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Here are a couple of pictures. One is the BRU-3A/A mounted on the outboard pylon. Note that there are no sway braces for the individual bombs, just for the BRU mounted to the pylon. The second is a detail shot of the 'T' suspension lug. The combination of the lugs and the BRU-3A/A tightened the bombs as the jet taxied to the runway. This mechanism precluded the need for individual bomb sway braces.

For U.S. Readers: Despite advertising it for months, Barnes and Nobel never placed an order for Operation Eldorado Canyon with Casemate (the U.S. distributor) and have now deleted it from their catalog. Some, but apparently not all people who’d pre-ordered from them were notified that their orders had been canceled. Casemate is out of stock at the moment. They have ordered more from Harpia, but those won’t arrive until late June. You can still order from Amazon. I will be at the US-IPMS Nationals in Madison and you’ll be able to buy a copy there and I’ll be

I was going to school at Wichita State University during the Linebacker I & II timeframe. From what I heard at the time (didn't witness firsthand), the first time they tried it, the nose gear collapsed early during takeoff roll, the crew exited the aircraft and the airplane eventually blew up, killing some Thai fire fighters. That said, after reviewing a list of combat losses from 10 May 72 until the end of the war, no such loss was annotated. There was a loss during landing at Korat on 17 May 72 when 63-8347 aborted its mission when its centerline tank wouldn't refuel. During rollout, the

Murph, I think the cord you're referring to is the comm cord--it's just not executed correctly, if my old F-111 brain bucket is anything to go by:

I think this picture I took at AMARC really shows the contours of the F-105's nose to great effect. The spraylat coating gets rid of all the distractions caused by camouflage and radomes to reveal the shape of the nose.

The F-4 was used to tow and launch targets for air-to-air gun and missile training. The A/A37U-15 tow target system (TTS) was also used by the F-84, F-86, F-100, F-104, F-105, F-5 and finally the F-4 (from the left outboard pylon). It was comprised of the 482-lb. RMU-10 tow reel pod and 195-lb. TDU-10 ‘Dart’ gunnery target. The 16-ft long Dart was reeled out 2,300-ft. behind the towing aircraft. Scoring was accomplished by counting bullet holes in the recovered dart, with different aircraft using bullets dyed various colors. The installation on the F-5 had the RMU-8 on the centerline with the

Why Eldorado Canyon and not El Dorado Canyon? Some controversary has been generated as to why I titled my book Operation Eldorado Canyon rather than to grammatically correct Operation El Dorado Canyon. It was not a mistake. Modern U.S. military operations have two-word code names (e.g., Desert Storm, Provide Comfort, Unified Protector). The code-name the Libya raid was initially being planned under, Prairie Fire, was usurped by the Navy’s actions in March 1986 (when Operation Attain Document went kinetic). When the USAF planners were informed that their planning was to continue und

The close up pics are of the F-111A at the NMUSAF. The other photo is from the Vietnam War. It appears that the rear of the pylon conform to the rear of the AN/ALQ-87 ECM pod; there are drawings the support this. Note that the pylon is aligned with the cannon fairing, NOT the aircraft centerline. The rear pylon was as the previous post.

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The interesting thing about #2 was its wings had 5° (I think) dihedral, which you can see in the above picture.

Yeah, just slipped again, but this should be the last one. Book is being published in Europe and the latest slip probably reflects shipping time.

Make sure you're using BRU-3A/As and not MERs. Also, if the reverse taper (narrow by the fuselage, wide at the tip) of the Hobby Boss flap vanes annoy you as much as they do me, the Scaledown wings made for the Academy kit will fit the HB kit. One last thing--the aft MLG door was parallel to the fuselage during Vietnam, but was shortened and bolted to the back of the MLG making it perpendicular to the fuselage by the time it was acquired by the RAAF.

Try this first. Second, get the ResKit RS48-0442 for the correct ECM pods (F-111As didn't need the RAT nosecones) and RS48-0438 adapter for the rear ECM pod. The attached picture will help with positioning. The front ECM pod was installed directly behind the gun blister (not on the centerline). Its adapter is easy enough to scratch build. ResKit also does a number of kits to correct the numerous flaws in both the Academy and Hobby Boss kits that can be ordered directly from them, SprueBrothers or Hannants. Especially useful with the Hobby Boss kit is their RSU48-0166 escape capsule

The book has been to the printers, you can see some sample pages HERE. It should be available in Europe in February and late March in the U.S.