USAF Medium Transports

[TomZ]

USAF Medium Transports



In mid-1970, the USAF began a paper study, the Tactical Aircraft Investigation (TAI), with Boeing, McDonnell Douglas, and other companies to look at possible tactical transport aircraft designs. This study was a precursor to what became the Advanced Medium STOL Transport program.





The request for proposal (RFP) was issued in January 1972, asking for operations into a 2,000-foot (610 m) semi-prepared field at 500 nautical miles (930 km) with a 27,000 lb (12,000 kg) payload in both directions with no refueling. For comparison, the C-130 of that era required about 4,000 ft (1,200 m) for this load. Five companies submitted designs at this stage of the competition in March 1972. On 10 November 1972 the downselect was carried out, and Boeing and McDonnell Douglas won development contracts for two prototypes each.



This resulted in the Boeing YC-14 and McDonnell Douglas YC-15 prototypes. Both the YC-14 and YC-15 met or exceeded the AMST specifications under most conditions.  This led to a decision to procure both models and 100 aircraft each were ordered as the C-14A and C-15A.





The first production aircraft were delivered in 1977. In 1991 both type received an update and were upgraded to B models. The C-14A was exported to the UK, Belgium, Norway, Qatar and Indonesia. The C-15 was exported to Taiwan, Sweden and Saudi Arabia.



Both the C-14B and C-15B are still in active service today.


Kits: Anigrand 1/144
This would have fitted perfectly in the current Logistics Group Build but I started these models almost a  year ago so they don't qualify.

TomZ

[Wardukw]

Beautiful builds matey 
Their so small but you wouldn't think so 

[Captain Canada]

Wow ! Those look awesome. Great little read to go along with the pics. Love the C-14. Be fun to fly that around the house.

[NARSES2]

They are really nice Tom. mind you being Anigrand they must weigh a ton 

[TomZ]

They are really nice Tom. mind you being Anigrand they must weigh a ton 

They are really nice Tom. mind you being Anigrand they must weigh a ton 

They do!

TomZ

[Old Wombat]

  

[McColm]

Great work 

[sandiego89]

Nice work, they look like the build up nicely! 

What type of glue do you uses on these resin models? 

[TomZ]

What type of glue do you uses on these resin models? 

I use Cyanoacrylate glue. I use a Dutch brand from Bison but something like Zap-A-Gap is the same thing.
And I also use the accelerator that goes with it to make it harden even faster once the parts are in place.

(And regularly manage to glue my fingers to the model as well )         

TomZ

[Dizzyfugu]

Nice couple! 

BTW, I also use cyanoacrylate glue for resin kits and bits, and prefer a gel variant from Henkel's brand Pattex.

[NARSES2]

(And regularly manage to glue my fingers to the model as well )         

TomZ

Always keep the De-Bonder to hand 

I use some super-glue I got in my local £1 Shop, 3 bottles for £1, for a lot of the more general purpose tasks. A thicker type by Loctite for more specific tasks like undercarriage etc.