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by **Dan4th** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 11:21 am

Starfighters X Nine:

Nice Paint!

And.........

Ciao fer Now.......

Dan4th

by **Mayfly** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 11:36 am

woohoo

love'em, love 'em, love 'em .... $\:D/$ $\:D/$ $\:D/$

by **320psi** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 12:57 pm

Lovely, shame we failed to get one when they finished, did try really hard as well, was no go though

by **Saracenman** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 5:28 pm

but where would you have PUT it 320? :-o

by **Spitfire** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 5:34 pm

They're like missiles aren't they

There must be a lot of lift from the fuselage cos there sure aint much from those wings

by **Xplumberlives** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 5:41 pm

Spitfire wrote:They're like missiles aren't they
There must be a lot of lift from the fuselage cos there sure aint much from those wings

Think back to your PHYSICS lessons, RAW POWER will overcome!

by **Dan4th** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 5:42 pm

There's very little wing to a LIGHTNING, too!

D.

by **Xplumberlives** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 5:42 pm

Dan4th wrote:There's very little wing to a LIGHTNING, too!
D.

Same thing, just RAW POWER!

by **Spitfire** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 6:06 pm

Yes - remember it well when building control line model planes - we used to say then - with enough 'thrutch' you could get a brick to fly ...but its getting it off the ground initially that's the issue - there must be SOME source of lift and I just thought that big fuselage may provide some

by **Pujgnie** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 7:27 pm

Only ever saw 1 Starfighter in the flesh. That was at RAF St Mawgan International Air Day back in the 70's.

Also known as the 'Flying Coffins'

A Quote from Wiki :

Ejection seat
Early Starfighters used a downward-firing ejection seat (the Stanley C-1), out of concern over the ability of an upward-firing seat to clear the tailplane. This presented obvious problems in low-altitude escapes, and some 21 USAF pilots failed to escape their stricken aircraft in low-level emergencies because of it. The downward-firing seat was soon replaced by the Lockheed C-2 upward-firing seat, which was capable of clearing the tail, although it still had a minimum speed limitation of 104 mph (170 km/h). Many export Starfighters were later retro-fitted with Martin-Baker zero-zero ejection seats, which had the ability to successfully eject the pilot from the aircraft even at zero altitude and zero airspeed.[7]

Nice vids Dan4th

by **Mayfly** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 7:38 pm

they often popped into Wittering Mr Knees did you not see them then?

by **320psi** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 8:43 pm

Saracenman wrote:but where would you have PUT it 320?

We werent thinking that far ahead, just wanted to save one at the time, even went out to Grosseto a few times, base visits, made good contacts, got to a have a look at how they are stripped and transported, but the red tape got to thick, gave up in 2008
All now still parked outside in lines at Grosseto