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  1. ikar

    What is this?

    My Father took these shots while this aircraft was visiting his base, (I think he was at Langley) for some reason: He overstepped his authority when he climbed on the wing and took the cockpit shot.. He got busted by the M.P.s and had to explain to his commander why he did it.
  2. When did the Vermont Guard fly the EBs? We used to get one in at dover every so often back in 1973 and the transit guys called them Ravens, but it was always at night and even we didn't get that close to them while on patrol. If I remember right we were restricted to about 50 feet unless there was an emergency.
  3. So what did you do o make the nacelle caps work like that? I also don't remember those four large rectangular lights on the top of the saucer back when the series first came pn T.V. back in the 60s. Was that a detail they added when they re-mastered the series or am I just getting old?
  4. Looks good. I have a couple Enterprise kits sitting around, including the NX-01. What lighting kit did you use on your ship?
  5. You could also get the phase cannons for the ship and have them lowered from their ports.
  6. The first time I saw a C-5A was during a recon flight in one of our H-43 helicopters. They were just changing the guard and he and the M-715 looked so small next to it. My Grandmother worked on its engines at a factory in town. They gave everyone a coin made from the alloy of the engine and sealed in a plastic container. She eventually gave ti to me.
  7. They'll try again Saturday. They said that they woiuld have to drain the fuel before letting the crew out. I had a vision of somebody going up to the rocket and siphoning the fuel out like we used to do with gas for our cars. They showed the traffic coming back from the cape area and it was packed, just like it used to be when we used the shuttle. Should have kept that thing flying. On a slightly note, today I say a good size bald eagle sitting on top of a dead branch in my neighbor's yard. Haven't seen one in a while.
  8. I bought the cockpit set for the academy kit a long time ago, so I already have money invested in the kit. Still, I will check on the other kit and the reviews. I still may just go with what I have and scratch build its E.C.M. pod, or whatever it is.
  9. I wouild normally watch the coiuntdown on T.V. and then just open my front door and watch. Mosty of the time lately clouds have been a problem and today doesn't look good . Still it's a advantage living where I do, a couiple miles east of Orlando.
  10. I have a couple over the years and even got a chance to see a couple at air shows in Okinawa. It started out as a small commuter aircraft and was eventually picked up by the J.M.S.D.F. for maritime patrol: There have been three versions made of the MU-2, a civilian job, and two of the military, the last one being released with resin parts for a specialized patrol type with tanks and one or two other things included. I think the last one would be the rarest one and I wish I didn't have to sell mine.
  11. Eventually I plan on building one of my old squadron's T-33s. I already have the Academy kit and decals that I need. I have never built or even seen one any great wall kits, so what is the problem with them or it?
  12. It's amazing that anybody got out of that at all. It's a shame they didn't show the other side of the track so you could see the actual damage. A standard track comes out at about 14 1/2 tons without people and weapons. Even that amount of aluminum is a substantial impact for a F-4. I guess the impact area would be on the other side of the vehicle. Anybody inside of that thing would be thrown all over the place. The driver would be in a smaller space, with a little room on his right side for the engine panel, a bit more room on the left for a recessed area for his weapon and ammo. T
  13. Don't forget you still have those vortex generators to deal with. Never understood why they put them there. I have some very thin plastic or aluminum from a printing plate I salvage from work. When I used to work there, Just left over srcap but clean.
  14. For those who are experienced with BattleTech/MechWarrior, here is a 100 ton Behemouth pulling its parking its parking spot. The kit came from the Macross series, but like some many other design from Crusher Joe, and and others, it was absorbed into the BattleTech story line.
  15. Outside of doing it the old fashioned way, about the only thing I can think of at the moment would be to contact someone like Aztek Dummies and see if they might be willing to expandind their line to include aircraft. He does good work on his line of science fiction subjects. It's worth a shot. You can't be the only one in need of all sorts of masks, I know I could use some various projects.
  16. I know exactly where, and roughly when. In the late 70s when I was attending A.F. Traffic Accident Investigation school at Lackland A.F.B. and it isn't a B-36: She was parked along side the road between Lackland and Kelly A.F.B. along with a few other smaller aircraft. For 50 cents you could go inside and look around. The wing shots were taken out of a open hatch or in the case of the nose shot, the pilot's window.
  17. Now all we need is a Predator as a companion......or not.
  18. This goes back a bit ;Christmas song - The Carpenters. I used to listen to this one over the base radio station on my first tour as I sat on top of a bunker with my M-16 watching a section of river that cut the base in half as well s the hole in the fence that they considered a gate for use by the locals to come to work. It got worse when she got to the logs on a fire part. Riders on the storm - The Doors. Great when driving a A.P.C. or M-706 during monsoon season. Iron Horse - Christy Green Fields - Brothers 4 Agree with Neil Diamond's America and I'll add in Neil
  19. Look up the tech order, T.O. 1-1-4, My wife got me one back when she was a C-130 crew chief at Little Rock in the 70s. I just looked up the size in the T.O. and it calls for 15 inch stars unless you have a really big aircraft like a B-52. This T.O. covers all the different type of markings that could have been used on all the Air Force aircraft in the inventory at the time. This includes Tail Codes, warnings, serial number placement, camo patterns, colors and so on. The actual camo patterns don't have to be exact, there was always some variation, and the national markings were either stenc
  20. this is what the C&H kit looks like. The only TF that I ever saw was at the little museum at Lackland A.F.B. back in the 70s . Sorry about the quality of the picture, it wasn't a good day. You will have to put on all those little vortex generators on the canopy, after you make them. They are very thin and not too big.
  21. Out of curiosity I typed in MK7 bomb, thinking it might be a nuke, and one of the first pictures that showed up was a F-101A with what looks like a nuke mounted underneath. There may be a couple more interesting sites a little below that. Back in the 70s we were drastically outnumbered by the Russians and it was thought that nukes might be our only hope of stopping a large scale attack. It often became a subject of morbid discussion among others about the subject of Russian aggression no matter what theater you were stationed in, European, Pacific, or the States. Someone even wr
  22. Thart D-7 caught me off guard. Nice work. Where did you get the conversion kit for the NX?
  23. The base color is from a Tamiya can and since this monster had raised skin detail I decided to sand instead of dry brushing like the instructions suggested. I might build the Monogram kit and put them side by side. The monogram kit might be about half the size. Just a little detail painting left.
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