Joe Hegedus

Looks like a wing tank for an FJ-2 or -3 Fury.

I got your message, but as I said, I won’t be able to do anything before Saturday as I am away on a business trip until then.

I can help you out, but not before Saturday. Shoot me a message and I will pull them out when I get home.

Word. The designation system seems to be kinda like the Pirate’s Code - more sort of guidelines, and loose ones at that anymore!

Not arguing with you on this, but the images in the linked article clearly show blue bands for the warhead and motor sections. Also, the word “INERT” is stenciled on both the warhead section and motor. It is clearly marked as a NAIM-147B though. Seems to be some inconsistency here.

So it didn’t get damaged by the drogue during refueling. The small degradation in performance due to extra drag was likely negligible for the missions being flown, and the reduced maintenance to keep the doors in good order was probably worth it.

I would expect that the AIM-147 would be similar in dimensions and weight to the AGM-78 Standard ARM that was used on the F-105G, F-4G, and A-6B. Probably not exactly, but in that ballpark.

For normal stateside ops, I don't think you'd ever see a live missile on a jet unless they planned to shoot it (Air defense alert jets excepted). There just isn't a reason, and missiles have flight hour limitations so they don't want to put more time on them than absolutely necessary. Similar to bombs; unless they plan to drop it, they're not going to load a live weapon. Even for inert bombs, unless they plan to drop for training or whatnot, it's likely not going to be on the jet. Again, test activities are an exception here since some tests require external stores to be carried, even if t

For normal, reversible control systems, the ailerons are connected and move in concert with each other. Therefore, an adjustable trim tab is only needed on one side, since trimming one aileron will automatically trim the other one. Often, one sees a fixed trim tab as well (the one on the SB aileron on your P-47), that is adjusted on the ground as a way to fine-tune the rigging of that specific airplane at, I would expect, the flight conditions encountered most often - i.e. normal cruise, to minimize the trim inputs needed by the pilot.

What it would normally carry kinda depends on where it is assigned. I think “LF” is the tail code used by the 56FW at Luke AFB, and IIRC they are a training unit now. As such, I don’t know if you’d normally see anything other than inert missiles (AIM-120 on the wingtips and AIM-9 under the wings) for normal operations. If you want to do an “airshow load”, you can pretty much put any ordnance (inert) you want under the wings that the jet is authorized to carry.

Yes, the E has more gas than the F. Not because of the extra weight of the second crewman, but because the space occupied by the second cockpit of the F took away some of the space used for gas in the E. Same reason that the B and D versions have less gas than the A and C.

F-35B can definitely take the BRU-61 and GBU-53 internally.

Thanks, Niels. That definitely helps!

Currently building the 1/32 Revell kit, and am intrigued by the German air superiority load of 4 Meteors, 2 AMRAMM and 2 IRIS-T missiles. I have all the required weapons, but need to know what the rail is on stations 2 and 12 (I think, the second pylon from the wingtip) that the AMRAAM goes on. Is it the same BOL rail that is on the outboard stations for the IRIS-T or a different launcher? If the former, does anyone have a spare pair of outboard pylons with the BOL rails that they don't need?

Jeff, I have a pair of the small Tornado tanks you can have. They're assembled and painted in desert pink, but never installed as I used the larger tanks on my GR.1. Shoot me your address and I'll send them along. Joe

Hi, everyone. I'm hoping someone out there can help me out; I'm in need of a set of 1/32 exhausts from the Revell Eurofighter 2000 kit number 04783 (the one with the full engine included). If anyone happened to build this and use the Aires resin exhausts, maybe they'd be willing to part with the plastic ones? I need 2 each of part numbers 76, 77, 78, 81 and 82; I got a kit second hand that was missing these although the outer petals, part number 83, are there. I do have a set of resin exhausts, but I can’t say I am all that impressed with them; the petals are too thin to work with and don’

Yep. Life’s too short, and there are too many subjects I want to build. I’m generally happy with a nice, clean build of whatever. Mostly sans weathering, as well, unless the subject absolutely demands some (like a WWII USN tri-color subject - the white underside just looks wrong without at least exhaust stains usually - although I did skip those on the big 1/32 Avenger I did).

Sorry; I checked my spares and do not have a 1/72 Hasegawa Hornet windscreen.

I suspect that would only work if the kit in question is Hasegawa kit that Eduard has reboxed. I don't believe the 1/72 legacy Hornet falls into that category.

Let me take a look at home tonight; I may have one in my spares box.

Buttoned up. Typically with the canopy closed as well, although there are some exceptions. I don't care about contests or competing and I'm more interested in the shape, colors and markings so I don't want any of that interrupted by open panels. Flap/slat/speed brake position is a variable; it depends on what would be typical for a parked, ready-to-go airplane and also on what options the kit offer - I'm not interested in buying aftermarket just to open a speed brake or lower the flaps.

No. ADC gray is 16473.

While I don't have any photos of the FSD Hornets showing the speed brake open from the rear, I would expect that the white airplanes would follow the normal convention of the high-visibility scheme and have the speed brake well painted white, with the inside surface of the brake itself in red - the same as the A-4, F-4, and F-14 did in the high visiblity scheme.

The first photo is an F6F-5K radio-controlled drone. In the last photo, the first 3 airplanes in the line are F6f-3K radio control drones and the 4th one appears to be an F6F-5K, but may be another -3K as the antenna mast of the third one is kinda blocking the view of the windscreen to say for certain. The remainder are either -3K or-5K; you kinda have to see the windscreen to be able to tell the difference. The different color tails in the photos are, I believe, indicators of the radio frequency for the remote control system installed.

Yes, struts, wells, interior of the doors, and the wheels are gloss white.