Fast Eagle 107 done...and a friend.

So with some summer holidays finally here, that means the pace of building pics up a little! First up, the finished Fast Eagle 107, as she looked back aboard on USS Nimitz, 19 August 1981. The crew were pilot Lt. Larry Muczynski and RIO Lt. Jim Anderson.

"The leader, whom I had gone after, had completed his climbing turn and was heading straight away north-northwest. He started a slight right hand reversal but I had obtained a good firing position behind him. I armed up my AIM-9L and also fired from station 1A. The Sidewinder went right up the guy's tail pipe and blew off everything from the wing roots rearward in a tremendous fireball".



"Since I was only one-half mile from at the guy's dead six, the thing that scared me most was that I would shoot myself down because of the FOD (Foreign Object Debris) going down the engines"



"I did a 6g pull-up straight into the vertical and when I cleared the debris pattern, I rolled inverted. I looked down and could see everything from the wings forward spinning on its way down and the plane on fire. After about two turns, I saw the pilot eject from the aircraft."

And here's my other recent build, another famous Naval fighter - Italeri's Sea Harrier FRS.1 This is finished as 'Black 14' of No. 899 Naval Air Squadron, HMS Hermes, South Atlantic, May/June 1982.

This aircraft took part in the first bombing raids of the conflict and also shot down an Argentinian Skyhawk and two Daggers in the space of three days in May. Now I know why they were nicknamed "La Muerta Negra". You can view the build at this link

Until the next time, thanks for looking.
Dermot