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  1. Canute
    I was at a Red Flag flying exercise at Nellis back in the 70s and called an A-4 Sky Hawk a McDonnell Douglas product. They about took my head off. So my beloved Phantom is a McDonnell only product. Mr McDonnell was into the occult with respect to his aircraft. Phantom I & II, Banshee, Demon, VooDoo. Happy Halloween and Samhain.
  2. Canute
    The "Not Invented Here" syndrome. Seen it a lot in my flying career.😒
  3. Canute
    Unfortunately the cockpit gets closed up, but you did a nice job beating up the details in it. Typical of a aircraft used hard, with so-so maintenance.
  4. Canute
    Little brothers....GRR!
  5. Canute
    Looked at a camo site and they cite FS30051 as the brown. That is AV 71.249 in the Vallejo line, a Model Air color.
  6. Canute
    Robert, it's very handy to have the parts layout like you show. And in color. Nice. 👍 Couple of other glues you could consider are Canopy Cement and Gator glue. They seem to be thicker white glues and can be cleaned up with water. And if you have a sensitivity to CA fumes, they become suitable substitutes.
  7. Canute
    Well done, Alan.
  8. Canute
    Nicely done Tiger mouth or should I say Panther mouth on that Greek Phantom.
  9. Canute
    The flying wing ideas of the Horton brothers began in the late 30s, I seem to recall. As well as the helos. And the megalomaniac screwed with so many aircraft designs, demanding dive bombers from his twin engine bombers and the Me-262. Delayed deployment of a sizable chunk of the Luftwaffe in these wide goose chases. Luckily for us.
  10. Canute
    Framing looks great and I like that metal roof. 👍
  11. Canute
    Most definitely the West got a treasure trove of flight data, along with the Soviets. Many fascinating concepts that took years to come to fruition. I'm in on this bird. 😁
  12. Canute
    Guy is acting the troll. Oh well. These kits are gorgeously built Chris. I'll keep following.
  13. Canute
    That's a good tip, Craig. I'm following this one, too. My old squadron flew SPADs in the Great War and maybe I can try to do one.
  14. Canute
    A little dull gray-black on the grip and no one's the wiser. 😀
  15. Canute
    Nicely done with the chalking of the Shipyard sign. 👍
  16. Canute
    The surgeries help a ton. Too bad you just can't go to the pharmacy and get some $20 specs and be done with it. But life will look sharper, clearer and more vivid.
  17. Canute
    Neat looking old mill on your trip, Eric. Recently restored? We're just getting some color here in the Smokies. Expecting a lot of day trippers looking at the leaves.
  18. Canute
    I like the plan, too. 👍 We had a bit of a friendly rivalry with the St Louis guys; must have been something about oldest ANG flying unit. Nice to commemorate them, too. On your first bird, you could go with 2 Sparrows in the aft wells. For the Spike bird, you could use the centerline tank and omit the wing tanks. The 80s 600 gallon tank was stressed for the airframe limits, wing tanks were lower G and affected roll rates. The 600 gal. tank we carried in SEA was a low G tank, only meant for deployments. Make sure anything you load on the inboards does not hang behind the aft end of the pylon. That would interfere with the gear doors.😉
  19. Canute
    Looks like the AF one is Robin Olds ride, USN is Cunningham/Driscoll. They were the Navy's aces. EG, don't mix the Mk82s with the CBUs. Can't carry both if you have a 3 bagger (fuel tanks). You could put 4 CBUs on the shoulder mounts of the TERs and strap 6 Mk82s on a centerline MER. Load 2 x 370 gallon wing tanks. Only carried jammers if going up North. Allegedly there were no missiles outside of the Hanoi/Hai Phong area, but I took missile fire from Tchephone in Laos. No jammer on board, just wiley maneuvering to get them to miss. Building F-4 models is like eating pistachios, you can't do just one. I have 3 rolling around the house. My first and last F-4Es in wood from a builder in the Philippines and the Hasegawa bird from that NJIPMS chapter. Do up the gray one in an air to air configuration and the Euro one with a Pave Spike pod on the left forward Sparrow well and some LGBs on the inboards. I need to dig up my Dash One to see if they mount the LGBs on TERs or just bolt directly to the inboard pylons. The bigger ones definitely do mount directly; the 500 pounders may go on the TERs. I need a Weapons School refresher if I keep this up.😁
  20. Canute
    Being loud makes it lower. 😉 We carried all 3 Mk82 configurations, but the vanilla version dominated. The other two were more for a troops in contact situations. By the time I got over there, US Army encounters were minimal with the Cong. Our usual load was on the inboard TERs, so 6 bombs per jet. The SUU-30s were bulky, so we only loaded on the shoulder stations. They'd scrape the concrete if they were ion the center mount. We'd carry 4 total. The jammers we had were ALQ 87 and 71. Carried up in the forward Sparrow racks. ALQ 119 showed up after Linebacker. I need to dig out my Dash 1 for where those loaded. I'm a little time constrained right now, so I'll be back later.
  21. Canute
    Mike, my experience is old and it was mostly bombs dropped on ground targets. Made some significant holes. On an armored ship, could punch a hole in the main deck and explode inside the ship. That would probably force the deck up and blow out any number of internal bulkheads. Maybe open the hull in spots, so they'd be pumping the seawater out. That could be an interesting scenario.
  22. Canute
    Very nicely done, Mike. Really like your waterscape.
  23. Canute
    Superb build. Knocks your socks off.!
  24. Canute
    Looks great, Kevin. And a nice touch, getting your pup in a portrait. 😄
  25. Canute
    Two thumbs up. 👍👍

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