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Steve jahn

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  1. Hello. I am interested in you Aurora freedom fighter.

    Steve

    Sarasota, Florida

    f15eagle4@verizon.net

  2. I am looking for the Aurora N-156 Frredom Fighter kit. Thanks for your consideration. Steve
  3. If you could decide what could be done with the USS Enterprise after being retired, what would you do with it? Just thought it would be interesting to see all the ideas that you can come up with. My idea would be a floating emergency facility for natural disaster. Less all the nuclear power plants of course. It would have to be moved by other ships but it would have plenty of room for emergency supplies. Could carry plenty of fuel for on board power plants to supply power to communites that would need it. Whats your ideas? Steve
  4. You might try talking to someone at the Air Force museum. steve
  5. The Link you provided does not work, however I am still correct about the prototype F-104B having the short tail. Show me a photo otherwise. I worked with lockheed Techs at Luke AFB in the early eighties. The last place that Starfighters were based in the US was Luke before they were sold to taiwan. F-104G and TF models were there. NASA had some longer I believe.This subject came up several times. An F-104A was modified into a two seater and during flight testing found it had bad longitudinal stability. Hence the long tail on the production models. I guess you could say the first plane could
  6. Sorry but, Only the very first F-104B Prototype had the short tail,The other appox 25 airplanes had the long tail. Steve
  7. The F-104A and F-104C had the same tail. There was no difference. The two seaters had a longer tail and also the G model. Steve
  8. The three T-38's is a great display. What I don't understand is how a small airport in the middle of no where is able to get the USAF to give them three T-38's for display. What is the connection here? Steve
  9. Probably at NATTC Memphis, TN.Used as a training aid. Steve
  10. The XST nose gear actually looks to me more like an F-104 Starfighter nose gear. Steve
  11. Are you actually sure it was taken from an F-5 or a T-38? The references I have seen stated that the main gear was from an A-10. I have not read any comments on the nose gear. I have not seen any photos that are clear enough to tell either way. Steve
  12. Yes it is the same kit, except with the addition of engraved panel lines. Steve
  13. Why is this one so hard to find?

    Steve

  14. Which 1/32 P-40 do you have? I am looking for the 15,000 Anniversay decals.

    Steve

  15. I thought the F-104 looked familiar. I have a photo of it on my wall.Back in 1977 that aircraft was at a local Mall in Bradenton Florida. It was being used as a recruiting tool that was moved around on a flat bed truck.It was modified so it could be taken apart very easily. It actually got me started on thinking of joining the USAF, which I did. Steve
  16. Well I just got my 1/48 Wessex kit from Revell. So it looks like you can totally make a standard H-34 out of this issue. This is great news. The basic H-34 parts are all there with the added Wessex sprue parts. I got 4 of them in case the New Italeri proves to be to expensive. How ever I do manage a hobby shop so I guess getting them at cost wont be to bad. Steve
  17. I was just doing some reading on the Doolittle raid. There are some photos of the crash site of his B-25 in China. Has any group gone to China to try and locate the site? I can't seem to find any info on going back to the crash scene.I'm sure alot has been taken away by chinese locals. Steve
  18. I was an F-15 weapons crew chief from 1980-1984 with the 555 tfts and worked on F-15s' the entire time there. 99 percent of the time we loaded a center line 600 gallon tank, an AIM-9J,P or L on the outer left or right SRM launcher. An ACMI pod on the other out side SRM launcher and an AIM-7 simulator on one or more of the MRM launchers. And up to 940 rounds of 20mm. The AIM-7 simulator was not a missile. It was a small black disk that fit in the launcher umbilical where the missile was electrically attached to the airplane. This fooled the armament sytem to think that it was carrying an AIM-7
  19. Wrong. It was the M2-F3 crash that they used for the show beginning. Steve
  20. Hobby-lobby.com sells a ducted fan jet with that exact paint scheme. I fly one myself. Part number: HLI6900 steve
  21. That would be the Curtiss TS-1 (FC-1) Steve
  22. Just found this photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/skyhawkpc/5537984134/
  23. Major use of computer generated aircraft. Looks like they used Mojave as a basis and added on to it. Steve
  24. I am looking for this kit. Not the float plane version. steve
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