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  1. Canute
    Who makes the Acrysion line, Craig? You have a collection of blues and grays on your bench.
  2. Canute
    Lou, you got a pretty good fade going on with the flight suits. They didn't stay green for long. And we always had salt stains under our arms. Flying under a greenhouse made for some beat looking flight suits, also known as "goat bags". You smelled like that animal after a flight.
  3. Canute
    I use it too, OC. Works easily, minimum cleanup and no smell for the Admiral to squawk about. I think it's marble dust in an acrylic medium.
  4. Canute
    One of their earlier kits? You've become a master of these torpedo net builds. 👍
  5. Canute
    Jan, see if you can find wire made of phosphor-bronze. It's softer than steel, but stiffer than brass. A model railroad shop might have it. The wire usually is a reddish, almost copper color. One brand sold in North America is Tichy, It comes in a variety of diameters, from .008 in/.2 mm and up.
  6. Canute
    Ah, yeah, Mr Know-it-all. We had them, too. In the 80s, we finally put chaff and flare dispensers on the inboard pylons of the F-4. The Recce version from the start, had flare dispensers built in for night photography. We had real chaff and 2 flavors of flares, real ones and practice ones for training. Newer fighters got them too. Anyway, a couple of F-16s tried to burn up a good sized chunk of the Jersey Pine Barrens by dropping practice flares at too low an altitude. Almost burned a school down.
  7. Canute
    As some wise man said, we are our own worst critics for models. I think a lot of us who flew lost high end hearing from the turbine whine we endured. My low end hearing is OK, but at mid range it goes down at about a 45 degree angle. Hi squeaky voices are almost unheard by me.
  8. Canute
    Yep, I was Hawkeye until about age 43 or so. Then I flunked a flight physical. Bifocals and stuff ever since.
  9. Canute
    Optivisor Lou, with glass lenses, for magnification. Bright LED light on a swing arm, with a sunlight rated lamp.
  10. Canute
    Beautiful work, Craig.
  11. Canute
    Did anyone 'splain to Lt Dumbjohn what he'd have to do? Or was it easier to let the lad flail. Guess we took a long time to get aviators into combat, with the schooling we did. Heck, the time I got to drive an M-60, in Schweinfurt, Germany, I got a 3 minute briefing on steering (like a bicycle), gear selection(one forward, I think) and speed(the long wide one on the right). Just don't get too close to the HAWK battery and no, you can't turn the turret to put the barrel forward. I drove one tank across a good sized ditch and went into their parade ground? We took 3 tanks into this huge field and immediately got into a wheel of the 3 tanks chasing each other's tail. The Army captain wasn't too amused until he saw our AF Colonel driving one of the tanks in this rat race.
  12. Canute
    Will we see a gunner Lou hanging out the side?
  13. Canute
    Lou, those guys look pretty good.
  14. Canute
    Nicely done, Ekis.
  15. Canute
    I won enough money to get a keg of beer for my Frat House!
  16. Canute
    Craig, whatever you need. I got minimal time in C models, pretty much phased out of the force by the time I got back to the States. Most of my time was in E models. And I still have my F-4E flight manual and weapons manual.
  17. Canute
    I was #5 in that 1969 lottery. I got drafted in early '72, too. I "dodged' if by sending some gummint form, saying I already had a blue suit and was a real 1st Lieutenant. 😝
  18. Canute
    Soap and warm water, for 20 seconds or so, works better on viruses than rubbing alcohol does.
  19. Canute
    I'm in for this build, Jack.
  20. Canute
    Sorry to read about that wreck, Craig. But a heck of a recovery. It looks good. It's a big bird.
  21. Canute
    I agree with Craig. I used that same Badger for years. I've replaced seals (worn out) and the nozzle (dropped off workbench); it allows for good coverage for priming and general finish work. The fine tip ABs are for the fine work, like the squiggle camo on a German bomber.
  22. Canute
    That's what they call a rolling takeoff Lou. The multiengine/cargo planes did it a lot. We ex-fighter guys called it a strolling takeoff. We fighter types normally pulled onto the runway, lined up in formation, closed the canopies, ran the engines up holding brakes to check the instruments, nodded to the flight lead that we were ready and watched him go into afterburner. 10 seconds later #2 rolled and so on. Afterburners (or reheat for the Brits) were orange red with Mach diamonds for the Phantom. The flame shape had multiple diamond shapes coming out of the afterburner nozzles, what you're looking at at the read ends of the engines. If we rolled more than 4,000' on the runway we were heavily loaded, it was hot or we were flying from a very high altitude airport. Nam was the first two. Flying in Colorado or Utah was the last.
  23. Canute
    I remember that story, too, Mark. Details aren't important; the fact the airliner guys mistook Marble Mountain and DaNang is hilarious. I watched an IG guy mistake two US bases in Germany and land at the wrong field. Talk about a ration of grief.
  24. Canute
    Amen, brothers.
  25. Canute
    Going to Nam was Travis, Hawaii, Wake Island (Semper Fi), Clark (Jungle survival school) and Thailand. Back was Thailand, Clark, Yakota, Anchorage and Travis. Braniff jets both ways in crazy colors. The designers must have been dropping acid? Two cattle cars full of GIs. Me and my buddy Doug snagged two seats by the front door going home. Lots of leg room and we could chat up the stewardesses/flight attendants. Some looked a tad older, but they spoke American and we were going home to the big BX. No ration cards needed. No experimentation with what we carried. All came out via frag orders. The loads varied by where we went and the task we were performing. MiG Cap was wall to wall missiles. Hunter Killer was cluster bombs, since SAM batteries were wide spread and thin skinned. Working down South, we loaded out 500 lb. bombs. Once in a while, we might haul bigger stuff. The F4 wasn't limited by weight, except takeoff rolls got longer. A-7s did have some problems since they were turbo fan engines. Climbing the hill to get on the runway, something got reset in their fuel control and limiting their available thrust. Jeez, that was a deep memory.

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