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The B-52 didn’t really have Terrain Following Radar. It had a Norden Terrain Avoidance radar. I once worked for Texas Instruments Defense (now Raytheon) in the Terrain Following area. We did a project with Norden, a radar for the Navy A-12, Worked with their TA guy, who wanted to put in something like their TA system. We disabused him of that notion, in a meeting at General Dynamics, one of the primes. GD had experience with TexInst TF radars in the F/FB-111 series, and they wanted that sort for the A-12. But in the end, GD kicked us off the project, going with a much better design, using F-16 and B-1 technology for the hardware. Both TI and Norden were very conservative, and always wanted to do the next project exactly like the previous one, regardless of whether it made much sense, given the often major differences in requirements, installation, technology and so forth. As my mentor at TI said, TI thought of themselves as a manufacturing company, not an engineering company. That’s in part why they ended up sold to Raytheon, shortly before I got laid off from RatCo. However the last project I worked on was not like that at all. They kept the old geezer manufacturing guys away from it for the most part. Easy to do, since even now, 20+ years later, it can’t be talked about in the hallway, or the geezer’s offices.

Definitely a Vega. I doubt there were very many ski-equipped Vegas around, so it could very well be NX3903. Good catch!

There is an auction at http://www.ebay.com/itm/390789852434 for a negative of what appears to be an early model Lockheed Vega on skis. Might it be NX3903?