Century Series Fighters...
All this past week I've been watching the live feeds from Oshkosh and the afternoon airshow on YouTube. Watching online isn't as good as actually being there but better than nothing. So, while I've been watching, I've been working on my third Century Series fighter: a 1/72 scale RF-101C Voodoo from Hasegawa. I started with a 1/72 scale F-100D then I built a 1/72 scale F-106A, both from Hasegawa. Of course, the kits are old but they're nice kits. They build up nice with almost no fit issues. I have a 1/72 F-102A, a 1/72 CF-104, and a pair of 1/72 F-105s to be built yet. The F-105s are a single-seat D and a two-seat F model. All 1/72 scale and all but one of the 105s are Hasegawa. The D-model is Monogram.
So, how does all of this relate to Oshkosh? Well, the warbird area was jam-packed with all kinds of aircraft this week. If it was an airplane that once wore war paint, it was parked there. Plus there were a few jets there. An FJ-1 Fury, a couple of Migs, a T-33, some L-39s, a really nice A-4 Skyhawk, and a couple of Navy T-45s, but no Century Series fighters. I didn't realize how big these airplanes are until I started building these kits. The F-100 is the smallest, not much bigger than an F-86 Sabre. The others are quite large relative to the F-100 and I'm sure they're real gas guzzlers, especially the F-105. So, anyway, I guess if we are ever going to see one of these Century Series fighters live and in the flesh, it will have to be at a museum. I'm sure that even the richest rich guy can't afford to pump the tank full of Jet A and then go burn it off for some time in the pattern.
That's all. Just some musing about what-if.