Palm Springs Air Museum Completes Boeing Skyfox Restoration

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WUN for GUMS: :} Sadly restored only for ground display
Palm Springs Air Museum Completes Boeing Skyfox Restoration 27 May 2024
Palm Springs Air Museum Completes Boeing Skyfox Restoration (vintageaviationnews.com) (https://vintageaviationnews.com/warbird-restorations/palm-springs-air-museum-completes-boeing-skyfox-restoration-awaiting-pics-sc.html)
"...T-33 trainer. The Skyfox Corporation then proposed upgrading the design as a cost-effective alternative to existing jet trainers such as the Cessna T-37 Tweet, BAe Hawk, and Dornier-Breguet Alpha. In addition, it was hoped the jet could be developed into a ground attack aircraft, much like the T-37 had done in Vietnam as the A-37...." JPG of test flight 1983?
Boeing_Skyfox.jpg (476×465) (wikimedia.org) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Boeing_Skyfox.jpg)

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Perhaps they should also get hold of the one-off Bacon Super T-6 currently mouldering away at Whiteman Airport, Los Angeles. A 1950s attempt to update the T-6 with a nosewheel and T-33 canopy and tip tanks. Mind you, it's not particularly attractive...