| Image Comments |
| David Duckett | 13-Sep-18 14:13 |
| Landing gear fabricated and installed |
| heywooood | 13-Sep-18 23:24 |
| a bit spindly-legged for carrier landings compared to modern jets...no wonder there's so much footage of them careening into the barricades on collapsed gear.
of course nowadays the Navy jets can carry 10 times the payload and can even land with some of it still attached if they have to. No more dumping ordy just to get aboard |
| heywooood | 13-Sep-18 23:27 |
| it looks just beautiful Dave - has Josh sent you the proofs yet? |
| David Duckett | 14-Sep-18 02:08 |
| Thanks, not yet, but they should be here next week. |
| Don C | 14-Sep-18 10:53 |
| Looks good. What markings?
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| David Duckett | 14-Sep-18 13:19 |
| Thank you, VF781 |
| heywooood | 14-Sep-18 18:53 |
| Well we have one of these from that squadron parked not 5 miles from my house on the USS Midway |
| heywooood | 14-Sep-18 18:55 |
| https://www.flickr.com/photos/24798948@N07/4210681884/ |
| David Duckett | 14-Sep-18 19:51 |
| I am using this one because it has a D on the tail:-) |
| heywooood | 14-Sep-18 21:46 |
| the artists signature.. |
| BriandKilby | 15-Sep-18 12:52 |
| nice panther dd! |
| BriandKilby | 16-Sep-18 10:00 |
| dd, was the panther and the banshee similar in appearance or was it another navy jet of that era? |
| David Duckett | 16-Sep-18 10:30 |
| They were similar and contemporaries. |
