How Many Of You built The Revell Model?????

[Chris Brame]

I built one for my aborted Pearl Harbor movie; of course it was before I knew it was an A model - guess I would have to have done all the work Gary and crew just did and swap out the engines and nacelles as well. At that point I wouldn't have wanted to blow it up...

[tom d. friedman]

tadan, quite impressive!! but you need an air traffic controller toot sweet!!!

[TAdan]

Thanks for looking at my ceiling everyone, hehe. I like to call it an air traffic controllers worst nightmare. (I also dread the day that I move and have to patch and paint the ceiling! )

I was just looking at it and realized I've added about a dozen more planes since then... (A few more are P-40's of course!)

I have two 1/48 B-24's and one 1/72 B-24. All Revellogram.

Here are two newer pics...

[CAPFlyer]

Does that B-58 have Phoenix missles

Those would be Mk. 43 freefall nuclear devices. The B-58 was actually cleared to fly with the pylons and weapons on them, but they were never used beyond testing. The proposed use of the B-58 as a low-level supersonic bomber during Vietnam would have seen a quartet of Mk.83 2,000# bombs attached to those hardpoints with a fuel tank or combination fuel tank/bomb rack on the centerline.

From The Hustler Hangar

The B-58 carried a hefty array of nuclear weapons. After the introduction of the B-58, the Air Force began to have doubts about the utility of a bomber that could only carry a single nuclear weapon, and so between 1961 and 1963 all B-58s were retrofitted with four stub pylons, arranged in tandem under the wing roots, to carry Mk 43 or Mk 61 nuclear weapons. With the centerline weapon the B-58 would now carry five nuclear weapons. The 43rd and the 305th Bomb Wings each had 20 fully armed aircraft/crews standing full time alert, with the capability of launching immediately. Somebody knew we had that capability.