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You do not need any arrangements to see the Hustler at the old Kelly Field. You can drive right up to it, as It is not on Military controlled property. It is located on General Hudnell drive right about where the old main gate was. It is on one side of a Pinkish toned building with a F-111 on the other side. A little ways away is a F-106 on a pole. The hustler is kinda rough, the nacelles are not correct, and the whole thing needs some hangar time and TLC. (I work a half mile from the plane) Tom

I believe that 668 ended up in Galveston at the Lone Star Museum of Flight. They are in the planning stages of a move to Ellington Field.

The 64th jets did have the large "PE" tail Code in 1968 and 1969 until deactivation. I think the stuff I read on the encore release dates the markings to just before they applied the large codes. My father was in the 64th in 68-69, during the time they won the Hughes trophy. He has a bunch of slides of his jets that would make good picture reference if I could ever get him off his butt and go get the slides scanned. He has pics from home base at Clark, and the Dets at Don Maung, Thailand, and DaNang, Vietnam (Parked in the old French revetments). Also wondered why all the decal makers to dat

Looking for part of Wolfpack Decal sheet #72-004; Only need the part for the F-102. If anyone has this to spare, let me know what you want for it. To add, If anyone has a couple letters "E" the same size as the tail code, I am looking for that. My Dad was in the 64th FIS at Clark, his tail was "PE", am doing a duece for him. Thanks in advance, Tom

I am looking for Wolfpack decal 72-004, and specifically the F-102 markings on that sheet. If anyone has this to spare, I'd appreciate it. Let me know how much, and how to pay. Thanks in advance, Tom

When was the pic of 72-146 taken? Mid-80's? I X-rayed that plane a number of times at Bergstrom, late 70's/early 80's. That particular plane, and it's number predecessor 72-145 both took birds through the left intake walls a month apart in the warm Texas summer, early 80's. Birds went through the wall about 3 feet behind the vari-ramp. I cannot describe the stench coming from those planes during inspection before they repaired the damage. You can't believe how far the remains will go down through the structure.

Ian, I have a set of the Testor's kit decals I will never use; if you want them, PM me your address, and I'll mail them out to you. Tom

8655 is preserved (displayed?) at Gifu Air Base with most of these markings. At least the shark mouth and the unit badges on the intakes.

Funny how that happened...................... Had the prop wash trick backfire on us at Bergstrom, late 70's. Got in a guy who was a little older, sent him for some prop wash. He said, with a grin, no problem, and got another guy with a base license to take him somewhere. Well, somewhere turned out to be the Reserve Prop shop; they were still flying C-130's. He brought a 55Gal drum of prop cleaning stuff, and then asked if he could go get us some flight line, etc. We then found out he had been Navy for a short while, and came back to the Air Force. His records said nothing about Navy, and he

Does anyone know if the radomes and related stuff is available to do the EC-121?

Your model of 438 reminds me of a story about the real plane. It started life as a RB-66B-DL, and was assigned at Yokota Air Base, Japan in the late 50's. My father was AR/Crash Recovery, and had to help get 438 out of a ditch after a landing accident. It got repaired by a depot crew, but still had a slightly crooked nose. The depot engineer came up with instuctions on rigging the plane's flight controls, engine controls, etc with the nose in mind. Fast forward to 1971, when Dad arrived at Korat. There was EB-66E 438 sitting by itself. Dad asked his new boss what's up with it, and boss said t

My fondest memory of the NF-2 Light-all happened at Carswell in the mid 80's. We did our own training on these for our new guys. (No need for NDI/Joap to go through the whole AGE training). We got in a newbie that had "gullible" written on him somewhere. We had another guy get inside a cart, and we told newbie that they were "voice-activated". He looked kinda skeptical until I said"lightcart on", and the guy inside hit the mechanic's switch on the engine. It fired right up, and newbie was impressed. I told him to say "lightcart off" and sure enough, it shut down. A day or so later, we sent h

This website has several references to the 36, you may find what you want on there: Link A couple of the sites have forums you can post a question to.

Here are a couple pics of Migs on the Osan Ramp I took during Team Spirit '84. I think these two are the ones I saw in the Korean National War Museum in Seoul in '96.

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