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Cees
Cees, Thank you for all your efforts, I would like to request a Blue Angels Demo Team repaint. I know there is a FT9F one but I have not found a single seat version. Thanks, Harley Dude
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:F..._Red_Drone.jpg
Thanks for considering. Your VF-144 paint will be a real treat too.
cheers,
dl
Cees,
Appreciate a paint of these two thanks.
Martial Feron already did the gull-grey VF-61: http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforum...d=183&id=23406
It's a stunning repaint.
The second image is an F9F-5 Panther. VF-154 never flew Cougars - they transitioned from Panthers directly to the FJ-3 Fury in about 1956.
dl
Very nice, CD!!
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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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