"Norwegian F-16

Thunderbird · by **Thunderbird** » 09 Jun 2006, 21:19

Hi I'm busy building a Norwegian F-16 and would like to know if they original used the small Stabilizers. Thank you

Habu · by **Habu** » 10 Jun 2006, 01:30

What year? The original delivery RoNAF Vipers had the short stabs, but they eventually got the Block 15 OCU, and were upgraded to big stabs.

Thunderbird · by **Thunderbird** » 10 Jun 2006, 21:56

Hi Habu. The decals I got for the plane is from 331 squadron and it is #683. Thanx

Habu · by **Habu** » 10 Jun 2006, 22:40

I just did a search on airliners and all are from 2005, os if that's what you want, then it definitely has the big stab.

Thunderbird · by **Thunderbird** » 11 Jun 2006, 07:06

Thanx and happy modeling

Habu · by **Habu** » 11 Jun 2006, 19:47

Btw...what kit and decals are you using?

Boman · by **Boman** » 25 Jun 2006, 21:22

Hello Thunderbird

#683 always had the big stabs, she`s from the second batch of Vipers we bought. The Vipers from the first batch are numbered in 272-307 series and all were block 1-10.
They have all been upgraded to MLU-standards by now, but the big stabs were introduced also on the early Vipers already in late -80`es during MSIP

Let us know how things are progressing :wink:

Scanor · by **Scanor** » 06 Aug 2008, 08:51

Boman, to some extent true..

Block 10 vipers did not get the big stabs until the MLU upgrade. I crewed a bunch of both Block 10 and 15's in '94-95 and all Block 10's had the small stabs at that time. (and the pilots used to fly the block 15 really hated the block 10's

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