Title: | FLIGHT COLORS F-100 SUPER SABRE |
Authors: |
Gérard Paloque & François Weill |
Publisher |
DTU |
Price |
24.00 EUROS + 4 EUROS p&p (APPROX 30.3 $ USD + 5$ USDp&p) |
Reviewer: | Jean Paul Poisseroux |
Notes: |
ISBN 83-7237-163-6 |
Characteristics:
Format 21 X 24cm, soft cover, 98 pages, French/ English text, 322 color profiles,8 upper/under color drawings 15 pictures.
I just came back from the annual Paris’s model show with the last title from DTU publishing on a new range. Packed in A4 size, here is a very interesting review of the international F-100 Super Sabre users, with 322 color profiles, in NMF or SEA camo for the first of the century fighters serie. We start logically with the USAAF and the study cover USAF, USAFEurope, PACificAF, SouthEastAsia, AirNatGuard,Demo teams. Then, we find EXPORT users (Danish,French,ROC,Turkish).
Here is the copious contents:
USAFE
TACTICAL AIR COMMAND
27th,31st, 354th, 401st, 405th,474th Tactical
Fighter Wings
323rd Fighter Bomber Group
312th, 479th,
506th Fighter Bomber Wings
4th, 413th, 450th, 322nd Fighter Day Groups
USAFE
20th,36th, 48th,49th,50th
Tactical Fighter Wings
7272th Flying Training Wing
45th Fighter Day Squadron
PACAF
8th, 18th, 21 st Tactical Fighter Wings
AIR NATIONAL GUARD
Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, 113th Tactical Fighter Wing .
South East Asia, (SEA)
Bien Hoa, Da Nang, Korat, Phan Rang, Phu Cat, Tan Son Nhut, Tuy Hoa Air Bases.
MISCELANEOUS
57th Fighter Weapons Wing
58th Tactical Fighter Training Wing
82nd Tactical Air Target Squadron
Demonstration Teams Thunderbirds ,
The Skyblazers
Camouflage color sheme
EXPORT
Kongelige Danske Flvevabnet (Danish AF)
725 Esk 127 Esk 730 Esk
Armée de l'Air( French AF)
3eme Escadre de Chasse
EC 1/3 Navarre,EC 2/3 Champagne
11 eme Escadre de Chasse
EC1/11 Roussillon, EC 2/11 Vosges, EC 3/11 Corse, EC 4/11 Jura
Republic of China Air Force - Taiwan
Turk Hava Kuvvetleri (Turkish AF)
The grant total approach 25 wings with squadrons in sub types, 21 Air National Guard, 9 SEA colourful US demo teams, and 4 exports Air Forces. Four views color drawings are supplied for SEA camo pattern too. The profiles are all left side with alternative open/close canopies. English and French captions give informations for each wing or formation, plus details on aircrafts when they are aside the “standard”.
In summary, this is the most complete study since the F-100 IN COLOR from Squadron , so many years ago…. Highly recommended to modellers and historians.
May 2006
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