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Dale Amon (Belfast, Northern Ireland)  Aerospace

The April issue of Aeroplane reports an XF-90 was found on Frenchman Flat. It was used during the nuclear testing series there in the early 1950's and apparently was just forgotten. Not that surprising I guess. One wouldn't expect a lot of hikers wandering about one the most heavily A-bombed spots on Earth.

It has been recovered and is being decontaminated (after 50 years in the desert I suspect that means hosing the dust off it) and will be displayed at the USAF Museum in Dayton, Ohio. I would imagine it needs "a little work" done on it as well.

Here's a USAF picture of one of the two of them back when they were new. That makes it 50/50 this is the same plane:

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