Airplane Stuff I Found On The Internet

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 10/28/2020 at 13:21 • Filed to: wingspan, Planelopnik, Airplane Stuff I Found On The Internet

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I spend way too much time sitting at my computer browsing through pictures of old airplanes. I tend to save these as tabs, hoping that one day I will get around to writing an article about it. But that never happens, and now I have an absolutely unsustainable number of tabs open. So I figured the best way to go about it was to dump a bunch at a time. Here we go!

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F-14A-105-GR. Modex # 13. Naval Strike and Warfare Center at NAS Fallon, Nevada. In Iranian AF desert camo scheme. Stricken 31 August, 2000.

81st Tactical Fighter Wing USAF Europe. One fuel truck, one Phantom. Now we need two more fuel trucks.

Lockheed Vega Starliner

Lockheed T-33

American Airlines Convair CV-990

Martin-Omaha YKB-29P Superfortress 44-86398 Refuels Republic F-84G Thunderjet 51-0767 that is flying about as slowly as it can

Lockheed R6V Constitution double bubble double decker. Two built.

Dive bombing is best bombing

Wait, what?

ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > ttyymmnn 10/28/2020 at 13:37

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The best livery used in WW1 is the Lozenge pattern on the Fokker D.VII

https://images.app.goo.gl/UZ7Nd4vYQBMd5rY67

ttyymmnn > ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) 10/28/2020 at 13:43

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Agreed.

ttyymmnn > ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) 10/28/2020 at 13:45

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What’s interesting about that pattern is that when they were researching colors for the F-117 they realized that a shade of pink would make it the least observable, but real men don’t fly pink airplanes.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 10/28/2020 at 13:54

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“I went on the internet and found this”

Ah, classic three-idiots Top Gear.

I think the juxtaposition of the Revell thing inspired this thought: wouldn’t that image of the three Phantoms and the two trucks make for a spectacular diorama to make with appropriate models?

Aremmes > ttyymmnn 10/28/2020 at 13:55

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F-16 + J79 turbojet. From them there wikis :

In response to President Jimmy Carter ’s February 1977 directive to curtail arms proliferation by selling only reduced-capability weapons to foreign countries, General Dynamics developed a modified export-oriented version of the F-16A/B designed for use with the outdated General Electric J79 turbojet engine. Northrop competed for this market with its F-20 Tigershark . Accommodating the J79-GE-119 engine required modification of the F-16's inlet, the addition of steel heat shielding, a transfer gearbox (to connect the engine to the existing F-16 gearbox), and an 18-inch (46 cm) stretch of the aft fuselage. First flight occurred on 29 October 1980. The total program cost to develop the F-16/J79 was $18 million (1980), and the unit flyaway cost was projected to be about $8 million. South Korea, Pakistan and other nations were offered these fighters but rejected them, resulting in numerous exceptions being made to sell standard F-16s; with the later relaxation of the policy under President Carter in 1980 and its cancellation under President Ronald Reagan , no copies of either the F-16/79 or the F-20 were ultimately sold.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 10/28/2020 at 13:56

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Also, the R6V is really elegant.

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/28/2020 at 14:04

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It almost looks like a diorama. 

ttyymmnn > Aremmes 10/28/2020 at 14:06

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The Tigershark was the best fighter that never was. Certainly one of the best looking.

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/28/2020 at 14:06

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That a/c gets a big write up in an upcoming TDIAH post. 

user314 > ttyymmnn 10/28/2020 at 14:07

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TIL about the Convair 990 Coronado and AA’s “ Astrojet ” branding.

I can just see that Thunderjet pilot, shaking back and forth in his seat screaming “GO FASTER!” like Clarkson...

ttyymmnn > user314 10/28/2020 at 14:08

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I thought you’d like that Revell catalog....

InFierority Complex > ttyymmnn 10/28/2020 at 14:26

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That’s a MiG-28.  

ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > ttyymmnn 10/28/2020 at 14:29

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I’d argue real mean would fly planes that are most effective and not care about what color they are.

Just like real men are best represented by the characters in LoTR and not this bullshit Alpha-Male, roid-rage, insecure, and overcompensating idiocy prevalent in the US. 

wafflesnfalafel > ttyymmnn 10/28/2020 at 14:36

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that F-84 refueling pic is pretty crazy... 

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 10/28/2020 at 14:46

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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 10/28/2020 at 14:48

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We thought the Phantom was so cool, but it was a lumbering behemoth that left an ugly black trail behind it in the sky.

ttyymmnn > InFierority Complex 10/28/2020 at 14:50

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Pretty sure this is a MiG too.

It says so right on the tail.

ttyymmnn > wafflesnfalafel 10/28/2020 at 14:51

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Buttocks clenched.

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/28/2020 at 14:53

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The Duck was a rescue plane. Gotta have somewhere to put the rescuees.

This is a Vought Kingfisher, but you get the idea.

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/28/2020 at 14:56

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As somebody here on Oppo once quipped, the Phantom stayed aloft through brute force over aerodynamics. It’s actually one of my favorites. I’ve got this sitting on my desk. 

ttyymmnn > user314 10/28/2020 at 15:01

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My favorite thing about the Revell catalog cover? The Oxford comma. 

InFierority Complex > ttyymmnn 10/28/2020 at 15:04

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Can’t argue with that logic. A simple but bold livery, too. I like it.

Have a real MiG family photo.

ttyymmnn > InFierority Complex 10/28/2020 at 15:06

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Is that your model of the XF-92?

InFierority Complex > ttyymmnn 10/28/2020 at 15:14

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It is not. I didn’t actually know the plane existed till your post the other day. Just grabbed it from this model aircraft blog.

http://www.internetmodeler.com/2008/march/aviation/proresin_xf92.php

I actually thought it might be a contemporary model to the movie but apparently the kit only came out in 2007. What an obscure thing to release so late.

Bring Back Colorful Cars > ttyymmnn 10/28/2020 at 15:19

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I’ve got to recommend Cessnateur/Jason McDowell on Instragram for all things #plane. His posts have really given me newfound appreciation of aeronautical history

ttyymmnn > InFierority Complex 10/28/2020 at 15:22

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Interesting. I wonder if that is the actual color, or just a guess. The film is in B&W.

Chuck Yeager on the right. Not sure if he flew the “MiG-23" or not, but he was assigned by the Air Force to take part in the filming .

Also this:

https://www.scalemates.com/kits/pro-resin-r72-037-convair-xf-92a-early—143086

ttyymmnn > Bring Back Colorful Cars 10/28/2020 at 15:24

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I’m not on the Insta as a rule (I think I have an account), but I’ll be sure to check it out. I’ll also pass this along to my son, another avgeek who is on Insta constantly. 

user314 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/28/2020 at 15:45

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Finding the right fuel truck will be tough; everyone wants either WWII or modern vehicles, ‘60s and ‘70s trucks seem to be really underrepresented.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 10/28/2020 at 16:08

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I do. And it sounds like a good plan.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 10/28/2020 at 16:09

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 Good name for an airplane, too.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 10/28/2020 at 16:09

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 It was the coolest thing in the sky in the early '70s...

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > user314 10/28/2020 at 16:22

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Looks like there’s a Shapeways pattern for an M54 out there done as a fire truck , so if you were doing it in 1:72 and not cheating with an M35 you’d mostly just need a chassis for the trailer; if you were doing from scratch, or an M970 trailer if you were wanting something to start with. If somebody makes one of those. I saw somebody with a Shapeways pattern for a 1:144, so you’d just need to scale that up and then turn it into an older trailer with styrene sheet and such-like.

1:72 scale Phantoms being trivial, of course.

I don’t know where in the balls you’d get a 1:72 scale 62ish Ford truck. The service truck might actually be the hardest thing to match up.

Aremmes > ttyymmnn 10/28/2020 at 17:19

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The F-20 was another victim, in part, of China’s ratfarkery w.r.t. Taiwan :

Taiwan initiated the IDF program when the United States refused to sell them F-20 Tigershark and F-16 Fighting Falcon jet fighters following diplomatic pressure from China .

oldmxer > ttyymmnn 10/29/2020 at 02:39

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so an F-16 landed on a carrier at least once?

facw > oldmxer 10/29/2020 at 05:40

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Doesn’t look like it. DoD really wanted the Navy to adopt the F-16, but neither the Air Force nor the Navy wanted to make design compromises to accommodate the other’s vision. Key issues included a high likelihood of tail strikes unless the landing gear were redesigned and the F-16A/B’s lack of long range missile capability.

Looks like the Navy F-16 above only flew from runways.

But here, have some concept art:

ttyymmnn > oldmxer 10/29/2020 at 08:58

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facw gives a good answer, so thanks to him. While no F-16 ever landed on a carrier, they did try flying Mustangs from carriers.

And seeing Sabres in Navy and Marine uniforms (actually the FJ-2/3 ) always tripped me out.

Jcarr > ttyymmnn 10/31/2020 at 17:17

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F-16/79.  Like the opposite of an LS swap.