435th Fighter-Day Squadron in the Movies

[Old Viper Tester]

F-86Fs of the 435th Fighter-Day Squadron, 479th Fighter-Day Group at George AFB.

 

Watched a terrible sci-fi movie on Youtube last night, "Gog", an Ivan Tors production released in June 1954. The highlight was a scramble sequence circa early 1954. Really like the yellow jeeps for the crew chiefs. Couldn't resist taking these screen grabs...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hope these help someone,

Sven

[Smudge]

Beautiful.

 

USAF unit markings on nmf 50's jets, fabulous.

[Baldy]

Great screenshots and excellent reference. 

 

Cheers

 

Malcolm

[whiskey]

That is awesome!!

 

I'm assuming we don't have these options in 1/48?

Edited March 25, 2020 by whiskey

[Corsairfoxfouruncle]

Very nice thanks for sharing... @72modeler may want to 👀 these. 

[72modeler]

Indeed he does! Beautiful Sabres, and I really like these markings. Looks like a mixture of  F-86F-25's with slats and F-86F-30's with  6-3 wings. A nice mixture of nose wheel types, too. The head-on photo really shows the  section of the wing root LE  on the 6-3 wing that was removable so the ammo bin access door/step could be lowered, with the detached section lying on top of the wing. Some serials shown:

52-4950 and 52-4947 are -30's

51-13223, 51-13885, and 51-13260 are -25's

 

@Old Viper Tester. Many thanks, Keith for the screen grabs- showed these to an ex-F-86F pilot and he said they brought back a lot of happy memories flying one of his favorite airplanes.

Mike

 

@Corsairfoxfouruncle, Thanks for the heads-up, Dennis!

Edited March 25, 2020 by 72modeler
corrected spelling

[Sabrejet]

Lovely shots - thanks for posting. Some interesting jets there: filmed in the period June 1953 to March 1954.

 

'385 ended up as a Japanese RF-86F: same aircraft but 15 years apart:

 

 

 

[Sabrejet]

...and '947 went through 1708th Ferry Sqn at Kelly AFB, ending its days with the Imperial Iranian AF.

 

 

 

 

[Sabre Freak]

‘947 have rocket pylons?

 

I see x2 pylons between the tank and the main gear.

 

Great photos, thanks for posting 

Edited March 25, 2020 by Sabre Freak

[Sabrejet]

Yes rocket pylons, usually for small practice pods rather than individual rockets.

[modelling minion]

Great set of pics, thanks for sharing them.

I like the mix of markings on them, some with "US Air Force" on them and some without, and the close up that shows that the green fuselage band markings are painted over the aircraft stenciling and refueling point markings.

Great stuff!

 

[stevehnz]

So these are real life markings as opposed to applied for the movie markings, or not?  

Steve.

[Sabrejet]

6 hours ago, stevehnz said:

So these are real life markings as opposed to applied for the movie markings, or not?  

Steve.

Yes they are, though rarely seen in glorious Technicolor 👍

Edited March 26, 2020 by Sabrejet

[whiskey]

23 minutes ago, Sabrejet said:

Yes they are, though rarely seen in glorious Technicolor 👍

 

And this unit does not seem to have anyone that has produced decals for. Correct?

[Sabrejet]

I recall there are a few for another squadron in the Wing but not for 435th FDS. Sadly while there are LOTS of decals for Korean War F-86A/E/F, the other units (the majority) haven't been done much, if at all.

 

Edit: it's Eduard and I see they got the colours wrong because they have theirs in red trim, with 435th FDS badge!

Edited March 26, 2020 by Sabrejet