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OK, so I 'll move the top blade back and re-position the front mound for the wire antenna to the 2nd window. The pic I used for 92 has the wire antenna running to about the same location as the boomerang ontop. Damn the SAAF for not having "standards"

Did 55 have the two square balck antennas infront of the towlrails that look like flat plates lying against the top fuse skin???

I did however remember the "slip marks" in yellow on the wheelhubs/tires

T

You mean tyre creep marks

Yes,the front one is above the first window and second one is between the second and third window on top of the fuselage.

Geoff

I cut out the toilet window, just to stop some folks of saying I did not do my reserch

The anti Strella exhausts have been built, I would assume that the front part of the exhaust would have burnt the paint away??

Here is an interesting thought abiout the "55" incedent. If the anti Strella exhausts cooled the air enough to stop the missle from locking onto the heat , why did it blow the tail off then???

T

As did not get a lock onto a heat signature it might have just happen to strike the under the tail area and explode like a normal rocket. It proved that the anti strela exhausts work, just like those on the Rhodaf daks worked.
Also some AA missiles have an movement sensor (like that on a security light auto on/off) and that sensor might have detected the tail and caused the missle to explode.

Don't forget that once fired the warhead of the SAM arms itself after a certain distance.

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IIRC, the Dak had some maintenance and repair performed a few months previously and the paint used was not the anti-SAM matt paint, but may have been gloss and thus it attracted the misisle.

Is the Sam 7 IR or radar guidedor a combo thereof?

Theuns

IR only and pretty old IR technology too.

Does it have a procsimity fuse that might explain the tail hit?

T

No proximity fuze, just contact. There's some basic info on Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strela_2

It was some late hours lastnight, but I managed to complete the build of the "Shot Dak"
Today 26 years to the day that it hapened.
Pix to follow a bit later, stay tuned.........

T

OK, here "55" is in all her shot up glory.
I was not a super detailed build, just wanted to do something a little different.
The ripped fabric was made from white crepe paper attached on with watered down white wood glue.

Just a little waethering, some oil streaks and exhaust stains.

I added the cockpit "handrail" from wire, the "towlrail" antennas from stretched sprue, blade antenna from plastic card.







The green in the pix is a little to "green" as I took the pix in sharp sunlight, to the naked eye it compares well to the reference pix.

Theuns

IIRC there were a number of VIPs on board at the time - including Pik Botha.

Not sure about Pik, but the chief of SA Army and IIRC some Cabinet ministers and military VIP's

T

Nice damage in scale Theuns.

Very, very well done

Rgds,

Andre