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D'oh! Yes, you are right --- but like Greg says, another thread, another forum ----

It wouldn't need to be a tandem seat arrangement, I'm in the process of building a 2-seat F-35B model which would retain the lift fan, it will be a side-by-side arrangement. I have found that the TF-106 nose fits right onto the main bulkhead that the cockpit is attached to without making the...

So then, it's not so Lockheed can supply Germany and other countries that have just come on board, I understand that the production rate is set to a specific amount ----

In today's information environment, everyone is only reading what others want you to read. To my view, everything is suspect ----- Lock the thread!

Somewhere in my stash I have a NF Mk.I conversion for the Firefly, and looking on the internet, I saw a couple of images of a real one. One image said 812 NAS ---- I've got the NF Mk.II conversion too ---

In an Air-Britain Aviation World issue, I read that a freighter A380 like a guppy wasn't possible because of the way the fuselage is/was built. It would have needed a complete re-engineered fuselage.

Interestingly, an article has just appeared on MSN. The photo of it on the deck of the recovery ship has it under a tarp, but it looks like the wings are still on, but the fins aren't.

So the answer is 'No' then, only seen after it had gone into service. I saw one at the Reno Air Races in the early 90's, mostly hidden in a hanger ringed by shoulder to shoulder army personnel. Although it was brought out for a flying display at the end of the week. Which didn't happen because...

Did they have an F-117 rollout, I don't remember one ----

The image of the Canadian PM also seems to be from before he became a PM, back in 2015 when he was campaigning against the F-35.

Very nice Harro

I think all this will do is move SpaceX operation offshore more quickly.

Yes there was that, but I was referring to the first design which had high slab fuselage sides with just a rudder attached to the end on the fuselage, no fin at all. This was added as things went along, started really small until the MB5 where it had the biggest fin/rudder of all the British...

I found it interesting that MB's philosophy at the beginning was to use the slab sides of their designs with minimal fin area for yaw control, but in the end, ended up with the biggest fin/rudder put on a single seat fighter even though they continued with the slab side fuselage.

I was just mentioning it because it's often overlooked. But also the Swiss and Finnish aircraft were also fitted with the light about the same time. But I understand your point about modern technology, and I wasn't dispelling it.

RCAF F-18's also have the search light.

R1, they did eventually drag the aircraft out on the last Sunday of the race week. It was going to do a flight display but it was cancelled because the wind was too bad. I've got a photo of it somewhere, taken on my old Olympus OM-10.

Yes, it was designated the Merlin 140. In Morgan/Shacklady book, there's photos of a Spitfire Mk.VIII and a Mk.IX with contra-props. The Merlin 140 were installed in the Short Sturgeon and used in service.

3" RP's were used on Coastal Command Liberators

That was like the F-117 I saw at the '96 Reno races, it was in a darkened hanger which was surrounded by troops standing shoulder to shoulder. You couldn't see very much at all.