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After World War Two was over, the US Navy had tons of new F8F Bearcats, F4U Corsairs, and the new A-1 Skyraider coming online. This left the venerable Grumman F6F Hellcat as very, well, surplus.
That meant the Navy and Marines used dozens of these planes as drone target aircraft in the 1940s and 1950s. Some were even packed with bombs and flown off the USS Boxer during the Korean War as early cruise missiles.
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China Lake 1953
Some F6F-5K drones were used in testing the air over A-bomb sites…sans pilots
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Yellow is my favorite