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Diamondback Six

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  1. IMO, anything worth watching is worth owning the DVD... the only reason even broadcast is worth having anything to do with is Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy. LOL
  2. Test and training would be the only times I could see a need to retain for reinstall. CAN the cap be reinstalled in the field, or is it "Depot Level Maintenance"? I mean, it would have to suck, trying to drive back to the parking area dragging that thing around on its weak little leash... so they'd have to have some way to either load it back on somewhere or cut the cable and leave it for someone else to pick up and bring home.
  3. Considering that these things are one-shot assets if they go to war anyway... the only reason to keep the cones, or even to keep the launchers crewed and rolling period once they've taken their shots, is to sacrifice them as decoys for the ones that HAVEN'T yet fired.
  4. Switch to Photobucket, amigo--it's still free. :)
  5. The differences between various batches are very subtle, even from the same manufacturer. Bert Kinzey's F4U Corsair in Detail and Scale is likely to be your best friend here.
  6. I had the same kit in an Italeri box.
  7. I'm starting to think there's some kind of industry doctrine that everybody has to bugger up one thing or another to get around patent/trademark issues from litigation-happy firms like LockMart and Sikorsky, and the New "Boeing" (which is really the same old McDonnell Doulas pile of crap in a shiny new wrapper).<br><br>Rub with that theory is that we see such brazen screwups even in Officially Licensed Product kits... one would think that if you're shelling out the bucks to get the license, you'd want to be sure that you were doing it RIGHT, or the licensing partner would insist o
  8. Let's put it this way... if you can't find even BASIC engine specs without a LOT of digging, proctoscopic shots are unlikely.
  9. Right, we're talking two different systems. The F-8/A-7 wing has enough non-folding area that it just means higher stall speed and awkward flying, and some other challenges assuming it's running light. ISTR battle-damaged Japanese Zekes flying without their folding tips just fine. (Chop the wing off outboard of the fold and you basically have a Hamp.) I'd suspect that the added lift from the variable-incidence wing being set in TO/Land position may have helped cancel out some of the loss of wing area there... Probably wouldn't work so well in a SLUF, since it doesn't have VI.
  10. F-8, wing up was the normal high-lift (takeoff/similar situations) position, I'd guess landing too for possible impact on stall speed.
  11. My take: this bird looks a lot like a B-49, only with a bit more sweep. And of all the missions we have stealth for... well, as I noted on another forum:
  12. As an '80s kid I remember seeing snap-together and the small/cheap glue-togethers like the old Testors/Hawk 1/72 WWII-warbird-size boxes seemingly even at the corner 7-11... but today, we have a culture that mocks ANY kind of "craftsman" hobby, not just scale modeling. (Look at how they depict avid woodworker Gibbs on NCIS, for example!) And they call 'em toys? News flash, peeps, if it's got separate pieces that are smaller than a FINGERNAIL CLIPPING as some model parts are, that's not a toy and any parent who gave it to a kid as such and failed to supervise NEEDS a visit from CPS.
  13. I prefer Breitbart (world/national) and Orbusmax (local), personally. Though I DO check both CNN and Fox every now and again...
  14. Russ, Boeing wouldn't have changed that particular detail lightly. You actually could interchange G and H engine nacelles with some work--the prototype H was a JB-52G that was re-engined with TF33s and then restored to line G configuration after the tests were done. Why they didn't replace the J57s with more efficient TF33s across the entire G force I'll never understand... unless it had something to do with the view that "everything short of the B-70 is a stopgap until it comes on-line."
  15. Sorry, got a toss out an old saw of air-arm wisdom here. "The only thing more expensive than a first-rate Air Force... is a LESS THAN first-rate Air Force."
  16. CS, industry and the Pentagon aren't my worry... it's whether the TV-addled, self-absorbed Nintendorks of my generation and younger have it in them to answer the call. I mean, the 9/11 Generation was my people and I'm proud of how those of my generation who participated did there (*hand salute*, TT), but... that's still a lot of my generation and later that stayed home fat dumb & happy, and after all this time in combat ops with CENTCOM it's taking a psychological toll on those still in.
  17. Re LAU-88 triple rails: they're incompatible with IIR Mavericks for some reason in the interface, and VERY "draggy". Even when you see Hogs fitted with TER's in Desert Storm loadout's they're usually only loaded with two stores at a time... part of the move to the BRU-55/57 family of two-store racks on other platforms like the Hornet, I'd guess. IF the Hog had the interface capability... well, GBU-39 or -53 SDB's are supposed to be good for anything up to and including MBT's, so I might consider them as a force-multiplier to expand the number of possible hits each Hog can get before rearming.
  18. Hence my point--when Vlad the KGB Scumbag Who Needs His Throat Crapped Down Until Asphyxiation orders the Red Army to continue West, Poland and the Baltics are gonna NEED all the help they can get. And since I don't think the American people really have it IN us to fight another Major Regional Conflict, I find it difficult to see OUR boots on the ground until Russian jackboots march on Berlin by which time it'll be too late. If we're going to DISarm, we might as well transfer it to ARM the people who need it most and get both return on investment AND some PR goodwill, right?
  19. The Game of Thrones is a sport for sociopaths, just that some are more benign than others. Let's face it, with the stakes of losing, would anybody really WANT Mother Theresa being their representative in that environment?
  20. Why? If we're going to be so @$$-tronomically dumb as to get rid of the A-10 force, it would be of far better use in Polish or Baltic States hands, since they're going to be the next ones staring down the muzzles of Vlad the Needs Impaling's T-90s...
  21. Thought I saw some of those old kits at Jo-Ann or Michael's last time I was in one or the other... Hobbylinc has the Gee Bee and Nieuport 17 for about five bucks plus shipping, which is about what I consider those old Hawk kits of about this size worth. Hope this helps!
  22. Well worth the download, I've been studying it for two PL builds on my own bench. (A historical MH-53M, and a speculative CH-53E-based Pave Low derivative, which Sikorsky actually designed and tried to sell to USAF, rebuilt into a kind of Hind On Steroids.)
  23. Either way, man, like I said, she's a beautiful build--I wish I had half your skill.
  24. Nice build! Better than anything I could ever do... Just a trivia note to other F-117 builders: those hexagon blisters are radar reflectors--they came off before combat ops, and were mainly used to facilitate Air Traffic Control handling of 117s in training and ferry flights.
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