RE: F-94 Tribute

Underwing hardpoints? I only know it had attachment points for slipper-weapons: the MG pod mentioned above for the F-94B, and the additional rockets for the F-94C. Although i’m not an expert on those aircraft, i don’t think the 94 had real underwing pylons on which you could put bombs and stuff like that. It wouldn’t be too smart either, because such loads are quite draggy (much more than the slipper-type loads which were used) and the F-94 wasn’t too much of an accelerator or long-distance flyer anyway.

RE: Who’s your fav south park character?

Terrance and Philip, by far…T

RE: A new signature

What about Winston Churchill’s brilliant quote

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

RE: Name your five all time favourite songs!

Five i really love, in no particulair order…

The Beach Boys – Hang on to your ego (alternative version of I know there´s an answer). The Frank Black or Pixies version will do as well.
Grauzone – Eisbär
Underworld – Born Slippy
Jacques Brel – Mijn vlakke land
Fiel Garvie – Taillights fade to black

And in ignorance of the limit of 5 songs…

Splodgednessabounds – Two pints of lager and a packet of crisps please
Pixies – Velouria
Sex Pistols – Anarchy in the UK
Nina Simone – I got life
Black – Wonderful life
Joy Division – Love will tear us apart
Etcetera
Etcetera
etc…

RE: gee, when did this turn into another anti-europe topic

Don’t worry too much, Plawolf. It appears Cyrus discovered the joke he is after French paratroopers rescued a bunch of Americans in Ivory Coast. And even still, his attempts to compensate his lack of self-esteem with national pride is highly amusing }>

RE: F-94 Tribute

Wombat,
The XF-90 has me intrigued. From the numbering sequence, I
assume that it came before the F-94 and the family
resemblance to the F-80/94 is obvious, so what happened to
it?

In the nineties-series of USAF fighter designations, there was a lot of messing around in order to get the F-100 to be the first operational fighter (don’t forget that the F-94C Starfire was originally developed as the F-97). The XF-90 was basically just a test variant of the F-80 with swept surfaces and IIRC another engine, while the F-94 was ordered just a bit later as a quickly-available night fighter since the F-86D and F-89 series had quite a bit of teething problems. As a stopgap the F-94 served it’s purpose well and entered service before the Sabre Dog and the Scorpion, but reliability and servicability of the radar were even lower than with the later two pre-century-series night fighters. Also, the F-94 was very limited in further development as the airframe was just too cramped – the heritage of the much smaller P-80/T-33 from which it was developed. Radar reliability, range, acceleration were the main reason the F-94 series had left ADC service by 1959, while both the F-86D/K and F-89 soldiered on for some 10 years.

PII:
Are you sure the midwing .50-pods for the -B were used operationally, and if so do you have a picture somewhere? I know it was developed and tested, but i don’t know anything about it’s operational use.

And why not mention the F-94D? That was a nice aircraft, and it did see operational service as a hack with an ANG squadron.

RE: UN vs US

Yes ture.. but do you think hed widraw from Austria if there
was no Alied force on the other side of divade??

Austria was considered ‘wrong’ by the Allies during WW2 – after all, that little corporal who was Time’s Man of the Year 1937 was Austrian and not German, and Austria volountarily merged with Germany in 1938. It would most likely have been occupied, and after a while left ‘independent’ with a pro-Soviet regime.

Remember we are talking what would happend if USA did not enter European theatre…

Too simple assumption. The British, Canadians, Australians and others could still have come. Just as the Soviets. And what about US industrial support?

RE: Whats your fav classic car?

Arthur: On a personal note mate, may I ask why you are so negative
towards everyone? Though you do have some very good points
most of the time, you seem to down people quiet alot, is
there any rational reason behind it? Help me understand it
please.

Oh, there aren’t any evil intentions behind it if you’re afraid of that. Sometimes i just take pleasure in being blunt, but it’s nothing personal. Just think al lot of 😀 and 🙂 and 😉 and especially }> behind the stuff i type down here. It’s nothing serious: anyone is entitled to his or her own opinion just as i am, unfortunately the only opinion i can defend is my own 😀