Tailhook Topics

27 October 2025: This is a replacement link for an excellent build article on the 2011 Airfix A-4B/P kit:  https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/a...

I provided dimensioned drawings of the 150, 300, and 400-gallon Douglas low-drag external tanks here: http://tailspintopics.blogspot.com/201...

I usually stay away from color stuff because it's not one of my areas of expertise and it's fraught with potential for error, which ...

Two F4Ds, same squadron, possibly deployed but maybe not: My guess is the Skyray at the top of the picture was a replacement aircraft t...

I've added a brief description of the WF aerodynamic prototype and an inboard profile of the WF cabin from the mockup review to the Trad...

In a response to a question from Mike Hazlewood ( http://www.vagabonddecals.com/ )about the changes between the S2F-1/2 wing and the WF (E-1...

Thanks to Larry Webster of the Quonset Air Museum, I now have a better understanding of the main landing gear strut extension capability req...