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by Tommy H. Thomason

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

AD-3 versus AD-4 Skyraider

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 Sword has just released a very nice 1/72 AD-3/4 Skyraider kit. This is the illustrated Hyperscale review:  https://www.hyperscale.com/2025/...
Monday, April 28, 2025

Target Towing and Drone Control Color Scheme: Engine Gray and Orange Yellow

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 The same MIL specification dated 23 February 1955 that implemented the Gull Gray/White paint scheme changed the paint scheme of target towi...
Monday, March 31, 2025

Ginter Books

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 Steve Ginter no longer has his own website but he is still creating and publishing books. You can contact him directly for availability a...
Friday, October 11, 2024

F7U-3 Series Model Kits - Part Two

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18 October 2004:  Sylvain Deloire informed me of the availability of "3D" decals for the 1/72 Fujimi kit. For details, click HERE ...
Tuesday, October 8, 2024

F7U-3 Series Model Kits - Fujimi 1/72

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9 October 2024: I've made detail changes to the text and added illustrations with more to come 10 October 2024: Lots of changes; now I a...
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Wednesday, September 11, 2024

The Chance Vought F7U-3 Cutlass

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  Now available to order from: Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Vought-F7U-3-Cutlass-Tommy-Thomason/dp/1800352948 Amazon UK: https://www.am...
Thursday, May 30, 2024

Modex Number

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 This is a work in progress but I'm pretty sure of the basics... The number on the side of the nose of U.S. Navy carrier-based airplanes...
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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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