Bye Bye Dragon & His Tail......Hello Witchcraft!!

An F-14 would no doubt be cool but....WOW!!! what a maintenance machine. People have said that F-4s can be bad but I'm not sure it could come close to a Tomcat. I know, same number of engines, same number of cockpits but swing wings!!!. I dunno about that.

I love the F-4 for what she is though. Everytime she starts up I can't believe I get to help (when I can of course) on the last F-4D flying. The whole machine is amazing.

That being said however......BRING ON THE SKYHAWK BABY. I've been waiting for this thing since I saw "Touch the Sky" with the Blues for the first time. The first shot of Christopher Reeve's getting in the 7 jet did it for me completely.

Speaking of the 7 jet, the Blues official 7 jet for the entire 13 years was BuNo. 158722. Guess where she now lives......on the deck of the USS Lexington in grey paint. What a shame.

Ryan

[krlang]

Awesome,
the metallic silver was getting to me anyway,

Hey Ryan,
How long is it going to take to strip and paint it?
Is the 24 wingspan smaller than the 17(if I remember right the 17 was 100')
and Where is it gettin done, can we go see it in progress?

[JimH]

All "hail" the -24 at 110' and the Fort at alittle over a 100' ...these are numbers nobody on the crew will forget when storms approach and a hangar is needed. gonnabealottagreenpaint

jim

[TimAPNY]

It would be interesting to know how that will effect fuel consumption.

The weight of the green panit that is.

Tim I'm sure the green paint might affect it some because of the green and grey but the airplane hasn't been bare metal. She has been painted silver so some of the weight has always been there.

Ryan