Man…gotta have Timmies. I get one every morning…that stuff is like crack I tells ya! LOL.
I watched the video too. Although it is quite startling…it does make a nice juicy target if need be.[;)] A couple JDAM’s would solve that problem in a jiff.
How are your B-17’s comming along? Doesn’t look like anyone is doing anything since I finished mine.
If the Chinese build thier real planes the way they build thier models we have nothing to worry about. They would never be able to put the sub assemblies together. The Russians can still develop good aircraft but have absolutly no money to train thier pilots of produce them in any number. They basicly are in the buisness of supplying the middle eastern countries that we will not sell to with aircraft. Even though they may have these Russian planes thier tactics an general pilot traning is well below Nato standards. Look at the records of our two main frontline fighters. No country has ever brought down an F15 or an F16 in combat let alone a F 22 of F 35. The record speaks for itself.
Soulcrusher[oX)]
Tiny, Mike Belcher is a member of our IPMS Ottawa club. Known him since 2002. [:)]
His website is www.belcherbits.com
A box of timbits and a large coffee and I’m good to go!
My B-17’s are coming along, havent done much recently. Got some decals on, most of the big stuff. I’m just in a modeling rut right now I guess, cabin fever’s start’n to set in, need to get out!!! And work doesnt count.
The Canadian Hornet fleet does contain over 100 aircraft, but they rotate the fleet in and out of storage, the whole fleet is never in active service at any one time. Not enough active pilots to fly them and not enough need to have them all ready to go at any given time. Not to mention that the government in place during the 90s would have had the military get by with sticks and stones if they could get away with it.
As for CF-18 models, best place to start is with a straight A or B version as, in spite of various upgrade programes, the Canadian Hornets are, from an airframe standpoint, early 80s vintage A and B models.
There have been resin bits made over the years to cater for the various and sundry upgrades like LEX fences and so forth. I don’t believe there ever has been a true CF-18 kit by design straight from the box, they all need a little bit of help.
As for decals, look no further tham Leading Edge models out of Calgary. They make a very wide range of Canadian Hornet decals, both line aircraft and special schemes.
Yeah, I watched it. And they say America has a gun culture! I’ve never seen anybody dancing with machine guns around these parts!
That’s because if it wasn’t for Canada, we wouldn’t be able to crank up Rush good n’ loud or watch “Red Green.” That program is the funniest thing on TV.[tup][tup]
The problem the Russians have as well as most all of the Asian rim is the lacking of good metalurgy principals. Engine life in a true high performance Russian plane is only a fraction of what we consider to be the norm. They have lots of titanium and things like that, but havn’t a clue on what or how to play with hestalloys and beyond that. Let alone how to even manufacture the basic alloys. Yet the Chinese are even further behind the Russians. The Japanese have for years been trying to get into the space age metals markets, and to a certain extent have. But not the good stuff, as it’s extremely guarded.
Yesterday I watched a video of somekind fancey Russian “stealth plane”; the first thing I noticed was that it used “canards” in the front. That’s not very stealthy in anybody’s book. Now there’s talk about Iran doing a stealth plane, and I of course just smiled. I think a lot of it’s hype, and a lot of it is a way to create exports third world nations.
I won’t be loosing any sleep of this
gary
My [2c]
No, we have nothing to fear as we are not officially at odds with them anymore.
Our current foreign policy does not have us confront them like we did during the Cold War era.
In the last eight years, I have not seen any “saber-rattling” rhetoric between the U.S. and Russia as we have with North Korea.
Also, the fact is they can pose more of a threat to “The West” by simply shutting off Europe’s natural gas supply, which they essentially control, like they did recently.
Tom T [C):-)]
They are even worse off when it comes to composites (carbon fiber). You gotta have good composites for stealth aircraft
Don’t see any reason to be afraid, actual equipment usually ends up looking far different that the concept drawings. Espionage is rampant but generally consists of years of picking up one or two small facts at at time. By the time the product is produced other systems have also been improved. Even the military equipment we sell to other countries is usually less capable than what our own forces use. Case in point—Years ago Iran bought F-14 Tomcats, what they bought were considerably less capable than what was being flown in the fleet. By the time of the Iran/Iraq war most of the A/C were down hard do to poor maintenance and non-availabilty of repair parts–same thing applied to Iran’s Tomahawk missiles. No there’s no real reason to be afraid. While it looks like our security services are lax–we usually catch far more spies than the press reports on.