DAS2491 Detail & Scale Books – F-102 Delta Dagger

By Bert Kinzey and Rock Roszak; softbound; 108 pages

F-102 Delta Dagger in Detail & Scalecontinuesthe established and well known tradition of the Detail & ScaleSeries of publications with the most detailed look at the U. S. AirForce‹¨«??s first delta-wing, supersonic interceptor ever published.TheF-102 was a historically significant aircraft and was produced ingreater numbers than either of its two supersonic interceptorcounterparts, the F-101B Voodoo and the F-106 Delta Dagger.Whileserving with the U. S. Air Force and the Air National Guard, it flewwith some of the most colorful unit markings applied to any of thefamous Century Series of fighters.

Book Features:

Features of Detail & Scale‹¨«??s latest publication,F-102 Delta Dagger in Detail & Scaleinclude:

• A developmental history of the F-102, from Convair‹¨«??s early workon delta-winged aircraft, the XF-92, through the prolonged prototypeprocess, which began with the YF-102, an aircraft that could not meetthe supersonic flight requirement, and was followed by the YF-102A,which could; to the ‹¨«??interim interceptor‹¨«?‹¨« which successfully served inthe active and Guard inventories for twenty years.
• A chapter on how the Deuce was armed, with 2.75-inch rockets and AIM-4 and AIM-26 Falcon guided missiles.
• A chapter covering the variants of the F-102, with sections on the prototypes, the single-seat F-102A, and the two-seat TF-102A
• A Flying the Deuce chapter with pilot reminiscences of what theF-102 was like to fly, written by six pilots who flew the aircraftstateside, and with the Alaskan Air Command, USAFE, and PACAF
• A chapter that looks at the history of the F-102 in SoutheastAsia, beginning with its early alert commitment in Thailand to theexpanded alert commitment in Vietnam, where the aircraft‹¨«??s mission alsoexpanded to the ground attack role for a period of time.
• A Delta Dagger Details chapter with more than 145 photos, thevast majority of which are in color, covering every aspect of theaircraft, including the cockpit, radar and electronics, windscreen &canopy, fuselage, weapons bays, wings, landing gear, and tail
• A Pave Deuce Drone Program chapter that looks at how theaircraft evolved into the first supersonic drone aircraft in the U. S.inventory
• A color photo gallery that gives a sampling of the paint schemesand markings worn by the F-102 in Air Force and Air National Guardservice, where it evolved from one of the most colorful of the CenturySeries fighters to the SEA camouflaged fighter-interceptor that flew inVietnam and later with some Air National Guard units.
• Detail & Scale‹¨«??s usual comprehensive Modelers Section whichcovers all of the scale model kits of the F-102 issued over the past 60years‹¨«??from the crude kits of the 1950s to the 2017 Revell F-102Arelease, and which includes an eleven-page listing of the aftermarketitems that have been available to modelers over that period

Other features of the book include line drawings of all the F-102production variants, illustrations of details from official Air Forcemanuals, plus two full-color art profiles of the F-102A featuring someof the colorful markings used on the aircraft.