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Photograph article dated November 17, 1960 partially reads, "An incongruous marriage of the jet-powered future and piston-powered past has been perpetrated by engineers at Lockheed Aircraft to flight-test the sophisticated radar and fire control systems for tomorrow's supersonic F-104G Super Starfighter. The company has taken its DC-3 transport, ripped the smoothly contoured nose off the sturdy old craft and refitted it with the needle-snouted radome from the F-104G to turn the flying workhorse into an aerial Pinocchio." Photograph caption reads, "Jet snout adorns transport. Lockheed engineers have attached F-104G nose to DC-3 for flight tests."
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
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