Yoxford Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 Here's a very nice 166th FS F-84F Quote Link to post Share on other sites
aircal62 Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 Kursad, as promised earlier, I will send you this week color slides of a 366FBW aircraft (red white candy striped). which I did as a decal 40 years ago for the Heller kit. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dutch Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 (edited) Kursad, Here is a copy of the Fowler sheet FD48-05. You could do one or more sheets just of 366th aircraft: 389th FBS/TFS red/white 390th FBS/TFS blue/white 391st FBS/TFS yellow/black 490th FBS/TFS green/white Oops! Sorry, these are not ANG specific. Edited March 28, 2022 by Dutch Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Spruemeister Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 One of the more colorful slides I have. For all the wrong reasons. Anscochrome sure never had the longevity of Kodachrome. Unpublished pics of SAC controlled F-84Fs can be tough to find. Rick L. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
eraucubsfan Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 As always, how about Illinois ANG Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Corey Posted March 30, 2022 Share Posted March 30, 2022 I’m gonna repost my request for Richard Bach and the 141st TFS NJ ANG! 😉 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Corey Posted March 6, 2025 Share Posted March 6, 2025 Seeing how well the F-89 sheet has done, I wonder if this sheet would do as well too? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Evil_Toast_RSA Posted March 6, 2025 Share Posted March 6, 2025 4 hours ago, Corey said: Seeing how well the F-89 sheet has done, I wonder if this sheet would do as well too? It would make my day for sure, another sheet I've had on permanent Watchlist on Hannants for years now. Chuck in the FJ-4 Fury one and my year will be complete! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dmk0210 Posted March 7, 2025 Share Posted March 7, 2025 On 3/28/2022 at 10:38 PM, Spruemeister said: One of the more colorful slides I have. For all the wrong reasons. Anscochrome sure never had the longevity of Kodachrome. Unpublished pics of SAC controlled F-84Fs can be tough to find. Rick L. As much as I love the SEA Camo look on these, a SAC fighter scheme would be very cool. Most unusual as well. Why did SAC have fighters? I'm assuming bomber escort, but no way did these have the range to stay with a B-36, -47 or -52. Could these even air refuel? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Evil_Toast_RSA Posted March 7, 2025 Share Posted March 7, 2025 3 hours ago, dmk0210 said: As much as I love the SEA Camo look on these, a SAC fighter scheme would be very cool. Most unusual as well. Why did SAC have fighters? I'm assuming bomber escort, but no way did these have the range to stay with a B-36, -47 or -52. Could these even air refuel? I'm assuming it was because it could carry a Mk.7 nuclear force multiplier? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dmk0210 Posted March 7, 2025 Share Posted March 7, 2025 (edited) 6 hours ago, Evil_Toast_RSA said: I'm assuming it was because it could carry a Mk.7 nuclear force multiplier? Perhaps. Maybe TAC wasn't allowed to carry nukes yet back then? Edited March 7, 2025 by dmk0210 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Spruemeister Posted March 8, 2025 Share Posted March 8, 2025 22 hours ago, dmk0210 said: As much as I love the SEA Camo look on these, a SAC fighter scheme would be very cool. Most unusual as well. Why did SAC have fighters? I'm assuming bomber escort, but no way did these have the range to stay with a B-36, -47 or -52. Could these even air refuel? Quite a few actually. http://www.strategic-air-command.com/wings/FighterWings.htm When the B-47 and 52 came along, the escorts couldn't keep up and went back to TAC. Rick L. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dmk0210 Posted March 8, 2025 Share Posted March 8, 2025 10 hours ago, Spruemeister said: Quite a few actually. http://www.strategic-air-command.com/wings/FighterWings.htm When the B-47 and 52 came along, the escorts couldn't keep up and went back to TAC. Rick L. Thanks for the link! This explains it well. Quote SAC's Fighter Wings The Strategic Air Command was founded by men who had flown bomb raids against Germany during World War II. They usually encountered swarms of enemy fighters and knew the importance of having fighter escorts. They didn't want to haggle with other commands to get fighters when needed, so they had fighter wings placed under their own operational control. Advances in technology soon made them obsolete. A single atomic bomb had more explosive power than all the bombs dropped during all of World War II, so only one of them could certainly destroy a target far more effectively than hundreds of World War II B-17s and B-24s. Thus SAC's missions were based on the use of an individual airplane, not a formation of them. During its early years, SAC flew B-29s left over from the war and later B-50s and B36s. They were soon replaced by new jet bombers, the B-47 and B-52. They flew so fast and so high that they were virtually immune from fighters. Plus the F-84s and F-86s in SAC's fighter inventory couldn't keep up with them. The fighter wings were no longer necessary, so they were either inactivated or assigned to other commands. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paul Boyer Posted March 8, 2025 Share Posted March 8, 2025 Not to mention the limited range of most fighters. You would have to station the fighters close to enemy territory and have them meet the bombers you may be sending from CONUS. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dmk0210 Posted March 8, 2025 Share Posted March 8, 2025 (edited) 21 minutes ago, Paul Boyer said: Not to mention the limited range of most fighters. You would have to station the fighters close to enemy territory and have them meet the bombers you may be sending from CONUS. On that site it says they were forward deploying them in Germany and other places in Europe. Probably forward deployed in the Pacific as well. I imagine they'd escort the B-29s, B-50s and B-36s in relays across the route (like they did with B-17s in the WWII ETO before the longer range Mustangs came on the scene). SAC also experimented with the B-36 carrying an F-84 (FICON) around this time. Plus they were starting to put the pieces together to finally get practical aerial refueling. Though the latter wouldn't have helped the escort mission I don't think. Edited March 8, 2025 by dmk0210 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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