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You're very welcome!
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And a B-52 with 2 Hound dog missiles under the wings!
Cheers...Ron
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Nothing says Cold War Strategic Air Command's part of the ICBM triad
than a Titan II missile! Great job!
Cheers...Ron
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That's looking really good! Can't wait to see the finished product!
Cheers...Ron
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Don't quit....Gene Kranz..."Failure is not an option"
Cheers....Ron
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Looking good! Are you going to add a shark fin in the water? The SEALS that recovered the spacecraft
said the rotors beating the water in addition to the sound of the spashdown attracted some curious
sharks out in the Pacific.
Cheers....Ron
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That's a great looking Eagle! A lot of attention to detail there...great job!
I think that Eagle came from Kadena...I spent 4 years there in the Special
Operations Wing there and saw the F-15's fly every day.
Cheers...Ron
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That's awesome so far!
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Just remember that most of it burned off coming back through the atmosphere!
Cheers....Ron
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Thanks for the link!
Cheers....Ron
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My dad was on the Apollo 11 launch team. He worked the rocket engines on the Lunar Module.
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That looks awesome!
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Kinda off topic but does anyone make a B-17 crew inflight to put in the seats for a flying display?
I know Monogram had a set of crew figures in the high end B-17 kit.
Now back to our regular scheduled B-17 chat.....
Cheers....Ron
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On 8/7/2024 at 5:33 PM, Scooby said:
They definitely all spin the same way.
I used to adjust the synchrophaser manually in the cockpit until they went to solid state electronics. These adjustments automatically synchronizes all propellers so that they rotate at the same speed. It cut down on vibrations and increased crew comfort and efficiency.
I can’t imagine if one engine was spinning in another direction. That would be a nightmare.
Had a few syncrophasers on the old MC-130 that would wander off and the engineer would unsync them all and then re-sync them up. Was a lot of vibration for that brief period of flight.
Cheers...Ron
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Lookin good! I flew the T2 as a Lockheed employee here at Kirtland. The old girl gained
a lot of weight. When they put the hose pods on and other associated equipment the
operating weight was around 102,000 pounds. Max takeoff was 155,000 so it really limited
the payload it could carry.
Cheers...Ron
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That Pioneer Airways DC-3 was a good looking airplane too. My old boss in C-5's when he was a
young loadmaster flew on AC-47's in South Vietnam. He said it was a great airplane to fly in.
Cheers....Ron
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I've built three of those Monogram C-47's over the years. You did a great job on yours! No TSA...no jetway
no fighting for an overhead bin...people dressed nice to fly and got real silverware for their inflight meal.....
Cheers....Ron
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Great job....fantastic display and cabinet/table too. Wish I had the woodwork skill
for some display stuff I want to do.
Cheers...Ron
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I like it! Great job!
Cheers...Ron
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That's awesome! A Herk in SEA paint is always my favorite.
Cheers...Ron
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J-79.....
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It's an origional logo from Lockheed....I have the patch my dad wore on his flight suit when he was stationed
at Edwards AFB in the late 50's early 60's. There was no mistake it was a 104 in the pattern with the J-70 howl.
Cheers...Ron
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That's awesome! Hope you can slide that wing through and not break an HF antenna!
Waiting to see the finished EC Hercules sitting on the parking ramp.
Cheers...Ron
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Pretty funny though! One of the maintenance guys here put the radar control panel
in a MC-J back in backwards. I said he had his job guide upside down and it matched
the picture.....
Cheers...Ron
Columbia splashdown diorama 1/32
in Real Space Modeling
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Jim Lovell and the crew of Apollo 13 are glad the recovery chutes got them to the water!
That's looking really awesome! Great job so far!
Cheers...Ron