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Published: 2008-01-18 08:06:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 663; Favourites: 12; Downloads: 46
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top aft view of Chance Vought F7U-1 Cutlass,showing unusual tailless twin-fin planview of this semi-experimental fighter while in service with the US Navy Blue Angels display team in 1952. the Cutlass was derived from a 1944 German design by Junkers and was the first US Navy jet to use a primitive form of afterburners. primary airframe was constructed of Metalite,a sandwich material of thin aluminum skin bonded to both sides of a core end-grain cut balsa wood,a patented material developed by Vought.Related content
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got another one in there too,one of the later service versions.
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A Gutless is a Gutless is a Gutless. Speaking of which, the National Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola has a -3 model on display.
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one of the very few that still exist. many were abused as mechanic training airframes until they were scrapped.
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It looks good, doesn't it?
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basically a good design{from Germany!},but just too far ahead of it,s time.
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many post-WW2 designs derived from captured German project ideas and data....on both sides of the Iron Curtain.....
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Yeah, the Air Force F-86 and the Russian MiG-15 'Fagot' are but two examples.
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among a plethora of others....
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we certainly learned a lot!
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technology advanced by about 15 years....
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ever read Luftwaffe Secret Projects,vols. 1 and 2?
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No, I haven't had a chance to find them anywhere around the D/FW Metroplex.
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should be available from Motorbooks. superb artwork.
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MBI? Huh, back to Barnes & Noble, then.
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i,m sure they could order them too.
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Yeah, I ordered the strategy guide to Ace Combat 6 through them on Sunday.
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all you need is an ISBN number....
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Well, it should arrive tomorrow, then I can find out how to kick Strigon Team's miserable collective ass in Mission 11.
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It appears I was wrong about when that guide would arrive. Looks like it should arrive about a day or so before ODST hits the shelves.
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it,ll be there when it gets there....
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Assuming my math is straight, it should arrive today.
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Yep, it arrived on the 14th. Thing is, even following the book on the final mission, I'm still getting my ass shot off by those damned Estovakians.
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Meh, I decided to mess with the old X-Box last night and play some Unreal Championship. Haven't done that in a while.
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my kid is a fiend for those things...!
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I enjoy setting up a Double Domination on the map Seppuku Gorge with a 60 minute time-limit, and no max score, then I go out and kick ass.
I'm also waiting for ODST. A couple days ago I saw the best freaking Halo commercial ever about 3/4's of the way through a program about European naval aircraft on the Military Channel.
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it,s actually a vacformed RarePlanes kit i modified to look like one of the very early F7U-1s that performed with the Blue Angels during the 1952 show season. Fujimi{Japan} makes a 3-kit family of the Cutlass in 1/72 scale.a bit pricey,but superb quality kits.
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Very nice plane. I never cottoned to vacform parts. Just never liked them.
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don,t worry,you,re not alone. vacs are many a modeller,s worst nightmare! most guys won,t even touch them.
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I built a resin FH-1 for a local museum and it came with vacform canopies. Good thing they give you two of them. In spite of the fit problems and scratch building I had to do, the canopy was the worst part for me.
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vacs do require a bit of practice. i still remember my first one.
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I have worked with the occasional vac part but I still don't like them.
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just parts? some of the kits are better than others.
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I just never got into working with vacform kits.
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sometimes i have NO CHOICE. a vac may be the only way to get a certain subject aircraft for a collection,or sometimes a fave plane in a larger scale as well. some are actually not bad at all,it depends on the moldmaker.
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I guess I've just had some bad experiences that turned me off to vacs. Bummer. Maybe I'll try it again some day.
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Dynavector makes some very nice kits of postWW2 British stuff,and a Douglas SkyShark,all 1/48. a bit pricey,but par excellence. and nothing to fight with,all very well designed,with superb white-metal small parts. nothing left to chance.
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I'll have to check them out when I have the time and a lot more space. Thanks for the tip.
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should be available at HobbyLinkJapan. if not,there,s always Ebay.......
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I've got them bookmarked. I'll have to check it out.
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