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I think you are looking for the old Micro (Super) Scale sheet number 72-350. https://www.modelingmadness.com/scott/decals/super/ss72350.htm That's the only sheet I know of that has the low-viz Diamond/AB markings. I believe there is a set available on eBay. https://www.ebay.com/itm/166877435464 hth

In order to do 3xMk 77 on station 2/4 you will have to load them on a MER (2 on the aft shoulder stations, one on the forward centerline), you can not do 3xMk 77 on a TER for station 2/4. For Mk 77, you can do one per station (stations 1 thru 5); for stations 2/4, you can also put one on a TER (ceterline); for station 3 you can do 2xMk 77 on TER (shoulder stations) or, 3 on MER (2 of aft shoulder stations, one on forward centerline.........or 4xMk 77 on MER (on forward and aft shoulder stations). Most common load out with Mk 77's was on parent rack (aircraft p

Depending on time-frame will determine which canister but the most common Napalm canister was the Mk 77 Fire Bomb (Mk 77 Mod 2 thru 4). They are available in the aftermarket world, just search for "Mk 77 Fire Bomb". If you search for "Mk 77 Fire Bomb" and "Mk 77 Napalm" you will find all kinds of info/pics. You will see pics of them without the nose/tail fuze, that is the post-Vietnam configuration, for Vietnam era Mk 77's the nose/tail fuze was used (along with the filler port fuzes). -------------------------- Very early Vietnam the Mk 77 Mod 0 and Mod 1 w

The color on the chains will be the squadron color, for example, VF-103's squadron color was yellow so our chains were yellow, VF-143 was blue, VF-11 was red, etc. The chains were painted to make finding them easier when they would go "missing" and when the chains were hung in the cat walk you could identify your squadrons chains quickly. hth GW

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You can use the Tamyia F-14 Kit #61122 to make an early 80's F-14A, just follow the build instructions for the VF-32 F-14A BUNO 159610. As for Sparrow station 5, even without the TARPS Pod installed (attached) that station would still be blanked off (plugged) so no matter if the pod is loaded or not, station 5 is plugged. The TARPS Pod didn't change it's shape while is was in service to my knowledge, it was just the internals that changed. Yes, the Tamyia F-14 Kit #61122 does come with the parts to blank off Sparrow station 5, they are parts M25 and M26.

You are 100% correct sir, I was thinking NATM and not NAIM. Honestly, I've never heard of a NAIM before so I did a little digging, looks like a NAIM is an instrumented CATM and is possibly a designation for test assets. Must be a new designation the wiz-kids at China Lake dreamed up (or the Air Force who is in charge of weapon designations). Doesn't surprise me, the wiz-kids in NavAir decided to call the AGM-154 JSOW an air to ground missile (AGM) even though it doesn't have a propulsion section (it's free fall), or how about the APKWS is still considered a rocket but h

NAIM - Inert warhead but live rocket motor. CATM - Inert warhead and inert rocket motor.

The biggest reason for removing the doors is to prevent them from going down the starboard intake when the basket knocked it off, which had happened several times early on. When the panel was knocked off, there was a large likelihood of it going down the going down the intake and FOD'ing out the engine (in a spectacular way!). We (the F-14 community) found this out the hard way during Desert Storm so after that, when ever we were going to be tanking from the Air Force we pulled the doors.

I can't speak for the F-35 but for USN aircraft in the 70's to early 2000's the short answer is, it depends on the aircraft and situation. In general; Ordnance Loading For shore based, the only time we left ordnance loaded overnight was if the bird was on the first event the next day and the time between the last event that evening and the first event the next day was short (less than 2~4 hours), and there was no maintenance required on the jet (other than a daily and servicing). We downloaded the jets when they were done flying for the day or at the end of

Majority of the time, if a squadron had the door removed from one of the jets, they removed them on all of their jets. I've never seen a squadron remove the door on just some of their jets, it was all or none.

Yes, you will need to fill in the oil drain holes (looks like a shower drain on the outboard left nacelle and inboard of the right nacelle, just above the forward end of the ventral fin), those are not present on the F-14B and D (i.e. F110 engine'd F-14's). Just fill the drain holes with putty and sand smooth. Along with changing out the cockpit, antenna (though if you are doing a late B you shouldn't need to change the atenna's) and chinpod, you will need to use the seats from the F-14A (the A and B had different seats than the D). hth

See Post #4; Additional info; http://www.topedge.com/alley/text/f14d/f14d.htm

I'm going to go out on a limb and assume the F-4C's wing tanks are the same as the Navy's so here's a link that might be helpful; https://tailspintopics.blogspot.com/2013/06/things-under-wings-f4h-f-4-phantom.html Also, to my knowledge, when the tanks were jettisoned the pylons would be jettisoned in addition the tanks via explosive bolts so there shouldn't be any breeches on the pylon. Hopefully one of our resident F-4 experts will chime in and correct me on anything I might be wrong.