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Its mighty R-2800-18W purring away, 1951 built Vought F4U-5N F-AZEG operated by AJBS Les Casques de Cuir taxies in to take its place in the line-up for the 2018 Flying Legends Airshow
Saint-Tropez landing in a spring snow storm...it's no longer April 1st, so I presume the snow is real :)
This project has given me tremendous challenges from day one. Throughout its construction, the kit would never stop fighting back and it has always been an uphill battle to address its major flaws.
Today, I can proudly announce that the OV-10F TNI-AU Project is completed. And being the first kit in 2013, I am also very pleased with the results.
The 1/48 scale Testor OV-10A Bronco is a very ancient kit and goes back more than thirty years ago. Despite its age, the kit provides modelers room to grow, particularly for those who wish to improve its looks.
This project has been extremely challenging. This is by far my first project which requires me to completely rebuild a cockpit from almost nothing.
Many of the approaches and techniques that I learned during the C-130H and F/A-18F projects were extensively used with great effect. That said and despite having to do a lot of planning, research, and trial error, I was more than prepared and construction was less painful that expected.
This model depicts an OV-10F of Skadron 21 of the Indonesian Air Force TNI-AU where it was stationed at the Abdul Rachman Saleh Air Base in Malang City, East Java Province, Indonesia.
This particular aircraft, TT-1013, was involved in an incident where it had to belly land while returning to its home base (time/date unclear). Despite the ordeal, both airmen survived unscathed. No record is publicly available of the whereabouts of the airframe after the incident.
Lockheed P-3C Orion. US Navy long-range, land-based, ocean patrol, strike, and anti-submaine warfare (ASW) airplane. The Orion was derrived from the Lockheed L-188 Electra (aka Electra II) turboprop airliner. Orions far outsold their civil counterparts, operating for the US, Canada, Netherlands, Norway, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Iran and probably others. Each Allison turboprop develops 4000+ horsepower, so performance is spritely compared to the piston=engined planes they originally replaced.
P-3 design and operation emphasized ASW, with a Magnetic Abnormality Detector (MAD) at the tip of the non-metalic boom behind the tailplanes, a big array of sonar-bouys in launchers under the rear fuselage, a bomb bay under the forward fuselage for homing torpedoes and depth charges, both of which might have had nuclear or conventional explosive warheads. Stations for sensor operators, 4 visual lookouts and a mission commander were in the fuselage. Radar, electronic reconnaissance and countermeasures, low-light TV, Diesel engine exhaust detectors and all sorts of high technology were carried. Guided or unguided missiles, dumb-bombs and air-deployed mines could be carried in the bomb bay or under 6 pylons under the outer wings.
After 40+ years of reliable and efficient service, the Boeing P-8 Poseidon, based on the 737 airliner, is finally bringing fan-jet efficiency and speeds, newer airframe technology and a larger fuselage and greater payload weight to the role, replacing Orions that are older than their crews. Just as they replaced Lockheed P-2 Neptunes, AVRO Shackletons and Lancasters/Lincolns, B-24/PB4Y Liberator/Privateers and all sorts of improvisations.
11th March 2014., Dublin Airport, Ireland.
"QTR3255" Arriving from Doha for painting under "LVP" operations at Dublin.
Dublin Airport, Ireland. Dublin Airport, (Irish: Aerfort Bhaile Átha Cliath) (IATA: DUB, ICAO: EIDW), is an international airport serving Dublin, Ireland and is operated by the Dublin Airport Authority.[4] It is located 5.4 nmi (10.0 km; 6.2 mi) north[1] of Dublin city near Swords, in the county of Fingal, Ireland. In 2012 19.1 million passengers passed through the airport,[5] making it the busiest of the state's airports by total passenger traffic. It also has the greatest traffic levels on the island of Ireland.
Lockheed P-3C Orion. US Navy long-range, land-based, ocean patrol, strike, and anti-submaine warfare (ASW) airplane. The Orion was derrived from the Lockheed L-188 Electra (aka Electra II) turboprop airliner. Orions far outsold their civil counterparts, operating for the US, Canada, Netherlands, Norway, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Iran and probably others. Each Allison turboprop develops 4000+ horsepower, so performance is spritely compared to the piston=engined planes they originally replaced.
P-3 design and operation emphasized ASW, with a Magnetic Abnormality Detector (MAD) at the tip of the non-metalic boom behind the tailplanes, a big array of sonar-bouys in launchers under the rear fuselage, a bomb bay under the forward fuselage for homing torpedoes and depth charges, both of which might have had nuclear or conventional explosive warheads. Stations for sensor operators, 4 visual lookouts and a mission commander were in the fuselage. Radar, electronic reconnaissance and countermeasures, low-light TV, Diesel engine exhaust detectors and all sorts of high technology were carried. Guided or unguided missiles, dumb-bombs and air-deployed mines could be carried in the bomb bay or under 6 pylons under the outer wings.
After 40+ years of reliable and efficient service, the Boeing P-8 Poseidon, based on the 737 airliner, is finally bringing fan-jet efficiency and speeds, newer airframe technology and a larger fuselage and greater payload weight to the role, replacing Orions that are older than their crews. Just as they replaced Lockheed P-2 Neptunes, AVRO Shackletons and Lancasters/Lincolns, B-24/PB4Y Liberator/Privateers and all sorts of improvisations.
Lockheed P-3C Orion. US Navy long-range, land-based, ocean patrol, strike, and anti-submaine warfare (ASW) airplane. A sensor secondary display sits in front of the pilot, on the left side of the instrument panel. It echos the fused sensor picture assembled for the mission commander, who has a station in the cabin.
Orions operated for the US, Canada, Netherlands, Norway, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Iran and probably others.
P-3 design and operation emphasized ASW, with a Magnetic Abnormality Detector (MAD) at the tip of the non-metalic boom behind the tailplanes, a big array of sonar-bouys in launchers under the rear fuselage, a bomb bay under the forward fuselage for homing torpedoes and depth charges, both of which might have had nuclear or conventional explosive warheads. Stations for sensor operators, 4 visual lookouts and a mission commander were in the fuselage. Radar, electronic reconnaissance and countermeasures, low-light TV, Diesel engine exhaust detectors and all sorts of high technology were carried. Guided or unguided missiles, dumb-bombs and air-deployed mines could be carried in the bomb bay or under 6 pylons under the outer wings.
After 40+ years of reliable and efficient service, the Boeing P-8 Poseidon, based on the 737 airliner, is finally bringing fan-jet efficiency and speeds, newer airframe technology and a larger fuselage and greater payload weight to the role, replacing Orions that are older than their crews. Just as they replaced Lockheed P-2 Neptunes, AVRO Shackletons and Lancasters/Lincolns, B-24/PB4Y Liberator/Privateers and all sorts of improvisations.
Lockheed P-3C Orion. US Navy long-range, land-based, ocean patrol, strike, and anti-submaine warfare (ASW) airplane. The Orion was derrived from the Lockheed L-188 Electra (aka Electra II) turboprop airliner. Orions far outsold their civil counterparts, operating for the US, Canada, Netherlands, Norway, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Iran and probably others. Each Allison turboprop develops 4000+ horsepower, so performance is spritely compared to the piston=engined planes they originally replaced.
P-3 design and operation emphasized ASW, with a Magnetic Abnormality Detector (MAD) at the tip of the non-metalic boom behind the tailplanes, a big array of sonar-bouys in launchers under the rear fuselage, a bomb bay under the forward fuselage for homing torpedoes and depth charges, both of which might have had nuclear or conventional explosive warheads. Stations for sensor operators, 4 visual lookouts and a mission commander were in the fuselage. Radar, electronic reconnaissance and countermeasures, low-light TV, Diesel engine exhaust detectors and all sorts of high technology were carried. Guided or unguided missiles, dumb-bombs and air-deployed mines could be carried in the bomb bay or under 6 pylons under the outer wings.
After 40+ years of reliable and efficient service, the Boeing P-8 Poseidon, based on the 737 airliner, is finally bringing fan-jet efficiency and speeds, newer airframe technology and a larger fuselage and greater payload weight to the role, replacing Orions that are older than their crews. Just as they replaced Lockheed P-2 Neptunes, AVRO Shackletons and Lancasters/Lincolns, B-24/PB4Y Liberator/Privateers and all sorts of improvisations.
The crown jewel of this kit is the cockpit. To enhance the cockpit, I scratch-built every single item which include consoles, dashboards, and ejection seats using resin, styrene, and copper wire.
Lockheed P-3C Orion. US Navy long-range, land-based, ocean patrol, strike, and anti-submaine warfare (ASW) airplane. The Orion was derrived from the Lockheed L-188 Electra (aka Electra II) turboprop airliner. Orions far outsold their civil counterparts, operating for the US, Canada, Netherlands, Norway, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Iran and probably others. Each Allison turboprop develops 4000+ horsepower, so performance is spritely compared to the piston=engined planes they originally replaced.
P-3 design and operation emphasized ASW, with a Magnetic Abnormality Detector (MAD) at the tip of the non-metalic boom behind the tailplanes, a big array of sonar-bouys in launchers under the rear fuselage, a bomb bay under the forward fuselage for homing torpedoes and depth charges, both of which might have had nuclear or conventional explosive warheads. Stations for sensor operators, 4 visual lookouts and a mission commander were in the fuselage. Radar, electronic reconnaissance and countermeasures, low-light TV, Diesel engine exhaust detectors and all sorts of high technology were carried. Guided or unguided missiles, dumb-bombs and air-deployed mines could be carried in the bomb bay or under 6 pylons under the outer wings.
After 40+ years of reliable and efficient service, the Boeing P-8 Poseidon, based on the 737 airliner, is finally bringing fan-jet efficiency and speeds, newer airframe technology and a larger fuselage and greater payload weight to the role, replacing Orions that are older than their crews. Just as they replaced Lockheed P-2 Neptunes, AVRO Shackletons and Lancasters/Lincolns, B-24/PB4Y Liberator/Privateers and all sorts of improvisations.
Lockheed P-3C Orion. US Navy long-range, land-based, ocean patrol, strike, and anti-submaine warfare (ASW) airplane. The Orion was derrived from the Lockheed L-188 Electra (aka Electra II) turboprop airliner. Orions far outsold their civil counterparts, operating for the US, Canada, Netherlands, Norway, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Iran and probably others. Each Allison turboprop develops 4000+ horsepower, so performance is spritely compared to the piston=engined planes they originally replaced.
P-3 design and operation emphasized ASW, with a Magnetic Abnormality Detector (MAD) at the tip of the non-metalic boom behind the tailplanes, a big array of sonar-bouys in launchers under the rear fuselage, a bomb bay under the forward fuselage for homing torpedoes and depth charges, both of which might have had nuclear or conventional explosive warheads. Stations for sensor operators, 4 visual lookouts and a mission commander were in the fuselage. Radar, electronic reconnaissance and countermeasures, low-light TV, Diesel engine exhaust detectors and all sorts of high technology were carried. Guided or unguided missiles, dumb-bombs and air-deployed mines could be carried in the bomb bay or under 6 pylons under the outer wings.
After 40+ years of reliable and efficient service, the Boeing P-8 Poseidon, based on the 737 airliner, is finally bringing fan-jet efficiency and speeds, newer airframe technology and a larger fuselage and greater payload weight to the role, replacing Orions that are older than their crews. Just as they replaced Lockheed P-2 Neptunes, AVRO Shackletons and Lancasters/Lincolns, B-24/PB4Y Liberator/Privateers and all sorts of improvisations.
The crown jewel of this kit lay in the cockpit. With a huge all-around glass, it is inevitable that any modeler who wishes to improve this kit needs to do some major work on the interior of this cockpit.
Aside from scratch-building the cockpit and wheel bay interiors, one other approach I did to improve how the model looks is to modify its moving surfaces. Here, I modified the ailerons and outboard flaps to show in the dropped position.
I have never seen anything quite like this before, a touch of blue sky and the subtle beginnings of a sunset shining through the dense fog.
Airbus Military A400M 'Atlas'
MSN 0006
F-WWMZ 'GRIZZLY 5'
Airbus Military
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Air Canada A330-300 C-GFAJ sits on Gate 64 waiting for departure to LHR as AC854. This is definitely not a day for VFR!