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Posted by yardbird78
on Thursday, April 7, 2005 4:52 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Gilmund
Yea, they both got the engines on top, but not no sumular in general.
That raises the question: what is that, if it´s not the testors/italeri F-19, and not the stealth from the movie. yarbird78, can you help us out. |
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The various model companies have always been in competition with each other to be the first on the market with a model of any new item of military equipment, especially exotic airplanes. As I said in my previous post, the rumors of what was happening at Groom Lake (The Ranch, Dreamland, etc) were going fast and furious during the 70s and 80s. They supposedly had new stealth airplanes, successors to the U-2 and SR-71, a whole squadron of Migs, our own space ships, possibly based on "captured" extra terrestrial space ships, (ala "Independence Day), and even aircraft that were capable of Mach 5 or 6 speeds and could make 180 degrees turns and stop/start instantaneously. Even if the technology existed for a machine that could do that, no human body could tolerate it.
The nomenclature F-19 Stealth was something coined by some over eager media type and the model companies jumped on it with all six feet.
Testors/Italeri came out with the little dart shaped thingie that they said was the F-19. Monogram came out with the big bat winged thingie soon after that and also called it the F19. One of the model companies, I think Monogram, came out with a Mig something or other that they claimed was the Russian stealth. Russia had barely even considered the stealth concept at that point in time.
This is the same time period when the term "Aurora" was so popular and many people were just absolutely convinced that "it" existed. Their only plausible logic to this idea was that after all, the USAF had done away with the SR-71, therefore they must have something even better to replace it. Testors came out with a mother/daughter kit supposedly of the Aurora (daughter) perched on the back of the SR-75 Penetrator(mother). Mother was supposedly capable of Mach 3-4 and Daughter could do Mach 6 or better. This combination was gargantuan with daughter being almost as big as an SR-71 and mother was something that would make a B-70 look like the size of a Cessna 150.
Let me post this text while I get a couple pictures of "daughter". "I'll Be Ba a a a a ck!"
Darwin, O.F. ![Alien [alien]](/FSM/CS/emoticons/icon_smile_alien.gif)
I bought mother/daughter as a combo kit and built daughter. I didn't build mother because I would have to rent a hangar at the airport in order to store it.
The 1/72 "Aurora" next to a 1/72 F-4K Phantom
Another view of Aurora, Two large turbo jet engines on the bottom, two hydrogen fueled Ram Jets on the top.
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The B-52 and me, we have grown old, gray and overweight together.
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