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10-20-2014, 08:10 PM
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Lockheed U-2 in 1/100 scale (Murph's Model - Beta)
My newest addition is Lockheed U-2 the famous USAF blackbird, a icon of Cold War, Aaron made a extraordinary work in desing the Dragon Lady, beside a complex shape fuselage is a easy model to build.
The first machine is all black plane operated by CIA in early 60's.          
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10-20-2014, 09:29 PM
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Very nice!
Dave
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10-20-2014, 09:37 PM
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Beautiful build of an ungainly aircraft on the ground, but one that has a beauty all its own once airborne.
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This is a great hobby for the retiree - interesting, time-consuming, rewarding - and about as inexpensive a hobby as you can find. Shamelessly stolen from a post by rockpaperscissor 
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10-21-2014, 05:11 AM
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Looks great! I'll be getting the NASA bird -- unless 1/100 is the original scale, which is too small for me. Did you downsize the model? Original scale?
 Les (The Voice of Authority -- VoiceofAuthority.net - The Voice Stylings of Les Dorr, Jr.)
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10-21-2014, 05:26 AM
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10-21-2014, 05:35 AM
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You should know me by now. I'm allergic to small scale.
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10-21-2014, 06:22 AM
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Great-looking model of an important airplane. Fine work!
I once interviewed two former CIA U-2 pilots for a story. One was the first on-the-record interview with Carmine Vito, who made the first U-2 overflights of the Soviet Union and of Moscow. He said on the first flight, he used the "pilot relief tube," with the intention of urinating over Soviet soil as a bit of fighter jock Cold War humor. Upon landing, he found that the U-2's liquid waste wasn't dumped in-flight but was collected in a tank that was emptied after landing. It was a feature Kelly Johnson built into the plane because liquids released at high altitude would crystalize into ice, reflecting sunlight that might reveal the plane's position. The other pilot I interviewed would only speak off-the-record. He said that at one time, he secretly held the world altitude record, but only he and a couple of guys on the ground knew about it. At the time, the record was held by an RAF pilot (in a Canberra) and this pilot said he beat the record by several thousand feet. But because his work was secret, he couldn't tell anybody. He and Vito both said they were told to log their U-2 flight time as T-33 time in their logbooks. Both also told about being recruited. He said guys in black suits and skinny black ties -- like something out of a movie -- recruited some of their squadrons' top pilots. They gathered them in a room in a brothel (!) and at the front of a room there was an easel with a picture covered with a sheet. They were told the government was looking for volunteers to fly a special plane. Vito said he and the other fighter jocks figured they'd be flying something extremely Sierra Hotel, faster than fast and obviously top-secret -- in other words, fighter jock heaven. Then one of the CIA guys pulled back the sheet to reveal a photo of the U-2. Vito said he recalled looking at the wings and thinking, "That thing won't even go supersonic." Still, he and many of the others signed up. This model looks like it will be a good tribute to them.
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10-21-2014, 06:22 AM
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