majortomski

Hello all Happy New year. Ok here's my attempt at completing a group build: 1) Four 1/48 Glenco Pfalz D.IIIs all in the Jasta 10 markings that came in the kits. 2) Started in the summer of 2005? 3) Stalled in fall of 2006? Life just got in the way, got more active in RC flying and less time at the bench 4) What is left to do A lot of detail painting, assembly and rigging.

When I was an ROTC Cadet in 1975, standing under the nozzles of a Titan in western Kansas I was a bit surprised that the missile didn't have stars and bars, SAC bands or USAF. When I asked the NCO giving us the tour why not he said: "One it's 12 pounds of dead weight that the missile doesn't need. Two, where it's going, they KNOW where it came from."

Hi all! I've been using a Touch-n-Flow (TnF) for a decade now and think it is one of the best modeling tools out there. It has one drawback, it will eventually clog. The TnF folks say to just let the tip soak in the solvent you are using and it will clear up. I've had whole bottles of solvent evaporate and the clog never disappeared. So I started looking for a ram rod to clean out the long fine tube tip. After multiple tries the answer is: An 0.20 MM 'High E' guitar metal-wire string. It fits just perfectly in the tube and is stiff enough to use as a ram to clean out the tube. I inten

OK thanks, have that one looking for the M-2. Happy New year!

Hi Jeff! Is your Tu-22M the M-2 or the M-3? TIA Tom

Sorry I don't have any accurate details, my guess would be GPS enroute followed by GPS, ILS, or TACAN at the pole for final approach. There are fun little reads like this though: http://www.usap.gov/logistics/documents/FY13_Air-Operation-Manual.pdf

There is a gentleman on FB by the name of Jim Sorenson, he worked the paint shop at Hill AFB for many years. I asked him his opinion on this color variation issue, he replied:

Well the E-3 T.O.s back in the 80's said it was Boeing 707 gray. If the Gov't office that controls the FS 595 wanted to give that gray a FS number they could. It also matched Model Master IJN gray back then too. Merry Christmas all.

There was a modeler here in OKC about 30 years ago who did a forced perspective of a Val at Pearl Harbor over one of the battle ship row ships. he solved the angle issue by having, in essence a single eye hole to peep through. Same then could be done with your birds

My one highly visible contribution to aviation history; I designed those plugs. Quick summary, the KC-135E used the stabs, elevators and JT-3D (not TF-33s) engines off donor 707's. So just like the real thing your mods should be just plug and play. One other point on the KC-135Rs stabs had extensions on the original KC-135A stabs. They ARE NOT donor 707 stabs.

Airfix may have been tapping into a newsreel/news paper image going around at the time. There's a shot of an English farmer watching a Lightning crash in his field , complete with pilot riding the seat.

Gene I was there '77 till late '88. Things were very scary back then. http://newsok.com/11-million-lawsuit-filed-over-crash/article/2160305 Then another A-7D crashed on take off when the wing folded. When the TAC accidident board asked the rigging crew if they followed the TO the answer was; "What's a TEE OH?"

Having worked at a Depot for 11 years, methinks you folks give the humans that work there a higher than normal level of human G-A-S. They are humans and they make errors. Folks in the paint shops, esp. before OSHA/AFOSH became to be were not the highest skilled folks on the base. There's the example of the F-105s where all the SEA cammo colors are the right pattern but the wrong place, because that shift didn't know how to read a drawing. It just might be that the batch of paint they used at that paint shop had the right number on it but it was the wrong color. "I don't care if it looks d

Actually it was better than the original artwork. For decades Revell had the Arizona turned around the wrong way, with Ford Island on the port sided http://www.oldmodelkits.com/index.php?detail=23812&erl=Revell-1-426-USS-Arizona-Pearl-Harbor-Battleship-H302

Jimz66 I'd break it down like this year month day so a 76-0827 a Shrike Missile or 76-827 Throw in the Julian and you'd have 76-240 another Shrike Missile. BUT you just missed out on being the B-1A! Navy BuNo's can be straight date or reversed so 82776 an F4U-1D corsair or flipped year first 76827 which would have been the 8th J2M Mars built!

There is also the possibility that your shot is of some war-game airplanes that happened before 1941. I remember shots of P-26's with rather garish water color cammo applied for the games. Sorry but no info other than that

You guys could also run your birthday as a Julian date. My BD is 4/12/55 so as posted above 55-0412 but April 12th is also Julian day 102 or 103 in a leap year so 55-0102, 55-0103 would also be valid # for my birthday http://www.fs.fed.us/fire/partners/fepp/julian-calendar.pdf Oh, my numbers: USAF Sn 55-102 B-52D destroyed by fire on the ground 55-103 B-52D destroyed after aborted takeoff 55-412 No history in a block of WB-66D s BUNO 41255 no history a block of RN Helcasts 55412 no history in a block of FM-2 Wildcats

In a USAF contract the first two digits are the fiscal year of the contract. Serial numbers are just listed in the contract. Nothing to do with date other than the date of the contract. There is a lot of "fudge" in the system, that's how the first B-2 ended up with '1066' the same as the Battle of Hastings. Like the longbow changed that fight so too the B-2 would change strategic aviation. And a very big fudge. The VC-137 Air Force Ones were 62-6000 and 72-7000 which got the tail numbers 26000 and 27000. When I was on the team that bought the VC-25's it was boldly stated in a meeting th

My all time bad favorite, and bad all the way around was the AA Models 1/48 MiG-19. Not even close in artwork or the model http://thumbs2.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/m3BIic1sxGL1inKAtjNA_2A.jpg http://www.kitreview.com/reviews/images/mig19reviewpb_1.jpg

I was buzzed by the F-100's in the early 60's in Akron Ohio. I still have the image of the four huge round inlets on the roaring monsters coming straight at me. In 1978 one of my first USAF test projects was cold start testing of JP-8 at Minot in the middle of winter. I worked Tankers, Hill sent a 'hack' F-4E, one of the former T-bird birds now in SEA cammo. Some one remind me of how to post a picture here.

SAR boats. ie Airfix kits

Is this limited to aircraft only?

Is it the only 1/48 MiG-31 out there; No there's also the expensive Collect-Air kit. Does it look like a MiG-31 when it is finished; yes. Is it a museum quality rivet counting accurate kit of a MiG-31, no. It is a place to start

The hangars I work in were built in the early 40's If no one gives you an answer by Monday I'll have it for you then. I do know the concrete squares that make up the ramp are 16 feet square. Monday input: In this one pre-war vintage hangar the concrete squares measure 24 feet by 24 feet. With an expansion joint running down the middle of the hangar. This hangar is 180'x 500'. HTH Tom