F100

[wdmustang]

Would love to see an F100 in either the 80 or 90 mm fan size planes.

[Tom]

Interesting idea. I like the silver but I really like the olive "jungle" scheme from the Vietnam era.

[crxmanpat]

I've got an old FlyFly F-100 in a box. Since it came with a two-place cockpit, I'm doing an "F" model Wild Weasel. I too love the SEA camo schemes.

And if FW came out with one in 80 or 90mm, I'd get that one too.

[xplaneguy]

More than a year ago, I had the pleasure of flying a FlyFly F-100 powered by a JetCat P-20 turbine and it was so much fun. My friend Rob owns it and recently has offered to sell it to me. In two weeks I'll pick it up, paint and detail it before getting her back in the air. And yes, I'd buy a Freewing Super Sabre in a heartbeat. :)

[OV10]

I've got an old FlyFly F-100 in a box. Since it came with a two-place cockpit, I'm doing an "F" model Wild Weasel. I too love the SEA camo schemes. And if FW came out with one in 80 or 90mm, I'd get that one too.

Hey Pat,
Thought I would share this nifty bit of info about the Wild Weasel since it is a rather obscure term. The Wild Weasel was a code designation that was developed in late 65 and used by the USAF for radar avionic systems that tracked and destroyed SAM sites. When I got out of the Navy in late 70's, went to work for IBM Federal Systems working on the F-4G Advanced Wild Weasel receiver which was a microwave RF based system that could track more than a dozen targets at once. That technology was quite advanced for it's time. In layman terms here's what that system had to do as correlated from the perspective of listening to music on the radio. The enemy would transmit it's signal one note on one station and then another note on another station and so on all in random order. Because the transmissions were not sequential, the F-4 Weasels job was to located all the notes being transmitted from all the stations and put them in order so that you understood the song. Once it knew what song(SAM location) it could now track and fire upon which could be many at once. Now that was in the 70's.....can you imagine the crazy technical crap we have to decode now a days?? The modern term is now called "SEAD" suppression of enemy air defenses. Hope you enjoyed the brief Wild Weasel history as I knew of it from the honor of working on it as a test engineer.
Best Regards,

[Grossman56]

Great info Charlie!
Of course, when I first saw the name of the thread, and being a Canuck by birth, I thought of the CF 100 Canuck, oops!

Grossman56