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Last time i saw the Blues and Tbirds at the same show was Transpo 72 at Dulles near DC.

A direct copy of the Wikipedia article; A dozen USAF F-4Ds of the 433d Tactical Fighter Squadron, all from Block 31, were wired for Pave Knife, a dozen of which pods were built and six deployed to Southeast Asia. Three were held in reserve and three were diverted to the U.S. Navy for use on A-6As of VA-145

1985 was the beginning, We took the only 5 jets with INS to gunsmoke with us. Probably took 2 years for al the jets to go through Depot.

Around 1985, when they went to depot to get the INS mod, is when they got the AIM-9 mod.

Here is a picture of a U.S. Army F-100. They were actually QF-100's and they were used as chase planes out at Holloman/White Sands area. Two of them ended up at the MD aviation Museum at Martin State Airport. They had teh camo and drone orange paint under the blue pint. US Army QF-100F

proof to your flight chief that you really did the post wash lube of the flight controls. !!! :-)

I remember a Turkish AF delegation came and did a tour of my A/C . They had several USAF officers with them from FMS, They all seemed like car salesman.

Yeah my old age is showing! :-) I guess it was the early eighties. There were 4 of them parked on the ramp opposite the park.

I saw them on some Langley jets that were standing alert. This was about 20 some years ago and the 48th FIS was in the transition to F-15A's from -106s at the time.

Well whoever is the driving force and sponsors that show should be commended! As a "hack" builder I always see some mind blowing model's out of that show!! Inspires me to try and do better. May be one day if I win the lottery I can make the trip over ther and witness it for my self.

Is the Moson show part of IPMS Hungary or the Hungarian equivalent? Looks like a great show!

Hopefully Eduard will create a errata and post it on their web page.

IMHO they are a lot better then the previous iterations. The paint doesn't flake off when you bend them. They are a lot thinner than the brass or what ever the earlier ones were made out of. I was wondering the same thing my self and I was at the IPMS USA Nats in SC a year or so ago and I just asked the Eduard rep, "whats so special about STEEL seat belts?" He then took a fret of the steel seatbelts from his jeans pocket and crumbled it up and than gave it to me and as I un crumbled it and I didn't see any flecked off paint. Mow in my humble opinion I would not use them on anything bigger than

Marek, I am looking forward to seeing the rest of the build as you work on it. Looking forward to this model myself.

Well I looked at the forums the Gabor mentioned and I have to rely on Google Translate to read the messages. While it may work word for word it doesn't carry the nuances of the authors original posting. But looking at the pictures I think the kit looks pretty good. The cockpit looks very good in the example shown, I don't know if the modeler used the supplied decals or he painted the detail on as its quite nice. While I may know the difference between a MiG-21 MF and a MiG-21 bis I am nowhere a expert on this aircraft. That being said this looks like a winner.

I Think Aztec mistook MiG-21bis' for MF's on that sheet from what I have read and seen MF's had 5XX side #'s where bis' have 6XX side #'s. (of course I could be wrong!) thanks for replying,

I know Cuban MiG-21bis' were but I am trying to find out if any of the MF type were. I read where up to two squadrons (or detachments) of MF's were sent to Angoloa and flew in Angoloan markings. Did any of those come back to Cuba and receive the distinctive Olive/Blue over bluish grey camo or did they retain the African camo scheme? More inportantly are there any pics? I have found plenty of bis' but except for one in a museum no camoed MF's Thanks!

There is also one about the restoration of the Mk 1 Spitfire.

I saw that jet parked on the GA ramp at BWI a few weeks ago. The CAG jet and a line jet, they were there to do the flyover the next night at the out Caps hockey game at the Naval Academy stadium.

Just having a little fun. Of course this is a great place to do operational testing in a real world environment.

Battle Tested!

I was heavy into patch collecting back then and I focused heavily on Tomcats and Phantoms. I used to go down to NAS Oceana about twice a year with a buddy of mine and hit all the squadron coffee messes! There was one local (Va. Beach) patch maker who did use printing on a smoothish fabric with the embroidered type of merrowing. I will have to look in my box o patches and see if they still have the label on them. I didn't care for them even though they were cheaper.

I'm not 100% sure but I think there are three version of the -184 short,medium and long. We (MD ANG) always flew with a medium pod. I saw F-16's with a shorter pod and the A-10's in Korea flew with the long pod which was quite long. I think the pods are modular in there construction and depending on the threat, the units will fly the appropriate pod. I also remember us flying with both the -131 on one deployment and the -184 on another.

Bravo!!!!!!!!!!!! Very Nice!

We Create a ANG only paint regulation. That allows us to do special schemes for special occasions, competitions. The only stipulation is that they have to be removed before a "activation" and deployment.