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by Tommy H. Thomason

Tuesday, October 29, 2019

McDonnell XF2D-1 Banshees

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John Rieley asked me a question about the XF2D-1 (XF2H-1 after BuAer changed McDonnell's company designation from D to H when Douglas wa...
Monday, October 14, 2019

John's Models

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If you go to the National Naval Aviation Museum at Pensacola (you should even if Naval Aviation isn’t your main aviation interest) and you...
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Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Grumman F-111B Modeling

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Bill Gilman provided an article on his excellent conversion of a 1/72 Hasegawa F-111C to one of the F-111Bs on Hyperscale: http://www.hypers...
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Thursday, August 22, 2019

Sword 1/72 Douglas AD-4W Skyraider

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7 November 2019 - See  https://tailhooktopics.blogspot.com/2019/11/douglas-ad-4waew1-antenna-configurations.html for different antenna su...
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Tuesday, August 13, 2019

U.S, Navy F-84 Thunderjet Target Drone Program

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It's not Photoshopped: For more on this aircraft, see https://thanlont.blogspot.com/2019/08/us-navy-f-84-thunderjet.html Unfortuna...
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Scooter!

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The first edition of Scooter! is out of print and selling for silly prices on Amazon so Crécy decided to publish a second one. I've corr...
Thursday, May 9, 2019

More McDonnell F3H Demon Configuration Notes

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Paul Boyer asked me what the long probe was for on the right wingtip of most, but not all, Demons. It looks like a pitot (measures total...
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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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