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  1. Greetings all. For todays entertainment I'm starting a new thread with the intentions of having this piece of history completed by Dec.22, Why this particular day you may ask? Weelll I tell you. This particular tail number is for the Lockheed's SR-71 first test flight. Commanded by the Skunkworks Chief Test Pilot, Robert J. “Bob” Gilliland and flew out of Air Force Plant 42, Palmdale California on that bright and crisp December morning. The personal aspect was that was also the day my father reported to work with Lockheed as a civilian technician whose specialty was engines, both rocket and jet. A perfect match with the Blackbird. He always considered that aircraft his "baby" even years afterward any mention of the Blackbird and you could see the range of memories and emotions in his eyes. You knew that was"his" aircraft. Unfortunately he's no long with us.Which sucks for me.I could use his "personal" recollections while building this, especially the J 58 Engine. I know this particular aircraft has been done many, many many times. But to try and do something different. I'm going to sree how much detail I can stuff into the J-58 among other things.God willing and the creek don't rise I hope to have this finished by my self imposed dead line.And along the way I'll try to pass on what anecdotes of what I know along the way. here's what I have so far, though more is on order and hasn't arrived yet b I am still waiting on the P/E set and as you'll soon see a certain amount of print work will occur as well. I'll have to create the proper tail number which is why I have the extra decal sets. Eventually they'll be used on other Blackbird projects in the future. So let's see where this rabbit hole will lead us. Cue some Jefferson Airplane .
  2. Well another project completed. Revell SR-71A Blackbird based out of Beale Air Force Base, California. My only criticism with this kit is that even with all of the decals they say to put on it for the Beale Air Force Base version it appears slightly plain (no pun intended). To that effect, I am thinking of using some of the decals from the alternate version of this kit (USAF/ USAF Symbol and US Air Force text) to improve the look of it, but the Beale AFB version did not have these decals on it. Opinions on this welcome. Anyway onto the photos. Blackbird head on. Blackbird in its new home (at least until the B-1B is decalled) excuse part of my book collection :-) Comments on this welcome, but again I have to say this one has come out quite nicely, especially as this was one of my earliest model builds after restarting the hobby. Thanks for looking. Rick
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