F2H-3 and -4 Flight Handbook

A copy of Navy  Flight Manual #AN 01-245FBC-1, for the McDonnell F2H-3 and –4 aircraft, dated 1 May 1955.

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F3H Demon Photos

More photos from the William Rudolph Collection. This time of the F-3H Demon. Poor quality; but, you don’t find these every day!
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Vought OS2U Kingfisher Article

A photo feature article by Jim Dungan and Bill Sides on the Vought OS2U Kingfisher’'. Originally published in the December 1972 McAir Phantom Flyer.

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Vought F7U Cutlass Article (Update)

A nice article written by J.T. Thompson with Bob Pukala containing the aircraft’s history, carrier squadrons serial numbers and captioned photos. Originally published in the McAir Phantom Flyer. (This is an update to an earlier post).

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F2H Banshee Serial Numbers

Continuing in the Banshee theme, here is two sets of company and government serial number charts for the F2H Banshee. These are cleaned up copies of a previous post here

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F2H Banshee Article #1

Again while digging in the archives, I found this great article by Dick Powers that was originally published in the McAir Phantom Flyer modeling club magazine. With the F2H production summary and many captioned photos.

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AV-8B Harrier II Stickers–Part I

While digging in my archives, I came up with these three AV-8B Harrier stickers. I do love my stickers!

Lockheed C-140A Jetstar at Scott AFB Open House

Also at the same Scott Air Force open house as below was this nice example of a Lockheed C-140A Jetstar.

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F-15 Materials Distribution

An interesting graph showing the various aluminum, steel, composites. titanium and fiberglass materials that make up an F-15 aircraft.

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Vulcan at Scott AFB Open House

I got to photograph this British Vulcan bomber at an open house at Scott Air Force Base in the 1980’s. The Vulcan is my favorite non American bomber!

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CASA C-2111 (He-111) and B-17G Photos

CASA C-2111 (He-111) and B-17G photos taken by me at a mini-airshow at the St. Louis Regional Airport near me on Aug 14,1996. Enjoy!

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Convair YF2Y-1 Sea Dart at the SST Museum

Detailed photos taken by me of the Sea Dart YF2Y-1 at the SST Museum in Kissimmee, Florida (Now closed) in March 1982. Currently 135765 is preserved at Lakeland Florida Air Museum.

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More RF-15 Recon Info

Two slides from a presentation showing the RF-15 configuration and cockpit additions for the proposed aircraft.

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Other posts here and here

F-4 Detachable Recon Pod

An article from the February 12 1973 edition of Aviation Week and Space Technology magazine on a detachable recon pod for the F-4. General Dynamics made and tried to market this pod for F-4 customers in order not to have to buy a separate RF-4 aircraft.

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McDonnell FH-1 Phantom Article

Many years ago, the Smithsonian Institution issued a small information leaflet #235 on the FH-1 Phantom I with short sections on stats and a nice 3-view drawing.

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F-4 Mig Killers

A nice little article by Harley Copic on Vietnam era F-4 Mig killer aircraft with info and markings. Published in the March 1975 issue of the Quartermaster, IPMS (International Plastic Modelers Society USA) Toledo's magazine. Good job!

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F/A-18E1 First Flight Announcement

The 1 December 1995 company announcement of the first F-18E flight. Published in the Hornet Information Exchange from the F-18 project office.

F-15 Panel Access

An interesting set of photos showing the many access panels of the F-15 Eagle.

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Northrop P-61A Black Widow Photos

 Many years ago, I received these three photos from Northrop after a P-61 inquiry. These are P-61A’s in the original Olive drab paint scheme.

The Mid-Atlantic Air Museum has this to say: “The first of eighty operational P-61 Black Widows with a powered top turret rolled off the production line in October of 1943 followed by 120 improved P-61As, only the first 37 of which had the top turret and a three-man crew.  The first A-models entered operational service in May, 1944.”

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More Mid-Atlantic Air Museum P-61 info here

More Yakovlev Yak-23 (S-101) in Czech Markings

 

A couple of extra photos sent to me about the Czech S-101. The Yak-23, known as Flora, was a development of the earlier Yak-15 and Yak-17 fighters. The Yak-23 used a Soviet copy of the British Rolls-Royce Derwent V turbojet engine. I have also included a number of 3-views that I have collected.

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