So while building my Twin Tail T-33, I had got out a F-80/T-33/F-94/TV-1/T2V project box to find something. In the box was various builds in various states of completion. I had been swapping noses and other parts around to create other variants and looking at them again after quite a few years of being on the backburner, I got thinking about what other noses I could put on a F-80 or T-33.
I had read somewhere and it could have been something someone had said in a thread, that the P-80 had elements of the P-38 used, like the nose and wings. I've not found anything to confirm that though ---
But I had a thought, what about a firedog control aircraft with a droop snoot nose from a P-38 put on it. I'd use a T-33, but turn the back seater around so it would be facing backwards. So one spotter in the nose and one in the rear seat, the pilot concentrating on guiding the fire bombers along the drop line ---
EDIT: (a bit later), I just got one of the Dragon P-38 kits out, a pathfinder one. The nose parts are moulded all in clear styrene, and matching up the nose to the T-33 I'm building, this is very doable ---- And I just happen to have two of the droop snoot kits too.
