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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
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I think they hung the externals backwards....the QRC-84-02 pods should be to the outside aft end of the external.
Cheers...Ron
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The 121....another Lockheed product!
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I flew in a few C-130E's still in SEA paint and the right side of the tail
the brown was done to look like a birds head. It was awesome!
Cheers...Ron
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Wow! That's awesome work. We have some Harrisburg crews here converting to the MC-J.
They would love seeing their old legacy EC when it's done!
Cheers...Ron
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Those two top pictures show it removed with the cover plate in place.
The MC-J system is very small...a square plate with about 200 rivets
and the ball is probably the size of a soccer ball....maybe smaller.
Cheers...Ron
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One of the best looking airlifters ever built!
But I am a Herk guy.....
Cheers....Ron
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Some nice models there! I like those B-24's and the 2 F-15's. The outside airplanes need some resto work but it was good to see them.
Thanks for sharing!
Cheers...Ron
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They are going to be the gunship training squadron here at Kirtland
Splashdown “Columbia” diorama 1/32
in Real Space Modeling
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That's awesome so far!