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F-18 and F-17 Hornet

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F-32

#15
October 18, 2005, 05:41:58 AM
RAF Hornet - stick Rolls Royce engines in it, make the rear end bigger (thus adding drag) make the aircraft twice as expensive and slower than stock models and it'll be ready for service - practically 'off the shelf' ^_^  

Daryl J.

#16
October 19, 2005, 05:02:18 PM
Loiter time?   Don't all Legacy Hornets fly with at least 6 drop tanks and a nearby refueler?   :lol:


One fella in our modeler's club used to brief F/A-18 pilots prior to their missions and had taken a 1/72 Hasegawa kit and put drop tanks on every possible pylon including the wing tips and would describe the mission using that model.   Being an F-14 man himself he thought it would be a good ribbing of his ship mates.    He says that most of the Bug Drivers took it very well.   :-)



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Jeffry Fontaine

#17
October 21, 2005, 12:38:43 PM Last Edit: July 01, 2008, 04:07:18 PM by Jeffry Fontaine
Quote from: F-32 on October 18, 2005, 05:41:58 AMRAF Hornet - stick Rolls Royce engines in it, make the rear end bigger (thus adding drag) make the aircraft twice as expensive and slower than stock models and it'll be ready for service - practically 'off the shelf' ^_^
A quick modification to represent such a version would be to use the RB199 exhaust parts from a Tornado, or how about the exhaust parts from the Rafale or Typhoon?

Quote from: Daryl J. on October 19, 2005, 05:02:18 PMLoiter time?   Don't all Legacy Hornets fly with at least 6 drop tanks and a nearby refueler?   :lol:
One fella in our modeler's club used to brief F/A-18 pilots prior to their missions and had taken a 1/72 Hasegawa kit and put drop tanks on every possible pylon including the wing tips and would describe the mission using that model.   Being an F-14 man himself he thought it would be a good ribbing of his ship mates.    He says that most of the Bug Drivers took it very well. :-)
If I remember correctly, one of the things that came up during the fly-off against the A-7 was the fact that range of the F-18 was only marginally better or just a bit less than the A-7.  Then the whining (or was that an argument) was changed to "we neeeeeeeeeeeeeeed two engines instead of one" because of the over water mission requirements.  Gee, did that really matter with the A-4 or the A-7?  Both of which did their job very well with just one engine.  
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Spellbinder99

#18
October 30, 2005, 05:59:41 PM
The July 1998 Scale Aircraft Modelling (Volume 20 Number 5) has an article about converting the ESCI 1/72 scale F-18 model into the YF-17. Complete with drawings, it might be  a help for doing the same in 1/48?

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Tony

Jeffry Fontaine

#19
July 01, 2008, 08:37:18 AM
Has anyone given any consideration to adapting the wings from the F-15 to an F-18 fuselage?  Something that came to mind in the wee hours of this morning and now it is something that I need to share with you all in hopes that someone has attempted this recently. 
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KJ_Lesnick

#20
July 01, 2008, 12:01:00 PM
What's an RB-199?
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pyro-manic

#21
July 01, 2008, 12:24:00 PM
Tornado engine.  -_-
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TsrJoe

#22
September 12, 2008, 03:23:17 AM Last Edit: September 12, 2008, 04:40:00 AM by TsrJoe
Finnish 'Aggressor' Hornet ?

... during a summer trip to Helsinki, whilst there doing my usual visits of museums i wandered into the military museum in Helsinki which had an interesting lil promotional/recruitment video showing Hornet flight operations, one thing that really caught my eye was one in an overall very dark (temporary black?) scheme F.18C Hornet, coded HN-444 which was seemingly being used as an 'aggressor' during acm. definately something i hadnt seen noted elsewhere and certainly a lil different from the norm.

Iv also found the same video on 'youtube' ...

Black Hornet ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZzf_12zdSU&feature=related
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TsrJoe

#23
September 12, 2008, 03:24:56 AM Last Edit: September 12, 2008, 03:27:44 AM by TsrJoe
... the snaps make the aircraft look darker than it seems in the footage as the serial number is stil visible against the darkened surface, im thinking some kind of temporary 'black wash' over the normal grey scheme ?
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TsrJoe

#24
September 18, 2008, 07:48:26 AM
 :bow: from the amazingly prolific hand of John Lacey (maverick) ... a profile of HN-444 as discussed ...

many thanks, cheers, Joe
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#25
September 26, 2008, 12:09:45 PM
Well at least one RAAF Hornet (A21-7) wore a dark (not as dark as that Finish one though) scheme for a while - I liked it:



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Shasper

#26
September 27, 2008, 05:42:23 PM
Similar or different to what the Pigs wear these days?

If memory serves right, the Maylay Bugs wear a very dark gray camo as well . . .


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Sauragnmon

#27
September 27, 2008, 06:00:57 PM
That near-black bug looks damn cool.
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KJ_Lesnick

#28
November 28, 2008, 09:25:21 AM
Wouldn't it totally rock to have a tailless F-18 (Whether an F-18A-D or F-18E/F) derivative with a cranked arrow wing much like the F-16XL?

Has anyone thought of this?


KJ Lesnick
That being said, I'd like to remind everybody in a manner reminiscent of the SNL bit on Julian Assange, that no matter how I die: It was murder (even if there was a suicide note or a video of me peacefully dying in my sleep); should I be framed for a criminal offense or disappear, you know to blame.

Sauragnmon

#29
November 28, 2008, 09:28:47 AM
Not sure how viable the tailless concept would be, Kendra, but I agree, it'd look purely wicked, with or without the tails, having the full cranked delta on a bug.  Quite cool indeed.
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