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  1. Hello everyone, coming out of very deep lurk mode, my retirement has really changed what I visit on the web.

     

    Anyways,  long long ago at a USAF base in Oklahoma, as a Depot engineer, I signed off on the KC-135 paint drawings on what became the 'Shamu' paint scheme. At the same time I painted an old Crown B-52 in a proposed wrap around scheme for the BUFF.  I believe it was 36118 gray on the bottom with a mix of 36081 gray and 34079 green on the top.

    Anyone know what this scheme was called on the BUFF and do you know where I can find a 3 view of it?

    TIA Tom Solinski  OKC

  2. My kit arrived Friday. Pro's; It's here. It's very nicely molded. It's in a HUGE box due to the length of the fuselage. Con's; NO INTERIOR, not even the flight deck. No provision to cut the fuselage down to an A model, I guess they are going to mold a whole new kit. One set of decals for C-141B (AF Serial No. 65-0257) "Spirit of the Inland Empire" is on display at the March Field Air Museum, March Air Reserve Base, in Riverside, California, However the box says it's at the National Museum of the USAF. Looking forward to a quick simple build.

  3. Hi all, just wanted to share an odd piece of news.

    I've had a 1/144 Minicraft KC-135A on backorder at Squadron for probably over a year now. They've actually contacted me several times verifying if I still want the kit, and to update my credit card info so they can send it as soon as it arrives.

    Today I got a postcard telling me the backorder has been cancelled due to manufacturing problems, and they have no idea when they will be getting more KC-A models.

    Sometime the way they do business is just mind boggling.

    Safe Summer

    MrT

  4. A LOOONG time ago, I spent a very snowy winter day on top of a command post -135 installing one of those Frisbees. My mind says it's made by Dorne-Margolin. But doing a web search I cannot find any references to it. It looks like FT Harris now carries these as "legacy" antennae.

  5. Neat! We had a 1937 Fairchild 24 that had a four tube flair launcher for night landings too. With lighted air fields and good landing lights we forget there were other solutions that have gone by the wayside.

    I've also read in some books on Spits that it was a very hard plane to fly at night.

  6. I've stated this before but just to add in one more inflation factor: When the NATS were here in OKC in 2003(?) I asked the Revel factory rep. why the 1/72 P-47 was selling for over $8. After all the dies were paid for long ago and there wasn't more than 50 cents in plastic in the box, why did it cost so much? The answer was that the prices on all the kits in any production run also help to cover the cost of new molds. So that year the P-47 was helping to keep the cost of the BV-222 down to an affordable level.

  7. Yes, and it is (a) a good kit, and (B)/> really 1/48 (I measured it and the wingspan is within 1/32 of the published span for the Flyer).

    From the style of detailing and the ident marks on the different sprue trees, I strongly suspect this kit had some connection to the people that were doing Otaki kits around the same time - it has that feel to it. Some of the pieces are simplified; for example the horizontal pieces that should be covered on the upper surface only are depicted as having covering on both surfaces. But it is better than the Monogram kit and is actually 1/48.

    Thank you Sir!

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    And Happiest of Holidays!

  8. I've been in Oklahoma and Oklahoma City since 1977 when I was first stationed at Tinker AFB. The only real changes we've seen here is adding the NAVY E-6 wing and mission, based on the one fact that the depot for the 707 airframe is across the runway.

    A most unusual move was the Will-Rogers ANG base, former home of the 137 tac airlift wing flying C-130Hs. About 5 years ago they lost the C-130's made the maintenance and flying squadron staff move to being an associate squadron to the 507th RESERVE tanker wing at Tinker. So for the first time in history you had part time Guardsmen flying part time reservists' KC-135Rs. They upped the number of planes owned by the 507 past 12. Again based at Tinker because the Tanker depot is across the runway.

    But the kept the ANG base open and flew an active duty USAF flight inspection mission off the old ramp.

    NOW the 137th is coming back to fly C-12s off the ANG base.

    Ok still has Vance in Enid, a joint basic flight training base flying both USAF and USN trainers. Altus AFB in Altus where C-135,C-17 and C-5 initial aircrew training is accomplished. Ft. Sill still blowing up Oklahoma countryside with artilery shells. And the McAlester Army Ammunition Plant so Ft Sill has something to shoot.

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