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[nev]

Wasn't retro meant to be building a swing wing Phantom...?

[Patrick H]

First thing I would do is try to mate those Corsair wings onto that Tempest fuselage!

HEI , I was going to say that  

But there's also the P38 that you could try to match to the Focke Wulf. tree engined Luft 46' stuff???



Patrick

[Leigh]

And Floggerize the Phantom with a set of swinging wings!

hmmmmmmmmmm now I know what to do with that third Tornado in the stash.


See Tiger one mans trash is most definately anothers treasure.

[Matt_S]

What the bloody hell hit that Flogger?!  

Maybe it was hit ny a 1/48 scale Sidewinder.


Matt B)  

[retro_seventies]

Wasn't retro meant to be building a swing wing Phantom...?

ahem.  

*feels a little self conscious*

yes.  

it's coming along, really - cockpit got finished about a year ago, and she's together (without the horizontal stabs on the tail), and filled and sanded...just have to get her finished up and painted.

funny, i tend to poo-poo it when it comes to painting - absolutely terrified of it actually...always have been.

she'll be done eventually, promise...when she is there will be multitudes of pictures and all kinds of things.

late service RAF model, late eighties/early nineties - tornado didn't get it's act together so we bought the f-4(fv)s instead, getting a wicked deal along the way by selling 100 of the 116 f-4m's back to mcdonnell douglas. (these were refurbished, and sold on to the republic of korea).

Tasked with both air superiority and strike missions, the Phantom FGR3 became one of the most improtant RAF types during the second half of the cold war, seeing action in the falklands conflict, and during the first gulf war.  

Late in it's RAF service life, 111 squadron's FGR3's were tasked primarily with SEAD, armed with Bae alarm ARMs and cluster bombs.  The aircraft performed the role admirably during the gulf war, and also proved itself to be an excellent precision guided weapons platform, armed primarily with Paveway II LGB's, with laser targeting provided by suitably equipped jaguar GR2's.  

sounds phantastically pheasible, right?

pictures as soon as she's done....

[gooberliberation]

So... was that flogger involved in some home-rocketry experiments? I had similar results when I shoved a rocket into a mirage2000

[mcollazo]

Would not know, the flogger was a gonner as it was too destroyed to restore.