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by Tommy H. Thomason

Friday, October 28, 2022

Hasegawa 1/72 CMV-22B Osprey

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30 October: Added VRM-30 information I am very pleased that Hasegawa elected to reissue their excellent 1/72 V-22 Osprey kit as the Navy...
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Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Obscureco 1/72 F7U-3/3M Detail Set

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 Obscureco Aircraft ( http://www.obscureco.com/ ) has produced yet another detail set that will be of interest to U.S. Navy airplane modeler...
Wednesday, August 3, 2022

Roden 1/72 North American AJ-1 Savage

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13 November 2022: Illustrations of the inflight refueling system are provided here: http://tailhooktopics.blogspot.com/2022/11/north-america...
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Sunday, April 24, 2022

AD-4 Skyraider Variant - AD-4B

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Because of its range, the AD Skyraider would be one of the U.S. Navy's carrier-based airplanes assigned to missions employing nuclear we...
Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Douglas AD-4 Skyraider Variants

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 This is a work in progress...  The AD-4 prototype, BuNo 122853, on 27 September 1949. I've done a few posts on the AD-4W, the Airborne ...
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Sunday, February 27, 2022

SUNDOWNER Phantoms by Angelo Romano with Michael Grove

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The full title says it all: It's a good synopsis of 68 pages of text and high-resolution color photos on heavyweight gloss paper. It als...
Thursday, December 23, 2021

Sword 1/72 AD-4W Redux

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 25 December 2021 Update: Ralph asked me to add the following to his review below: "The build wasn't all doom and gloom. The resin ...
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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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