-
Modelers Alliance has updated the forum software on our website. We have migrated all post, content and user accounts but we could not migrate the passwords.
This requires that you manually reset your password.
Please click here, http://modelersalliance.org/forums/login to go to logon page and use the "Forgot your Password" option.
Recconnaisance Campaign
- Thread starter ij001
- Start date
Sherman 18
Master at Arms
Oh I bet! That had to be AWESOME!
Seen a B2 at an Air Force football game and that makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up.
:drinks
That would have been a treat for sure!
Heavens Eagle
Well-known member
Went to my storage building in Tulsa a number of years ago. Had just gotten out of the car and heard a jet flying over, but it sounded funny. Looked up to see the flying wedge shape up in the air. Was sooooo COOL! B)
ij001
Well-known member
Yeah, have to say, in Europe generally and the UK in particular we were very spoiled-for-choice at the major airshows in the 1980's... The stuff I've seen (and photographed - some of which I've shared here ) was simply incredible.
All of which probably (definitely ?) informs my choice of (jet) modelling subjects.
Ian.
All of which probably (definitely ?) informs my choice of (jet) modelling subjects.
Ian.
Swordsman
Active member
Cool!
So I guess I'm in this ..... I go busy at the Hobby Shop ..... So I had found this F5-E Lightning in the back room and said to myself " Who I'm I holding this For " ..... :frantic
:coolio
This the RB-50? Is there a kit of this out there? I'm lookin' for a KB-50 kit since mom's cousin was lost in one during the 1950s "Haystrike" missions
Don't think that's a B50 variant, tail not tall enough and the engines don't look like the big corn cob R-4360 motors. Maybe it was an one off test bed.
I really have no clue other than the RB-50 was a variant of the B-29. That's why I asked.
Ah, here it is.
http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=2529
B-29 AEW Airborn Early Warning
http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=2529
B-29 AEW Airborn Early Warning
RichB
Well-known member
:coolio
This the RB-50? Is there a kit of this out there? I'm lookin' for a KB-50 kit since mom's cousin was lost in one during the 1950s "Haystrike" missions
That was originally a B-29-80-BW 44-87599 converted to a B-29 Airborne Early Warning test bed in 1951. Three B-29's were converted for full scale development testing which led to the RC-121 and the EC-121.
Academy makes a 1/72 B-50 and RB-50 and had planned a KB-50 but it never hit shelves. There was a company, DB Conversions, that made a resin set that would convert an Airfix B-29 into several B-50 variants. I don't know if it is still available.
Cheers,
Rich
