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Title: NEat P-38 RC Kit
Post by: Zanth on August 28, 2003, 04:15:25 PM

Even has working fowler flaps, how cool is that?
(http://www.rcwarbirds.com/arf3822.jpg)

http://www.rcwarbirds.com/morrisp38page1.htm

 

(http://www.rcwarbirds.com/arf3812.jpg)

Title: NEat P-38 RC Kit
Post by: Bodhi on August 29, 2003, 06:49:02 AM

Pretty damn impressive.

Title: NEat P-38 RC Kit
Post by: frank3 on August 29, 2003, 10:12:09 AM

>droole< well, I still have to do with my Fokker F27 Friendship

Title: NEat P-38 RC Kit
Post by: bolillo_loco on August 29, 2003, 02:53:37 PM

nice links, spent a lot of time looking at them. this 109 has to be the best one I saw

http://www.homestead.com/evoshangar/109navigation.html

Title: NEat P-38 RC Kit
Post by: MAJ KONIG on August 29, 2003, 03:06:53 PM

nice looking 109 but, if he was gonna paint it after Hartmann he should have put the black tulip on the plane.

Title: NEat P-38 RC Kit
Post by: bolillo_loco on August 30, 2003, 02:25:53 AM

this is the other nice one, look at the detail! http://www.rcwarbirds.com/bear2page.htm

Title: NEat P-38 RC Kit
Post by: Nilsen on August 30, 2003, 11:23:51 AM

LOVE that bear, any more pics of it?

Title: NEat P-38 RC Kit
Post by: Shiva on August 30, 2003, 04:51:15 PM

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Originally posted by Nilsen10
LOVE that bear, any more pics of it?

Click on the 'back' button on that page, and you'll go to http://www.rcwarbirds.com/feature.html, where there are more pics.

Title: NEat P-38 RC Kit
Post by: Nilsen on August 30, 2003, 04:55:04 PM

Thanks alot Shiva. We used to see ALOT of those snooping around during excersises when i served :)

Title: NEat P-38 RC Kit
Post by: Puck on August 30, 2003, 05:31:52 PM

Heck, I still remember being in Yellowstone Park (also known as the Bear Box) 'way back in '85.  The Bears were looking for us, we were trying not to be found  :)

Title: NEat P-38 RC Kit
Post by: Nilsen on August 30, 2003, 05:33:53 PM

Dont think those bears where silvery tho Puck :D

Title: NEat P-38 RC Kit
Post by: Shiva on August 30, 2003, 11:35:37 PM

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Originally posted by Nilsen10
Thanks alot Shiva. We used to see ALOT of those snooping around during excersises when i served :)

My father has a story from back when he served on the USS Staten Island, GB-5 (tells you how far back it was -- before the Navy gave all the icebreakers to the Coast Guard); they'd come across a Soviet destroyer and sent up their helicopter with a guy belted in the door with a camera, and got a beautiful shot of their air-search radar -- filled the frame, perfectly centered, focus and shutter speed perfect -- and, following procedure, sent off a scan (the old 'clamp the image to a cylinder and spin it while the travelling sensor head reads it' predecessor to the fax machine). They got back the standard boilerplate response "Can you get a better image?", to which they replied "I suppose we could ask them if they'll let us take a rubbing of the data plate..." There was no reply to the message; apparently someone had looked at the transmitted photograph, rather than just the cover sheet, and realized what a stupid response they'd given originally...

Title: NEat P-38 RC Kit
Post by: Puck on August 31, 2003, 01:00:55 AM

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Originally posted by Nilsen10
Dont think those bears where silvery tho Puck :D

Not sure any found us.  The ones looking were kind of a weathered silvery, though.

This particular Yellowstone Park is in the North Pacific Ocean, and we were Alpha Whiskey (and Alpha Sierra) for battle group Delta, based around the USS Constellation.  That, incidentally, was the first time the F/A-18 participated in an operational role on a west-pac.

Title: NEat P-38 RC Kit
Post by: Nilsen on August 31, 2003, 01:43:34 AM

LOL, I was sure you where kidding me and was talking about real bears..... my bad :D