Warbird Information Exchange

Been several months now, and I am happy to say we are done! One last stripe to put on the tanks, and it'll go out next week. This one has been an interesting journey!

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The image in this and your other thread are not showing

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Magister Aviation
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Odd, they look OK here.
Try this, it's a link to the entire album. I may have to consider a new sharing service.
https://goo.gl/photos/xPLZzpbSyGL4zdm9A

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Please lemme know if this works now

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Working and looking good!

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Magister Aviation
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If you can, I'd be interested in learning where they found the horizontal stabilizer.
Are there still unopened crates somewhere?

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That is not the proper horizontal. It came with the wrong one (F-84). We got one from a T-33, and modified it to fit over the afterburner.

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Great work.

BTW: one of the regulars here recently posted some shots of three radar units he got from Soplata from the back seat of F-94Cs. I'm fairly sure it isn't correct, but if you have a gaping hole back there, it might look nice.

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Thanks! It was surprisingly easy to do, and likely what was originally on it anyway. No gaping holes in the cockpit, in fact, it had some extra stuff for flight testing. Everything about this airplane is T-33, including the cockpit. The only F-94 "piece" is the afterburner.

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All done, and rolled out.
I present to you Castle Air Museum's EF-94a, or, as we've dubbed it, the T-33.1 (the rare afterburning T-Bird).

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Beautiful job!
May I pass this image along to Nathan Decker at Forgotten Fighters to post for this plane's listing?

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All right, Mister Dorfmann, start pullin'!
Pilot: "Flap switch works hard in down position."
Mechanic: "Flap switch checked OK. Pilot needs more P.T." - Flight report, TB-17G 42-102875 (Hobbs AAF)

Yes, of course.

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That looks awesome!

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Question: what exactly had to be done to fit the T-33 horizontal to the F-94?
Are there pictures of it?
I've been seeing a early F-94 fuselage for sale, which would need a new horizontal among other things....
My thought was to get a T-33 as a parts source...
My research shows the early F-94s were basically T-33 center sections, wings, landing gear, etc...with a modified tail section for the afterburner....