Just found here ! http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050414/dath088.html?.v=1

http://www.alert5.com/archive/2005_04_10_alert5_archive.html#111352380464096791

Chile’s Minister of Defense and Air Force Commander View Country’s First F-16 Aircraft at Lockheed Martin
Chile’s Minister of National Defense, Mr. Jaime Ravinet, joined other Chilean and U.S. officials Apr. 14 in celebrating completion of the first F-16 produced for the Chilean Air Force, or Fuerza Aerea de Chile (FACH).

[QUOTE=crobato]Not everyone here has a Trumpeter kit so don’t keep pegging the question.[/QUOTE]

Sorry that my many posts made You angry and I asure You that I didn’t expect that anyone else is as much enthusiastic about this kit as I, nor that everyone has a kit …. but I asked several times just to compare the dimensions I know so far (span = 8,78 m/ length = 14,57 m) and which I mentioned also at least 2-times … with the dimensions of the kit !

Trumpeter “modeled” the length in 1/72 to 225 mm = 16,20 m
and the wingspan in 1/72 again to 130 mm = 9,36 m !!!

I agree with GoldenDragon – thanks a lot for Your analysis – that the kit seems to look quite well done but just in comparison with these dimensions it seems to be larger than expected …. or the dimensions we know so far are plain wrong !

For my opinion I thought the J-10A was much bigger than this Lavi-style 8,78 m/14,57 m !

So, Sorry again, but I hope I made made intention a little bit more claer !

Deino

Deino

Has anyone noticed the small changes on the J-10A during it’s development ???

1. the small spine was lenghtened ! On the prototypes it is just from the tail to the small antenna in the middle of the back … later it’s full length from the cockpit to the tail !

2. the front gear doors were first two-parts and on the latest pictures (aircraft no. 21) it’s three-parts

Does anyone know some more differences to be known for the Trumpeter kit ??

Deino

Some Hi-Res piccys…..most from Santa at CMF…

6 : J-8D

Do I see right that one of the J-8D’s is painted white while the other one is grey !??!

Deino 🙂

Just got the new Trumpeter kit of the J-10A …. who want to take a look here’s a complete review (in German) !

http://www.flugzeugforum.de/forum/showthread.php?t=22182&page=1&pp=10

But that was not the reason for posting here. I ended my review with a comparison to the new Revell made Eurofighter Typhoon kit in the same scale:

Just take a look …. 😉 …. and I hope these notorious “it is just like a Lavi”-discussions will end !

Cheers, Deino 😀