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...an 8-gun hard nose model, this plane had the nose swapped out to the glass nose version during her time in Korea. [[Category:Nose Swap]]

...6B-10-DL. The discolored panel around the nose armament is evidence of the swap.<br>

...earliest dated photo I can find with this nose is Mar 1950, so the actual swap probably took place in 1948 or 1949. But at the very least, this narrows do ...paint jobs. The JD-1s all also had glass noses, and this plane has a hard nose, so it seems unlikely that it's a Navy plane.

...-22343]]) sometime in early 1952. She had her nose swapped out for a glass nose while serving with the 13th, but still retains her Gen 2 canopy. <br> ...([[43-22343]]) after her "surgery". She can be seen wearing the same glass nose from the previous photo, but now she is also wearing the Gen 3 clamshell ca

...ght side of the runway about halfway down and perpendicular to it with its nose just over the edge. One landing was so bad that the aeroplane hit the A-26 ...even in official government records, so it's also entirely possible that a nose or two was swappeded and that fact was simply not reported on the card. I c

...knots we would have to go to the aircraft, start the engines, and keep the nose headed directly into the wind as the storm passed. ...g fine and I could not see anything abnormal. The crew chief suggested we swap the fuel pressure gages, thinking that maybe it was a gage problem. After d