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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.😉
  4. 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.😁
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Canute
    Very nicely done, Mike. Really like your waterscape.
  8. Canute
    Superb build. Knocks your socks off.!
  9. Canute
    Looks great, Kevin. And a nice touch, getting your pup in a portrait. 😄
  10. Canute
    Two thumbs up. 👍👍
  11. Canute
    Nice works with those doors. Adding hinges and latches is icing on the cake. Made you cross-eyed for a while. Been there too. 👍 Can you brace the corners with some stripwood or will it be visible.?
  12. Canute
    Another well done model, Craig. Thanks for sharing.
  13. Canute
    The F-4 had the capability to have parts of the airframe supersonic, even though the airspeed/Mach meter said it was subsonic. Wish I had a buck for every time we were questioned about supersonic flight. It's actually a banned activity over land, except for the huge ranges around Nellis and up toward Salt Lake. There could be others, but I'm a mostly East Coast flyer, so maybe over Montana there may be supersonic airspace. Off the coast, in designated training areas, have at it. 😁 I loved air to air combat, especially dissimilar combat. Low flight over crowds was 500', but I think nowadays it's 1,000'. Can't be too safe, you know. We do have designated low flight areas, in remote areas. We did have a very nice area in central Pennsylvania that looked a lot like central Germany, with green rolling hills and valleys. That was a 100' floor. 😀 Ah, the J-79 -17 in the E model. Loads of thrust, great throttle response. For me,very reliable; one shutdown in 3000 hours. I had a total of 4000 hours in all types. Only knock was it smoked like a badly fired steam engine. They finally fixed it, about 8 years after they announced the modification. Swapped out the combuster cans behind the compressor section and voila, reduced smoke.!
  14. Canute
    I think your eyes will recover quickly. Mine did when I had the cataracts cleared up last year. And the build is interesting. Tamiya has done some of their newer kits with metal frames, etc. I have a 1/48 He-219 with the lower part of the cockpit as a metal weight. Good way to stop the dreaded taildragging tricycle gear aircraft. I'm researching paint schemes, since I don't really want to do a dark blotch over light blue scheme.
  15. Canute
    EG, the gray and the wrap around gray/green are good choices. The pale gray belly (yeah, its an Fed Spec color in the gray range) is uninteresting, unless you do the Korat bird with the shark mouth. But what do I know, I'm prejudiced. 😁
  16. Canute
    Happy to see you back at it, OC. Keep the hairdryer in the cabinet; there's no rush. KGL troops are looking good.
  17. Canute
    That last may have been for some of us attending a Tiger Meet, although it may have been a stateside version. Fighter wing leadership was proud to play up the Tiger heritage (all fighter guys). The tanker leadership folks weren't nearly as fired up for any Tiger Meet activities. Our Ops Group Commander was an F-4 guy, but above him, they were tanker folks. I was at one meet at Bitburg, on peacetime alert. Crazy good time for the Tiger folks. I wasn't in the Tiger Squadron there We were entertained by a doozy of a low altitude airshow. The F-111 leading the fly by lit off his fuel dump, without announcing it to the folks following him during the fly-by. A lot of airplanes disappeared into the clouds to avoid. We ground observers were very surprised. The two security guys I was up in a guard tower watching the show both turned to me and asked what happened. It was pretty dangerous. There is no mistaking an F-4 by any of our senses. We were top of the heap for a long time, until supplanted by Eagles and Vipers.
  18. Canute
    Nicely done, Jav. And good luck at the show.
  19. Canute
    Beautiful work with the multiple weathering mediums. Outstanding work.
  20. Canute
    That F-4E is a Korat bird, where I lived one year. Ours were parked in steel revetments. Needed a medium sized Cushman and that tow bar you showed to maneuver the jet around to push it back into the revetment. You'll need an MJ-1 bomb hoist aka a jammer to load bombs and a couple of bomb carts loaded with MK-82s or CBU49/52/58, along with a -60. The F-4E they did was my jet at McGuire, 68-388, tail code NJ. Grey overall, with a Tiger head on the nose. There used to be a decal set with our scheme for both the early green paint and later gray paint. The Tiger head is a looker.
  21. Canute
    Just some fuel and oil stains under the jet and tire marks. Simple. So, they make a -60? Very cool. I should put one with a Phantom the local modeling club made for me back at McGuire. I got them flight line and runway supervisory unit access. Probably wrecked a few ear drums among that crew, but they loved hanging at the end of the runway, watching the jets being armed and then blasting off to fly training sorties. Afterburners are loud. And I brought them back to watch the landings. I'm a lifetime member of their IPMS chapter for that and the gave me a custom Hasegawa F-4E. State of the art in 1989.
  22. Canute
    Glad you are OK, Craig. Buddy of mine has a daughter NE of Ft Myers and they were OK. Lot of tree debris on their horse farm. All folks and animals OK. I'm sitting in Greensboro, ready to attend a train event and we have a tropical storm warning. Gusty winds and 5 inches of rain. Supposed to start in the morning. Back home in Hooterville it should be a little gusty and some rain. Track seems to have shifted east.
  23. Canute
    Glad to se you still plugging away, brother. All those acquisitions bring back memories, except for the GPU. We used MA-60s usually; it was an all in one unit instead of the multiple pieces you're using. Gawd, that MA-1A start cart trailer was loud. It had the same engine as the T-37 trainer planes and was just below a dog whistle in pitch. Ruined the hearing of a lot of us. Gonna be fun watching this dio unfold.
  24. Canute
    Nicely done. They look great. 👍
  25. Canute
    Well done on your construction. Very nicely done.

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