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Model Forum / General / Models / June 2006F-22 Raptor - is it real?
Have a look at the "Hot Bird of the Week" pictures on the Two Bobs website. http://www.twobobs.net/ The F-22s shown there have no stencilling around the cockpit - not even ejection seat warning triangles. Because of their stealth nature there are very few panel lines and protruberances. To me, they don't look real! In fact, they look about as realistic as the SA-43 Hammerhead seen in the science-fiction series "Space: Above and Beyond". I always find that smaller scale models look far more realistic when they have lots of lumps and bumps and dangly bits. Lots of stencils, properly applied, also enhance the realism. I wonder how realistic small scale model F-22s will look, given that the real things look like second rate TV props!  SignatureEnzo I wear the cheese. It does not wear me. > Have a look at the "Hot Bird of the Week" pictures on the Two Bobs website. > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > applied, also enhance the realism. I wonder how realistic small scale model > F-22s will look, given that the real things look like second rate TV props! The flying around and incandescent exhaust during the demonstration flights settled any doubts though! I guess the one they had to cut the canopy on when the pilot couldn't get it to open was locked up in one of the hangers. That JSF static display wasn't particularly convincing though. The "joints" on the vertical tails looked like black pin striping tape. I also noticed the canopy didn't have the amber coating the other stealth aircraft have. I'm thinking the coating probably keeps radar from getting reflections off the cockpit interior. >> Have a look at the "Hot Bird of the Week" pictures on the Two Bobs >> website. [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > aircraft have. I'm thinking the coating probably keeps radar from > getting reflections off the cockpit interior. Canopies are expensive - you don't waste money on a combat canopy for a test jet...and I'd wager that the "joints" you observed on the tails were probably external runs of instumentation wiring - strain gauges and such - which were covered with dental cement, epoxy or some such. Common practice. Never make production assumptions from a test jet...unless you work on them. Signature- Rufus Of course they are real and they are spec-tac-ular >>> Have a look at the "Hot Bird of the Week" pictures on the Two Bobs >>> website. [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] > Never make production assumptions from a test jet...unless you work on > them. > Of course they are real and they are spec-tac-ular Boring boring boring... and ugly, too. Rob >>Of course they are real and they are spec-tac-ular > > Boring boring boring... and ugly, too. > > Rob ...until they shoot at you. Signature- Rufus > >>Of course they are real and they are spec-tac-ular > > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > -- > - Rufus Confrontation can be ugly too. ;) Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr. >>>>Of course they are real and they are spec-tac-ular >>> [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr. ...winning ugly. Signature- Rufus Speaking of ugly, the Thunderbirds are at Willow Grove this weekend. I know it's just a personal thing but 30 years later and I still don't like the F-16 all that much. I can't figure why I took such a dislike to the thing but it's still there. Out of all the kits I bought of it I still only ever built one and that was because I needed one for a hobby show display. Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr. >Speaking of ugly, the Thunderbirds are at Willow Grove this weekend. >I know it's just a personal thing but 30 years later and I still don't [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > >Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr. i haven't like any of them since the f-86. well, maybe the 111. modern jets have no personality. >>Speaking of ugly, the Thunderbirds are at Willow Grove this weekend. >>I know it's just a personal thing but 30 years later and I still don't [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > i haven't like any of them since the f-86. well, maybe the > 111. modern jets have no personality. I haven't liked any of them since the F4. I've seen both the T-Birds and the Blues shows flying the F4 - it was big, fast, smokey, loud airplane. Just the thing to impress at an airshow. Nothing since has impressed me as a display airframe...except maybe the F-15. But I also think the F-16 makes a better show jet than the F/A-18. I think it's because of teh flexing of the wings on the Hornet...makes the diamond look sloppier. Neither show is as impressive as the Phantom shows were though. Signature- Rufus First time I saw the Blue Angels was an F-4 show. Indeed, a very impressive beast! The A-4s were, um, cute and altogether a surprise. Who'd think the little bomber could be so maneuvrable, aside from their crews, I suppose. Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr. > First time I saw the Blue Angels was an F-4 show. Indeed, a very > impressive beast! > The A-4s were, um, cute and altogether a surprise. Who'd think the > little bomber could be so maneuvrable, aside from their crews, I > suppose. That's why they called it "Heinemann's Hotrod"... SignatureEnzo I wear the cheese. It does not wear me. > Have a look at the "Hot Bird of the Week" pictures on the Two Bobs website. > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > applied, also enhance the realism. I wonder how realistic small scale model > F-22s will look, given that the real things look like second rate TV props! Yes, they are real. In fact, those shots are more "real" than the paste-ups of F/A-22s that have been floating around the net recently. ...and if you look closely at a couple of the shots, you can make out the ejection seat warning triangle at teh extreme aft corner of the caanopy sill, just below the sill. But you have to look close, and that's as it should be. As far as I'm concerned, this is as "real" as a fighter can get. A pure, efficient, "simple" killing machine with nothing on it that isn't about the job - if it were any more "real", it would be invisible. It's not a toy. Signature- Rufus Re the JSF that's been on display- the one I saw at Miramar about 2 years ago was a replica. There was an actual X-35C at Edwards the last time I was there, but it was engineless. Last I heard, the first actual F-35 was due to be rolled out this month at Fort Worth. SignatureJim Atkins Twentynine Palms, CA USA Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -Groucho Marx > > Have a look at the "Hot Bird of the Week" pictures on the Two Bobs website. > > [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > about the job - if it were any more "real", it would be invisible. It's > not a toy. Yes and worth every penny too, exactly what the Air Force needs. (kim) |
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