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Wow! That's awesome...lots of squadron tails without the airplane.
I know the 161st out of Phoenix/AZ ANG had a 135 with the AZ flag
painted on the whole tail. I've got some time under the boom on
those ZZ coded 135's out of Kadena when I was stationed there
in the 353rd SOW.
Cheers...Ron
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Great job on the KC-10...When I was at Altus in the C-5 Barksdale
had converted to the KC-10 and we'd fly down to the AR track
for heavyweight AR training. We'd put 100,000 pound of cargo
on the C-5 and go spend 4 hours up behind the KC-10 for fuel
offload and dry plugs. Was a big airplane to look at from the C-5
cockpit windows. Again...great job and thanks for bringing back
memories.
Cheers...Ron
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Nice job Chris! Gotta love a Herk in any scale....A Dyess H in SEA
paint and the 463rd patch on the fuselage would be my favorite.
Looking at yours I can almost smell the puke and hydraulic fluid
mix on the inside!
Cheers...Ron
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I really like your "Big Safari" 135 collection. You do a fantastic job building them.
I like "hog nose" 135's as well...different like an MC-130 to a "slick" herk. If you
do a "Lisa Ann" that would be cool too. I knew the crew chief on her. He closed
the crew door for them for their flight into the Twilight Zone. He cross trained
to be a C-5 Flight Engineer after she disappeard. Great job on the Cobra Ball.
Looking forward to your next Boeing adventure!
Cheers...Ron
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2 hours ago, Illu said:
So was it right hand drive? 🤣
Ha! That's funny!
Cheers...Ron
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Beautiful Pilatus! I was just talking about the Air America guys flying into Lima Sites in Laos
and landing down the side of a mountain at some of those places. Some very dangerous and
exciting flying! Great job!
Cheers...Ron
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I want to do the same with a "steam jet" 135 and B-52D. I was thinking of a brass tube and glue the
lower boom nozzle to it and the ruddervators to have a boom down. Haven't done it yet...still in
the "experimental" stage.
Cheers...Ron
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I feel like I need to re-up my security clearence to just look at the pictures of it! LOL!
Cheers...Ron
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That's looking awesome!
Cheers...Ron
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Those MCARS pods the T2 and the MC-130W were horrible! The variable drag drogue was a mess too.
When I was with Lockheed I went to Hurlburt and flew on the MC-W to refuel CV's and 60's and the drogue
when you'd spped up would sometimes collapse and just whip around hoping it didn't hit the stabilizer.
Slow back down and it would reinflate. Was pretty annoying!
Cheers...Ron
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The Fat Albert J is a former RAF J that was refurbished and sent to Tinker AFB
for it's paint job. It has the standard "Legacy" cargo compartment...regular dual
rails and rollers that stack on top the rails. Those rails never fail! It is a beautiful
airplane though!
Cheers...Ron
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The Marine dash 30 tankers had a problem with the hoses out and recievers
the turbulence was making the fuselage twist. I talked to a guy that was in the Marines
and got out and went in the AF Reserves at Patrick and he said you could stand in
the cargo compartment forward of the wheel well and see it twist. Yikes!
Cheers....Ron
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Great looking Edwards Test Phantom! I really miis the sound of those
big J-79's turning kerosene into noise! Great job!
Cheers...Ron
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I'm hearing the Johnny Cash song...."Ghostriders in the sky" in my head!
That was and probably always will be the gunship song. Great job!
Cheers...Ron
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Great job on the props Steve!
Cheers...Ron
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That's a great looking N model! I liked that paint scheme on the Herk.
I flew the MC-130P special operations version of the old rescue Herk.
Brings back memories...no air conditioning...inside smelled like puke and
hydraulic fluid/JP-4. A lot of people forget to add the ODS rails on the door.
That and the flare launcher were exclusive rescue. The MC had the rails removed
and the tracker dome removed and they added the air refueling door and defensive
system flare cans. Great job on the old handsome, sleek, high performance C-130!
Cheers...Ron
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Looks really good Steve! Paint/details make it look mean like a gunship should.
Any current and former gunship guy would be proud!
Cheers...Ron
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Great looking Nighthawk! Carried the airwar to downtown Bagdhad during Desert Storm.
Looks great in it's inflight enviroment.
Cheers...Ron
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The Ball is an awesome looking jet. I do believe I saw one on Shemya way back when I was flying
the C-5A out of Travis in the mid 70's. Strategic Air Command needed to eat too!
Cheers...Ron
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Israeli F-4E in that desert paint always just looked like it was saying " Don't F With Me".
Great job on a great airplane!
Cheers...Ron
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Cobra Ball is awesome! It will have a black right wing as well? Did the 135 series
always have the strengthing bands or what time frame were they added? And...
one last question....can you show a picture of the actual jet so we can follow
along. You have an awesome collection of 135's.
Cheers...Ron
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Do you have the outlines of the troop door and side hatch and crew door?
They are in reverse of the airplane paint.
Cheers...Ron
Mig 25 Foxbat 1/72 hasegawa
in The Display Case
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Very cool! It should be sitting on a runway in northern Japan! LOL!
Cheers...Ron