Trumpeter 1/72 North American F-107A Ultra Sabre

Grant,  looks like a Dart to me also.  For some reason, I didn't take pictures of it.

Yes, I was in Seattle last October.  One of these days, I'm going to rearrange my albums and lump all of the aircraft museums and air show albums in one place.  I haven't put Pensacola, Michigan airshows, Cleveland airshow, Eglan museum or several others on Photobucket yet.

Problem fixed...

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Looks like North American pretty much took that design to it's pinnacle. Seems to me that not much more improvement could have been done.

Nice work Wayne (baring the upside down speed brakes), easy fix though, not like some of my fopauxs.

By the way Wayne,

It looks like from some of you Photobucket pics, you were at the Air and Space Museum at Seattle. At least the WW1. If not there is an almost identical display in Seattle.

Nice photos there Wayne, looks like a heap of other cool aircraft there as well, is that a Delta Dart next to the F-107?

Thanks for pointing out the speedbrakes are on back to front guys, I did not even notice it until you guys said.....I did actually decal them correct, I have glued them on opposite though, easy fix.

Correction: The F-107 in the USAF Museum is painted in silver paint with the exception of a panel in the rear of the fuselage and the tail cone. I cannot tell from old photographs or videos if the test aircraft in their service lives were also painted, but it looks like that is the case. Also of note is that the pilot that was flying the aircraft that was damaged was test pilot Scott Crossfield.

That is a great job on the F-107. I'm about 1/2 done with mine and hope mine turns out as nice as yours did. A few added notes: There is an aftermarket cockpit available from Cobra and it is very nicely detailed. Of the three aircraft built there are two remaining, one in the Pima Air Museum in Arizona (IIRC) and one in the USAF Museum in Dayton Ohio. The third aircraft was damaged when a tire blew on landing and it was used for firefighting practice (what a waist) and scrapped. Lastly, Bob Hoover, who was a test pilot and flew off of Chuck Yeager's wing on the day the sound barrier was broken, and who was one of the worlds greatest aerobatic pilots EVER, said that the F-107 was the best aircraft he had ever flown. In my humble opinion the selection of the F-105 over the F-107 had more to do with politics than with the quality of the aircraft. Again, you did a great job on the model. I would like to see the aircraft modeled in 1/48th. IIRC the F-107 in Dayton is natural metal and the one in Pima may have been painted because it is out in the open air. Anybody know for sure?

I see that you just have the left and right speed brakes switched, that's all. You applied the decal properly, just need to switch the brakes around.

Very nice build and finish in 1/72!  Your fuselage national insignias are upside down.

Mike

Beautiful F-107! Let me know if you would like some advice on U.S. national insignias.