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  1. Thanks, all. When/if I ever get to building a YA-10 I'll be sure to use the Republic seat.
  2. The original picture is here. Google and other search engines can be fickle. A keystroke or two different and I find results move around or disappear entirely. Given that the pic was on a small blog, I'm not surprised it took some effort to find.
  3. Yes, this was of the FSD (full-scale development) aircraft, 73-1669, which crashed in June 1978 due to a double-engine flameout during gun testing. Photos of the ejection are on p. 29 of Dana Bell's Detail & Scale book on the A-10. FWIW, the eventual fix to the issue was continuous engine ignition during gun operation. An ESCAPAC was fitted and used in this incident. I'm pretty well convinced that all the FSD aircraft used ESCAPAC from manufacture (some may have gotten ACES II later), and any third type of seat was only on the YA-10s.
  4. Hmm... OK, please help me out then. ESCAPAC has flared shoulders that slope down and back from the headrest. I am not seeing this feature in the photos of the mystery seat. Also, ESCAPAC has two very prominent or deep headrest cushions. The mystery seat has two as well, but more shallow to my eye. The back rest or chute pack is definitely missing in the mystery seat. Is this easily removable in ESCAPAC? Quixote74, thank you for the link, I had not seen that picture before. Additional evidence (to me at least) is the red color seen in your pic and in this one here and here of the second prototy
  5. I have been looking at a lot of photos of early Warthogs and I have noticed the ejection seat is not the Escapac or ACES II model typically referenced. See the first pic in this link for an example. As this is a Republic product, I'm guessing this may be an F-105 seat. I have noted in color photos that the headrest is red; unfortunately I cannot find one on the web I can link to. Can anyone shed some light on the true identity of these seats? I am interested in modeling early A-10s and want to be as accurate as I can be.
  6. All- Thanks for the information in your responses. I now understand that there was a Project Compass Ghost (PCG), and that they were using lights to hide an F-4 in a similar way that Project Yahudi did in the 1940's. I'm still curious to know where things went when the lighting approach was discontinued. Were the gray colors a product of PCG, or were they developed separately and then given the name? If so, was the name meant as disinformation or was it simply as misunderstanding? What colors were tested in the project to arrive at the finished product? What, if any, aircraft were
  7. There is much written on this site about the usage and matching of FS 36375 and 36320. However, I have yet to see anything on the history of the colors or their name. Who first determined that none of the available gray colors were what was needed for fighters anymore? What was the process for finding new colors that would do the job? What other colors were tried, and what type of experiments were done to ensure their effectiveness (I'm sure there were some test planes painted in one-off schemes - pics please!!)? What were the first aircraft with an official technical order mandating their use
  8. Mr. Vark- Thank you for once again sharing your valuable experience with us and analyzing these videos. This is the kind of content that keeps me coming back to ARC.
  9. I was afraid this would happen. Chile's C/D models had the coolest paint, and now look completely vanilla. I was hoping they would have painted the AM/BM models in the C/D scheme instead. But, as usual, no one asked me.
  10. +1 on that! I picked up a copy of the old Hasegawa kit and the decals are yellowed beyond belief (and I don't mean the ivory the whites started out as). Some older Luftwaffe and Marineflieger markings would be appreciated as well.
  11. Welcome to the forums! To deal with this issue myself I have photocopied instruction sheets or other images of the aircraft I want to build. You may need to scale the copier to get the right size for your model.
  12. Excellent as usual! A lot of types we in the US aren't used to seeing. Thank you.
  13. Wow! Those are some nice shots. Thanks!
  14. Could it be some kind of "old fashioned" range instrumentation or weapons simulator?
  15. " I was rather surprised to see the basket and hose fit on the boom, when the jet is a MPRS bird with the pods on the wings - any idea why that would be necessary?" Perhaps the crew needed to perform a routine qualification with the "Iron Maiden" and the MPRS bird was the one available to do it in? BTW - fantastic pics as always! The MC-130s landing is especially great. Thank you so much for sharing these.
  16. Since this thread already seems to have changed topics once, what's going on with the red nose cap on the JDAM? The ones I have seen in the past looked like anodized metal.
  17. OK I believe you - fuel leak. The photos seem entirely consistent and it seems you have personal experience with jets, which I do not. Thank you for clearing this up.
  18. That makes some sense. MD-80s has wing icing after landing on occasion from cold fuel condensing and freezing on the wings where the fuel had cold soaked during the flight. The "stuff," whatever it is, is at the outboard aft end of the tanks, which appears to be the lowest end of the wing tanks, so where the fuel would be the longest and most often.
  19. A01- If you can find it there was a 1-100 scale F-8 in Shin Kazama's markings from Takara. It comes with a 1-24 scale figure of Area-88's hero.
  20. F-16 stencils in 1-72 would be very welcome! There are a lot of schemes these would be good for.
  21. F-16.net has an album you may want to look through here. There are photos from Odyssey Dawn (Libya 2011) with A-A loads. I've also seen photos of them with GBU-12s and a locally made guided bomb, not sure if that was in an actual conflict or an exercise. Middle East nations tend to be squirrely about photos of their weapons, so there may not be too many good photos out there.
  22. Excellent job! I especially like the NMF on the one external tank.
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