KA-3B Skywarrior

I was looking for more photos and came across a really complete webpage with these interesting photos:
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Both photos fabulous - the diversity of aircraft back then. USN but also my two fave FAA aircraft in the sim - Scimitar and Sea Vixen - cross decking doesn't get better. Second photo interesting as A-6's with Scooter before getting replaced by the SLUFs. Plus Phantoms, Whales and Vigi's. Great period.

Also good to see that others here have interest like me that keeps me going back again and again "rediscovering" these AS and other navair models now approaching 20 years old!
 
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Question: I believe only the basic A-3B model was converted to FSX native put into the SOH library and therefore usable in P3Dv4+.

Has anyone done the same for the RA/ERA/EK/EKA FS9 models as well as the latest KA tanker in this thread by the OP ?
 
expat said:
Question: I believe only the basic A-3B model was converted to FSX native put into the SOH library and therefore usable in P3Dv4+.

Has anyone done the same for the RA/ERA/EK/EKA FS9 models as well as the latest KA tanker in this thread by the OP ?
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You are correct about the A-3B native FSX. In the post above you can see where Mr. Zippy pointed out the missing drogue which is why I went back to the drawing board and merged it with the A3-B model to make it a KA-3B. The model I will be uploading is "native-P3DV4.5" because it was converted and modified in Model ConverterX. All the photos I posted here are at NAS Alameda in Prepar3D V4.5 I have Virtavia's permission to share it as the package with the two repaints here at SOH. Since Alphasim/Virtavia HAS VAQ-135 "Black Ravens" in their package you can download that from the original package and add it the usual way.
 
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expat said:
Question: I believe only the basic A-3B model was converted to FSX native put into the SOH library and therefore usable in P3Dv4+.

Has anyone done the same for the RA/ERA/EK/EKA FS9 models as well as the latest KA tanker in this thread by the OP ?
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The old ALPHA conversion works in P3D4.5. It supposedly has RA-3 / TA-3 versions, but they are just the basic A-3B with different portholes etc. Very inaccurate if you are a purist. In fact any "version" A-3B like the RA-3 and TA-3 have totally different glazing on the top of the cockpit because they had a plug vice sliding hatch for overhead escape. However as GIJoe has said it is a decent basic A-3B bomber with a VC cockpit.
 
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I saw yesterday a lot of USN Squadrons of these EA-3's. You can Google and find them. I didn't know that the Air Force used them too.
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The B-66 was based on some A-3 features but huge structural and engine differences - just start looking at the nose/cockpit area for a start.
 
Ex-pat, you ID'd one of the two missing a/c in the description, an A-1 Skyraider. What is the very obvious seventh a/c in the photo on "Connie" of the mix?
 
I forgot to put the download link for Lorby's Payload Manager when I posted the photo of the extended drogue above. My drogue is not animated in the flyable aircraft since I don't know how to do that so if you want to have a tanker in the air for you to refuel from, you have to use the Payload Manager/Ai Tanker tab and select one of the two squadron KA-3B. It also allows you to do other animations and has a downloadable pdf manual.

Lorby Program Library
 
tgycgijoes said:
I saw yesterday a lot of USN Squadrons of these EA-3's. You can Google and find them. I didn't know that the Air Force used them too.
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USAF version was the B-66 Destroyer. I remember as a kid in the 50's gluing a Revell plastic model and it featured a button on top center fuselage that when pushed, would release a bomb (nuke?)

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gray eagle said:
USAF version was the B-66 Destroyer. I remember as a kid in the 50's gluing a Revell plastic model and it featured a button on top center fuselage that when pushed, would release a bomb (nuke?)

More info here
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Old memories...I remember building that one too and also the B-58. Once upon a time a long time ago, I had a 1:48 Aurora "Stoof" that sadly disappeared when I came home after my EAOS in 1970. I built tons of plastic models of all kinds of aircraft especially WWII. Being IPMS I used a lot of aftermarket decals and also a Badger airbrush and compressor when I was in high school. That's what I did for fun. I had a work space down in the basement and it's a wonder cleaning the airbrush with lacquer thinner with a gas furnace I didn't blow up our home. LOL!!!

When I got back home I got back into building plastic models. I had accumulated a large batch of armor models I bought in Tokyo that were not in the U.S. and I used to swap them with our local hobby shop for ones I wanted. I won an award for my 1:32 Revell F4J Phantom that I customized into VF-92 "Silver Kings" from photos in my 1970 USS America Cruisebook in a handmade flight deck diorama with it on the cat'. I drilled and hand made every one of the tiedowns and cut and laid an aluminum catapault track and a handmade "shooter" from a 1-gauge railroad figure. he displayed it in his window with my award and it helped him sell a lot of them. Ah, the good ol' days.
 
tgycgijoes said:
Old memories...I remember building that one too and also the B-58. Once upon a time a long time ago, I had a 1:48 Aurora "Stoof" that sadly disappeared when I came home after my EAOS in 1970. I built tons of plastic models of all kinds of aircraft especially WWII. Being IPMS I used a lot of aftermarket decals and also a Badger airbrush and compressor when I was in high school. That's what I did for fun. I had a work space down in the basement and it's a wonder cleaning the airbrush with lacquer thinner with a gas furnace I didn't blow up our home. LOL!!!

When I got back home I got back into building plastic models. I had accumulated a large batch of armor models I bought in Tokyo that were not in the U.S. and I used to swap them with our local hobby shop for ones I wanted. I won an award for my 1:32 Revell F4J Phantom that I customized into VF-92 "Silver Kings" from photos in my 1970 USS America Cruisebook in a handmade flight deck diorama with it on the cat'. I drilled and hand made every one of the tiedowns and cut and laid an aluminum catapault track and a handmade "shooter" from a 1-gauge railroad figure. he displayed it in his window with my award and it helped him sell a lot of them. Ah, the good ol' days.
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Wow! Sounds like you were really Gung Ho with your models. When I was a Navy brat in Naples ~56, a classmate/friend gave me a Revell Strategic Air Command model set consisting of the B29, B-36, B47 and B52 as a B' day gift.

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