Model Real World planes with a WHIF boxtop

[Charlie_c67]

So, I can't actually remember where I found this, but I think it's meant to be an F-94. The other three look as they should, but for some reason the main picture looks like someone's tried to stick a modern Turbinlite onto a jet aircraft? 

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[Weaver]

They're trying to show Mighty Mouse rockets firing from the tubes around the radome, but they've drawn the tube doors closed...

I like the way it says "FOR THE SUPERSONIC ERA" and all the aircraft featured are subsonic...

[kerick]

That kit must be ancient!!!!!

[frank2056]

Scalemates that set is from 1957, but the F-94 kit dates from 1952

[Dizzyfugu]

On the "real" F-94C (A and B had four machine guns under the radome) the weapon arrangement looked like this when ready to fire:



For maintenance, the rocket bays could be opened even more:

[PR19_Kit]

Excellent pics there Thomas, handy if you're super-detailing an F-94C kit.

Or the nose of an F-94C grafted onto something else, MUCH more likely here! 

[jcf]

Forty years ago I had a neighbour
who was a retired USAAF/USAF and ANG pilot. Started out in the P-51H in 1946. He ended his career in the '60s flying the F-4 but in the years between he flew the F-89 and the F-94B and F-94C. He related that firing the nose rockets of the F-94C could indeed cause a flame-out due to the ingestion of the rocket exhaust gasses. The secret was to not salvo them all at once in order to not choke the finicky J48 (license built R-R Tay), which did not like to be restarted. 

[Weaver]

Forty years ago I had a neighbour
who was a retired USAAF/USAF and ANG pilot. Started out in the P-51H in 1946. He ended his career in the '60s flying the F-4 but in the years between he flew the F-89 and the F-94B and F-94C. He related that firing the nose rockets of the F-94C could indeed cause a flame-out due to the ingestion of the rocket exhaust gasses. The secret was to not salvo them all at once in order to not choke the finicky J48 (license built R-R Tay), which did not like to be restarted.

IIRC, once they'd got the wing-mounted rocket pods, they often wired the nose tubes shut and didn't use them at all. Pity in one way, since they were the most accurate (perhaps "least inaccurate" would be better...) Mighty Mouse launchers, due to the fact that the closed-breech tubes meant the rockets accelerated faster.

[Captain Canada]

Any pics of the kit ? Wonder if it's the old Revell one ?

[jcf]

Any pics of the kit ? Wonder if it's the old Revell one ?

It's the 1/91 scale Comet kit originally released in 1952. The image in the original post is the four in one kit: F-94C 1/91; F3D 1/96; F9F 1/82; F-100 1/103. 

Scalemates: Comet F-94C 1956 release

[Charlie_c67]

Now that would make a good WHIF. In flight, firing the rockets with the packs open like that 

[Rick Lowe]

Now that would make a good WHIF. In flight, firing the rockets with the packs open like that 

The 'Aliens' Dropship... 

[Charlie_c67]

For some reason I have the alien from the start of Men in Black in my head when I look at that pic.

[kitbasher]

For some reason I have the alien from the start of Men in Black in my head when I look at that pic.

YES! 🛸