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mmmmm, Nice!

Thanks!

Good shots, especially liking number 6....loooks like the little fella's gonna slug ya then eat ya'll up!!

Great shots, james.

I was lucky enough to see three of these fly past Antisamos beach, Sami, Kefalonia at low level over the sea a couple of years ago.

Sorry to derail the thread, but does anyone know the purpose of the geometric shape stencilled onto the tails of these aircraft?

CelticWarrior wrote:Great shots, james.

I was lucky enough to see three of these fly past Antisamos beach, Sami, Kefalonia at low level over the sea a couple of years ago.

Sorry to derail the thread, but does anyone know the purpose of the geometric shape stencilled onto the tails of these aircraft?

Thanks!
That's right, ground-based Corsair do have that misterious twisted "M" shaped thing on the tail, also the USAF ones had it, but I don't recall seeing them on the Navy ones...

Great question and something to research. I'm guessing some sort of an antenna that USAF "D's" had that USN versions do not. The only one I can think of on the tail like that would be a VOR/ILS type antenna, most USN aircraft (even modern ones) do not have civilian ILS. Need to find a Squadron/Signal "A-7 Walk Around" book at the hobby shop.

The main difference between the two versions is that the USN have a refueling probe and the USAF versions have a boom receptacle, but you are right there are going to be other equipment differences.

According to the cutaway drawing for the A-7 in the "The World's Great Attack Aircraft" it'a flush mounted VHF antenna.

tut' i knew that

Time to pull the Iris SLUF out of retirement...

.. and here you will find some freeware scenerys too ..

http://www.avsim.com/greece/scenery/index_main.htm

awj112 Wrote:

Time to pull the Iris SLUF out of retirement...

Oh no! You need to get this SLUF!!!











http://www.razbam.org/

That's OK if you have FSX - Iris will have to do for me

delbydoo wrote:That's OK if you have FSX - Iris will have to do for me

Ditto. Razbam got out of the FS2004 business. (comment self-edited).

You have to admit that this bird is the best Corsair to date. All of the series are outstanding. A bit over powered but fun to fly.

Nice, BTW lovely shots Giacomo, are those F-4's and F-16's from the HAF AI pack by Kostis many years ago?

timbob1 wrote:Nice, BTW lovely shots Giacomo, are those F-4's and F-16's from the HAF AI pack by Kostis many years ago?

Thanks Tim!
The Phantoms are Nick's, the F-16s should be the ones you're talikng about, but with my own FPs