I’m starting work on the splendid Fisher F9f Cougar resin kit, but I can’t find any good reference for cockpit interior color, other than the early-black/late-gray panel and consoles. The photos I have seem to show a shade of gray, but they’re black-and-white shots, so I can’t be sure. Any former Cougar pukes out there who can set me straight?
Stephan Wilkinson
Everything I’ve ever read, and the Detail and Scale book I have, says if it is a Sea Blue Cougar, then it is interior green and black. If it is Light Gull Grey and White, then it should be dark gull grey. I can imagine there are exceptions, as in everything else.
Stephan,
A quick call to an old Navalelecs tech who used to work on the Panther and Cougar both confirms wayne baker’s info on the color schemes, as best as he remembers.
Brian [C):-)]
Outstanding! Thanks, people. I’m going to do it in light gray and white, and the interior green I started to try just didn’t look right.
Stephan
The single-seat Cougars I flew in the Training Command in 1965 (designators AF-9J) had gray interiors. Most of these were old fleet birds that came in from various reserve units. Unlike the two-seat TF-9J’s, which were white, a few these aircraft sported the haze gray fleet paint schemes with red/orange nose, tail and wing panels indigenous to the training command added. It was a real thrill to strap into one of these birds, look over your shoulder and behold no back seat! At last! A real fighter! (well, almost).