F-86f 40 wing question

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Guys please tell me if the only visual difference between the JASDF F-86f40 sabre wing and the USAF F-86f 30 wing is the length by about 1" on the 40?

Also the aileron on the 30 goes all the way to the wingtip but on the 40 it stops at the extention.

What about the rest of the airframe, visually pretty much the same?

I need to decide if my Hasagawa 1/32 F-F86f40 (JASDF) can be turned into a Korea era F-86f30

Thanx

Theuns

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The F-40 wing had an “automatic” leading-edge slat on the extended-chord and extended-span wing. I can’t recall whether the old Hasegawa Sabre had the slats molded separately or not. I believe the F-30 wing was the “hard” leading edge (no slat) with the little fence. It has the extended-chord wing (“6-30 wing”) but not the extended span. So you can use the Hasegawa wing with the slat retracted, span decreased, and then panel lines around the slat filled and sanded, and the little fence added.

Here’s a great drawing I found on-line. Jennings Heilig explains it pretty well:

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This Hasa kit has the slats seperate , I would like to try do either a Korea eafr F-86f slatted wing or a Canadair CL-13 slatted wing.

From the pix what I can tell it looks only like the 1’ extention on the block 40’s that were different to the other slatted wing Sabres?

Theuns

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Paul, I did a study of the F-86L and F-20 at McClellan and noticed that although the geometry of the two are the same as depicted on Jenning’s nice drawings, there a quite a few detail differences. The L wing which is the lengthed D wing has heavier skins and as I recall a number of different access panels.

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The Korean War slatted-wing early F Sabre would be the narrow-chord wing, and if you’re really fussy, you’d want to remove that “6-3” chord extension from the F-40 wing –assuming that Hasegawa had the proper chord of the F-40 in the kit. Most people won’t even notice the difference, really.

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If I was pedantic then yes you are right about the 6/3 issue but lucky for me at our club the guys don’t measure everything with micrometers LOL.

Just nice to have a relatively acurate model if I can get it :slight_smile:

I am thinking of then going with a Canadair CL-13b wing as used by the SAAF.

Thanx

Theuns