"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!" ~SAMUEL ADAMS
http://www.456fis.org http://community.webshots.com/user/popperry "There are two enemies of the People: criminals and the government. Let us bind the second with the chains of the Constitution, so that it does not become the legalized version of the first. Thomas Jefferson"
And if that doesn't work, just do a Google search for "F-106 cockpit" images The pic will be on a Flickr file on the second page.
You cannot miss seeing this shot! It's glorious. Wonder how the guy got this pic? And where?!
Hi Ratt, Great find! Here's a copy of the image in case anyone has any trouble getting to the site.
Looks like ertoss lives in the Delaware area. I left a message to see where and how he took the photo.
Here's another link to the Flickr Military Aviation section. There are over 31,000 photos there! http://flickr.com/groups/military-aviation-photography/ Just click on the first image and you go into a slide show. Or just fan through the pages until you see something you want to enlarge.
http://www.456fis.org http://community.webshots.com/user/popperry "There are two enemies of the People: criminals and the government. Let us bind the second with the chains of the Constitution, so that it does not become the legalized version of the first. Thomas Jefferson"
And if that doesn't work, just do a Google search for "F-106 cockpit" images The pic will be on a Flickr file on the second page.
You cannot miss seeing this shot! It's glorious. Wonder how the guy got this pic? And where?!
Hi Ratt, Here's the reply from ertoss on how he took the picture and where. Pat P.
"I took this shot at the Dover Air Base MAC Museum in Delaware. I shot this from directly in front of the F-106. You can not make me out because of the defects in the dome. If you look at the purplish area there is a whitish area just below the center, scratches in the housing. When I zoomed in on the original RAW image I could only make out my torso as the scratches obscured my head. There are no other people in the reflection, they are other aircraft on the sides of F-106.
http://www.456fis.org http://community.webshots.com/user/popperry "There are two enemies of the People: criminals and the government. Let us bind the second with the chains of the Constitution, so that it does not become the legalized version of the first. Thomas Jefferson"
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Re: IR seeker head « Reply #22 on Sept 15, 2008, 9:13am »
Howdy One and ALL!!!!!
Well, I finally got the opportunity to go to Dover and checkout that "Six" and the IR head. Right nice if you look at it. I can remember removing one of these for the first time and when I went to check the operation -closing the head and putting it in they stowed position, I found out that I had left a pair of needlenose pliers in the well. The head was damaged, the glass was busted all over and I got to clean it up. I still have a piece of it as a long lasting momento. Well the display is very nice to see. While I was there I noticed a little something on the official information board for the "6". The statement was that the "6" had the ability to hold TWO AIR-2A rockets. The rest of the board was fine. The only way a "6" could ever possibly hold two Air -2A's would be to remove a wing tank. I told the curator and he said that he would check into it.
I'll find one of my old pictures and see if I can send him a copy of one loaded and also the information from a pilots handbook.
Got to see and climb around in the old C-124! That was great!
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Re: IR seeker head « Reply #23 on Feb 4, 2010, 7:54am »
I might finally get back to my Revell F-106 model kit soon.......
As I mentioned before, I want my 11th FIS Six to be in-flight configuration, with IR seeker head deployed for targeting and missiles in launch position. Never seen a model done this way, and I'm one to do things odd, for sure!
Question: does anybody know just how the IR seeker ball doors operated?! It would seem to be that they retracted inward to cut drag, but I don't know. Short of visiting that Six at Dover, even assuming it's still there, I'll never know how they worked!!
I really want this kit to be accurate. Any wrenchers out there that can tell me what's what with the door thing??
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Re: IR seeker head « Reply #24 on Feb 4, 2010, 10:56am »
Well I'll give it a shot and then someone can correct me. As I recall the head stowes by laying forward. In other words, when stowed the glass is looking at the ground. In fact there was suppose to be a little test light in the bowels somewhere that it could look at, but I think they were long gone burnt out by the time I was there. What all this means is the head mounted to a frame that was fixed to the large flap at the back of the head and that flap rotated with the head. During unstowe the smaller front flap would lift first and the head would make its 90 degree swing up and then the front flap would drop back in place. When stowed, the front flap would once again raise up first, the head would swing down and then the flap would close behind it.
BTW. We had an instance when a troop carrying the head to the X-ray truck dropped it on the ramp and the glass shattered in a bizzilion pieces. They immediately roped off the area and called security who came out, collected all the shards they could and weighed it. It fell within some allowable error or otherwise they would have opened an investigation.
Off track some , but has anyone seen a coffee table made from a 6 windscreen? I've heard the crack pattern makes a really attractive table top.
No doubt. Wasn't too sure about the whole front flap thing. Pretty certain the head swings as described. I also remember there was a pneuamtic valve in the NWW with a plunger you could activate to raise and lower the head.
Haven't seen a table like that since squadron days. But I saw a couple and remember a brief period where there was a rash of cracked windshields. I think it had something to do with turning on the anti-ice when you weren't suppose to. Thus, the interesting crackling patterns.
Also heard a T-33 canopy made a dynamite baby bath.
The thing I always wondered was why they couldn't put the radome on a hinge like the F-4.
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Re: IR seeker head « Reply #27 on Feb 4, 2010, 11:56pm »
The windshield (bullet proof one ) from F-86 made a wonderful leather tooling slab, and was cheaper, (for me as I got it from a salvaged 86D in Korea) than Marble........
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Well I'll give it a shot and then someone can correct me. As I recall the head stowes by laying forward. In other words, when stowed the glass is looking at the ground. In fact there was suppose to be a little test light in the bowels somewhere that it could look at, but I think they were long gone burnt out by the time I was there. What all this means is the head mounted to a frame that was fixed to the large flap at the back of the head and that flap rotated with the head. During unstowe the smaller front flap would lift first and the head would make its 90 degree swing up and then the front flap would drop back in place. When stowed, the front flap would once again raise up first, the head would swing down and then the flap would close behind it.![[avatar]](http://www.f-106deltadart.com/smilies/avatars/318.gif "[avatar]")
