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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: SR-71 innovations
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Date: 11 Oct 90 05:13:37 GMT
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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
|Considering the recent interest in the SR-71, the local 
|Big Lots store has gotten in a batch of plastic scale
|YF-12s. These are at a fairly large scale, and 
|I believe made by Revell. The best thing is the price. 
|$5 apiece! Check out your local Big Lots! I don't have
|all the details yet, as I happened to go into the 
|store about 5 minutes before closing. 

|The big difference I can see between the YF-12 and the 
|SR-71 is that the front chines right below the canopy
|are aquared off. 

I went back into the store last night and had a closer
look, including reading all the stuff on the box. The
model is made by Testors (who also make an SR-71 kit),
is a full 1/48 scale, and the price is $9.99 (OK, I 
goofed - still, $9.99 is doggoned cheap for a model 
this size - the $5 kits were the "F-19 stealth fight-
ers" - laugh, laugh). I might end up buying the kit 
even though I don't build plastic models as a rule
(if it don't fly in circles at 100 mph I don't build 
it 8-) ).

According to the box, the last remaining YF-12 is 
housed at Wright Field, Dayton Ohio. 

The kit features operating doors for the missile
bays. The missile bays contain the four AIM-47s
that the airplane carries. The AIM-47s have big 
fins that are the full length of the body. The
bays are located under the airplane somewhat under
the cockpit. This answers one of my questions about
the YF-12.




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