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Merlin
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Posted: Tuesday, October 01, 2013 - 04:39 AM UTC
Kitty Hawk have sent us the first glimpse of their latest project - a quarterscale Grumman F-9 Cougar.

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Littorio
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Posted: Tuesday, October 01, 2013 - 05:04 AM UTC
Got to have one of these, I have a FM Cougar sitting in the stash but they can be a 'challenge' to build.
Jessie_C
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Posted: Tuesday, October 01, 2013 - 05:40 AM UTC
It looks like the nose is a little too blunt. Hopefully it's early enough to correct it.
acktwice
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Posted: Tuesday, October 01, 2013 - 12:14 PM UTC
You've got a good eye Jessie. There's an F-9 in an air museum near my home and I've visited it quite a bit. The couger is one of my favorite displays and the nose has a much longer taper than the kit shows.
Jessie_C
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Posted: Tuesday, October 01, 2013 - 01:25 PM UTC
Going by the drawing in the picture, the nose looks both longer and more inflated than it ought to be.
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Posted: Wednesday, October 02, 2013 - 03:57 AM UTC
OMG!! As a Grumman junkie, I just have to have one and all the eventual variants. And it's in my chosen scale, and even the far end of my area of interest.

Joel
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