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    What is on your bench right now ? Share a picture :)

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    1 minute ago, Clunkmeister said:

    Interesting. You’d think they’d still be extremely relevant in the real world.

    USAF and Luftwaffe pilots describe a world class dogfighter that, with Western avionics, Radar, fire control, etc, would be a force to be reckoned with.   Of course, that was 10 years ago and the day of the dogfighter is long gone

    Gobble up fuel like there is no tomorrow, no refueling probes.

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    What is on your bench right now ? Share a picture :)

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    9 minutes ago, Martinnfb said:

    I guess the current government realized that they cannot exclude F-35 if they want to have an open competition. If I am not mistaken the end of May 2019 was established as the official start of the competition. 

    Federal election is coming up in October and it looks even grimmer that the last one  in the US.

    Boeing

    Lockheed Martin

    Airbus

    Dassult

    SAAB

    Fortunately with the Navy's retirement of the legacy Hornet there are a lot more spare parts down here. I talked with a Superhornet pilot at length at Travis airshow, and he loved those old school bugs. Said he was at a Boeing plant just recently and they were actually making new wings for them! I have a huge soft spot for them as well.

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    Bad weather

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    11 hours ago, TJTX said:

    Thankfully the rotation never dropped here yesterday but it looks like we've got round 2 coming this afternoon.  I'm used to spring shenanigans as a born and raised southerner, but I can't help but wonder what all the Californians moving here think of our Spring weather.  They certainly don't get storms topping out at 70,000' out there.

    I witnessed a tornado made of fire like that last summer

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    Interesting Tamiya tidbit

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     I was just watching a live video from Planes of Fame in Chino where they are prepping all their aircraft for the annual airshow, and learned that Tamiya is sponsoring their airshow this year!! I'm not sure if they have done this before, but pretty cool to learn that they are doing this. Hopefully they were researching some stuff!

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