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Yes, I actually got dizzy for one one of the shots. I think the connection with the PRC was poorly done in the movie, they left out all the politics. You do see the Chinese astronaut on the next flight though.

Technically Polish Boarder (Coast) Guard. Polish Navy uses the same square markings as the PAF.

I was a USAF civilian Aerospace Engineer from 81 to 88. (Also a AFRES Officer at the same time). I have only two short exposures to the USAF security forces. My favorite: I was once called from the OC-ALC depot to the 552 AWACS flight line @ Tinker AFB to look at an in-flight vibration problem on the original KC-135, then EC-135C, 55-3118 (now a gate guard at McConnell AFB KS). They had installed a replacement leading edge airfoil on an inboard flap, and at approach speeds the airfoil would vibrate so fast it would disappear. Ended up the old #1 tanker needed its own special parts, and if t

Or flush with the end of the elevator.

Subject made me giggle, never was or could be a Koku-fan READER, the best I could do was look at the pictures, kinda like Playboy and Hustler

Recently stumbled across a collectors site that said the old TONKA Diorama Kit series Wright Flyer is 1/48. Anyone ever build/ have one of these to confirm if this is true? Thanks Tom S

I did an article many years ago in Fine Scale Modeler where I use "cracked ice" lighting fixture plastic to model water. Paint the rough side dark blue and park your stationary ship on the smooth side. Or mask and paint a bow wave and wake on the rough side in white, then paint over that in blue and park your ship underway on the smooth side. My link

Oh, and If YOU need a buyer please call me first!

As someone said above I build for the aircraft. But trying to limit what I buy and the fact that I'm a retired USAF O-4 I tend to lean towards USAF planes. I believe the ONLY USN aircraft I have right now is an F3H Demon.

I had one that became a lesson in aftermarket spending being a waste of money. I built it for someone who wanted more 'accuracy' so he coughed up twice the cost of the kit for a resin cockpit. It got here and the AMT cockpit had more accurate detail than the 'blob' that was supposed to be the big Dollar impovement .

Congrats. I'm jealous. In '77 I was offered a recently restored J-3 with 60 hours on the engine and covering for $5,000.00. Dumbest thing I ever did was NOT buying that plane.

Or a civilian B-57, flown by the FAA in the 60's.

Tower is now showing the KC-A in stock: http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXEDUU&P=ML

Not allowed at the time.

DonSS3 I'd guess the latter. A sales pitch of somesort.

Didn't realize Testors did that either. One thing to note the Testor's N number was and still is totally bogus. The original Haseagawa decals were for a Lear company demo bird. When I saw it in their hangar in the late 1990's it was cammo'd in vietnam era colors.

My current plastic stash is 462 kits of all sizes and shapes. At one point in my life the stash was up over 1,700. Culling first stared over what I'll never build in smaller scales. As I've gotten older, the desire to finish all the US BB and CV class leaders in 1/700 went the way of my eyesight. Besides, most of those were so old they sold for just about what I paid for them. Yes, in the original boxes. Then went the collections of 1/72 airplanes. Now I'm thinking about culling the 1/48 stuff I've got multiples of. Who needs 21 Spitfires, just because the paint on that one Mk looks

I’m sorry; I didn’t understand that you wanted the grade school math done too. For my previous answer back in November last year, the hangar concrete square measure 24 x24 in 1/1 scale which works out to 8.25 x 8.25 inches in 1/35th The 180 x 500 hangar works out to 61.75 x 171.42 inches or 5.14 x 14.25 Feet in 1/35th Or if you just want to lay down 8.25 inch square squares the hangar is 8 squares wide by 20 squares long. HTH

No, Hasegawa issued its own Lear along with a Citation and a Dasault Falcon starting in the early 1980's.

LJ bad news. I made a scale antenna from Jenning's drawings but they looked way to frail for the amount of traffic this model sees. So I went with something that's the proper length but much fatter. Looks OK for 89% of the population. And I won't be replacing them every three months

Tower Hobbies is now showing arrival in mid-August. http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXEDUU&P=7 They have a neat feature that they will email you when it hits their shelves. I had my R model two days after they had emailed me. Tom

A 1.0mm crochet needle used for scoring and folding card stock models

It "should" be insignia blue, the same as used on the stars and bars and USAF. Or at least that was the standard the last time I did a USAF paint drawing in 1988

Hello Steve, congrats on bagging a business trip and having fun too. I'm not in to space artifacts but I personally thing NYC would be a huge expense in time and $$ to see very little. They only have the Intrepid : https://www.newyorkpass.com/En/new-york-attractions/tickets/intrepid-Sea-Air--Space-Museum/?aid=5&gclid=CjwKEAjw2cOsBRD3xNbRp5eQxzYSJADZGYbzxALVB61GK2oHu2vm8lCUXTHTqEQQTEzi3h3UMcIUNBoCGFHw_wcB Only beecause you're relatively close I'd suggest a four hour drive from Chicago to Dayton Ohio and first spending two days at the National Museum of the US Air Force. http://www.nat