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Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 1:48 am Post subject: Name that plane....
I love looking at exposed ductwork.... _________________ "All facts go to clearly prove that Shades is a thrice-cursed traitor & mentally deranged person steeped in inveterate enmity toward mankind"

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Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 7:23 am Post subject: Re: Name that plane....
F-86D _________________ " Refuel my plane and load my guns" Hiroyoshi Nishizawa " The Devil of Rabaul"

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Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 9:54 am Post subject: Re: Name that plane....
- JG300-Ascout I love looking at exposed ductwork.... You must be disapponted that you couldn't be a proctologist Oh Although the picture is probably an F-86D it could also be an F-86K or L which also had a radome nose above the air intake _________________ Bob Smart (bsmart@xecu.net)

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Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 10:57 am Post subject: Re: Name that plane....
Well you guys seem pretty sure its an F-86 model, but I was thinking an F-100. What would be the difference? (Remember I am a CDAT and know squat about wingy-thingys!)

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Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 12:21 pm
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Well I was going to explaine why I thought it was an F-86 but.....

After looking at pictures of F-86s I think I see one feature that definitley makes it an F-100.

I thought that an F-100 would have a 'flatter' cross section and a larger air intake in relation to the cockpit but ....

Looking at the aft fuselage where the tailplane is attached it appears to have a single low set mounting point. This would be indicative of a slab tailplane of an F-100 where an F-86 has a higher mounted stabilisor. So I must admit that I am converted to beliveing it is an F-100 Rolling Eyes

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Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 1:21 pm Post subject: Re: Name that plane....
Either way you look at it........ It's Hitman's after a session on the 'Zone' lmao !!! _________________ System: Mobo - Asus P5N32 E-SLI, RAM - Corsair 2GB 6400C4 DDR2, Graphics - GeForce 8800GTS 320mb GDDR3 PCI-Express, Proccessor - Intel CPU Core 2 Duo E6600 2.40GHz 1066FSB LGA775 4MB cache.

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Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 2:44 pm Post subject: Re: Name that plane....
Tanklord and Meester Smart take home the trophy. Tanklord was first with the right (tentative ) answer, and Bob cited some features. Cockpit contours are also off for F86. F100 it is! _________________ "All facts go to clearly prove that Shades is a thrice-cursed traitor & mentally deranged person steeped in inveterate enmity toward mankind"

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Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 7:47 am
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Late to the game, but I guessed F100 too.

Growing up in Tucson AZ, I got to see a lot of these older birds as they were dismembered for parts and eventually scrapped. I got pretty good at figuring out what a particular bird was even with parts missing and the guts exposed. It was sad, but I guess we'd run out of space if we kept them all...

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