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  1. 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

  2. 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 have been batch one but thats stretching it. Joe Baugher has a great website but he did not work on every plane ever made.

    steve

    http://www.joebaughe...rs/f104_4.html:

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    The initial batch of F-104Bs had the same vertical tail as did the F-104A single seater. However, the B did not have the ventral fin that was fitted to the A. During early flight testing, the F-104Bs exhibited an annoying tendency to snake back and forth during flight, indicating that a larger keel area was required. Twenty subsequent F-104B production versions (from FY 1957 batches) were fitted with the F-104A's ventral fin and were given considerably larger vertical fin area and a broad-chord, fully power-assisted rudder extending well beyond the end of the tail pipe. The area of the vertical fin of the F-104B was now fully 25 percent larger than that of the F-104A.

    Cheers,

  3. Not all did - the first F-104B batch (F-104B-1-LO 56-3719/3724) were built with the same tail as the F-104A/C, as well as lacking the ventral fin of the singleseaters.

    HTH,

    Andre

    Sorry but,

    Only the very first F-104B Prototype had the short tail,The other appox 25 airplanes had the long tail.

    Steve

  4. Oh wow !!

    This is an AWESOME sight,thank you

    {the link does not work for ME <_</> }

    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

  5. Close; the F-117's gear was from the A-10; the XST proof-of-concept vehicle was much smaller, and so it had the engines (J-85) and gear of the F-5. Just with only one fork on the nosegear I figure it was from a T-38, from which the F-5 was, of course, derived.

    The XST nose gear actually looks to me more like an F-104 Starfighter nose gear.

    Steve

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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. The only time we loaded AIM-7s' was durring training in a hanger once a month. F-15s' at Luke durring that time did not usually fly with AIM-7s' except for photo shoots or special events. Those were all CAP missiles. Durring ORI's we would load live stuff. The other F-15 squadrons at Luke loaded their planes the same as ours. Hope this helps.

    Steve

  10. Oooooooo, Six Million Dollar Man! That's the lifting body Steve Austin crashed in to become the bionic man. That's. cool! Majorly cool! I'm game!!

    Wrong. It was the M2-F3 crash that they used for the show beginning.

    Steve

  11. So I'm checking out google maps of North Island Naval Air Station and I see what think is not one, but two F7U Cutlass fighters. One has two verticle fins next to it and the other has at least one wing by the plane. Any comments? They are both on the northwest corner next to an F-18 that has it's wings removed. Is one of these from the Walter Soplata collection?

    Steve

  12. A sad rivet festival... As a better (in my point of view) and cheaper one, I still preffer the Hasegawa kit due this, but I may buy one later, if the price decrease.

    I know everyone says rivits but they are mostly screw fasteners, not rivits, that they are trying to replicate. If you look at the real F14, it has them all over it. Once the model has paint, it will look fine.

    Steve

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