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Model Forum / General / Models / January 2008Recommend books on B-36, F-4 ??
saw a pic of the B-36 in a 1990's Combat Aviation book by Popular Mechanics. with the outer wings removed and all engine panels up with mechanics working on it. nice pic. Looking for more. Looking for something that has pics and not too deep of text for starters for the B-36 and F4. Would the Squadron series be the way to start? don't want to break the bank on this little venture... thx - Craig > saw a pic of the B-36 in a 1990's Combat Aviation book by Popular > Mechanics. with the outer wings removed and all engine panels up with [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > The Squadron B-36 book is okay, but you can find easily as much photo and design info on the web as in the book: http://www.cowtown.net/proweb/b36net/ Pat > The Squadron B-36 book is okay, but you can find easily as much photo > and design info on the web as in the book: > http://www.cowtown.net/proweb/b36net/ Or check out the movie "Strategic Air Command" with Jimmy Stewart, which is chock-full of amazing B-36 footage. Pat > Or check out the movie "Strategic Air Command" with Jimmy Stewart, which > is chock-full of amazing B-36 footage. > > Pat Some of the best B-36 video from that movie is on You Tube. Just do a search for B-36 on You Tube to find it. There are several other good B-36 videos there that I'd never seen before too. As far as F-4 stuff what are you (the OP) looking for exactly? There are a ton of F-4 Phantom books out there, each with its own features to recommend it. Are you looking for photos? A history? A walk-around? War stories? Modeling guide? USAF? Navy? Foreign? Scott Wilson On Jan 14, 4:35 pm, avnav...@yahoo.com wrote: > As far as F-4 stuff what are you (the OP) looking for exactly? There are a > ton of F-4 Phantom books out there, each with its own features to > recommend it. Are you looking for photos? A history? A walk-around? War > stories? Modeling guide? USAF? Navy? Foreign? > Scott Wilson well dang it. The F-4 is the first airplane I remember growing up with in the 60's so howabaout photos, brief history, walkaround, USAF and Navy. does that help ? Craig For walkarounds, I definitely recommend the Lock-On series. They did one on the F-4E and one on the British Phantoms which include the FG.1, FGR.2 and F-4J(UK). Squadron just did a Walkaround on the F-4E but I don't have it yet so I don't know how good or accurate it is. The older Detail & Scale books were okay, but suffered from too many black and white photos (not particularly good for modelers trying to use the right colors in their models) and quite a few errors in the text and photo captions. For photo books, there are a number of good ones. The Detail & Scale Colors & Markings series has several good F-4 books wit plenty of good photos. You could also join our F-4Discussion group on Google, we have several people (myself included) who frequently post some darned nice photography. Scott Wilson >> Or check out the movie "Strategic Air Command" with Jimmy Stewart, which >> is chock-full of amazing B-36 footage. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > for B-36 on You Tube to find it. > Their's a brief appearance of a B-36 with its gun turrets extended in the Howard Hughes movie "Jet Pilot" when they are practicing a night intercept. Pat > Or check out the movie "Strategic Air Command" with Jimmy Stewart, which > is chock-full of amazing B-36 footage. > > Pat Love that one. It's the only "how to film a porno movie about a airplane" movie that I have seen. Beautiful shots of the plane. Up Close and Personal to say the least. Craig >> Or check out the movie "Strategic Air Command" with Jimmy Stewart, >> which is chock-full of amazing B-36 footage. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > airplane" movie that I have seen. Beautiful shots of the plane. Up > Close and Personal to say the least. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZSpqFPSK_c&feature=related  SignatureEnzo I wear the cheese. It does not wear me. >> Love that one. It's the only "how to film a porno movie about a >> airplane" movie that I have seen. Beautiful shots of the plane. Up [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZSpqFPSK_c&feature=related > "A Gathering Of Eagles" is sort of the same way about B-52s. "Sir, the General"s cigar! Doesn't he know that airplane could explode?" "It wouldn't dare." :-) Remember how you slide over the bomb bay in the B-36 via the cart in the tube? They once figured out what would happen if one end of the aircraft depressurized while someone was in the tube. It wasn't pretty, the guy would be inside of the world's biggest BB gun and would come flying out the end at around 100 mph. Pat > Love that one. It's the only "how to film a porno movie about a > airplane" movie that I have seen. Beautiful shots of the plane. Up > Close and Personal to say the least. > B-47 stuff is great also. ("Jeez! She's a beauty!") I'll bet it was a very successful recruiting tool for SAC. Pat Highly Recommended is "Magnesium Overcast - The Story Of The Convair B-36" by Dennis Jenkins. There is a companion Photobook but I do not know the title. Jack G. > Looking for something that has pics and not too deep of text for > starters for the B-36 and F4. Would the Squadron series be the way to > start? don't want to break the bank on this little venture... > > thx - Craig |
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