dmk0210

I think you are. That red stopsign icon, between the paper airplane and smilie face icons at the top right of your browser menu, looks like Adblock.

I've never done the Hase Scooter, but on other models that might not work if it has a seam issue that requires putty.

I had this problem with AV-8B and A-10 intakes. I filled the intake with damp tissue and used poster putty on top of that to get an edge. A toothpick or craft stick cut to a chisel point will help you work the edge to get a straight line all the way around. It's a little tedious but it works.

Was there a deal of the month for July?

That sounds like a browser problem. Try installing another browser just try it (Firefox, Chrome, whatever). For testing/troubleshooting, I like to use the browsers from Portable Apps: http://portableapps.com/apps/internet These will install everything in a single folder (no registry entries or stuff in the Windows system folders) so you can just delete it when you are done.

That's not too hard. Just login, and click on "Library" at the top left of the black bar next to the camera icon. It should go to "your bucket" and recent uploads is at the top of the list on the left. All your folders (Albums) are below that.

I had a very similar issue, but had a clump of paint in the body of the airbrush (which was actually difficult to get out of my Badger). I'm pretty religious about cleaning right after using the brush. However, I have been lax about straining my paint. I wonder if a clump of paint from the bottle might have gotten lodged in there and moved around enough to cause some inconsistency but wasn't able to back flush out. I think that is what caused my issue.

I was thinking that radar was first used on the F-86 sight. I wasn't sure. The problem here is that while a sight like the K-14 could calculate your own trajectory in a rudimentary way, it had no way of knowing if the target was moving across your path, away from you, up or down. The radar sights can account for the target's heading and indicate where and how much to lead it. (in a perfect world, anyway)

My point was that the P-38's guns were shooting straight ahead like a M61 Vulcan would be. Wing mounted guns are aligned to converge at a certain distance in front of the aircraft (they basically make an X out in front of the aircraft). I'm sure the guys had no problem going from the P-38 to the P-51 or from the P-40 to the P-38 though as far as using the guns. But from what I've read, the guys with the skills to be an ace did prefer that tight cluster of firepower shooting straight ahead rather than out on the wings and converging at a point in space. Helo door gunners are shooting at grou

This raises a good point. Modern guns are radar aimed and use a computer to calculate optimum trajectories. The sight systems in WWII were relatively rudimentary in comparison (though they did have more advanced computational sights towards the end of the war). On the other hand, P-38 aces have stated that they did like the fact that all the firepower in that aircraft was concentrated at a single point on the centerline rather than spread out of the wings like most fighters.

The M2 itself didn't require any fixes for the jamming issue in the P-51B, it was the aircraft's ammunition magazine that caused the jam. The feed chutes were redesigned in the P-51D and that fixed the problems. Almost all the US fighters in WWII had M2s and didn't have widespread problems with jams when pulling Gs. (guns sometimes did get misfeeds and jam of course, but it wasn't a chronic problem like the P-51B) BTW, the F8U Crusader had a similar problem with its 20mm guns jamming due to feed issues in high G maneuvering.

You mean CAF's Starfighters weren't able to carry AIM-9s? USAF '104s could.

Robin Olds' "Fighter Pilot" and Chuck Horner's "Every Man a Tiger" illustrate this quite clearly. It's alarming how much tunnel vision the AF had in the 50's and 60's. It was almost as if any training that wasn't about dropping a nuke (or shooting down the other guys nuke bombers) was pretty much ignored.

Thanks for the info! I actually have that VX-9 sheet from Fightertown (FTD48-004). Brian states in the info sheet that Vandy 240 was "Gloss Gull Gray FS 16440 with Gloss Black FS 17038 tails, skunk stripe, ventral fins and fuel tanks. 240 was known as the "White Whale" by VX-9 Air and Maintenance crew"

I think the P-38, B-25 (gun nose strafer) and Mosquito were the aircraft that this might have been feasible in assuming that the engineering problems of the gun itself were worked out. The p-38 had a 20mm plus four .50s in the nose. Replace all those with an M-61 Vulcan and they could have had a streamlined pod under the fuselage to carry the ammo. The B-25H probably could have carried a 30mm Gau-8. They actually put a 75mm howitzer in those. That Gau-8 would have done a job on ships, even warships!

VF-101 was the first F-14A+ fleet squadron weren't they?Are you referring to this aircraft? (This one comes up with a few pics at the top of a Google image search for VF-101 and F-14B) http://www.topedge.com/alley/images/f14b/f14b101s.jpg (F-14B-145-GR BuNo. 162923 Specially painted for the 1997 NAS Oceana airshow. Image Courtesy Doug Thorne) http://www.masm.fr/Navycag/vf/VF101/VF101-CO-f14aad101.jpg

Thanks guys. I was hoping there were some early -Bs in that attractive glossy scheme, but oh well. VF-32 also had an F-14B with a gray and white 'retro' scheme right before the squadron switched to the F/A-18 and turned their Tomcats in to the shredders.(Two Bobs does a sheet with this aircraft) http://www.airliners.net/photo/USA---Navy/Grumman-F-14B-Tomcat/1346788/&sid=0694c163ce318fbbcb7192cb904ecc7a http://www.airliners.net/photo/USA---Navy/Grumman-F-14B-Tomcat/1075190/&sid=ef2ffe9b9daa34b3629addee8a4114e2 .

I'm thinking that they probably came right from Grumman in the TPS scheme by the time the F-14B hit the fleet, but were any of the early F-14Bs (called F-14A+ at that time) painted in overall gloss 16440? Or were only F-14As ever painted in that scheme?

Not maneuverable? This is a pretty impressive show by a Belgian pilot:

Wasn't this an adversary scheme unique to VF-74?

I used the Marine RF-4B kit to create an RF-4C and I used the Eduard Zoom kit for the instruments. The bulges on the wing were sanded down easily. The slats were cut off the stabilizers. Had to fill in the panel lines for the refueling probe door near the cockpit, but the kit also had the refueling door on the spine. Pretty easy fixes. Filling in the sparrow wells and the seams on the intakes were the hard parts of that kit.

Cool! I was looking forward to this one. B)

Is this it? http://a4skyhawk.org/content/buno-152101-nfws-53-na-4f

Very cool! Thanks for sharing that link. It's amazing that the Blues and T-birds could throw those big Phantoms around like that.

Cool! I was checking every day, anxiously waiting for this one to be available. B) I always loved the photo of that colorful Corpus Christi Navy bird.