Northrop N-102 Fang

[mat]

The FANG now got a front fuselage made up of pieces from a long deceased Airfix F-5E.

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[mat]

The rest of the fuselage have now been added, and it's made up of more stuff from the Academy 1/144 B-58.

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[kerick]

Northrops mock-up from 1953 don't show any area rule of the fuselage. I guess that Northrops engineers just hadn't heard the news at that time.  As they further developed the light weight fighter concept area rule came into the picture and the end result of the development line (the T-38 and F-5) got a lot of area rule. As I stick to the original proposal, there will be no area rule on my N-102 FANG.

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I keep looking at this pic trying to figure out what is the large object beneath the left wing of the FANG. It looks to be the size of the truck but streamlined like part of a fuselage. Plus how many different machine tools are along the walls. Two drill presses, a table saw, a floor mounted joiner, a shaper or giant router table and a big band saw. No safety devices on any of them.

[mat]

Northrops mock-up from 1953 don't show any area rule of the fuselage. I guess that Northrops engineers just hadn't heard the news at that time.  As they further developed the light weight fighter concept area rule came into the picture and the end result of the development line (the T-38 and F-5) got a lot of area rule. As I stick to the original proposal, there will be no area rule on my N-102 FANG.

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 Plus how many different machine tools are along the walls. Two drill presses, a table saw, a floor mounted joiner, a shaper or giant router table and a big band saw. No safety devices on any of them.

NO SAFETY DEVICES. That were the good old days. We rode MCs without helmet, there were no safety belts in the cars and everyone were fixing the electricity in the house without any training. 

[zenrat]

The thing under the wing looks to have windows.  Could it be a mockup of a proposed interior layout of something larger?

[Captain Canada]

Yes ! She's really coming along now ! Great job. Sush a neat little subject 

[NARSES2]

Looking really good 

[mat]

Northrops mock-up from 1953 don't show any area rule of the fuselage. I guess that Northrops engineers just hadn't heard the news at that time.  As they further developed the light weight fighter concept area rule came into the picture and the end result of the development line (the T-38 and F-5) got a lot of area rule. As I stick to the original proposal, there will be no area rule on my N-102 FANG.

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 Plus how many different machine tools are along the walls. Two drill presses, a table saw, a floor mounted joiner, a shaper or giant router table and a big band saw. No safety devices on any of them.

NO SAFETY DEVICES. That were the good old days. We rode MCs without helmet, there were no safety belts in the cars and everyone were fixing the electricity in the house without any training. 

The thing under the wing looks to have windows.  Could it be a mockup of a proposed interior layout of something larger?

I have found another picture of the FANG mockup. In the right corner you see "The Thing"

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[kerick]

Looks like several other parts to the Thing along the wall. And the Thing appears to have an inlet underneath.

And now back to the FANG. She is looking more cool with each pic. Loving this! Paint scheme thoughts yet? Interesting how it appears the builders used wire to simulate the canopy.

[mat]

Looks like several other parts to the Thing along the wall. And the Thing appears to have an inlet underneath.

And now back to the FANG. She is looking more cool with each pic. Loving this! Paint scheme thoughts yet? Interesting how it appears the builders used wire to simulate the canopy.

I have some paint in mind. The FANG were designed for a USAF requirement. It lost out to the Lockheed Model 083, which were put in production as F-104. But what-if the FANG had been chosen. The F-104 served in 15 air forces, and the further development of the FANG - the F-5 - served in 35 air forces.
At the moment I sway between som Top Gun scheme or one of the more exotic F-5/F-104 users. In the late 1960s my local air force - Flyvevåbnet (RDAF) - painted their F-104Gs in an overall camo of SM67. That wonderfull green colour, which efter a few months started to turn into any colour you can image between green and light purple grey.  So maybe my FANG will end up the the colours of the squadron I served in i the 1970s - ESK 730.

[mat]

Looks like several other parts to the Thing along the wall. And the Thing appears to have an inlet underneath.

There a some other pieces at the wall to the left of The Thing. Just a thought: Could it be some pieces of a mock-up for SM-62 Snark?

[kerick]

Looks like several other parts to the Thing along the wall. And the Thing appears to have an inlet underneath.

There a some other pieces at the wall to the left of The Thing. Just a thought: Could it be some pieces of a mock-up for SM-62 Snark?

No idea.....
Interested to see this green paint! Will it be weathered to the purple grey?

[mat]

Here are some examples of what the SM67 paint would turn into being exposed to the sun and the scandinavian weather.

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[PR19_Kit]

The Danes could always be guaranteed to come up with almost impossible schemes to, model! 

[Pellson]

The Danes could always be guaranteed to come up with almost impossible schemes to, model! 

Not on purpose. Just by negligence. Or, as they would put it: "why do this when there's a beer waiting in the fridge.. "