Does anyone notice anything odd about this jet?
 

Was window shopping on Skymasters website when this caught my attention.

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/atta...mentid=2048713

other than they've flipped the picture?

You can sleep easy now :)

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/atta...mentid=2048714

So why does this one look right. http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/atta...mentid=2048715

Ok, I am just not that savvy. I promise I get smarter as the day goes on.

haha!!

Looks like F-18 missiles launching rails.

Those shorts are ODD,,,

What are those fuselage fences under the elevators ?

Does the exhaust come out the front??

Is it the block on the front of the vertical fin? Like an F16?

Let me try... It says Ferrari, Marlboro, and is painted like an F1 car but it has wings and is not a car at all. Ferrari builds and races cars but this is an airplane! Is that it?

Besides the other observations made, the jet has a big and fugly bar code on the top. What's with that????

As far as the people ... The guy in front of the wing is wearing the fugliest pair of shorts I've ever seen. I can't believe anyone would even buy those shorts.

And the shadow he's casting looks like Scooby-Doo.

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/atta...mentid=2048766

yes,of course. . .the missile rails on the wing tips. . .This is not a combat aircraft.

Cheers,
Eric

Hi, yes the shorts, just do not fit the jet.http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/atta...mentid=2048849

Not quite true...

More than 80 RAF Hawk T1s were converted to T1As. These were equipped to carry 2 under wing sidewinders. This is actually the version of Hawk used by the Red Arrows...

Best Regards,
=Adrian=

Agree. . .but the "operative words" are under the wing. . .hard pressed to find armament on the wing tips.

Eric

Is it that fact that someone associated with Scuderia Ferrari F1 is actually smiling?

Thant's funny!

Maybe it's that it's a modern airplane and advertising cigarettes has been banded for decades.?.?

Bill

The filename associated with that image says "Kentucky girl.jpg". I'm in Georgetown, Kentucky right now. Is she anywhere in the vicinity? Hopefully? Please?!?

Beneath the colour scheme this is a fairly accurate scale rendition of a Hawk 100. The longer nose, fuse strakes, fin radar, hard points, tip missiles etc are all scale. There really is a lot more to the Hawk than just a "Red Arrow" !!!

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/atta...mentid=2049020

Brilliant!!

ok... Here's some useless info for ya... In some parts of Europe it is illegal to advertise cigarettes logos on the F1 cars. So Marlboro put that on instead. If you scan it, it actually gives you the price of a pack of their smokes. lol

"SMURFs"......Small control surfaces were fitted ahead of the all-moving horizontal tailplane, with the odd name of "smurfs", an acronym standing for the torturous phrase "side mounted unit root fins". The smurfs create vortex turbulence over the horizontal tailplane when the aircraft is at high angles of attack, ensuring that the control surfaces remain effective.