This weekend was productive. I learned to use Inkscape a bit more and I released the first vectored PDF of the TF39.
No tabs, no instructions but a scalable design with some stencil and panel.
I'd like to propose to Peter Taft to substitute one engine of his B-52 with my TF39. Ok we have to enlarge it 4,36 times (from 1/144 to 1/33), but could be a good test for his scalability.
In my research I found on the War Birds #36 this note about the nickname:
"... The C-5 was nicknamed "
Fat Albert" after a comic character - a rotund youth with a small head perched a top a trunk of great girth held upright by stubby legs - an apt likeness when viewed from the front. Detractors dubbed it "
Fred", for Fantastic Ridicolous Economic Disaster - the version for polite company (DoD)"
May be someone at the Blue Angels knew the comic character and saw the same likeness with the C-130.
Nando