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Northrop T-38 Talon sketches 01

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Sorry if I've not been posting much over the last few days. I will be posting dreamscape stuff next week. However, after two back-to-back conventions, getting a nasty case of Con Crud and then accidentally giving it to my wife, I seriously needed to knuckle down and get some work in on my commission docket finished. Which I did. These are some study sketches for one of those commissions. Also I realized that I had not posted any aviation art in a while.

The Northrop T-38 Talon Wikipedia is a supersonic advanced trainer that first flew in 1959 and has been used by not only the USAF but several other air forces around the world. It has been estimated that up to 50,000 military pilots have trained in them. Not has it been a prolific trainer but it has held several time to altitude records beating out even some military interceptors like F-104 Starfighter.

The T-38 is in many ways a very simple, clean design. However those simple clean lines mean that if you get them wrong your drawing stops looking like T-38 really quick! Especially around the nose and cockpit, so I usually do I did a couple sketches today to get more familiar with the design.

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I didn't measure the picture with instruments, but there is a mistake with the air intakes. On a side view they are much smaller than in front view. Look: in front view top of the half-circle is almost at the cannopy level(front part of cannopy, windshield), on the side one intake is not even close to this one, windshield is much higher.