RF-8 Conversions
From Tom's post on Hyperscale: There have been several RF-8 conversions over the years, none particularly good. The first was the War Eagle vac for the ESCI kit. The conversion was in some respects better than the base kit, but not worth messing with, because the ESCI kit is really awful. Two resin conversions were done for the Monogram kit, the one by Maintrack and one by C and H. Of the two, the Maintrack is the more accurate in that it made a real stab at the smaller nose. It is a one piece forward fuselage conversion, but does have a cockpit molded in. C and H just put a Cobra nose cone on a Monogram fuselage which stands out like a sore thumb. Plus, it is also a one piece forward fuselage conversion, but their is one no cockpit! Try doing the intake and cockpit on that! It even buffaloed Phil Brandt. I always hoped Bill Koster would do one, but he didn't. So far there have also been two for the Hasegawa kit: RVHP and, again, C and H. RVHP gives you the who
Had the privilege of flight training with one of the “Blues” who was later killed preparing for an air show. We were in T-28’s, and our instructor, who had flown F-8’s, was determined we should shoot down the same pipeline. I was having difficulty clearing my ears after flights ending with “jet penetration” maneuver. The T-28 was unpressurized, while the F-8 was pressurized. Hadn’t done my homework, as that might have made a difference in my decision to go “low and slow.” Hence, a career in rotary wing I thoroughly enjoyed, but admittedly, often wonder where the venerable F-8 would have taken me.
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