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Ok, thanks! Pretty sure if they do it's going to be 3D printed. The seat looks good out of the box but I guess a resin one with belts etc. couldn't hurt... J

Would you know if CP! are doing their own 3D print detail sets for their kit? J

Outstanding reference! J

My photos from Duxford: Jeffrey

Good on both fronts 🙂 First that you can create an E but also that the cross section of the ClearProp kit is good (meaning without Hasegawa's error) since Airfix used a 3D scan to check against. Shapes being the only real plus side of that kit. I've had it in my hands but still decided against buying one...maybe should get one now 🙂. And several ClearProp As of course. J

They were upgraded. Unfortunately it's proving difficult to establish when that program took place. It's known that the last downward ejection was in 1959. So I guess the upgrades took place between 1959 and 1960/61. I recently had a discussion and we saw that the F-104A deployed to Taiwan in 1958 all still had the C-1 seat. https://www.916-starfighter.de/F-104_USA_Quemoy.htm#:~:text=The first F-104A arrived,Officer was Major Carl H. I do think the USAF was the only operator of F-104A with C-1 seat. Exported ("second-hand") F-104As like Pakistani etc. had the C-2 seat. If y

Thanks everyone! J

I had it on my mind for years, but considered the subject to be too "hot", as in like you I was expecting a mainstream manufacturer to do an F-86A soon(ish). Years ago I had just started on a T-33 development when I got burned by GWH within weeks. But then years passed and nothing happened... And now it's a non-mainstream, low pressure (but quality) manufacturer. I'm quite surprised. J

Ok, I see. Thank you for the insight! I just thought that the seats, especially the head box, had some similarities and thought I could see a lineage. The X-15 was built in Inglewood, CA. Yes, I do have quite a few photos and a rough-ish cutaway drawing providing approximate dimensions, but nothing is like actual, accurate dimensions 🙂 Cheers, J

The new U-2S kit has a framless windscreen part? The in-box reviews I've seen show the same part as the U-2R kit, which is inaccurate for both. Yes, I know. But Sabrejet's reply was inferring that the tooling was as such to facilitate the all-curved, framless windscreen of the U-2S. And my reply meant to say that even if that may be the case, the part in the U-2S kit (at least from what I have seen so far) is still the same part and not the framless type. So the windscreen part is not right for either the U-2R nor U-2S kits. Hence something is being done about it... J

The U-2S kit doesn’t have the frameless windscreen, at least what the previews show. J

Please excuse this little "cross-fertilisation" post, but I've just released my F-104A (Early) Backdate set for Kinetic which allows you to accurately build quite a few of the schemes on this nice sheet. Cheers, Jeffrey

Many thanks!! Jeffrey

Hi, I wanted to let you know that this set, shich had been in development for a long time, is finally available for purchase. This allows building of highly detailed and accurate early Starfighters with the downward firing C-1 seat. It ties in well with the recent release of Caracal's decal sheets.

Unsurprisingly, being N.A., the seat HS-1 has remarkable semblance to the X-15 seat.Although that's a very unique seat, I guess it must have started from the same design basis? You wouldn't happen to have drawings with measurements of the X-15 seat in your possession? J