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Very nice!
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Thanks for the GREAT shots! My little portion of the FAA annually supports the Antarctic stations by doing flight inspection of the nav aids at the pole and on the ice shelf. We used to load a specially configured shipping crate in a borrowed C-130. Now we use our own Canadair challengers. They fly from the Ice shelf to the pole and back to do that mission
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OK just one bump. Buhler...Buhler...anyone? Surely someone has put together one of these Lindberg kits!
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Wayne, I use MM aluminum with a brush coat of future.
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Hi all. I came across this:
And was currious; how many different "remote controlled" kits did Lindberg make? I know they had a Mk I Vulcan and the old B-17 looks like it might have been a candidate.
So how was it done? What was in the kit that made the flight controls move?
TIA
Tom
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There used to be an order against any form of photography in a USAF single seat aircraft. The result of a mishap where the pilot was too busy filming to fly the plane.
Don't know if it is still in effect.
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I may have to out stone age all of you. I have a 40's vintage solid wood carve and sand to finish PT boat I might try for this one.
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BRING IT ON! I've got an Aurora Halb Cl.II that needs to be built in that OOB red and black paint scheme.
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The thing that most strikes me about the Javelin is that it was a very THICK airplane. That wing thickness looks like that on a B-52! :woot.gif:/>
I worked with an F-84 pilot who flew out of England. His only comment on the Javelin was that all that wing came into play at altitude, if they ever got above the F-84 then the fight went to the Javelin.
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Sorry can't help with the Soviet builders but did you find out that in the US Buick also produced P&W R-1830-94s? I've got a data plate that proves it.
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I'm in with at least 5 things I want done.
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Go big or go home
A 1/32 KC-135A or R, working flaps and gear, all the lights. Maybe fuel smell just for details.
T
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Also one of the 'program managers' I worked with at TAFB (he was the Big Safari manager) pointed out that the long wing B-57 program cost more than the cost of developing a new purpose built recce aircraft. But the USAF at the time didn't have new aircraft money, it only had modification money, so we got the RB-57 fleet.
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looks like I'm going to have to buy this sheet. I wasn't too happy with the options Revell picked for the sheet.
Ditto!
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I hope you guys are aware that you don't actually need a paper 'coupon' to get 40% off at HL. Download the HL app and you can click on the 'coupon' for the week and show them the coupon code on your smart phone at check out.
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Steve, if you will, I'll take the Demon package off your hands. What do you want for mailing to 73120?
TIA
Tom
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Thanks for making me feel old this morning. There was a statistic out there somewhere that the B-70 held the record for being the fastest, most expensive and heaviest airplane of all time all at the same time.
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Why do you guys always forget the KC-135's that are flying are older than the 60 & 61 B-52H models that are the only ones still flying?
When I worked in the KC-135 engineering office there was fatigue life to support operations to 2020 without some of the structural improvements that have been made since then.
The C-47B I took care of was built in May of 45 and is still airworthy just shy of 70 years old with only 25000 hours on the airframe.
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Is that resin seat for the Demon supposed to have that huge sink hole in it?
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Pardon me for coming in late on this but the article above just made me do an RCA Victor stare at the screen.
Insurgents defeat your perimeter defenses and destroy aircraft.
Equals
STOVL is bad.
If the aircraft had been helicopters would the author been on a rant against rotory winged flight?
If they had been cargo aircraft would he be against spending money on transports?
That is the most illogical pile of irrational thought I've ever read.
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ON the B-29 issue.
There was a fairly decent documentary or article on Stalin's 'insistance' that the Soviets copy the B-29 (like this one http://www.rb-29.net/html/03RelatedStories/03.03shortstories/03.03.10contss.htm) piece for exact piece. It Tupolev several attempts to convince Stalin that using Soviet processes would improve the airplane. When in reality they had no idea how to replicate the electronics in the fire control system.
The article went on to imply that the B-29 and what the Tupolev company learned from Boeing design principles were incorporated the Tu-14/16/20/95 family, and they are descendants of the B-29 with many Boeing like design traits.
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... and it's pretty well accepted that the Soviets had a complete AIM-54 and access to the AWG-9 system.
I worked with a program manager at Tinker AFB that would repeatedly and proudly state that he was the guy that set off the charges in the vault that contained all the computers for all of the Iranian AWG-9s just before the US pulled all of its folks out of the country.
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Don't forget to add in that the model itself may be off. So an aftermarket may be perfect against photos and engineering drawings but then it doesn't fit the model because the model is wrong.
Or someone changed scales. I have the Blue Rider 1/48 sheet of Colourful Camels. The sheet implies that they just scaled up their 1/72 sheets on the same topic. Only problem is the 1/48 sheet are too small for the ONLY 1/48 Camel kit around, the Aurora kit, when the decals were released. Oh they're too small for the Eduard kit too.
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The original Whitcomb winglet went both ways, err, had an upward and downward component. Maybe Boeing just found out there was gas to be saved by adding the lower component.
McMurdo movements
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Yeah, but...It's THICK ice.