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    1/16 scale scratch built AT-38B Talon-The Smurf jet is back!

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    How effin cool is this-

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    she’s a big girl, and needs some big legs. 
    Timmy! Engineered all of this; incorporating brass inserts vertically and horizontally and high strength resin to ensure maximum strength…and the whole thing clicks together without glue.

    Ridiculous.

    This has easily saved me months of traditional scratch building, failures, and frustration.

    The whole assembly just drops into the wing-

    Those are Timmy’s! Fingers BTW-

     

    super cool.

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    Tamiya F-16 Aggressor, Kicked Up a Notch, April 11/24: Lighting Details

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    Posted · Edited by Pete Fleischmann

    On 4/9/2024 at 8:15 AM, chuck540z3 said:

    F-16’s have 16 static wicks trailing all the control surfaces, why don’t other fighter jets like F-15’s and F-18’s have them as well?  Hmmmm…….

     

     

    Looking great Chuck-

    The shape of the F-16; along with its significant dialectic areas, makes it particularly prone to accumulating a static charge, which can be tough on any equipment operating in the RF spectrum. Also; the F-16 is really just a bunch of computers flying in formation. The most critical being the 4 way digital flight control computers and the fuel control unit. Think of a surge protector for your computer. The static dischargers meter off a constant stream of electrons to reduce corona noise and streaming; in an effort to prevent one large discharge. Corona noise results from ionization around the wingtips, vertical fin, and horizontal tail surfaces. Streaming is a type of noise that accumulates around non-conductive areas like radomes and carbon fiber.

    Cant really speak to the other aircraft though. 
    I do know one F-16 pilot who got struck by lightning (Syracuse ANG F-16A) and it shut the engine down. He’s also the only guy I know who lost the engine and did a successful air start in the Viper. Fun fact: Usually when it quits- it’s hard broke.

     

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    1/16 scale scratch built AT-38B Talon-The Smurf jet is back!

    in Works in Progress

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    On 4/3/2024 at 8:11 PM, LSP_Kevin said:

     

    This thread itself dates back to March 2010!

     

    Kev


    hi Kev-

    yep. And even back then, the plan was to skin the model in aluminum..which is en vogue around here lately..but you really need to go back even further in time to Timmy’s! 1/24 OV-10D for the genesis of aluminum skinning.

    But also, this build certainly started before 3D printing was even a thing. Now it is really helping get this across the finish line.
     

    hopefully it won’t be on my bench another 14 years!

     

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    1/16 scale scratch built AT-38B Talon-The Smurf jet is back!

    in Works in Progress

    Posted

    36 minutes ago, scvrobeson said:

    So this is going to be flyable by the time you're done, right Pete? Couple of servos and motors in the back, and you can take it for a spin like your real jet. More wonderful progress on the Smurf

     

     


    Matt 


    Honestly; Timmy’s! Plans are so spot-on I’m sure it would fly..but it would need a ton of aileron trim from my crappy construction techniques 

    Make the others jealous

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    26 minutes ago, Juggernut said:

    I was trying to figure out how to turn it around...but that's not happening. Still cool though and I can think of several drinks that would fit nicely in a pictcher. No, I'm not an alcoholic but my Grandson was 100 days old last weekend and it was a good birthday party.


    I’m not an alcoholic…they go to meetings. I just drink a lot.

    1/16 scale scratch built AT-38B Talon-The Smurf jet is back!

    in Works in Progress

    Posted · Edited by Pete Fleischmann

    This is as far as I dare go with skinning the belly for now. The forward join and intakes will require some adjustment before I can skin over that portion-

    perhaps the oil-canning between the speedbrake wells is a little over done; but it is such a common characteristic of the T-38-I had to do it. Should look ok under paint..it’s just super reflective right now in bare aluminum.

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    …so on to the top next I guess!

     

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