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Monday, November 12, 2018

F-18A Main Landing Gear

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Thursday, September 20, 2018

Bell P-39 Wing Planform

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In my post on the Bell XFL-1 (see https://tailspintopics.blogspot.com/2015/09/modeling-bell-xfl-1-airabonita.html ), I included a sketch to ...
Monday, May 14, 2018

EKA-3B Aft Fuselage

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Yet another question about the accuracy of the Trumpeter 1/48 A-3 Skywarrior kit has been brought to my attention, in this case the location...
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Sunday, April 8, 2018

NAEL F9F-2KD

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By coincidence, I received questions last month from two different modelers about this particular airplane that was a profile in Scale Aircr...
Saturday, March 3, 2018

F-4 Phantom Forward Fuselage

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Thursday, March 1, 2018

FJ-1 Tip Tanks - 1948 Bendix "Race"

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Once upon a time, there were big-deal airshows with military participation, including "races". At some point the services were pro...
Tuesday, February 27, 2018

FJ-1 Fury Canopy

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Initial open/close mechanism: Later open/close mechanism: With respect to similarity with the P-51 canopy, it was simi...
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In 1956, at age 12, I lived on NAS Sangley Point in the Philippine Islands. Always enamored with airplanes, I imprinted on the Cougars, Banshees, and Skyraiders then being deployed. Not able to be a Naval Aviator because I was nearsighted, I instead became an aeronautical engineer and general aviation pilot. Now retired, I write books and monographs on U.S. Navy aircraft.
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