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by Tommy H. Thomason

Monday, December 26, 2016

Kitty Hawk 1/48 F2H-2 Outboard Flap

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I've seen some very nice built-up Kitty Hawk 1/48 F2H-2 kits. Unfortunately, in some the modeler attached the outboard flaps according t...
Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Kitty Hawk 1/48 F2H Banshee Kit Redux

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20 December 2016: Added a picture by Michael Rieth comparing the kit main landing gear doors to the kit landing gear wells. Click HERE fo...
Saturday, December 10, 2016

Blackburn Buccaneer

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For a little background on the Royal Navy's Blackburn Buccaneer versus its U.S. Navy contemporary, see http://thanlont.blogspot.com/2016...
Friday, November 18, 2016

F9F Armament Installation - A Cautionary Tale

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11 January 2017: Added comments by David Collier A new model kit of an aircraft is invariably found to have at least a few errors if not ...
Tuesday, November 1, 2016

McDonnell XF2H-1 Banshee BuNo 99860

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Ron Downey is a retired McAir engineer who has an excellent blog, Aviation Archives, here: http://aviationarchives.blogspot.com/ He freque...
Friday, October 28, 2016

North American FJ-4/4B Fury Notes

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 28 June 2025: For the FJ-4 main landing gear notes, click here:  https://tailhooktopics.blogspot.com/2019/07/north-american-fj-44b-main-lan...
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Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Grumman AF-2W Guardian Redux

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In a 25 May 2015 post to a Special Hobby 1/48 AF Guardian thread on Britmodeler ( HERE ), "Homebee" noted that there appeared to b...
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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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