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Dear Steve, First I wish you an Happy New Year for you, your family and all ARC team and readers. I have troubles to send to you article submission, email is rejected TWO times (<submissions@arcair.com>: quota exceeded (in reply to RCPT TO command) Perhaps your mail box is full, thank you to check and to tell us when it could be possible to use it. Have a good day and New year day party. jc73

Hello Mareku, I checked my Tomcat litterature and I found some interesting things to help you: 1- Only 3 F-14A or B were TARPS wired by VF (source Avions hors serie 19 tomcat) 2- VF-84 was TARPS operationnal in May 1981 (source Avions hors serie 19 tomcat) 3- All F-14D were TARPS wired but the D were not used in Desert Storm VF deployed (source Osprey air war in the gulf) 4- Regarding your specific Bu No 162692 at this time it was a F-14A and was retrofitted to F-14B in 1994 (source Tomcat Alley) 5- Only 53 F-14A were TARPS wired I had all Bu No numbers in the book F-14 TOMCAT (aerospace

Hey Regarding the Wolpack flap I used this aftermarket kit one time on Hasegawa 1/72 F/A-18F. The wings are well engraved but the edge of flaps on wing side are very fragile because they are extremely thin. I remembered that one flap's edge was broken in the blister before open it. See my article on ARC : http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/Gal10/9701-9800/gal9727-F-18-Goddet/00.shtm Happy New Year to all ARC fans

To help you a little see my gallery article http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/Gal10/9501-9600/gal9553-A-10-Goddet/00.shtm with some adjustments station 1 empty station 2 rocket launcher station 3 empty or TV maverick or rocket launcher big model station 4,5,7,8 GBU-38 JDAM station 6 empty station 9 empty or IR maverick station 10 lantirn intead of sniper at the start of OEF and for OIF. Sniper pod was introduced in 2010 I think. station 11 empty or one Sidewinder Hope I will help you on some pictures GBU12 laser station 4 and 8