Long term project

One of my long term projects is to build one aircraft of an ANG unit from each of the 50 States and Puerto Rico.  With having completed an Indiana Air National Guard P-51 and with Meng announcing  a new F-106 kit, my interest has been rekindled.  So far, this is what I think I’d like to build for selected states:

Indiana     P-51

Michigan, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Montana, Florida, California  F-106

Texas, Pennsylvania   F-102

Kentucky RF-4C

New Mexico F-16

I am open to suggestions for the rest.

Decalmania

I want this, and this and this, all from Lima November decals.

Me-209

A very nice build of an Me-209.  You don’t often see a build of this.

F-106 decals

New decals for the new Meng F-106 kit.  Yea!

Interesting China news

Crackdowns in Hong Kong.

F-106

My favorite plane.

Midway

A nice article on illustrating a TBD of VT-8.  (h/t Jeff Groves)

Your daily roundup of things to keep you up at night

Russia is developing a drone sub to deliver a nuclear warhead.

The Chinese think they’ve developed a new stealth coating.

Apparently there is fuel for a nuclear bomb available on the black market.

 

Sleep well.

The used book business

I buy a fair number of used books off of Amazon.  This story is an interesting peek behind the curtain.

The dragon stirs

See here.  I wonder when we’ll see the first use of an ASAT against an enemy satellite.