Fan Facts

摘要

Welcome back, and I hope you have gotten more accomplished in your workshops than I have over the last month! In February, I had the opportunity to head to Surprise, AZ for Desert Jet Storm, and since I reserve the right to occasionally blow my own horn, I'll start with a photo Joe Bal-abon sent me of my Modellbau-USA F-86D Sabre Dog on short final. The beauty of a scale jet is that so many color schemes exist for that model. The '86D was the USAF's first single-seat night interceptor, and lacked guns. Instead, a belly-mounted tray firing 2.75-inch missiles was provided as armament against the feared Soviet bomber masses.