A-12 Avenger II
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OK this isn't really F-16 related but I just wanted to blow my own horn I just got my November issue of Fine Scale Modeler magazine, and they did a review of a resin kit of the A-12 Avenger II. In the article they printed a link to my website as a source for A-12 reference material!!! I think this link will point to the online article: http://www.finescale.com/fsm/article.aspx?aID=1220 , my website is in the next to last paragraph.
Sorry for the self-patronizing, but I don't stand a snowball's chance in h*ll of ever getting one of my models in their magazine, but I'll settle for getting my website mentioned...
OK F-16 content - a lot of F-16 engineers went on to work on the A-12 program before it was cancelled. Does that count?
GregD
Sorry for the self-patronizing, but I don't stand a snowball's chance in h*ll of ever getting one of my models in their magazine, but I'll settle for getting my website mentioned...
OK F-16 content - a lot of F-16 engineers went on to work on the A-12 program before it was cancelled. Does that count?
GregD
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Habu, my YF-12 photos: http://www.habu2.net/aeropix/yf-12/
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Ahhh....my fave of the Blackbirds. Ya know I haven't had a chance to get out there yet. Closest I got was last year when I was in Columbus for the national flying competition. Never did get a chance to get to Dayton though. I will make it out there one day.
Gotta fly!
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As long as you guys are talking about an un-viper... do either of you know if someone makes a 'Have Blue', the F-117 concept demonstrator? Seems like it mighth be a pretty interesting kit ... maybe from some place that does resin high end kits?
jus askin...
jus askin...
Salute all!
I would be very interested in the Northrop-Grumann entry.
I was hired by a small engineering firm to work with the prime contractors.
Our specialty was armament systems, and Control Data had lottsa computer expertise, but didn't know a BDU-33 from a B-61.
I briefed the airframe team a few times about the pilot-vehicle interface and the store control algorithms. Never got to actually see the bird, and was sorely peed off.
Security was awesome, and the first time I actually confirmed what we were working on and who we were working for was when the contract was cancelled by the Navy. I had my suspicions, and they were very accurate.
Maybe somebody has a pic of the Northrop design. I doubt it was a delta like the GD-MacAir design. I also think it would likely be a tough bird as Grumann had built so many times.
let's talk!
Gums
I would be very interested in the Northrop-Grumann entry.
I was hired by a small engineering firm to work with the prime contractors.
Our specialty was armament systems, and Control Data had lottsa computer expertise, but didn't know a BDU-33 from a B-61.
I briefed the airframe team a few times about the pilot-vehicle interface and the store control algorithms. Never got to actually see the bird, and was sorely peed off.
Security was awesome, and the first time I actually confirmed what we were working on and who we were working for was when the contract was cancelled by the Navy. I had my suspicions, and they were very accurate.
Maybe somebody has a pic of the Northrop design. I doubt it was a delta like the GD-MacAir design. I also think it would likely be a tough bird as Grumann had built so many times.
let's talk!
Gums
Gums
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Very little was done with this aircraft passed the brainstorming and drawing board stages. It would have been a brilliant peice of hardware had it come to be. But budgets and mismanagement along with the idea that the Navy didnt need a stealth aircraft by some morons in congress helped can the bird.
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Very little was done with this aircraft passed the brainstorming and drawing board stages.
I must disagree. I can't prove you wrong (for reasons that should be obvious), but trust me, the Dorito's legacy lives on.
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an editor here at the mag has a company model of the 'Dorito' it's very nice. He said he actually fished it out of a trash can after the program went TU. Can't believe someone was gonna throw it away!! He cleaned it up and it's looking nice on a shelf in his office. I can't imagine how much the sucker is worth!?
Salute!
You guys talking about the N-G entry? A 'dorito'? GASP!
Some of our team got to see the mockup or prototype in a hangar someplace, so I am confident that work was well beyond the 'drawing board' stage.
I also knew of a 'special' building at the Hawthorne Plant ( my TDY base of ops for a few months). I can also state that the Pico site was visited several times by folks I worked with.
My briefing on the armament system was at a hotel in Dallas, and everybody used first names only (hell, they were prolly aliases). There were at least a few Navy folks there, as the haircuts and questions thay asked me provided a clue.
So I worked on the thing from fall of '85 until the program was cancelled.
There were discussions about range being a problem for the GD-MacAir entry. I also have a suspicion that the N-G entry was really stealthy, as Nortrop's experience seemed very credible.
Oh well, those were the days.......
Would really like to see that model if someone has a pic to post.
You guys talking about the N-G entry? A 'dorito'? GASP!
Some of our team got to see the mockup or prototype in a hangar someplace, so I am confident that work was well beyond the 'drawing board' stage.
I also knew of a 'special' building at the Hawthorne Plant ( my TDY base of ops for a few months). I can also state that the Pico site was visited several times by folks I worked with.
My briefing on the armament system was at a hotel in Dallas, and everybody used first names only (hell, they were prolly aliases). There were at least a few Navy folks there, as the haircuts and questions thay asked me provided a clue.
So I worked on the thing from fall of '85 until the program was cancelled.
There were discussions about range being a problem for the GD-MacAir entry. I also have a suspicion that the N-G entry was really stealthy, as Nortrop's experience seemed very credible.
Oh well, those were the days.......
Would really like to see that model if someone has a pic to post.
Gums
Viper pilot '79
"God in your guts, good men at your back, wings that stay on - and Tally Ho!"
Viper pilot '79
"God in your guts, good men at your back, wings that stay on - and Tally Ho!"
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