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  1. Thank you all for your input. The main reason that we wanted to go to Davis Monthan is because I had heard of it when I started to get interested in aviation as a child and could not believe that there were so many aircraft packed into the area and how big it must be. My wife got intrigued about this when she to saw some pictures of the area. So we only want to go to this place and now know that there are no tours.

     

    When we travel to the USA we usually take in 2 places that are quite close to each other and be got to by air from the UK. We also do not hire a car and rely on public transport and our own feet. Although we do like the idea of San Diego, we have nowhere else to go to as we have visited the mojority of the big cities that are on the western coast. Is it possible that someone could suggest somewhere to visit that will keep us both entertained for about 4 days and is not too far from San Diego?

  2. Thank you all for the information.

     

    As SWMBO and I are travelling from the UK and there are no direct flights to Tucson, we were going to start and end our holiday in a major city in southern California, with a few days in Tucson. We were going to visit the museum at Pima along with doing a bus tour of the boneyard, but as the tour is more than likely dead in the water would it be worth the extra travel and cost to go to Tucson just to go to the museum at Pima?

  3.   I am not sure if this is in the right place as I could not find a relevant section about travel.

     

        Myself and SWMBO are looking at going to the US next year and one of the places that we are wanting to go to is the bone yard at Davis Monthan. I know that they did bus tours around the yard, from which you can not get off but are still interesting. Whilst looking into this the other day I read somewhere that this tour has now been stopped and is not likely to be restarted. Is this correct or was I reading the information wrongly? If this is correct this is going to put an end to what we are looking at doing unless anyone knows of something that is just as interesting to do in this area.

  4. RAF Buccaneers only carried one ECM pod on one wing during Op Granby and this was on the Stbd wing with a Sidewinder or LGB on the other. I have just looked on Dstorm.eu which is usually very reliable when it comes to detail such as weapons and I can see that this states the 2 types of ECM pod that you mention. As far as I can make out from info in books the Buccs carried a AN/ALQ-101(V)-10 ECM pod during Op Granby.

  5. Thanks for this info. The information I got for the carriage of 4 Phoenix came from a Fightertown decal sheet instructions.

     

    Anyhow what I am after is to do with the photo of the aircraft in the link. In the photo the aircraft is carrying 1x Phoenix on the Fwd right pallet with nothing on the left, 1x AIM-7 and 9s on each of the wing glove pylons. So if the Fwd pallets are in use in this configuration, would the rear pallets be fitted?

  6.  I am using the GWH 1/72 F-14A tomcat kit to hopefully build this aircraft durin Op D Storm in this weapons configuration:-https://www.dstorm.eu/pictures/nose-arts/f-14/162689_6.jpg

     

     I have fitted the Fwd Phoenix pallets, but I am not sure if the rear pallets were fitted. I know that after the initial days of the war the US Navy reduced the number of Phoenix missiles carried from 4 down to 2 or just 1. I know that this is because the threat did not appear as bad as first thought and also it was some thing to do with weight. So this is why I am asking if the rear ones were carried? I have looked at many photos from that time period of other F-14s but cannot make this out.

     

    Another question is if the rear pallets are not carried would the link thing that GWH supply with the Fwd ones be fitted or removed?

     

    Thanks in advance for any help.

     

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  7. 21 hours ago, andyf117 said:

    You did note that as per Rod's original post above, the kit only has the metal main rotor blades, NOT the CH-53G/MH-53J composite type...

     

    Oops, mis read that may cancel now and still go with the Airfx/Italeri mash up that I was planning, but having to get the blades from somewhere else now that Whirlybirds have now shut down.

  8. 20 hours ago, Rod D said:

    So Dutch, I just bought that Academy kit, knowing it was a reboot the Fujimi CH-53D.  To my surprise, the kit includes all extra parts to make additional H-53 variants:

     

    USAF HH53C Jolly Green Giant

    USAF MH53J Pave Low

    USN RH53D Minesweeper

    German HEER CH53G

     

    2 sets of glass windscreens (w and wo refueling probe), nose radar/electronics for Pave Low, rear view mirrors and different tanks for Minesweeper, regular and EAPS intakes.  Just has 1 set of early style rotors, not the later ones German 53's used.

     

    I'm sure they'll issue the kit in other markings.

     

    Still, we need a really good set of 1/72 CH-53 markings.  Hmmm . . . . Anybody know a good decal manufacturer who only has to scale down their existing 1/48 offerings???

     

    Rod.

     

     

    Do you mean this kit? :- https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/AC12575?result-token=tdhJP

     

    The modern blades for the German version, are these the same ones that were used by the late MH-53 Low paves?

  9. 9 minutes ago, ElectroSoldier said:

    Is that an RF-4C, 10th TRW RAF Alconbury?

    Yes flying over the airfield. In fact the HAS in the centre was the one that our Sqn when we were boltholed there from just down the road at RAF Wyton.

  10. 5 hours ago, KursadA said:

      I don't have photos of 69-5795 without the stripes but I believe these were painted in the field as I have seen photos of other airframes with or without the stripes.

     

    Whilst working on RAF Pumas in the Gulf we painted on the white striping a few days before the land war commenced. The rest of the British contingent also did, so I suspect that all forces did the same. HTH

  11. 1 hour ago, Dan 88 said:

    I think a Facebook page could give us the same interaction and at the very least, a reliable platform. I'm also concerned that the forum will go away, mainly it's competing with multiple Facebook groups and the lack of attention given to the site by Steve. Furball, Bullseye, Twobobs, and others have Facebook pages to discuss things, probably a good time to start one!

     

    Just my 2 cents.

     

    Dan

    Unfortunately not everyone does or wants to do Farcebook (yes spelt correctly) and the like. Could you get a manufacturers area on Britmodeller?

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