CONFIGURATION of the Navy's new high-altitude flying sentinel for radar work is revealed in this dramatic
photo of the Lockheed Super-Contellation equipped with finlike radar housing atop the fuselage and expanded
radar nacelle below. Precise mission of the WV-2 is secret, but wingtip tanks indicate capacity for long
range to do aerial radar scouting.
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March 1963
NAVY'S WV-2 REVEALED
CONFIGURATION of the Navy's new high-altitude flying sentinel for radar work is revealed in this dramatic
photo of the Lockheed Super-Contellation equipped with finlike radar housing atop the fuselage and expanded
radar nacelle below. Precise mission of the WV-2 is secret, but wingtip tanks indicate capacity for long
range to do aerial radar scouting.
