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Nikoliy

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  1. "I didn't know the rails were never there even when the pod was loaded" Tarps pod attached directly to the aircraft. The rails are just too much trouble to install and remove. Most of our jets were adopted for tarps, that means that a cooling air duct was routed from the front of the jet to the pod down the center right above were the recess for AIM-7 is located. The jets broke down all the time, our AEs and ATs were always working. Dont know how many tarps pods we had but it was probably 2-3 at most. So it was important to be able to swap the pods onto jets that were able to fly. Im
  2. WOW!!! Some parts I would have a hard time telling apart the real thing from your model... I was working in the troubleshooters during that cruise and worked on that aircraft. It is hard to find anything to pick at 🙂 Those chains are too loose, someone would have said something and the rear rails were not used because we had to have room to load a tarps pod. We brought a few out with us on cruise but nobody used them. This is 2003 March, its easy to identify. One of our jets had an incident were the cone of the refueler got caught up on the door of the refueli
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