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    Argentine A4-Q - Purpose of the Loops on Vertical Stabilizer

    in Aircraft Cold War

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    8 minutes ago, Airbusboy said:

    Many thanks for everyone's replies.

     

    I'm an avid flightsimmer (mostly A320Neo), so have a lot of experience flying ILS / VOR approaches. However, they're not something that I've really considered from a military perspective.

     

    Future project is the Airfix 1/72 A-4Q in 1982 Falklands markings. Looks like a piece of curved 0.2mm fuse wire should do the job nicely !

     

    Regards

     

    Modern mlitary aircraft have ILS, VOR/DME and TACAN radio navigation aids. Civil aircraft cane also use the DME part of a TACAN.

     

    The Argentine Skyhawks were fitted with VOR aerials. As far as I'm aware they didn't have a glideslope aerial, therefore had no ILS capability. 

     

    1/48 - de Havilland DH.115 Vampire Trainer T.11/J28C by Pilot Replicas - released

    in The Rumourmonger

    Posted

    7 hours ago, Middo said:

    OK, it's finally decision time as Hannants have just told me the T.11 trainer is in stock. I've read this thread with interest and been trying to summarise it to decide whether to part with my hard-earned £££ and order one. I don't want to spend upwards of £55 on something that doesn't involve a lot of plastic for that sort of money in the first place, only then to have to carry out major surgery on the fuselage and wings in an attempt to fix them, although I think both would be beyond my average modelling skills to be honest. Is anyone who is not of the 'oh, it's 3mm out of scale, so this kit is a disaster' brigade able to give me a simple opinion to help me decide whether 'to buy or not to buy'? Basically, will this look like a T.11 when built or is the curvature issue on the top of the pod so far out that it's impossible to ignore? The winscreen looks all wrong to me too from what I have seen. I want to make a replica of T.11 XD534, which was at my school in Cheadle Hulme in the 1970s until it got vandalised. I told my dad, who had a work friend in an aircraft preservation group, and they came and rescued it. It eventually passed to the East Midlands Aeropark, where it was fully restored and is on display.  I'd appreciate some advice.

     

    Honestly, it depends what you want.

     

    From what I've read so far, it sounds like it builds very well.

     

    Personally, I can't get over the thick wing tips and bulged leading edge, it looks like a kids toy.

     

    For that amount of money, I'd expect it to look correct. 

     

    All that being said, I spent a lot of money on the Classic Airframes Sea Venom which was a challenging build and slighlty mixed parts for different variants. Ultimately, I really enjoyed that build and it looks very much like a Sea Venom.

     

    Noone is going to mistake the PR kit for anything other than a Vampire T11, but it's bit chunky and fat in places.

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    Hasegawa newsletters 2024 - 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06 & 07

    in The Rumourmonger

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    4 hours ago, FlatlandFox said:

    In my opinion, there was a time when Hasegawa new releases were eagerly awaited as it was the best kit maker together with Tamiya. Now they have turned into a sort of resale brand of their own moulds. Their kits, once the best available, are one by one, falling behind better renderings from more competitive and active companies. It has happened to them with the Zeros, the Rufe, the Phantom the F-14, etc and it is going to happen with the Skyhawk and the Macchi C205. I guess they have done their market homework carefully and decided that military modelling is no longer profitable or not as much as investing in moulds of robots on steroids, but I would suggest them to review their policy. In the meantime, their newsletters are a sad reminder of a once excellent expertise.

     

    I think you're right there!

     

    I'm probably showing my age (or lack thereof), but Hasegawa to me have always been the company that has some decent kits, albeit a bit basic.

     

    I suspect they got so far behind the curve with their military aircraft kits that they can no longer catch up.

     

    I've built their 48th Phantom and Typhoon, with a couple of Skyhawks and a Harrier in the stash - they are still decent kits :)

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