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Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7821

Pass the word for a 4-blade Bent-Wing owner to "step up!" :wink:

Only Information so far seems to be a "Base Open House" in the 1950's. Still digging on this one.

phil65 · **Posted:** Fri Feb 28, 2020 11:30 am

I like the bombs.... :lol:

Phil

Wyvernfan · **Posted:** Fri Feb 28, 2020 11:57 am

Yeah makes it easier for the enemy to duck!

Rob

old iron · **Posted:** Fri Feb 28, 2020 1:01 pm

Looks like an interesting set of invasion markings, but for where?

mike furline · **Joined:** Wed May 05, 2004 3:45 pm **Posts:** 2635

It's an early -4, still has the rounded windscreen. I forget what the red/orange tail band indicates.

Snake45 · **Joined:** Sat Apr 05, 2014 5:49 pm **Posts:** 864

mike furline wrote:

I forget what the red/orange tail band indicates.

Navy Reserve.

Warbird Kid · **Posted:** Fri Feb 28, 2020 2:03 pm

Well that's certainly a new one! Would be cool to see it represented on a flyer today. When did the rounded windscreen change on the -4 production line? Any aircraft (besides the prototype) that still have it?

Snake45 · **Joined:** Sat Apr 05, 2014 5:49 pm **Posts:** 864

Warbird Kid wrote:

When did the rounded windscreen change on the -4 production line? Any aircraft (besides the prototype) that still have it?

IIRC, nearly half the -4 production run had the -1D type windscreen and canopy. I think there might be a few of them still around, but not 100% sure.

Note that ALL the cannon-armed -4Bs had the flat windscreen. So if you see a round windscreen on a -4, you know the airplane had 6x.50s, but if you see the 20mm cannon stubs, you know it had a flat windscreen. If you ONLY can see the 6x.50 ports, you can't be sure which windscreen/canopy it had.

Clifford Bossie · **Posted:** Fri Feb 28, 2020 9:03 pm

Snake45 wrote:

Warbird Kid wrote:

When did the rounded windscreen change on the -4 production line? Any aircraft (besides the prototype) that still have it?

IIRC, nearly half the -4 production run had the -1D type windscreen and canopy. I think there might be a few of them still around, but not 100% sure.

Our -4 at War Eagles has a round windscreen.

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7821

‘K’ = NAS Olathe
Air Station Open House

Snake45 · **Joined:** Sat Apr 05, 2014 5:49 pm **Posts:** 864

Master Modeler Darren Roberts saw the pic after I posted a link at Hyperscale, and built an EXCELLENT model of the airplane:

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/hypersc ... 2#p2711052

Invader26 · **Joined:** Wed Aug 11, 2010 7:56 am **Posts:** 843

Beautiful model. Wrong windscreen!!! :drinkers:

Snake45 · **Joined:** Sat Apr 05, 2014 5:49 pm **Posts:** 864

Invader26 wrote:

Beautiful model. Wrong windscreen!!! :drinkers:

darn, you're right. I didn't catch that!

Still a nice model, though. :wink:

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