Dang.... Did you reuse the tank??? :Drooling::Drooling::Scared::Thinking: That could have turned bad fast. Im sure your starboard engine wouldn't mind ingesting half a wing tank.... Wow....
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And how much roll trim did they need for that tank turned drag chute???
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I stated roll trim, but after reading your comment and then looking again at the pic...…. Yeah!!! Lots o rudder.... sorry pilots. Only flown a 172...LOL
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It's not as bad as it use to be. Maybe because we haven't been at war recently. I think there have been some improvements in the maintenance procedures. I've only been at sea about 30 days then back. We had Tomcats, A-6's, EA-6's, F-8's, S-2's, etc. It seemed like they kept them all in good condition when I was there.
I was a Helicopter Pilot based out of NAS Whidby Island, and flew CH-46's. So not a so glamorous pilot job. I always loved the F-4's, had a few pilot friends, not many.
I was assigned TAD to an EA-6B squadron for 30 days, because of an absents in the squadron.
So yes I've seen what I think are realistic jobs on weathering, and many I think look real nice, but not realistic to me. In my opinion all you need to do is look at the two pictures you have posted, and compare it to how their doing the paint job.
Best Regards
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... Gotta lotta work yet ahead on my FW 90mm F-4 in the Weathering !!Comment
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Ya know, I'm probably the last person in the world that should be a judge of this. FYI! But to me your's is lookin really good! Right on the mark.
Woody
PS, I'm not implying the Connie never had F-4's. Just that when I was there, we had F-14's. But the look and finish you have created in your F-4, looks almost identical to the look of our F-14 planes at the time. : )Comment
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Thx,.. It's best when I find a picture of the actual aircraft I'm modeling for the Timeline I'm going for also. I just try my hardest to 'Copy' the state of that aircraft in the picture !! They change so much with the Timeline !! CheersComment
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Random question. Ended up stretching a spring on the nose gear door. Bought a new door, but no springs came with it. Is there an alternative to the spring for this? Or anywhere else I could get the spring?Comment
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He never commented on how the airplane flew, but he had no airspeed indicator or altimeter, so he had other things to think about. (the cable sawed off the pitot tube on his rudder.)
So after he did that I escorted him to Kedena, Okinawa to drain the other tank and make a plan. He was a more senior but still first tour pilot and kind of a dick. I had to fly on his wing and lord, I have stories. So here I am, super new, and him, all full of himself and not that good, trying to figure it out. We know we'll have to go to the ship as a section, a two-ship, because I have stuff he doesn't. Like airspeed. And an altimeter.
He says he'll lead a section take-off. The two of us at once. I'm on his wing from takeoff roll... so I ask him. "How will you know when to rotate?" (pull the nose up to take off) "You have no airspeed indicator."
He says, snottily, "I'll uses angle of attack." (we used angle of attack in the Navy for approach speed)
I say, "Thor... (his callsign), when rolling on the ground the angle of attack will never change."
He snaps back, pissed off, "FINE. You can lead the section go."
THere's more to the story but I'll save that for sometime over a beer. We survived.
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Actually a J79 could probably ingest a wing tank and keep going. It was quite the engine. The powerplants guys scoped the engine of an airplane I'd just flown for a couple days and found the last two stages of the compressor section... it had 17 compressor stages... were wiped slick. All the blades were on the bottom of the engine bay... and I never noticed a thing.
The TF30 in the first generation F-14, on the other hand... yikes.
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:Straight-Face:Better all blades I guess. No vibration.... :Cool:Comment
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“You didn’t get into the F-4, you put it on, it became you,” DeBellevue said. “It was a manual airplane, not like an F-16 or F-15, they were aerodynamic and designed well. The F-4 was the last plane that looked like it was made to kill somebody. It was a beast. It could go through a flock of birds and kick out barbecue from the back.” Col. (Ret.) Charles B. DeBellevueComment
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Joining the club!...
A very naked grey F-4 awaiting decals from Callie
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