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Discovered this footage on Youtube courtesy of the San Diego Air & Space Museum: TFR development test-beds used by GD Electronics, leading to the F-111 systems.
The B-25 was used for cued manually-flown terrain-following, whereas the higher performance B-26 had the autopilot coupled to the TFR demands for automated flight at up to 300 knots and 400 ft. In both cases the 40 lb unit was installed in the nose, with the radome attached to the bombardier's glazing.
The B-26 was N4815E ( c/n 28784 ) which in 1963 was sold-on to Tallmantz as an aerial-filming platform. Interestingly, Air America later operated a Marksman conversion with automatic TFR, N46598 Blivit ( c/n 27693 ), though I haven't been able to trace whether it used the same system.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5iEW8Y8uIo
The B-25 was used for cued manually-flown terrain-following, whereas the higher performance B-26 had the autopilot coupled to the TFR demands for automated flight at up to 300 knots and 400 ft. In both cases the 40 lb unit was installed in the nose, with the radome attached to the bombardier's glazing.
The B-26 was N4815E ( c/n 28784 ) which in 1963 was sold-on to Tallmantz as an aerial-filming platform. Interestingly, Air America later operated a Marksman conversion with automatic TFR, N46598 Blivit ( c/n 27693 ), though I haven't been able to trace whether it used the same system.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5iEW8Y8uIo
