1/32 DH-89

[kfutter]

I'm a big fan of F-8's and everyone knows F-8's used to eat F-4's for breakfast! .

Yeah.....I have to say that the F-8 is a very pretty and shapely aircraft, while the F-4.....mmmmmm
TOR

I'm one of only 4 known humans who has absolutely no interest in the F-4 Phantom.

Kev

[RHB785]

, LOL Ray. I'm glad you have an enlightened attitude to thread drift. Like you some of the most interesting discussions I've had on the net have been the result of thread drift, either by me or someone else. That is until the Thread Drift Nazis appear and demand that as you say threads be locked and/or posts be deleted. I'm glad you have the attitude you have mate and I was really trying to have a joke with Adam but he's obyiously not around at the moment. I'm looking forward to meeting some of you fellows at the end of this month-early December when I come down your way. I'll also hopefully be able to pick up some aircraft photography pointers from my cousin's son. He's right into both photography and aircraft.

Regards,
RHB.

[tor lives]

:D, LOL Ray. I'm glad you have an enlightened attitude to thread drift. Like you some of the most interesting discussions I've had on the net have been the result of thread drift, either by me or someone else. That is until the Thread Drift Nazis appear and demand that as you say threads be locked and/or posts be deleted. I'm glad you have the attitude you have mate and I was really trying to have a joke with Adam but he's obviously not around at the moment. I'm looking forward to meeting some of you fellows at the end of this month-early December when I come down your way. I'll also hopefully be able to pick up some aircraft photography pointers from my cousin's son. He's right into both photography and aircraft.

Regards,
RHB.

Adam and I used to get ourselves in the shit all the time on another well-known model site for daring to thread drift
Some of the thread drift Nazis would go absolutely spack .....but we didn't care cause we were usually to busy enjoying the conversation, (up until the inevitable thread lock ).
I would love to catch up while you are down here Ross. Maybe some of us A/CAMers can all get together for a meal and some good aeroplane and model talk.....and, dare I say, maybe even a little bit of thread drift
TOR
PS: You know.....I think I have only ever had the need to lock ONE thread on this site in the whole time it has been running, (and there has only ever been 2 members banned), and it wasn't because of thread drift. I guess different sites are run differently.

[hrtpaul]

I'm a big fan of F-8's and everyone knows F-8's used to eat F-4's for breakfast! .

Yeah.....I have to say that the F-8 is a very pretty and shapely aircraft, while the F-4.....mmmmmm
TOR

I'm one of only 4 known humans who has absolutely no interest in the F-4 Phantom.

Kev

FFS. That's it Kev. For that comment, WE ARE DONE
As for the F-8, nice plane but

[tor lives]

[FFS. That's it Kev. For that comment, WE ARE DONE
As for the F-8, nice plane but

What's that famous saying about the Crusader.....when you are out of F-8s, you are out of fighters. Very cool
TOR

[hrtpaul]

Yep. You keep thinking that

[tor lives]

Yep. You keep thinking that

F-8 = Jen Hawkins
F-4 = Susan Boyle

TOR

[Adam the Akrodude]

This is absolutely outstanding! From DH-89 to F-4 versus F-8 discussion - brilliant!

I am guilty as charged and would have had my ass kicked on another forum over this most outrageous thread drift! I do find it interesting and amusing to see how a discussion starts about something and morphs in to something else entirely. Ross, you're going to have to give us your details so we can have a good yak when you are down this way - thread drifts guaranteed!

Ray, I have to say your Jen/Susan comparison to F-8/F-4 had me in tears sir!

It's alright Paul, I understand your chagrin. F-4 drivers often did get to see F-8's in their rear view mirrors to the west of Miramar! Being the true thoroughbred that this bird was, it's worst attribute was landing it back on the boat. It had the highest accident rate in this regard - part of it's mystic and charisma! Must have been terrifying trying to land a Crusader on the smaller "27 Charlie" carriers at night with a pitching deck with only a 11 foot ramp to hook clearance. I've read that quite a few ex-Crusader pilots had heart conditions later in life from all the stress they went through flying Crusaders. The worst Crusader was the "J" model - upgraded from the "E". It received special boundary layer controls blowing air over the wings to lower approach speed plus a larger fin. This made the aeroplane a complete dog and unfit for carrier use - big mistake. Imagine designing an aeroplane with the approach speed lower than the speed that the RAT can operate. Loose the generator on approach at night and it's all over! The C and E performed outstandingly over Nth Vietnam and the VNAF were scared of the Crusader. One MiG-17 pilot when seeing that he was being chased by an F-8 decided to eject!

I liken the F-8 to a muscle car like a Mustang, Challenger or Camaro, with the F-4 being something like a SRT Jeep Cherokee! F-8 - gorgeous design, with nifty wing. F-4 looks like it came out of a steel forge with bent up wingtips and bent down tail and smoking like a steelworks stack - big, powerful, brutish with a smoke trail that could be seen for miles! One had finesse, the other brute force and strength! Both jets are complete legends - as were those that flew over Nth Vietnam in particular. I take back my comment about building only one F-4 in 1/32. I'd like to also build a Blue Angels F-4J, flown by Cdr Harley Hall who lead the team in 1970 and went back to the fleet and was shot down over Vietnam at the end of the war in 1973 and still listed as MIA.

[frediv]

Returning to 1/32nd scale DH Rapides, the attached image is the last relic of my scratch built 1/32nd scale Rapide built about 1970. It is the plaster (female) mould of the engine/u/c trouser. The model was subsequently swapped for a long forgotten 1/72nd kit which was probably required for my RAAF Collection. However, the recipient of the Rapide was notorious for dismantling his acquisitions to "improve" them although none that I know of ever reached that state. I am sure that the Rapide suffered that fate . Certainly my scratch built 1/32nd Boomerang and a friend's short nose Bristol Freighter did. At least he on-sold my 1/48th DC-4.
FGH

[hrtpaul]

This is absolutely outstanding! From DH-89 to F-4 versus F-8 discussion - brilliant!

I am guilty as charged and would have had my ass kicked on another forum over this most outrageous thread drift! I do find it interesting and amusing to see how a discussion starts about something and morphs in to something else entirely. Ross, you're going to have to give us your details so we can have a good yak when you are down this way - thread drifts guaranteed!

Ray, I have to say your Jen/Susan comparison to F-8/F-4 had me in tears sir!

It's alright Paul, I understand your chagrin. F-4 drivers often did get to see F-8's in their rear view mirrors to the west of Miramar! Being the true thoroughbred that this bird was, it's worst attribute was landing it back on the boat. It had the highest accident rate in this regard - part of it's mystic and charisma! Must have been terrifying trying to land a Crusader on the smaller "27 Charlie" carriers at night with a pitching deck with only a 11 foot ramp to hook clearance. I've read that quite a few ex-Crusader pilots had heart conditions later in life from all the stress they went through flying Crusaders. The worst Crusader was the "J" model - upgraded from the "E". It received special boundary layer controls blowing air over the wings to lower approach speed plus a larger fin. This made the aeroplane a complete dog and unfit for carrier use - big mistake. Imagine designing an aeroplane with the approach speed lower than the speed that the RAT can operate. Loose the generator on approach at night and it's all over! The C and E performed outstandingly over Nth Vietnam and the VNAF were scared of the Crusader. One MiG-17 pilot when seeing that he was being chased by an F-8 decided to eject!

I liken the F-8 to a muscle car like a Mustang, Challenger or Camaro, with the F-4 being something like a SRT Jeep Cherokee! F-8 - gorgeous design, with nifty wing. F-4 looks like it came out of a steel forge with bent up wingtips and bent down tail and smoking like a steelworks stack - big, powerful, brutish with a smoke trail that could be seen for miles! One had finesse, the other brute force and strength! Both jets are complete legends - as were those that flew over Nth Vietnam in particular. I take back my comment about building only one F-4 in 1/32. I'd like to also build a Blue Angels F-4J, flown by Cdr Harley Hall who lead the team in 1970 and went back to the fleet and was shot down over Vietnam at the end of the war in 1973 and still listed as MIA.

Once gain you keep telling yourself that