1/72 F-5E Harimau

Gallery Article by KH Lee on Jan 7 2010

Silly Week 2010

 

What do you do when you lose two GE J85-21A jet engines for your F-5Es?

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You ask the Americans and they won’t sell them to you due to security reasons and the Russians don’t have any engines that fit.

You then turn to the French (you have a very good military equipment related working relationship with them) and they agree to supply you with 2 turbo props.

After paying the engine supplier, the French agent, the local agent and a foreign language translator, you get your engines.

You then bolt on the engines, give it a new paint job and pass it on to the air-force academy to be used as a trainer.

Brilliant! 

Happy 2010.

KH Lee

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