts_Gear&hash=item27d7e03716&vxp=mtr
http://www.ebay.com/itm/F-18-Aircraft-Drop-Tank-Belly-Tank-Jettison-Rat-Bike-Salt-Racer-/171126807909?pt=Motors_Aviation_Parts_Gear&hash=item27d7f3dd65&vxp=mtr
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There are some more along the Ho Chi Minh trail! :-D :-D
But most have been re-purposed! :-o :cheers:
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Somebody mentioned the ones that are in Vietnam are left over B-52 tanks. That would explain why they are so huge.
As far as buying a bellytank, unless one is a purist and just has to have a vintage belly tank, Id look at one of Waynos. Its much cheaper price wise and why not help a guy here on the board :-D
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Somebody mentioned the ones that are in Vietnam are left over B-52 tanks. That would explain why they are so huge.
As far as buying a bellytank, unless one is a purist and just has to have a vintage belly tank, Id look at one of Waynos. Its much cheaper price wise and why not help a guy here on the board :-D
eggzactly! But those Nam boats are crazy! Gotta have the stability of a floating log!
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Woody, just curious. Are those pics in Laos? Whereabouts?
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One of my VN buds sent the pix to me - don't know the exact location. :-(
Might be the Mekong river looking at the size but that was another galaxy far, far away a long, long time ago! :-o
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Don't think those are BUFF tanks, not really large enough, my guess is F-4, BUFFs didn't have drop tanks, and any of the 20 or so that went down would not have surviving tanks. The tanks in the pictures are too small and too pointy to be from a heavy. Just my guess, but I would bet a beer on what they aren't :|
:cheers:
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Don't think those are BUFF tanks, not really large enough, my guess is F-4, BUFFs didn't have drop tanks, and any of the 20 or so that went down would not have surviving tanks. The tanks in the pictures are too small and too pointy to be from a heavy. Just my guess, but I would bet a beer on what they aren't :|
:cheers:
Having spent too much time on B-52s flying over Viet Nam, I must correct the statement. We flew mostly D models and they DID have drop tanks on them which would hold 14,200 pounds of fuel each. Later G and H models had smaller non-jettisoning tanks. Though the tanks in the pictures look very long, my guess is that they are not B-52 tanks since all our B-52s flew out of Guam, Okinawa, or Thailand. The few that were shot down were twisted rubble by the time they hit the ground. And as far as I know there were no spares for B-52s stored in V/N
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The Team Arrow liner was a Phantom tank but I believe it was run tail first. [Pointy end sawed off for the chute!]
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F-86 Ebay
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-RARE-FIND-1950s-F-86-200Gallon-BELLY-GAS-TANK-DROP-POD-127-/200965921272?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2eca8099f8
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2-RARE-FIND-1950s-F-86-200Gallon-BELLY-GAS-TANK-DROP-POD-127-/200965922827?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2eca80a00b
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One of my VN buds sent the pix to me - don't know the exact location. :-(
Might be the Mekong river looking at the size but that was another galaxy far, far away a long, long time ago! :-o
The article came out via theaviationist.com.
Here is a link to the article:
http://theaviationist.com/2013/09/18/fuel-tanks-se-asia/#.UkWsHYasjTo (http://theaviationist.com/2013/09/18/fuel-tanks-se-asia/#.UkWsHYasjTo)
Careful, you could spend hours on that site.
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One of our leading P-38 aces, Thomas Maguire, either forgot to jettison his drop tanks or they were stuck and did not release when he made a sharp turn at very low altitude in a dogfight. He stalled and crashed. (hey-- I sound like the Propster!) :-P
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Google aircraft drop tanks, or aircraft wing tanks lots there to look at.
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Hi Duecemac
I was in tech school at Chanute AFB in 63' and our class grad pic was taken under the nose of a B52' numbered 001, and you can see the wrinkled skin showing its age
Maybe those large tanks were on the ' B58 Hustler ' bomber?
G Don