Tailhook Topics

It took longer than we hoped, but Scooter! is in the last stages of the publishing process and should be available in the fall. This is the...

I just revised the entry on the XF4U's top speed as a result of a comment from Ron Lewis. Click HERE .

1 October 2022: Expanded the gray/white scheme discussion thanks to Tom Chee providing F4U/AU aircraft history card data. One of the useful ...

Another recycled IPMS Tailhook Topics column. Boyd Waechter drew the illustrations. (The tailhook should angle downwards a bit rather than b...

The U.S. Navy's involvement with liquid-cooled engines lasted long after air-cooled engines replaced them on its carrier-based fighters....

In the process of developing a reference package for a resin kit manufacturer who is interested in producing a conversion to the early F4H P...

For many years, the Grumman F9F-2 Panther was very well represented in 1/72nd scale by the Hasegawa kit. I noted a few minor external flaws ...