Released!! F9F Cougar by Rob Richardson

The Blues did it most likely to make them more visually appealing as they made banked passes, etc. I can't say as I have seen every picture of a Panther or Cougar, but all the real ones I was around, and pictures I have seen, had non-skid there.

The non - skid was necessary, because pilots and ground crews had to climb up on each wing and push in the four plenum chamber aux air doors to look for FOD, etc on pre-flights.

As a student, I dropped a bunch of coins that were in an unzipped chest pocket into an open aux door as I leaned over - the instructor made me "dive the ducts" as punishment to retrieve them. Luckily the J-48 compressor section was surrounded by a screen mesh, so finding them lying in the bottom of the duct was relatively easy.

The coins might never have hurt anything, but would have made a hell of a racket once the engine started --
 


Learning a lot with this one! The Blue Angels letters are somewhat different from the ones on the real Cougars. Can someone help me with that?

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Cees
 
I uploaded this one today. Will be up soon. Why is this ridiculous photobucket tekst in my picture???


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They probably want $$$$ from you Cees, rather an unsubtle way at that!
Nice repaints, looking forward to getting airborne in them.
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Photobucket stopped being useful for image links a while back as they attempted to find a way to monetize their business.

I'd suggest using imgur -- still free, still works well.
 
delta_lima said:
How about a red one?

QF-9G from PMTC China Lake, BuNo 130800:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/skyhawkpc/40419999512

Note, this one, and others including BuNo130893 were red, not the high-vis orange. You can see the difference on those airframes that were both orange and red:

http://www.chinalakealumni.org/1961/1961mo.htm#thumb

Scroll down 1/3 of the page to the photo that is captioned "NAF China Lake F9F-6K2 Cougar drone BuNo 127341, China Lake, 20 May 1961. Photo by Larry Ruybal."

Same colour used on some of the Grumman Hellcat F6F-5K drones.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:F6F-5K_Hellcat_Red_Drone.jpg

Thanks for considering. Your VF-144 paint will be a real treat too.

cheers,

dl
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dl, what markings had
these planes ​
on the wings?

Cees
 
Anyone willing to betatest this repaint?
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Mike71 said:
The Blues did it most likely to make them more visually appealing as they made banked passes, etc. I can't say as I have seen every picture of a Panther or Cougar, but all the real ones I was around, and pictures I have seen, had non-skid there.

The non - skid was necessary, because pilots and ground crews had to climb up on each wing and push in the four plenum chamber aux air doors to look for FOD, etc on pre-flights.

As a student, I dropped a bunch of coins that were in an unzipped chest pocket into an open aux door as I leaned over - the instructor made me "dive the ducts" as punishment to retrieve them. Luckily the J-48 compressor section was surrounded by a screen mesh, so finding them lying in the bottom of the duct was relatively easy.

The coins might never have hurt anything, but would have made a hell of a racket once the engine started --
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VF-152 Black Knights had Panthers with unpainted wing roots. The bare metal root can also be seen on the VF-192 Golden Knights birds in Bridges at Toko Ri. So it wasn't many, but still I wonder why.
 

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This is very red dl!

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Hello Cees!

The colour was pretty awful - but nevertheless, it's one of the crazy ones they used. Yellow, orange, and even pink was applied to various Hellcats, Cougars, and other drone airframes. I think you nailed it.

Will it get your stenciling attention like the VF-144?

Looking good. Will get good use from this one.

Many thanks in advance!

dl
 
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