I drive
"El prometido" a little crazy with the fact that I , at times, will persue a tiny detail about something far further than she would or anyone else she knows for that matter.
This time the point in detail is the F-102 and the Case X and Case XX wings. You may have noticed that I am building the Grand Models TF-102 conversion set. I have also bought their decal set for the aircraft which has several choices on it. I have decided on 54-1367 of the 196
th FIS, California ANG. The serial is depicted a 0-1367 as it was the practice at the time for aircraft over ten years old to receive the number zero to replace the year digit. This was probably done to avoid confusion as to which year an aircraft was built and to avoid the same number appearing on two different aircraft. A case in point would be an aircraft serialed 64-1367 would be shown the same as the option I am using as 4-1367 so the older aircraft has the year digit replaced with a 0.
Anyway, back to the case of the F-102 wing. The conversion set said it was suitable for either type of wing which got me to wondering how do I know which type is suitable for the aircraft I wanted to build? I had found through my research that the Case xx wing was introduced from F-102A 56-1317. OK, so my choice of aircraft was earlier than that so the next question was were the case XX wings retrospectively fitted to earlier aircraft?
With receiving Detail & Scale Vol35 today I was able to answer that question as a caption for a couple of photographs at the top of page 53 stated that
Beginning with F-102A, 56-1317, the cambered Case XX (Case Twenty) replaced the Case X wing. It should be noted that it was not retrofitted to earlier aircraft Hurrah!!! I have my answer!!!!

I am satisfied, Replete with knowledge gleaned from dark and hidden corners
which should have been in other places as well as this one book!!!But I am glad I found it out so I am able to correctly portray the aircraft I am modelling.
This now begs the question, which version of F-102 is the rather dated Hasegawa kit? The Meng kit, which is rather lovely, is available in either wing type but Hasegawa was only made as one type.
Gondor