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by Tommy H. Thomason

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Creating a Sikorsky SH-3D from the New Airfix Sea King HAR.3

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By Jodie Peeler, guest poster (and my SH-3 subject-matter expert): A few years back when Cyber-Hobby released its SH-3D kit, I wrote an ar...
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Monday, May 9, 2016

Grumman XF10F Jaguar

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I've just updated my XF10F Jaguar post in Tailhook Topics Draft with a pretty good three-view drawing and a description of the config...
Wednesday, April 27, 2016

AD-5 versus AD-6/7 Main Landing Gear

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The AD-5 main landing gear wheel well reverted to the earlier configuration that had no main landing gear doors. The forward facing fairing ...
Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Douglas F4D Forward Fuselage Profile

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Are you going to believe me or your lying eyes? During the F4D mock-up review in March 1949, it was determined that the over-the-nose visi...
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Friday, April 22, 2016

AD-5W Belly Detail

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Yet another surprise... The basic AD-5 retained the belly dive brake of the three that were on single-seat Skyraiders, retracting into a w...
Sunday, April 10, 2016

New Airfix Sea King

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Jodie Peeler is back with an inbox evaluation of Airfix's fresh redo of the Sea King for its potential to be converted to a U.S. Navy SH...
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Monday, April 4, 2016

Halcyon Days

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USS Intrepid (CVA-11) Genoa, Italy November 1961 Robert L. Lawson Collection via Angelo Romano I enjoy taking a close look at pict...
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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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