Re: Spinners' Strike Fighters Thread

[Old Wombat]

Excellent!    The Packet really looks the part in Transport Command colours.

I can see it as a mini-Beverley, and a LOT faster, but then so is a snail.......... 

Um, C-119 "Flying Boxcar";




Not C-82 "Packet";

[PR19_Kit]

The Beverly didn't fly anywhere, it just stayed in the air untill the earth rotated to the right place for it to land.   

So VERY true! 

[SPINNERS]

Fairchild C-119E Flying Boxcar - No.37 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, 1967






This is a different 3D model of the C-119 and it's pure coincidence that this Aussie Flying Boxcar follows Old Wombat's post - it just suggested itself when I saw the green skin which just needed a bit of overspray to cover the USAF markings. Actually my first thought was for a Danish C-119 but I feel that would work best with an overall green. The A87 serial numbers are 'spare' (allocated for a planned purchase of the Vickers Valetta) and I've repeated the last two on the fin. When I was a kid I was a sucker for twin-boom kits and built the Airfix Black Widow and Bronco kits multiple times.

[Weaver]

Those C-119s are very nice Spinners!

Another name for the British version that sprang to my mind (which tells you a lot about my mind) is the Blackburn Baileybridge...

[Dizzyfugu]

The Aussie C-119 looks very good. 

[SPINNERS]

Fairchild AC-119G Shadow - No.15 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, 1969




Just a short photoset showing my RAAF decals on a USAF AC-119G SEA Camo. The 3D modeller has cleverly built a search light into his model but although it's actually quite hard to hit ground objects it is HUGE fun!

[McColm]

In my attempt to build a Argosy gunship I used the parts from a  Italeri AC-119G including the wings, booms and and guns. I might have another crack at it.

[SPINNERS]

During the early 1960's Defence Secretary Robert S. McNamara and his team of whiz-kids were on a mission to streamline the US defence budget with 'commonality' being their main area of focus. With the F-4 Phantom now being procured for the USAF as well as for the USN and USMC and with the TFX (F-111) project promising further cost savings it appeared that the two aircraft had the home tactical fighter market covered. So it was no surprise when in October 1963 Republic Aviation were formally ordered to cease further development of the F-105 Thunderchief and to stop production after the current batch of F-105D's and F-105F's.

In early 1964 the Heyl Ha'Avir (Israeli Air Force) were looking for a replacement for the Vautour tactical bomber and openly expressed a preference for the UK's Blackburn Buccaneer. With the end of the Thunderchief production line looming, and with no follow-on project in the immediate pipeline, Republic Aviation proposed a modified version of the Thunderchief F-105D to the Heyl Ha'Avir at a very attractive price and this was eagerly accepted.

With the last USAF F-105D's and F-105F's going through the door production continued with the main production batch of 100 F-105D-35RE aircraft (essentially similar to the F-105D-31-RE but with some Heyl Ha'Avir specified equipment) and powered by the Pratt & Whitney J75-P20W engine rated at 26,500lbs of thrust with reheat. Deliveries of the first F-105D-35-RE aircraft to Israel began in early 1967 and the type soon gained the local name of 'Shalakh' (Osprey). As a happy consequence, the USAF ordered more F-105D's and F-105F's as attrition replacements for Vietnam and this kept the Thunderchief production line open until December 1968.





God, I love this aeroplane! Another one from 2009 but with two extra skins.

[SPINNERS]

BAC Lightning F.6N - Various







Back in 2010 I did some Dutch Lightnings using a very good F.6 3D model and gave them the designation F.56N (N for NATO) and this was the time before Third Wire had brought out their Lightning 'anthology' that covered all single-seaters including the F.53. Well, the time has come to revisit it and I've decided to also do some Italian and Spanish Lightnings as well as the two classic RAFG squadrons (19 & 92) albeit in the silver scheme and without colourful fins. I've changed the designation to F.6N and I guess it's a sort of NATO standard version based on the F.6 but with Sidewinders so that it makes logistical sense for the RAFG squadrons to also operate this version whilst the F.2/F.2A's went elsewhere (Cyprus, Tengah, Falklands). 

[Weaver]

Those look good! 

If there's an F.53 model, then does it have the underwing and overwing pylons, and if so, can you put anything you like on them?

Having visions of a Luftwaffe ICE-F.6 in two-tone grey splinter cammo with AIM-9L Sidewinders on the fuselage and overwing stations (suspect you couldn't put them on the underwing ones due to aeroelasticity issues).

[SPINNERS]

Those look good! 

If there's an F.53 model, then does it have the underwing and overwing pylons, and if so, can you put anything you like on them?

Having visions of a Luftwaffe ICE-F.6 in two-tone grey splinter cammo with AIM-9L Sidewinders on the fuselage and overwing stations (suspect you couldn't put them on the underwing ones due to aeroelasticity issues).

I've done a Marineflieger Lightning using the F53.

[Gondor]

I have a part build Italian Lightning that should get a kick up the A$$ towards finishing

Gondor

[Weaver]

Those look good! 

If there's an F.53 model, then does it have the underwing and overwing pylons, and if so, can you put anything you like on them?

Having visions of a Luftwaffe ICE-F.6 in two-tone grey splinter cammo with AIM-9L Sidewinders on the fuselage and overwing stations (suspect you couldn't put them on the underwing ones due to aeroelasticity issues).

I've done a Marineflieger Lightning using the F53.

Neat - I'll look it up.

Here's another idea: I've just been reading this thread on Secret Projects: https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/ferranti-ari-5897-ai23-radar.2582/ and apparently Brazil was nearly an export customer for the Lightning, to the point where eleven radar sets had been built for them before the contract was cancelled and the sets diverted to the RAF (post #16).

[Dizzyfugu]

I did an NMF Lightning in Singaporean colors/markings long ago, and a camouflaged Austrian one (as a Draken alternative, ex-Kuwaiti aircraft) more recently.

[SPINNERS]

BAC Lightning F.56 - 1.° Grupo de Defesa Aérea, Força Aerea Brasileira, 1987





Just a short photoset showing a Brazilian Lightning F.56 (a designation I've used many times  ) and this uses an RAF skin done by 'sundowner' with some new Brazilian insignia including a serial number seen on a FAB Mirage IIIEBR. God knows what designation the Brazilians would have allocated to the BAC Lightning - their system looks most haphazard!