MILVIZ T-38 current pics...

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Bone

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Kazycolin and his team of extremely smart modellers are putting in some crazy effort on this one.

The real T-38 is known to be a handfull in pattern ops, and so is this one.



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A few more of the NASA paint. In another day or so, there's going to be a model update which has an air cart for starting engines, and crew ladders. Pics of those items will be forthcoming.


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Yes, Kent, I'm so glad you brought that up. Colin has arranged for the current space shuttle commander, Capt. Giffords, to be your IP while you learn how to fly this plane. Since he's about to be out of a job, and his wife is unable to work after the unfortunate occurance in Arizona, his name has been put on the aft canopy. And, the travel pod has been installed, just for you.

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Little known piece of trivia...

....I happened to drive RIGHT past where that unfortunate incident happened about an hour before the tragedy. I was heading back up to Phoenix after completing my AF fitness test at Davis Monthan.

Weird.

And thank you for the travel pod, Colin!

Kent
 
Ah yes, the landing gear handle. The real T-38 jocks working on this program have sort of a love affair with this system...after all it's pretty important. Bill (NG4IX) has really been the Harmony.com guy and has performed some magic...he's performed alot of magic throughout this T-38. Sooo, when the gear handle is placed down, the suedo clear handle will turn red because the actual gear position is in disagreement with the position of the handle. When the gear is down and locked, the red light goes out in the handle, and the three green lights illuminate. However, if that doesn't work, you have to freefall the gear using the freefall assist handle, which is below the primary gear handle. There's a procedure for that, too, because it's not just a simple matter of pulling it. You're going to have to read the manual and take a test...lol, JK...about the test, I mean.

Oh, and I stole a pic from Bill, showing the air cart and crew ladders. The pic also shows the preflight utility menu, where you can select these things.

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you can actually see the inside of the handle.. and that is pretty darned cool!

As well, I also built the static huffer (the big a$$ vacuum cleaner!)
 
Ok, here's a better shot. The inside of the gear handle has a cross that the plastic wheel is molded on. On the top of the cross is the red light that illuminates whenever there's a disagreement between the actual position of the gear and the position of the gear handle. This is craftwork.

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It looks great, but I have a few points I need clarification on:

Assuming that the paint shown with Mark Kelly's name is representing a fairly modern 2000's Nasa paint scheme.

Mark Kelly was selected to be an astronaut in 1996, and didn't get to fly the shuttle until 2001 - by which time the pitot probe had been lopped off, and the cockpits retrofitted for shuttle landing training duties. It's a minor thing, but if you're going to include a Nasa paint some folk may pick up on these details.

Indeed if this is a modern representation of the Nasa T-38N some now have the T-38C Propulsion Modernisation Program inlets and two small black aerials on top of the nose. But more importantly they don't seem to have the traditional pitot probe these days.

Will there be any model changes for a Nasa version? It seems a waste to have such great detail and paintwork with a model that is a standard T-38A?

Just my 2c. Constructive as always! :salute:
 
his name has been put on the aft canopy
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Now that is a good and honorable thing to do. Could we have more astronaut names? :applause:
Does his shuttle flight go tomorrow, weather and systems pending?

This baby looks fantastic!
 
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