Början på ett nytt bygge...

Då var det dags att sätta igång med ett nytt kapitel i byggbloggen! Det som ska byggas är Hasegawas British Phantom FG Mk.1 HMS "Ark Royal". Som vanligt är min plan att ta det väldigt lugnt och metodiskt, bygga modellen som man lägger ett pussel, eller spelar schack. Uttrycket "Measure twice, cut once" passar bra.

Det ska bli kul att få bygga en äkta brittisk Phantom, något man bara gjort en gågn tidigare, men då när man var åtta år med en tub kontaktlim och en Matchbox-byggsats i skala 1/72. Det var tider det...

Historia

Lite historia får vi väl ha med, vad är ursprunget till denna brittiska Phantom? Så här säger Wikipedia:

F-4K (Phantom FG.1)

Following cancellation of the supersonic V/STOL Hawker Siddeley P.1154, the Royal Navy selected the Phantom as a replacement for the Supermarine Scimitar and de Havilland Sea Vixen. The model requested was designated the F-4K by McDonnell Douglas and received the service designation Phantom FG.1 from the British. Ordered in July 1964,^[64] this was the first time the U.S. permitted export of the Phantom, with the first F-4K flying on 27 June 1966.^[64]

To ease the impact on employment in the UK aircraft industry from the cancellation of home-grown programs, the aircraft had a high British content.^[5] The main modification was the replacement of the General Electric J79 by the British-made Rolls-Royce Spey powerplant.^[65]Specific fuel consumption was around 0.7 lb/hp.h). The rear fuselage was heavily modified to accommodate the larger Speys and the air intakes enlarged to permit the greater airflow they required. These aircraft were equipped with an AN/AWG-11 radar system, which was a version of the Westinghouse AN/AWG-10 built under licence by Ferranti,^[66][67] equipped with a Doppler unit to allow some basic look-down capabilities. The bombing system was the anglicized version of the Lear/Siegler AN/ABJ-7. Fleet Air Arm Phantoms were fitted with a double-telescoping front landing gear strut that could extend 40 in (102 cm), the increased angle of attack being necessary for catapult launches from the smaller British carriers. Other British contractors, including Short Brothers and British Aircraft Corporation, built sub-assemblies and supplied parts to the United States where the aircraft were assembled by McDonnell Douglas at Saint Louis.^[5] These engines (RB 168-25R Spey Mk 202/203s) were more powerful than the J79s (20,515 lbf/91.25 kN afterburning thrust) and had a lower fuel consumption (

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