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Scratch Built Consolidated XF-92A by rayl. Viewed 543 times. Build Thread Next Prev Click image to return. Image Comments rayl 18-Jan-15 10:18 The great speckled bird! Two things happened: (1) My planking powress is lacking: many voids between the planks to fill. (2) I suffered some sort of incomparability issue between the intial finish and the high-fill primer, resulting in may "Crazed" areas. This is going to take a while as the primer surface has to nearly perfect if I am to lay on a aluminum finish coat. Catchya later! ftomstark 18-Jan-15 12:07 When I was in the Air Force I was in an outfit that "owned" the XF 92. We loaned it to a movie studio (Universal I think) for the movie "Toward the Unknown" starring William Holden. It was used in a crash scene and made to look like a bellied-in F 102. They dug three holes in the desert for the landing gear so it looked like it was on its belly. The front inlet was covered with a pointed cone and a dummy inlet was placed aft of the canopy. Torn metal was placed here and there on the airframe to look like damage. Then fires were set around it so it looked like it had just crashed. William Holden saw this and rescued the pilot from the burning wreckage. The scene was at night and looked very realistic. The XF 92 was not damaged and was returned to Det. 1 of the USAF Orientation Group at Norton AFT in San Bernardino, CA. John M Oshust 18-Jan-15 14:16 rayl...Ackula or Typhoon :-) rayl 18-Jan-15 15:30 ftomstark; That a cool story. I will have to look up that flick. I believe that the XF-92 was also in another flick painted up as a MIG-23, about 20 years before there actually was a Mig-23. But I think that all of the film footage ended up on the cutting room floor. John; Reminds more of the Barbell (SS-580) that used to tie up to the SUBASE (PH) piers next to my sub which was the Sargo SS(N)-583 back in the 70's. John: It reminds more of the Barbell (SS-580) that used to tie up at the SUBASE (PH) piers next to my sub (Sargo SS(N)-583 back in the 70's. Please sign in to comment on this image.