dose anybody make this kit or know aof a conversion for it
Don’t know if you have a scale in mind, my search only found this one.
Seems to be two different airframes. The first picture is a two-seater with regular afterburning engines, and the link in Bish’s posting shows a single-seater with thrust-vectoring nozzles on the engines. I always thought only one of these STOVL/MTD aircraft were built. Shows you what I know!
Well, after researching it a bit on-line, seems I was correct - only one of these was built, and was converted three times to demonstrate different technologies (one of these conversions involved it being converted to a two-seater), and, in the process, three different tail numbers were used on the same airframe. Cool stuff. Hope you get to build one of these kits, pws!
Yeah im looking for a 1/48th or 72nd scale and by the looks of it I could almost just use f18 horizontal stabs
Probably wouldn’t be too hard to just cut them from sheet plastic and use a standard F-15E kit for the one in your picture.
It was always a 2-seater, being built originally as the first F-15B.
As such (being an early-build), it had the “short” airbrake and this would need to be backdated if starting from an F-15E kit.
PS: The aircraft as depicted in the top pic also has thrust vectoring nozzles, only not the squared-off type. I believe these ones only translated in the vertical plane.
The “short” airbrake and nozzles can be seen here: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/F-15-vector.jpg
Ive always liked these ac to bad they never went to front line service