Some NASA T-38's

djnocturnal · Post by **djnocturnal** » 09 Sep 2008, 18:39

i plan on doing a package for the nasa t-38's i just to get more info on them, are they all based out of Ellington Field? i've seen two sit out here at KELP whenever i've been there. any info would be much appreciated

anyway here are the screenies...

Ford Friendly · Post by **Ford Friendly** » 09 Sep 2008, 19:29

At least 1 is based out of Dryden Flight Research Center http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/airc ... index.html

Same link indicates Langley was its former home. Possibly more there?

Cowboymarine1593 · Post by **Cowboymarine1593** » 09 Sep 2008, 20:17

damn ur quick to put stuff togeather, didnt they just release the paint kit lol

djnocturnal · Post by **djnocturnal** » 09 Sep 2008, 20:19

Cowboymarine1593 wrote:damn ur quick to put stuff togeather, didnt they just release the paint kit lol

lol yeah i kind of had this one worked out before the paintkit, i had attempted to make my own so i basically just transfered what i had done over to the paint kit.

alexrfixit · Post by **alexrfixit** » 09 Sep 2008, 20:21

That NASA scheme looks dead smart - nice one!

Victory103 · Post by **Victory103** » 09 Sep 2008, 22:10

From what I can tell flying in and out of the Houston area, looks like most are based at Ellington. Great repaint and can't wait for the USNTPS T-38's to be painted up soon.

djnocturnal · Post by **djnocturnal** » 09 Sep 2008, 22:25

glad you guys like the paints, i was thinking about doing those as well. are they still in the same scheme?
http://www.thenorthspin.com/photos_offi ... ous/38.jpg

Ford Friendly · Post by **Ford Friendly** » 09 Sep 2008, 22:53

I got a "no permissions to enter" screen, so here's the pic I can see of the USNTPS T-38.

djnocturnal · Post by **djnocturnal** » 09 Sep 2008, 23:10

Ford Friendly wrote:I got a "no permissions to enter" screen, so here's the pic I can see of the USNTPS T-38.

ah, not sure what happened but yeah thats it, wouldn't be too hard too paint.

pgd · Post by **pgd** » 10 Sep 2008, 01:31

djnocturnal wrote:i plan on doing a package for the nasa t-38's i just to get more info on them, are they all based out of Ellington Field? i've seen two sit out here at KELP whenever i've been there. any info would be much appreciated

While flying around the Orlando area, we'd see them come into Cape Canaveral w/the astronauts a few days prior to a shuttle launch. They would land on the Shuttle Landing Facility runway (KTTS). Parking was on the SOUTH ramp area. Hope this helps fuel some ideas

I can help with an AFCAD for KTTS.

Victory103 · Post by **Victory103** » 10 Sep 2008, 15:20

Have a "Combat Aircraft" mag with a article on the USNTPS program. Paint looks the same and that story was only a year or two old.

Most of the USAF IFF T-38A/C's would be easy to repaint, just tailcodes. I believe the Edwards AFB T-38's are still "white" jets.

djnocturnal · Post by **djnocturnal** » 10 Sep 2008, 15:31

is anyone planning on doing a package for the USNTPS t-38's?
If not i could paint them just shoot me some serials!

Weescotty · Post by **Weescotty** » 10 Sep 2008, 16:23

Nice.

Reminds me - I must get around to updating them with the clear reflective canopies!!!

bitburgeaglekeeper · Post by **bitburgeaglekeeper** » 11 Sep 2008, 01:43

Although no NASA T-38s are based in the Phoenix area we see them all the time at Gateway (KIWA) usually on fuel stops between Edwards and El Paso or Ellington.

http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-p ... 239461.jpg

http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-p ... 280136.jpg

6192 · Post by **6192** » 11 Sep 2008, 20:46

if your strugling with flightplans all nasa aircraft can be tracked across the united states, also you can browse all previous flightplans to give you an idea of where they go, maybe this website will help http://flightaware.com/live/airport/KEF ... rcrafttype

regards

dan h

MikeyW · Post by **MikeyW** » 12 Sep 2008, 01:39

Weescotty wrote:Nice.

Reminds me - I must get around to updating them with the clear reflective canopies!!!

That would be sweet...

awj112 · Post by **awj112** » 12 Sep 2008, 14:33

6192 wrote:if your strugling with flightplans all nasa aircraft can be tracked across the united states, also you can browse all previous flightplans to give you an idea of where they go, maybe this website will help http://flightaware.com/live/airport/KEF ... rcrafttype

regards

dan h

Flightaware rules! The only thing it can't track are military flights for obvious reasons.

igorski · Post by **igorski** » 12 Sep 2008, 18:13

There is a NASA T-38 package somewhere in the works with MAIW, I distinctly remember spending a couple hours doing all the NASA T-38 textures one day!

djnocturnal · Post by **djnocturnal** » 12 Sep 2008, 19:18

igorski wrote:There is a NASA T-38 package somewhere in the works with MAIW, I distinctly remember spending a couple hours doing all the NASA T-38 textures one day!

hehe yeah i didn't find out untill after i posted these screenshots, oh well.
i try.

MikeyW · Post by **MikeyW** » 18 Sep 2008, 07:33

Weescotty wrote:Nice.

Reminds me - I must get around to updating them with the clear reflective canopies!!!

Actually, I ve been playing around with the paintkit and the canopy appears to be clear and reflective (maybe I'm doing something wrong?). Anyway, I've attached a couple of screenies. These are N864NA and N863NA at Dryden. I've been Googling for info, and it seems that all of NASA's T-38Ns are updated T-38Cs with bigger engine inlets, and ejection seat ugrades, except for these two ships, which are actually AT-38Bs. It seems that NASA has 36 or so all total, and most of them are based out of Ellington Field, though I think two are at Langley, and one is at Ames.

Nasa's N numbers work like this: NxnnNA, where the x is a number identifying where the aircradt is based (5=Langley AFB, 7=Ames (Moffett), 8=Dryden (Edwards AFB), and 9=JSC (Ellington Field)). It's tough to figure out the paint scheme for the T-38s, as the T-38s at Dryden seem to have blue stripes that go right to the black anti-glare paint on top of the nose, others at JSC have stripes come to a point before they hit the nose of the plane, and some have stripes that go all the way to the nose of the plane, and then meet underneath.

The paintkit is really nice but takes some getting used to, in that since it's not marked, you have to experiment to find the areas on the sheet color that color the parts on the model. But it's pretty intuitive. Mainly, my problems came from trying to figure out what areas painted the antennas. Also, the mapping makes things that you put on the foreward sides of the fuselage curve toward the top, so it's a bit tricky making that anti-glare paint go all the way to the nose. Also, it's hard to get the stripes on the engine, since trying to get it low enough to be level with the stripes on the fuselage, will make them go under the elevators, which makes it look different from the actual planes. And you can't make te stripes too fat because as you get to the engine inlet, it cus off the top of the stripe.

But boy this sure is great, and it is really neat to see the NASA birds flying.

Some NASA T-38's

Some NASA T-38's

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