Old Viper Tester Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Some images of Full Scale Development F-16A 75-0750 Advanced Fighter technology Integration test bed. During display at three Edwards AFB Open House. October 1982 Stores separation camera housing beneath the rear fuselage. October 1984 - sensor pods added at the wing roots. October 1991 - Ejection seat upgrade and IRST added between the radome and cockpit. Thanks for looking, Sven 18 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exdraken Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 Thanks! Very nice and rare! Like time travelling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vingtor Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 I came over this model thread: http://www.master194.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=108814 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookenbacher Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 Wow, thanks Sven, fascinating stuff. I remember reading that the AFTI could perform some pretty fancy maneuvers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 Excellent photos Sven, just waiting for my decals to come over for this aircraft. Do you have another picture of the other side of the aircraft with the IRST showing the weapons under the wing ? Also is that a camera on the inside of the canopy above the seat ? Regards Robert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Dot Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 That is an interesting and clever place to put the sensor pod. I wonder why this hasn't been adopted nowadays Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Viper Tester Posted July 13, 2020 Author Share Posted July 13, 2020 15 hours ago, Robert said: Do you have another picture of the other side of the aircraft with the IRST showing the weapons under the wing ? Also is that a camera on the inside of the canopy above the seat ? Sorry, but those are all the images I have. Maybe more on the internet? I think that "camera" above the seat is a position sensor for the helmet-mounted sight that was being evaluated to point the aircraft electro-optic sensors. Sven 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoops Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 (edited) On 7/13/2020 at 8:42 AM, Robert said: Excellent photos Sven, just waiting for my decals to come over for this aircraft. Do you have another picture of the other side of the aircraft with the IRST showing the weapons under the wing ? Also is that a camera on the inside of the canopy above the seat ? Regards Robert I assume you're referring to the Caracal decals? If so, they are only correct for Phase I of the testing, which can be noted by the black radome. In Phase I the script on the tail logo had "USAF - NASA - USN." Phase II kept the canards, added the sensor shapes on the wing roots, and the text on the tail had "USAF - NASA - USN - U S ARMY." At some point in time during Phase II, the plane was upgraded with the ACES II ejection seat, the Air Force Systems Command logo was added on the tail and a few other small details. For a portion of Phase II, the right wing root had and sensor installed, which in shape looked exactly like front portion of the "Coronet Prince" pod Sven has posted photos of before. Eventually it reverted to being a dummy shape, however. The next iteration was for the CAS studies starting around 1988. This got rid of the canards for a normal NSI intake and the paint scheme was changed to closely resemble a standard USAF F-16 scheme. I forgot to mention, it got the larger horizontal stabs at this time as well. The markings on the tail changed again to get rid of the service names, but added "CAS" in red below. In some of the photos it looks like the left wing root pod had a IRST installed, and part of the time the "Falcon Eye" or the "Falcon Knight" nose mounted FLIRs were evaluated. Not exactly the same configuration, but here is photos of -750 with the "Falcon Eye" FLIR in flight with a SUU-20 under the wing: Click here! Of note, the "Falcon Eye" is the same sensor used on the CAS/BAI evaluation F-16B 75-752 in the Green European 1 Camouflage around the same time frame. Here is a photo with the "Falcon Knight" dual FLIR set up with tanks and Mavericks: Click here! Here is one after the nose mounted FLIRS are removed, but still with the "CAS" markings on the tail and HARMs: Click here! Cheers, Hoops Edited July 14, 2020 by Hoops info on the horizontal stabs! 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoops Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 On 7/10/2020 at 10:34 PM, Old Viper Tester said: Some images of Full Scale Development F-16A 75-0750 Advanced Fighter technology Integration test bed. During display at three Edwards AFB Open House. Very timely! I've been doing a bunch of research and work on this aircraft the last couple of weeks. These images are very helpful, thank you very much Sven! Cheers, Hoops 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 It is certainly a very interesting aircraft to model in its various guises. Regards Robert 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serkan Sen Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 Thanks for sharing these wonderful pictures. Few years ago I did some artworks of this unique aircraft and built the blue one 1:72 scale: Serkan 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hook Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 Great references!, I have the 1/72nd Caracal sheet as well. How are you guys planning to do the spine? Milliput? Cheers, Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoops Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 4 hours ago, Hook said: Great references!, I have the 1/72nd Caracal sheet as well. How are you guys planning to do the spine? Milliput? Cheers, Andre I'm planning to do a styrene sheet framework and surface, probably backfilled with Milliput to give it rigidity and strength. That way I can scribe and detail the exterior easier than if the whole thing was out of Milliput. I want to build Phase II, and I drew the decals for it. They were to appear on a Wolfpak decal sheet sometime this year before Mark passed away. I had also had them ALPS printed, but the orange color on some of the stencils didn't work out very well, coming out dithered. I can get most of the orange warning decals from the spares box, but there is a battery location stencil on the left lower aft of the fuselage that is missing. Cheers, Hoops Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hook Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 7 minutes ago, Hoops said: I'm planning to do a styrene sheet framework and surface, probably backfilled with Milliput to give it rigidity and strength. That way I can scribe and detail the exterior easier than if the whole thing was out of Milliput. Yes, that does seem to be a good way forward. The French build Vingtor mentions, shows the same approach. Cheers, Andre 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serkan Sen Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 On 2/20/2021 at 2:02 PM, Hook said: Yes, that does seem to be a good way forward. The French build Vingtor mentions, shows the same approach. Cheers, Andre As most of the time I did, I will make all the parts (spine and pods) with 3D printing. I have already started to draw the model and soon I will post some images. Several years ago I built in 1:72 scale from scratch with my own decals. Serkan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hook Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 That does look pretty good! Cheers, Andre 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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