Subject: Re: Please publish my F4H-1. Thanks
From: "Steve Bamford ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "Mike Schramm" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 14:06:12 -0800

Hi Mike,

Steve Bamford
Aircraft Resource Center
http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com

Live like there is no tomorrow;
Love like you've never been hurt.
Work like you don't need the money.
Dance like nobody's watching.
Sing like nobody's listening.
Live like it's Heaven on Earth.

----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Schramm <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 12:30 PM
Subject: Please publish my F4H-1. Thanks

> Hi Steve,
>
> please publish my report. Hope everything is fine. Contact me if you have
> any questions.
>
> Thanks and a happy new year!
>
> Mike Schramm, Germany, Berlin
> "McDonnell Douglas
>
> 1:48 F4H-1 Phantom II"
>
> by "Mike Schramm"
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>
>       Steve Bamford will insert full sized version of photo 01.jpg here
>
>
> Information on the original:
> The Phantom II was planned as an all-weather-interceptor. At its time, it
> demonstrated robustness connected with easy handling. However, its
potential
> as a multifunctional fighter was soon discovered,as well by the Navy as
the
> USAF.
> Building the prototype YF4H-1, later F4H-1, needed 6.8 million man-hours,
> involving 1,500 companies from 28 states. The first flight took place in
St.
> Louis on 5-27-1958 with Robert C. Little on the stick.
> On 10-21-1959, this machine crashed with Gerald Huelsbeck on the stick.
> Tests continued with a second prototype.
>
>       Click on images below to see larger images
>
>       Steve Bamford will insert a click-able smaller version of photo
03.jpg
> here.  Clicking on that photo will bring up the full sized version of
photo
> 03.jpg
>
>       Steve Bamford will insert a click-able smaller version of photo
04.jpg
> here.  Clicking on that photo will bring up the full sized version of
photo
> 04.jpg
>
>      Steve Bamford will insert a click-able smaller version of photo
05.jpg
> here.  Clicking on that photo will bring up the full sized version of
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> 05.jpg
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>
>
> Information on the kit:
> This model shows the first F-4-prototype. It was made from a 1:48
F-4B/N-kit
> by Hasegawa, a Falcon vacform-conversion kit and an Aires resin
> exhaust-nozzle kit. I airbrushed the colour scheme using Tamiya
> acrylic paints (grey and white) and Modelmaster paints (red and orange).
The
> metal tinges are metalizers by Modelmaster (aluminium and stainless
steel).
> I designed the letters in Corel Photopaint and printed them on
> ACT decal paper on a laser printer. The national insignia and stencils
were
> taken from the Hasegawa kit.
>
>
>       Steve Bamford will insert full sized version of photo 02.jpg here
>
>
> I changed the following:
> - shorter nose from the vacform kit including early cutback intakes
> - new vacform canopy
> - new pitot-static probe
> - modification of the front ejection seat
> - scratch-built blackboxes in the rear cockpit (instead of the ejection
> seat)
> - scratch-built nosewheel door...
>
>
>       Click on images below to see larger images
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>       Steve Bamford will insert a click-able smaller version of photo
06.jpg
> here.  Clicking on that photo will bring up the full sized version of
photo
> 06.jpg
>
>       Steve Bamford will insert a click-able smaller version of photo
07.jpg
> here.  Clicking on that photo will bring up the full sized version of
photo
> 07.jpg
>
>      Steve Bamford will insert a click-able smaller version of photo
08.jpg
> here.  Clicking on that photo will bring up the full sized version of
photo
> 08.jpg
>
>
>
> ...
>
> - scratch-built spoiler panel
> - scratch-built arrestor hook
> - enlargened back cone
> - visualized fans
> - visualized wingfold mechanism
> - removal of several pitot tubes and antennas
> - implementation of resin exhaust-nozzle kit.
>
>       Click on images below to see larger images
>
>       Steve Bamford will insert a click-able smaller version of photo
09.jpg
> here.  Clicking on that photo will bring up the full sized version of phot
o
> 09.jpg
>
>      Steve Bamford will insert a click-able smaller version of photo
10.jpg
> here.  Clicking on that photo will bring up the full sized version of
photo
> 10.jpg
>
>      Steve Bamford will insert a click-able smaller version of photo
11.jpg
> here.  Clicking on that photo will bring up the full sized version of
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> 11.jpg
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>
>
> Photos and text © 2003 by "Mike Schramm"
>