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by Tommy H. Thomason

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Modeling the Bell XFL-1 Airabonita

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31 January 2023: Added a size comparison of the XFL-1 and P-39 empennages. The Bell XFL-1 Airabonita was a one-off prototype based on Bell...
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Sunday, September 13, 2015

Grumman A-6A vs A-6E Intruder

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30 January 2016: Corrections from Mick Roth and updated External Differences table 20 September 2015: Added detail provided by Mick Roth. ...
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Tuesday, September 1, 2015

F7U-3 Nose Landing Gear

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Surprise has been expressed about the presence of pre-rotation on the nose landing-gear tires as described HERE . The need is a little more ...
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Monday, August 31, 2015

It's Not That Easy To Get It Right

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Consider the F7U-3 Cutlass. There are pretty good drawings available, although it turns out that the Vought draftsman was having a bad day w...
Sunday, July 19, 2015

TBM-3 Variants

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Rick Morgan ( http://rickmorganbooks.com/index.html ) and I have been researching the modification of the TBM-3 and -3E for other mission...
Monday, July 13, 2015

A-4 Nose Gear Steering

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To minimize weight, the Douglas A4D Skyhawk did not have nose gear steering among many other things. Turns on the ground were accomplished b...
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Saturday, July 4, 2015

It's Not That Easy to Avoid Error

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I did a pretty good post on the Douglas F4D early on that was based on an article I did for the IPMS update: http://tailspintopics.blogspot....
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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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