GusM Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 Hi all, I'm looking for some help from anyone with knowledge of the Greek SLUFs. I fancy doing one as the weathering would be a real 'skills development' opportunity. I know that some were A-7H and some surplus A-7E but what I wondered was which would the 'correct' Aires cockpit set - early or late? I know the Trumpeter kit has 'issues' but no-one else in my house would know a Corsair from a coathanger, so as long as it looks ok to me that'll be fine. Cheers, Gus phasephantomphixer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Williams Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 They didn't get the surplus USN A-7Es until the early 90's, so they would surly have come with the SJU-8 seat since the Navy had already swapped over before then. The A-7Hs were delivered in the late 70s, so they would have come with the original ESCAPAC seat, but I'm not sure if they were retrofitted with the SJU seat later. GusM 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Menelaos Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 (edited) Good morning folks the first HAF A-7s as Dave already wrote were A-7Hs with the ESCAPAC seat and no refueling probe (it was sealed over with a long plate) The camo was the original USAF Vietnam style with ALL the stencils in english (not in greek as for other AC) only the big ΠΑ (PA, means Polemiki Aeroporia> Air Force) The cockpit of the A-7H is shown here: left console right one the main wheels were of the D-Type, and no landing aproach lights on the front door, no catapult mechanism the later A-7Es were indentical to the US-NAVY ones but without the catapult bar and having the D-Type wheels. Edited November 21, 2017 by Menelaos LSP_K2 and GusM 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Menelaos Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 (edited) the first A-7Es came with an almost 100% wrap around SEA camo. Only a small area under the fuselage and the wings undersides were in light grey. later they were painted like their H brothers... Edited November 21, 2017 by Menelaos GusM and LSP_K2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Maxim Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 The A7-E's had the SJU-8 seat as you can see in the last two photos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Menelaos Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 The twoseaters TA-7H and later TA-7Cs were also jsut like their oneseater brothers... here's a well weathered TA-7C Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Menelaos Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 and for those that asking what colors were inside the air intake.... GusM 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red Dog Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 I recommend to have a look at this book, It's full of heavily weathered greek camo and a great ressource for a HAF corsair I used it for my own A-7E project and even for that it's been proven quite useful Menelaos, GusM and LSP_K2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Menelaos Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 yes great book: http://originalundmodell.de/Literatur_2016/airdoc_ftm002.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Maxim Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 What happened to the Greek A-7's after they retired them? Were they scrapped? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Menelaos Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 (edited) no the most off them are staying in the sun at Araxos AFB..... Edited November 21, 2017 by Menelaos GusM 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Menelaos Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 before today....(note also the F-104 wracks ...) GusM 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmel Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 Here's another resource for Greek A-7s. http://www.reidairpublishing.com/product-p/rap015.htm When I was at Araxos shooting the jets for this book, there were already a bunch of A-7Hs out in the fields, with a few A-7Es joining them. The remaining airworthy jets were downright filthy. So dirty that I didn't enjoy climbing into the cockpits to shoot the details. Dirtiest aircraft I've ever been around. Jake mark31 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark31 Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 i dondt whant to hijack this traed but is here some one ho can me help me out with the next thing each wing has two lights when in use are the fading or are the flashing I have lookd tru many vids but didnt found a answer thanks Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GusM Posted November 21, 2017 Author Share Posted November 21, 2017 Thanks all for the info, especially Menelaos for all the great pictures. I think the grafitti up the intake is a bit beyond my painting skills! Sad to see them rotting away in the sun like that. Thanks Jake and Red Dog for the book recommendations as well. I can see a few Christmas presents on the horizon... LSP_K2 and Menelaos 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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