#PhotoOfTheDay is of an F-14 Tomcat with burners lit over San Francisco Bay during Fleet week some years ago. The Bay Bridge is in the background.
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That’s an F-15.
@[email protected] You are correct, I see the two vertical tails, not just one, when I zoom in with a proper size screen. Will edit, thanks.
F-14 has two vertical stabilizers too.
Its the shape of the wings that gives it away. An F-14 with its swing-wings back has the silhouette of a delta wing, and from a distance it might appear like it has no horizontal stabilizers.
The aircraft in the above photo has horizontal stabilizers that are clearly separate from the fixed wings.
@[email protected] Right again… Why did I think one only had one? It’s a mistake that I’ve made before. Not sure how that got stuck in my head. I blame old. 😂
@[email protected] I was just thinking about the F-14 yesterday. Absolutely my favourite fighter from an aesthetic view.
(I had been thinking about it because I’m sure ED-209’s legs were fashioned after its engine cowlings)
@[email protected] It wouldn’t surprise me at all, although the full size ED-209 model was very large and I think the pieces were vacu-formed, so those would have some from a. very large model!
@[email protected] There was a vid from Tested this week with the full size at Tippett’s workshop which was what made me think about it.
It’s possibly the closest thing I’ve ever seen to being janky without crossing the line! It’s basically Home Depot lumber and coffee lids. It’s amazing.
But yes, vacuum formed from the F-14 would be in the 8:1 scale at least.
@[email protected] I saw that the video was up but haven’t had time to watch it. But now I’ll have to!.. Back in the second half of the 80s I built a resin kit of ED-209 from Japan, it was quite good.
