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After I completed the MJ-1 loader yesterday, which you can see on the right, I decided to add a few more items of USAF ground equipment. After a few hours of building this morning, they're done.
USAF Heritage Flight
F-35A Lightning II 15-5125
P-51D Mustang 413305/WR-Z
Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Vc JG891/T-B
Formation at RIAT 2018.
USAF WC 135 Constant Phoenix climbing out of RAF Mildenhall.
The WC 135's mission is to collect samples from the atmosphere for the purpose of detecting and identifying nuclear explosions.
The first nuclear fusion weapons were large free-fall bombs, dropped by aircraft, but more compact weapons became viable in the mid fifties. This enabled using them in an ever-expanding variety of weapons systems. These are three early examples operated by the US Air Force in the late fifties and sixties, all built to the same scale. From left to right: the MGM-13 Mace cruise missile, the SM-65F Atlas-F ICBM and the CIM-10B Bomarc surface-to-air missile.
Nellis AFB Aviation nation Air show P-51 Mustang, USAF F-22 Raptor from Nellis based TES and F-35A from Hill AFB.
USAF C-17 Globemaster of the 535th Airlift Squadron, part of the 15th and 154th Wing based at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii, on the deck at Prestwick Airport.
Operator: United States Air Force- USAF
Aircraft: Lockheed Martin C-130J-30 Hercules
Registration: 08-5683
C/n: 382-5683
Time & Location: 21.05.2023, EFTP, Finland
USAF 81-0980 - Fairchild A-10C Thunderbolt II - United States Air Force (USAF)
at London International Airport (YXU) during the 2019 London Air Show
c/n A10-0675 - built in 1981
One of the reasons I tend to care a lot about the scale of the models that I build is because matching scales allows me to combine models. For instance, I built a van to go with my 1/22 scale F-16, because together they make for a more interesting scene. Lately I've been building minifig scale aircraft and I'd like to do the same thing for those too. However, I find building realistic looking vehicles true to this scale, for which I use roughly 1/40, to be quite a challenge. This is my latest attempt: a Chevy K10 pickup truck, as used by the USAF in the late eighties and early nineties. It's obviously intended to accompany my YF-23.