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R/C flying, music and recording. P/C sims. Licensed Aircraft Mechanic currently working on the B757-200, B767-300ER, Airbus A300, MD-10/MD-11 and have 10+ years Herk experience. Also worked on the B727, B737, CT-114, CT-133 and CF-104 to name just a few.
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CF104 started following F-15 vent configuration question, 1/48th HUDs for F-4 & F-14?, 1/48 AMK MiG-31 BM Wheel Well Part Orientation? and 1 other
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The F-4 didn't have a HUD. It looks similar to a HUD but doesn't function as one. It was called the Optical Sight Unit and did not contain flight data like a HUD does. It was used for weapons deployment. Basically a glorified gunsight. Cheers, John
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I think what Illu was trying to say is that the Mig-31 has trailing edge flaps and leading edge flaps. From the what I can see the leading edge devices look to be hinged from the lower surface and droop very little when extended. Since they don't extend out on tracks like slats do this would make them leading edge flaps. Cheers, John
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According to "The Modern Eagle Guide" by Jake Melampy, the round exhaust is for the Regenerative Heat Exchanger. Factory installed on all Eagles up to F-15E 96-0200. Later Eagles had a change to the ECS which negated the round exhaust. Many earlier Eagles have been modified to also remove this exhaust which is what happened to 090 in the photos. Best to check photo references for the particular jet being modeled. Cheers, John
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Italeri 1/48 Aermacchi MB-326 ( Brazilian Air Force AT-26 Xavante)
CF104 replied to George Guimaraes's topic in Jet Modeling
Nice build. Just so you know, there are 2 sub forums here to display your built models. The Display Case and Critique Corner. Links below. THE DISPLAY CASE CRITIQUE CORNER Regards, John -
And this is what can happen as a result. Alaska F-15 shoots AIM-9 at another F-15 Cheers, John
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More likely an alert barn since the jets are armed and look ready to go. If you look at a google earth photo of Eielson, there's a 4 bay Alert barn off the threshold of runway 32. Cheers, John
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Hi Marc, No TCS pod on the early blocks. The TCS wasn't on a production jet until FY82 (Block 125). If you're going to model an F-14A around the 1976 time frame you could find up to Block 90 jets. The Tamiya kit builds a late block 75 through block 100 with standard beaver tail, 7 hole gun vent and ALQ-100 chin pod. All blocks up to the early block 75 had the original beaver tail and variations of the IRST/ALQ-100 pod. The following link gives a good breakdown of block numbers with beaver tail, gun vents, chin pods and ECM gear. F-14 Block variant list In th
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Those illustrations aren't the greatest modeling reference. Always best to use photographic reference of the subject aircraft you're modeling if you want to be accurate. The illustration of the grey over white F-14A shows the wrong pod and has no BuNo. The only VF-2 Modex NK215 I could find was F-14A BuNo 158996 which was a block 70 jet. The block 70 had either the IRST/ALQ-100 or just the ALQ-100 chin pods. The TCS pod didn't show up until the Block 140 jets. Cheers, John
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Quote from the linked article. ”Normally we train F/A-18 against the F-5. This helps us to distinguish blue air from red air. The F-5 has a single tail fin whereas the Hornet has a double one, but still during a fight it is quite difficult to see that. We therefore often equip F-5s with orange fuel tanks and missiles to identify them as part of red air, so we don’t have blue air shooting other blue air jets. Generally, we only fly F/A-18 versus F/A-18 in Beyond Visual Range combats.” Click here ALPINE TIGERS article Cheers, John
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1/48 YF-23 PAV-1 "Black Widow II" (Hobby Boss / BAM Models / Caracal decals)
CF104 replied to arnobiz's topic in Jet Modeling
Look 4 posts up. Arnaud stated he will be releasing a PAV-1 conversion set and a PAV-2 upgrade set. Cheers, John -
1/48 YF-23 PAV-1 "Black Widow II" (Hobby Boss / BAM Models / Caracal decals)
CF104 replied to arnobiz's topic in Jet Modeling
That's great. I'll be ordering when available. In the meantime I'll be watching this build closely. Cheers, John -
1/48 YF-23 PAV-1 "Black Widow II" (Hobby Boss / BAM Models / Caracal decals)
CF104 replied to arnobiz's topic in Jet Modeling
Looking good Arnaud. Any chance you're going to offer the PAV-1 vents for sale? They look great! John -
New tool F-16AM MLU in 1:48 announced by Kinetic
CF104 replied to falcon91352's topic in Jet Modeling
It also has no relevance to the new kit. Bringing it up in this discussion is just muddying an already murky pond. Regards, John -
I totally forgot about the Armycast decal sheet. I also forgot I had it in my stash. I ordered the Tauro low vis stencil set and am going to try to track down the Sky Models sheet as it looks like it has some good content. Cheers, John