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F9F Cougar (Rob Richardson)

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falcon409 said:
A bit odd I suppose, but you have to click the image below the first pic of the Cougar. Let your cursor move over the image and you'll see. Just click and the download will start.
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+1 The picture on the Home Page where it says click and agree/download. Hiding in plane site.
 
falcon409 said:
A bit odd I suppose, but you have to click the image below the first pic of the Cougar. Let your cursor move over the image and you'll see. Just click and the download will start.
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You mean the picture of the VC with the extremely blatant instructions for the visibility conditions of the stores? (You know, for those who don't like to read the manual.) Thanks for the tip Falcon. I was hovering over pictures looking for a click spot but must have missed it as I really should have been walking out the door for work! I'll try it when I get home!
 
fallenphoenix1986 said:
i'm much the same actually, would love a TF-9 but I'll takes what I can gets.

Mike, I've heard that a lot actually, something along the lines of it only taking off on a hot day because the surface of the Earth was curved, much the same as the F-84 and the Jaguar. Regarding the Hook, if I'm not mistaken the Panther was the same and Vertigo actually managed to model this, only way to re-stow the hook was to reload the aircraft.
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There is a small button to the lower left of the hook handle in VS's Panther. That will retract the hook when the lever is placed in the up position.
 
From someone who has quite a bit of time in the Cougar, I have to say this is a remarkable piece of work, and much of the detail of this technological dinosaur is craftily represented.

A couple of quick points, in no way criticizing this marvelous model -

1. The speedbrake system is very accurate - forward and aft (flap trailing edge) sections work properly. However, when the flaps were lowered, the fuselage set retracted flush and the aft set faired to become part of the flap section to become one singe unit.

2. The hook was dropped by pulling on the "U" shaped handle (actually took three pulls!). The "stinger button" below the hook handle raised the hook to the horizontal position by the hydraulic snubber under the tailpipe, which also acted as a tailskid (lowered and retracted with the gear), and is accurately modeled by Bob. The stinger position still had the hook point sticking a tailhook length back from the tailpipe but horizontal, and had to be pushed forward into the fully retracted position by a flight deck crew.

3. The two sets of aux air doors on the top of the fuselage served a plenum chamber for the dual faced centrifugal compressor disk of the J-48. These doors were spring loaded and modulated to gradually open in proportion to airflow demand when insufficient flow to the compressor was caused by high power settings and/or low airspeeds.

4. With the flaps down, the horizontal tail was conventional, where the elevator moved and the basic tailplane neutral position was set with elevator trim. When the flaps retracted, the whole tailplane become one "flying tail" unit.

This in no way a criticism, just some technical insight into an airplane that had many strange design features, not the least of which was that it was a typical Grumman tank as far as sturdiness was concerned
 
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