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This time not fictional.
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Bernhard.
THANK YOU!!!!!!! She's beautiful.This time not fictional.
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Bernhard.
Same for ours... The EP-3. Chinese fighter kept making high speed passes under the right wing trying to scare the crew. On the last pass, he crashed right into the two starboard props on the way by... Killing himself, and forcing the Aries to land on Hainan Island, where the crew was held in captivity for two weeks I believe. The EP-3 was handed back over to the US months later, completely disassembled by the Chinese.
Actually, it was literally chopped to large sections with chain saws by an American crew. I watched a video of the process; don't know if I should say where I saw the video....not sure if it was classified. The engines were removed first. Then the wings cut off, tail and cockpit followed. The fuselage was loaded into a C-5 (I think). All other sections were loaded onto another transport and flown home. I was told that every part of the airplane was completely destroyed when it returned to the states. Don't know if that is true.
My brother who works at NADEP JAX witnessed the rebuilding of that plane. Like the flight of the Phoenix, it flew again.
Not sure if I missed it but is there a paintkit available?
If no kit is available could someone please do some RAAF Orions in their original scheme for both 10 and 11 squadrons as well as the lo-viz paints.
Something to have in mind when making Orion schemes is that most users keep their birds very clean. For example I know that in Norway the birds get washed down after more or less every over sea mission as an anti corosion messure. I would imaging most other serious users would do the same. For the same reason the paint is kept in pretty good condition as well.
Of of course we might see some more ditt buildup on birds used for overland missions from forward bases. But in general I think the P-3s are pretty good looked after.
I managed to get a few US Roundels fixed on the fuselage. They now look the way they are suppose to - same-o same-o for the wings. WIP on other textures.
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What is the story behind this tail? The colored stripes looks very much like the fin flash of The Northern Norway Command and later 331 squadron.
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Source: http://www.f-16.net/units_article354.html