Naval Aviation News Sep. 1952. “NAVY’S WV-2 REVEALED”

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March 1963

NAVY’S WV-2 REVEALED

unveiled WV-2 in flight 1952 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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