Dave

Ed and Harold, you guys make a great team. Keep up the good work.

I like that. Eels on the front, remove before flight on the back.....hmmm Erik!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes mppd, the eels in the hoverctaft joke goes back a long long long way.

What is really cool is that it a great model still. With new skins, that Ant and you all are doing it bears repeating, old bird new skins, can't beat that.

A few Pacific-based squadrons got F-102s, the first being the 16th FIS based at Naha AFB on Okinawa which re-equipped in March of 1959. It was in the Pacific theatre that the F-102 was to achieve its only taste of combat. Aircraft from the 590th Fighter Interceptor Squadron were transferred to Tan Son Nhut AFB near Saigon in South Vietnam in March of 1962 to provide air defense against the unlikely event that North Vietnamese aircraft would attack the South. F-102As continued to be based there and in Thailand throughout much of the Vietnam war. F-102As stood alert at Bien Hoa and Da Nang in Sout Vietnam and at Udorn and Don Muang in Thailand. The F-102A was finally withdrawn from Southeast Asia in December of 1969. The F-102A established an excellent safety record in Vietnam. In almost ten years of flying air defense and a few combat air patrols for SAC B-52s, only 15 F-102As were lost. Although a few missions were flown over North Vietnam, the Southeast Asia-stationed F-102As are not thought to have actually engaged in air-to-air combat. However, one of my references has an F-102A of the 509th FIS being lost to an air-to-air missile fired by a MiG-21 while flying a CAP over Route Package IV on February 3, 1968. Two F-102As were lost to AAA/small arms fire and four were destroyed on the ground by the Viet Cong and eight were lost in operational accidents. Strange as it may seem, the F-102A actually did fly some close-support missions over the South, even though the aircraft was totally unsuited for this role. These operations started in 1965 at Tan Son Nhut using the 405 FW alert detachment. Operating under the code-name "Project Stovepipe", they used their heat sinking Falcon missiles to lock onto heat sources over the Ho Chi Minh trail at night, often Viet Cong campfires. This was more of a harassment tactic than it was serious assault. They would even fire their radar-guided missiles if their radars managed to lock onto something. The pilots were never sure if they actually hit anything, but they would sometimes observe secondary explosions. The F-102s soon switched to a day role, firing the 12 unguided FFAR rockets from the missile bays, using the optical sight. 618 day sorties were flown, the last one being flown at the end of 1965. One F-102A was downed by ground fire during one of these rocket attacks.

Great work KB!

That sure looks nice fellas.

They have the F-102 at the USAF Museum from that very unit. It is my favorite too.

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Happy Birthday my friend.

I concur. I will talk to Erik and see if we can maybe get something going?

Pete Awesome work.

That's IF it leaked. Either way they would still be cleaned up.

Streaky wouldn't look right as they were kept pretty damn clean all the time. After a flight most Deuces were cleaned up from nose to tail. 102 Crew Chiefs took great pride in how they looked because of their status as being one of the hot fighters in the USAF. Pilots loved that plane and everyone wanted to fly that thing. My uncle Tom remembers guarding them in the 50's. He said it was amazing the amount of time crews spent just polishing the skin of the aircraft. Was a shame they had to camo them up later in their career. It looks good Pete. I wouldn't change a thing.

The person that made them pulled them.

They need to eat a good bacon cheeseburger or a BBQ pulled pork sandwhich. Then they would see why the rest of the world is happy. Simple.

Engine: One Pratt & Whitney J57-P-23 turbojet, 10,200 lb.s.t. dry and 16,000 lb.s.t. with afterburning, or a J57-P-25, 11,700 lb.s.t. dry and 17,200 lb.s.t. with afterburning. Performance: Maximum speed: 825 mph at 35,000 feet (Mach 1.25). Initial climb rate: 13,000 feet per minute. An altitude of 51,800 feet could be attained in 9.9 minutes. Combat ceiling was 51,800 feet and service ceiling was 53,400 feet. Maximum range was 1350 miles. Performance Maximum speed: Mach 1.25 (825 mph, 1,304 km/h) at 40,000 ft (12,190 m) Range: 1,350 mi (1,170 nm, 2,175 km) Service ceiling: 53,400 ft (16,300 m) Rate of climb: 13,000 ft/min (66 m/s) Wing loading: 35 lb/ft² (172 kg/m²) Thrust/weight: 0.70 This is the official USAF data. TECHNICAL NOTES: Armament: 24 unguided 2.75-in. rockets and six guided missiles Engine: One Pratt & Whitney J57 of 16,000 lbs. thrust with afterburner Maximum speed: 810 mph Cruising speed: 600 mph Range: 1,000 miles Ceiling: 55,000 ft. Span: 38 ft. 1 in. Length: 68 ft. 4 in. (including boom) Height: 21 ft. 2 in. Weight: 31,559 lbs. maximum Don's info is correct.....

"I swear sir, I left it parked RIGHT HERE!"

Its still there. I am about to move it to the correct catagory though. http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?autoc...p;showfile=8716 Its right here. Didnt go anywhere.

Looking good pappy!

Um Dave didnt build any F-106 cockpit. Pasko did. Says right in the download section.

Hey, hey, everyone, take it easy, stand down all forces, knock it off, knock it off, knock it off, chill out, calm down a thou, be cool, take a load off. Feel the coolness in your vertibrea......let the coolness flow....

Hey, hey, everyone, take it easy, stand down all forces, knock it off, knock it off, knock it off, chill out, calm down a thou, be cool, take a load off. Feel the coolness in your vertibrea......let the coolness flow....

There is a Skyraider or are you talking effects?

Next you will be saying you invented the internet too.

Looking good my friend.