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There you go, Jack! Keep 'em coming ! :lol:

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I'm assuming that all of the black soot under the intake scoop (best seen in the last picture) is from the gun being fired?

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You're correcdt, Gary. The Skyhawk uses 2 Colt Mk12 cannons. Because the Mk12s have a considerable muzzle blast a gas deflector is incorporated just above the muzzles. Some units painted the area behind the muzzle with a big black rectangle to minimize the appearance of the gun soot.

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