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SLUF arrived all safe and sound. Deal with confidence folks!

PM sent for the SLUF....

Ha! 137, 146 and 192 are all flying Lot 23-25 aircraft in frontline service. When it came time to transition from C models to the F-35, the F-35 wasn't ready, but the C's were clapped out. The early Lot aircraft that CVW 5 traded in 6+ years ago were in storage, so that's what those squadrons got.

As others have posted, you can go to the respective National Railways sites for Germany and France. You can also look at travel blogs from Rick Steves and Burt Wolf. (I highly recommend Rick Steves) Keep in mind that at least in Germany, DB is the national rail company, but there are also private rail companies in certain areas that are considered shortlines or secondary. German people typically tend to be nicer than French people. (I know, we spent 3 weeks in both this last December) If you are going to be staying in a city for more than 3 days, check out airbnb or hom

In your poll. who is VFA 141? Did you mean 41?

Something that needs to be remembered, is this is at least in part, the CONA paint scheme. It may very well have had touch ups of one color or another. Also, this is one of their original Lot 25s that they have had since 2003. I don't think it has ever had a complete repaint. In the 11 years I have been at Lemoore, this jet is on its 5th color scheme. I think all they ever do is a sand, dust and touch up. In order for it to get a complete respray, I believe FRC would have to do it. YMMV.

I too had a curtain that went around my doors and windows. I used to idle the truck, but once I bought it, if I didn't need to, I didn't. I was lucky that I had a factory installed fan under the upper cabinet, so I could turn that on and have fan noise all night, if a reefer didn't grace me with his presence. (I hauled a chemical tank) I also had a satellite dish (the manual, hang on a pole outside the truck, kind) a play station 2 that doubled as a dvd player, and satellite radio. Also a laptop and an aircard. (if that tells you how long ago it was) A good mattress, c

Thomas, if you order it, you can use my address in the US, and I will forward it to you. You just have to pay for the extra shipping from me to you. If you like...

Or the elephant cage....

If it doesn't have a tail hook, who cares?? :p Actually, I have seen a list of codes, on paper I think, that still shows ownership by location, for some units. For example, our SAR unit here is coded 7S, which is the code for Lemoore. I think this is a hold over from the late 40s or 50s designation system

Yes, NavAirLant or NavAirPac. Here at Lemoore, we have several squadrons tail coded A* and are attached to East Coast air wings. Whenever their respective CVW goes sailing, they fly to the east coast and go with them. And, on the east coast, there is at least 1 west coast squadron that comes out here to fly with their Pacific CVW.

Codes that start with N are attached to Pacific Fleet Air Wings. Codes that start with A are assigned to the Atlantic. Then the second letter is specific to an Air Wing. For example, NE is CVW-2, assigned to the Pacific Fleet. AB is CVW 1, attached to the Atlantic Fleet.

Would you be interested in trading something for it? I have 48th scale US Navy jets.

Email sent on the Kate and the Cougar.

Super Scale did these a number of years back, 48-362. Its the VF-14 70th Anniversary, and VF-111 Miss Molly. Fightertown also did the 80th Anniversary on 48-035, (along with the 90th on the Super Hornet)

This one was kind of easy, as I am familiar with the recent history of the squadron. However, on the tail, there are 2 letters, NK. N stands for squadrons that sail on Pacific Fleet Carriers, and the K refers to the Air Wing the squadron is attached to. Combined, they are CVW-14. A little internet searching shows that VFA 113 did their last CVW-14 cruise in 2009. In regards to other photos of other planes, you may need to take into account a ship name or any other secondary info you can find. As for more pics of 303, I may have one or two...

Thank you though! :)

300 had the bird slicers as well. That pic that you posted is an older one. I am not sure of the time frame, but it is 2009 or earlier.

113/AC303 did have the bird slicers. As far as the IFR probe, a friend of mine used one from a Hasegawa Skyhawk kit that I had laying around. He boxed the opening in the fuselage with styrene, and a small piece for the probe cover, and went that way.

Im not sure of the time frames, but they are different between the cat shot pic and hangar bay pic. Check the length of the flames and the alignment of the red and white stripes. On the hangar shot, the "line" where they differ is at the end of the radome, as if the radome and the rest of the plane were painted separate and don't quite line up. The cat shot shows better contours. In the cat shot pic, it shows the McClusky award, which was issued in 1998 for the 1997 surge cruise. I think Superscale may have done this sheet as well, but I don't know which number if they did.

Hello all, I am still looking if you have a partial kit that you want to get rid of. Thanks!

I will let you know!

As the title says. Im looking to buy partial kits that are missing a few, or missing alot of parts. I dont care which boxings, or which model. (As in A,B or D) Again, 1/48 Hasegawa Tomcats and 1/48 Revell Super Hornets. PM me with what you have. Thanks!

I think CAM released those decals on the aftermarket. The tan camo and the VA 72 bird.