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    Aftermarket 1/48 For Sale

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    UK sales only, PayPal is preferred and the prices include postage. PM if you want anything.

     

     

    Eduard 1/48 Sea King HU.5 Cockpit (Airfix) FE1396 £5.50

    Eduard 1/48 Sea King HU.5 Cargo Seatbelts (Airfix) 491397 £4.00 - 2 available 

     

    Black Dog 1/48 Sea King Nose Electronics Bay (48054) £7.00

     

    Eduard 1/48 Hunter F.4/F.5 Mask Set (Airfix) EX696 £5.00

     

    CMK 1/48 Gnat T.1 Nose Electronics (Airfix) 4328 £8.00

    New Ware 1/48 Gnat T.1 Expert Mask Set NWAMO128 (Airfix) £4.00

    New Ware 1/48 Gnat T.1 Expert Mast Set NWAM0129 (Airfix) £4.00

     

    Xtradecal 1/48 X48226 Civil Chipmunks £5.00

    Xtradecal 1/48 X48223 Military Chipmunks Part 3 £5.00

    Eduard Look 1/48 Chipmunk T.10 (Airfix) 644130 £6.50

     

    Xtradecal 1/48 X48046 Meteor F.8 & T7 £5.50

     

    Eduard 1/48 F-86F-40 Seatbelts (Airfix) FE1299 £4.00

    CMK 1/48 Sabre Airbrake Set (Airfix) 4448 £5.00

     

     

    Question about a QF-4B

    in Aircraft Modern

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    Hi Can’t answer your question but if it’s of any interest a new book titled ‘Q Birds - American manned aircraft as drones’ is due to be published in the next month or so by Frederick A Johnsen. Fascinating subject.

    Buccaneers XT272 / XX987 with Tornado GR.1 & ADV noses 1/48

    in Aircraft Cold War

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    10 hours ago, Warwolf said:

    This seems to be the most relevant thread to ask on... 

    Does anyone know is XT272 ever flew in RR with the standard nose on? I can't find any definitive information or pictures to confirm this. 

    Hello mate. This is from memory as I’m away at the moment. I’m pretty sure she never did. 272 was modified with the Tornado nose I think around 1974 by Marshalls at Cambridge and rolled out post mod in its old medium sea grey scheme but with dayglo sections on the nose, tail and wing tips. She was then later repainted in the Raspberry Ripple scheme. The only shots I’ve ever seen of her with a standard nose were in her old Navy days prior to being transferred for trials work.

     

    Pete

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    DeHavilland Sea Vixen FAW2 (TT)

    in Aircraft Cold War

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    One more quick thought. If you do plan to model 587 carrying a Ruston Target the following from ‘The Long Drag - A short history of British Target Towing’ by Don Evans might be of interest …. ‘The winch (on the Sea Vixen) was carried under the port mainplane on the standard NATO stores pylon, while the target launcher was mounted outboard of the winch. Unfortunately the operators window was on the starboard side of the aircraft but for some obscure technical reason the target system could not be mounted on that side. This meant that the operator had to watch the winch and target through a periscope. Even so the system proved quite satisfactory and the asymmetric tow did not present any problems’. As I say it may or may not be of interest.

     

    Pete

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    DeHavilland Sea Vixen FAW2 (TT)

    in Aircraft Cold War

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    Hello mate

     

    Other than the striking colour scheme as I understand it there aren't really any external differences other than 587 receiving a transparent observers hatch cover when it was modified at Tarrant Rushton prior to delivery to Llanbedr (source Sea Vixen by Tony Butler Air Britain). The actual towed target trials consisted of towed arrays suspended from the underwing hard points. You're probably already aware that there is a useful walk round of 587 in the Walkround section.

    809 NAS Buccaneer Questions

    in Aircraft Cold War

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    Hello mate. I’ve seen this question posed on a couple of other Naval/FAA forums over the years always unfortunately without any answers.

     

    The following probably isn’t going to be that useful but may non the less be of interest. It’s a couple of lines from Phoenix Squadron by Roland White which tells the story of the Op. Unfortunately the Bucc tankers are only ever referred to in the book as simply ‘tankers’ rather than using their codes as the author does for the actual mission airframes. There are however a couple of interesting lines re planning for the tanking part of the mission. 

     

    “The Squadron always kept two of its fourteen Buccs set up as 'maxi tankers'. These aircraft were kept permanently configured with both bomb bay tanks and FR Mk 20 buddy refuelling pods under the starboard wing. On top of this a couple more cabs were assigned the role of 'mini tanker'. They still had the buddy pods under the wings but not the overload tanks in the bomb bay. The mini tankers could be scrambled in a fix but had far less fuel available to transfer to anyone who needed a top up”

     

    The book goes on to say….

     

    “Carl Davis (809 Boss) wanted three maxi tankers (presumably for redundancy purposes) - that meant installing a bomb bay tank into one of the ‘minis'."

     

    As I say not very helpful in your quest for the tankers identities but maybe still of interest. Might it be worth contacting the FAA museum at Yeovilton? Another possibility might be the Squadron themselves as they recently stood up on the F-35 at Marham. Both RAF & FAA Squadrons are always big on their own history though 809 might at this stage still be unpacking their bags.

     

    One last piece of information - its known the pilots of the two tankers were Pete Lewis and Neil Maclean. Pete's Observer was US Naval Exchange Officer George Dammeyer, sorry haven't got a name for the other observer.

     

    As far as the Flightpath buddy refuelling pod goes I used one a little while ago on the new 1/48 Airfix Bucc. I'd descibe it as a bit crude if you judge it by some of the lastest offerings but it cleaned up okay and looks pretty effective.

     

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    Hope it helps.

     

    Pete

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