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Im in with this kit. Have some decals via Xtra Decal set X006-48 (I used them for my A10 build, very brittle), the kit decals and some kindly donated by via Ghostbase. Will be modeled in flight as per the raid (just need 2 erstwhile 1/48 USAFE 1980s crew figures - there must be hundreds sat unused on sprues in spares boxes!). Photobox is down so will add my own pics later. credit Darren Currie Aug 86 Having been bought up in Lakenheath and at home on leave the night of the raid, thinking WW3 had broken out, this can be part of my USAFE memories project as well....hopefully a 'twin' F model build will go ahead concurrently! Looks like no nose TacSat Ae in 1986, only 1 x rail per wing (does anyone know if they carried rails that night or any other kit?) Will decide which aircraft to model later, HARPO 71.,72,73,74 and air spare 75 were the callsigns used. F111 Net says that Harpo71 was 67-0041 - it mentions Harpo 73 as being 66-0033 but a bit ambiguous. Jabba kindly provided the following info (Crowood book inbound): I have had a look through some of my books that I am using on my build and in the Crowood book it states the following. " 66-030, 66-033, 66-057, 67-034, 67-041 and 67-052. This number included one ground spare. Five took off, including the air spare. In the target area three were directly involved in SEAD activity and a fourth was held in reserve in the operational area." Anyone who has more info (or spare pilots!) it would be welcome - as most know I enjoy the research as much as the build and this mission was part of my life, as was RAF Lakenheath and RAF Mildenhall and various other bases in East Anglia.
