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It appears from the (official) information I have that the F-4B/J/N/S outboard pylons were mounted perpendicular to the bottom of the wing. However, the MER suspension lugs were angled to cant the rack 13.5° outboard. It appears the reason for this was to clear the main landing gear door. It would seem reasonable that the TER rack would be the same, but I do not have information to conclusively verify that. The attached picture is of Duxford's F-4J (bulged MLG door) with a TER loaded vertically on the outboard pylon--if the Mk 82 isn't touching the MLG door, it is VERY close.

Chris Pocock is a personal friend. I made this Hawk model for him 13 years ago (the wings weren't glued on so I could transport it across the pond and he could take it for talks). I kept asking him questions about the Power's aircraft without telling him why. He answered my questions, but was getting pretty annoyed with me by the end of the project. All was forgiven when I gave him the model! So, this is probably as close as you're going to get to the actual configuration. (I've included the decal artwork--again)

Just a quick update. My decals arrived on October 12--one month from the date I ordered them. So, if you've ordered decals/books and haven't received them yet, you now have a data point for how long it may take. Cheers!

Just wondering if anyone has ordered decals from them recently. I placed an order on 12 September and received an order confirmation--then nothing. Emailed Jake personally on 28 September, again no reply. Anyone know what might be going on?

BDU-38 (B61 training round). LOVED dropping those things! They actually landed where you aimed them, unlike the practice bombs that had a fair amount of dispersion.

Not an expert on the F-111G; the 30 FB-111As that received this modification were just starting to arrive at Cannon AFB as I was leaving in mid-1991. However, I think that most, if not all the astrotrackers had blank-off plates installed. The best pic of this I could find is on Airliners.net, but it supports what I can see from ground-level shots. Here are a couple of shots of the AN/ALE-40 installation that was made post Gulf War to F-111C/E/F/Gs & EF-111As. The F-111Es that got this mod (see Raptor01's comment below) were probably the 24 jets that got the Avionics Modernization Program (

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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