Tag: USAF
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Martin Canberra – Part Three – Da Nang 1966
With three good choices for a scheme, it was only the toss of a coin that painted this bomber high speed silver. The paint itself is the good old French silver grey melange now topped up with more fresh silver for a shinier finish. One of the extant B-57 aircraft at a museum in the…
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Stealth Aircraft – Part Four – B2 Spirit
Northrop are finally vindicated. After suffering the indignity of having their pioneer flying wing bombers canned by the US Air Force in the 1940’s due to commercial and political pressure, they have won the day by producing the B2 Spirit stealth bomber. It is in service and has done service. It will likely be replaced…
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Convair Atlas D – Part One – Old Home To New Home
I used to live where these things were deployed. I now live where the scale model is made. This kit from Horizon Models was advertised for some time in the Australian scale model magazine – but I did not see it at the time. Then it got to Phil Flory and I sat up and…
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F-82 Twin Mustang – Part Nine – Northwest Air Defence
I had no idea as a kid. ( I don’t have much more sense now. ) But I sure wish I had known about the F-82 Twin Mustang long before my old age. I might have been able to see one in real life – because they flew from an air base near to a…
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North American F-100 – Part One – The Start Of A Project
I heard a suggestion a few weeks ago and took it on board – a good idea for the Big Local Plastic Model Show. I hope we are granted the blessing of it and are here to participate – in anticipation of which I have started a project to fill two display tables. It’ll be…
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Handley Page Jetstream – Part One – Airfix Too Early
Occasionally you can get caught out by events…or by your own eagerness for business. This has happened twice to Airfix kits that I have encountered, but has not dimmed my pleasure in building them. The first model that made me aware of this was the original Airfix 1:72 Blackburn Buccaneer. I was given a historic…
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Douglas RB-66B – Part Four – The Butchers Chart
Well, that’s what it looks like – you expect to see terms like ” rump ” and ” chop ” on the airplane in the divisions. As it is, a lot of newer USAF jets have so many stencils on them that you wonder if they are made by Fisher Price. At least in the…
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Boeing KB-29A – Part Eight – Corporate Image
When someone says ” uniform corporate image ” to you in an effort to make you paint the delivery van beige or paste the logo on the toilet rolls, look them steadily in the eye and then punch it. They are full of shit and you need not do what they say. The United States…
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