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Beautiful Combat Talon models!
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Looking very good! Wonder how many crewmembers had little girls
from being close to that radar??! By the time you get it done you can put it
back through depot to be re-engined to a B-52J model! LOL!
Cheers...Ron
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The Black/green Talon (actually SAC bomber tan) had the full color 15" national insignia aft of the paratroop doors.
Nothing on the wings upper or lower. The tail number on the tail was just the number with no USAF above it.
Cheers...Ron
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The MC-130E also had the aerial refuling receptacle and the slipway markings were white. Next weekend at Hurlburt
Field is the MC-130H Combat Talon II retirement ceremony. I remember seeing them being built at E-Systems at
Greenville, Texas in 1989.
Cheers...Ron
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There is a company that makes paint masks for the MC-130E black/green paint. There are enough pictures of that scheme
on the net that you can do it. Markings they just had the tail number on the tail. No USAF above it and national insignia
on the fuselage only. Just forward of the paratroop doors there were 8 slots for the old chaff dispensors. Prop foul lines
from the wingtips to the nose. The 8th SOS is going back to being a MC-130J squadron.
Cheers...Ron
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3 hours ago, ST0RM said:
@aircommando130 Hey Ron. What say you, to grafting the Italeri MC-130E bits to a Zvezda C-130H? Feasible? Or too much trouble? Same A-15 engines as an H. Obviously a GTC instead of the APU. Plus the Talon bits and structural extras. I've got a set of Flight Path AAR pods.
Just thinking out loud. I've had the Italeri kit for so long, I'd like to build my first "love" in the AF and would like to use an updated base kit, of possible.I think it would be possible. The Fulton nose would probably fit since the Zvezda kit has 3 radomes. The RWR tail would fit...the the QRC-84-02 pods will fit the external
tanks. I think the kit has the GTC panel in addition to the APU extended wheel well pod. I have thought about doing the same thing but a T1 in Black/Green paint and
no refueling pods. I have the flightpath pre MOD-90 Talon parts. We have 64-0559 here at Kirtland.
Cheers...Ron
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Those are awesome herks! Really like the Israeli 130. I have the -30 and
two of the E/H's to build. The -30 is gonna be a "what if" flying with
Southwest Airlines Cargo. And the E/H will be a SEA painted one before
that tail number was our slick herk at Kadena. The other may be a Israeli
Herk from the Entebbee raid.
Cheers...Ron
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That's awesome! Love those TopGun Skyhawks!
Viper approves!
Cheers...Ron
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You can get by with some thin angle on the door. They had some gusset plates every
few feet to give it strength. The carriage rolled out on the door with the MA-1 rescue kit
on it and then dropped all 5 bundles about 1 second apart.
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Greetings all...yes those are pictures from the old HC fuselage trainer here at Kirtland. She's long gone now.
But he flare tube would hold the parachute flare in a spring loaded ejector. the lanyard hooked to a clip inside the tube
to ignite the flare when it left the tube. That's a door on the outside...if it opened the flare would eject. It was powered by hydraulic
pressure from the aircraft. There were 3 panels to fire flares. You can see some bolt holes on either side of the tubes where the ODS
rail mounted to the door. We had the same flare launcher in the MC-130P but didn't use it...except to maybe jettison the honey bucket
bag out over the ocean. LOL!
Cheers...Ron
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Today is the anniversary of the first flight of the first production C-130A.
April 7th 1955...and Lockheed is still sending the 130 down the production
line! 53-3129 eventually became an AC-130A gunship and served time in
with the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing with 16th SOS. She currently is on display
at the AF Armament museum at Eglin AFB.
Cheers...Ron
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Thanks for sharing those pictures! Some fantastic models there and it was among real airplanes
so that makes it even better! Sooooo many favorites to choose from!
Cheers...Ron
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Gorgeous Weasel...the wraparound scheme is one of my favorites too!
Cheers...Ron
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Awesome! They look good together!
Cheers...Ron
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Gorgeous! Now...that picture of it with your F-117!
Cheers...Ron
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I have the 32nd sheet and now the 1/48th! Very cool
can't wait for it to arrive!
Cheers...Ron
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Cool...a Clark Weasel! Loved flying into Clark and seeing the shark nosed F-4E/G's
on the ramp. Your's is looking really good!
Cheers...Ron
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73-111 had a regular speedbrake with a stiffener on it. A model wheels were
the black ones and if I remember ACES II seats after block 11?? Might have been
later blocks but those air superiority blue Eagles were cool looking!
Cheers...Ron
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That station looks to be aft of the right wheel well. I can see the
seat bar for the wheel well in the picture. That guys got some
big eyebrows too! LOL!
Cheers...Ron
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Michigan had some of the best painted F-4's in the years the guard flew the F-4.
Great job on yours!
Cheers....Ron
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I was at Travis from 1975-80 and everything was that color! Being in the bay area we got to calling it San Quentin
green cause I guess the dept of corrections used the same color. LOL!
Cheers...Ron
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Awesome SLUF...will be gorgeous when finished.
Cheers...Ron
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That 105 Wild Weasel is awesome!
Cheers...Ron
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The Benson tanks used in the C-130 came out of old KC-97's. They bolted
into the cargo floor. The green and blue arrows point to the fuel lines that go
up into the plumbing to the wings for fuel. They could fill the benson tank from
the single point refueling panel in the right aft wheel well. they could burn the fuel out of those tanks
and then go to wing fuel or externals. The red hard line was part of the fuel system as well. Those
cutouts in the cradle were so you could get up under there if you had a gear problem and had to
inspect/chain the gear. And you had to be a thin fella to get up under there. Ant the connections were
never solid...I don't think I flew with one that didn't leak. Was so glad to get our air refuelable MC's so we
could do away with them.
Cheers...Ron
TAMIYA F4B PHANTOM II 1/48.
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Wow that's looking good! I really like the Black Dog pieces too.
Cheers...Ron