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Picture Post => Current and Finished Projects => Aircraft => Topic started by: Spino on April 05, 2024, 03:11:48 PM

Title: F/A-37, but Realistic (I hope)
Post by: Spino on April 05, 2024, 03:11:48 PM
I have had such a hard time finding a decent F/A-37 model to print in 1:48 scale that I decided to build my own from scratch.  But since it's never going to be totally accurate anyway, I decided to make some changes while I was at it.  The biggest differences are in the rear fuselage, where the cool but very weird exhaust is going away (replaced by a pair of 2D thrust vectoring nozzles), and the terrible intakes with splitter plates are getting replaced by diverterless supersonic intakes a-la-F-35.  Also the tail will no longer fold down when the wings sweep forward.  Here's what I have so far.
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