Author Topic: Cool remote controlled F-15 Jet (Read 548 times)

aztec · « **Reply #15 on:** April 22, 2006, 07:36:51 PM »

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Originally posted by Nilsen
I had a 1/32 scale model of the F15 that i never got around to builiding. I threw it away a couple of months ago along with the rest of my models. It was made by Revell and was in Thunderbird colors. Not that this is any proof at all tho.

Paint is a wonderful thing.

eagl · « **Reply #16 on:** April 22, 2006, 08:59:57 PM »

Bat,

He made it. Not by much but he did.

That hornet demo was pretty good.

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #17 on:** April 23, 2006, 12:05:54 AM »

BTW that's not a Thunderbirds scheme, it's a Bicentennial scheme from an Eagle that was used for demos during the '76 airshow season.

Nilsen · « **Reply #18 on:** April 23, 2006, 12:22:28 AM »

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Originally posted by FUNKED1
BTW that's not a Thunderbirds scheme, it's a Bicentennial scheme from an Eagle that was used for demos during the '76 airshow season.

yup you are correct

DiabloTX · « **Reply #19 on:** April 23, 2006, 12:50:44 AM »

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Originally posted by FUNKED1
BTW that's not a Thunderbirds scheme, it's a Bicentennial scheme from an Eagle that was used for demos during the '76 airshow season.

There was also an F-4 Phantom painted like that making the airshow rounds too back then.

LePaul · « **Reply #20 on:** April 23, 2006, 01:22:33 PM »

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Originally posted by eagl
Bat,

He made it. Not by much but he did.

That hornet demo was pretty good.

Wasnt that the one where he set his altimeter incorrectly?

I assume he's now the junior janitor at the Pentagon now?

LePaul · « **Reply #21 on:** April 24, 2006, 12:10:46 AM »

Aha! Finally found it on video!

F-111 Fuel dump & burn

vid

eagl · « **Reply #22 on:** April 24, 2006, 03:43:30 AM »

lepaul,

I think the USAF press release is out there somewhere, but if I recall correctly the official version was a mistake in the pull-down altitude.

There's more to it than that, but the only thing worth noting is that any critical error is usually preceded by a chain of events that led to the actual causal factor, and this mishap was no different in that regard.