grodano Posted February 17 Posted February 17 Hello everyone, I am currently modeling the X-29A as a hobby, and I need help to find what reticle sight model they used in the aircraft. Basically the only picture where we can see it close is this one, and we can only see the bottom of it: These ones show it's shape from the exterior: Also here is its sheme in the flight manual, only saying "6.39 - Reticle sight (F-5A, space provisions for)". I didn't see anything more about it in this book. Other infos that might help: there was two X-29A built, and both front fuselage sections (including the cockpit) were taken from two F-5A: one from the USAF (aircraft 63-8372) and the other from a former Royal Norwegian Air Force. I found two hints for now: - The drawing in the flight manual is really similar to the reticle of some export versions of the F-5A, like this one from South Korea: - The reticle on the X-29 picture looks like the one on the CF-5: with a projector on the right and a semi-reflective glass projecting the image on the main glass. With all of that said, do you have other clues on what can be the X-29 reticle sight model? My goal is to know its exact shape, and the shape of the projected reticle :)
grodano Posted February 27 Author Posted February 27 Hi! Quick update on my researches, I'm pretty sure the X-29 gun sight was taken from the A-37: Maybe the one from the F-5A was taken at the begining of the program and then changed, explaining the scheme in the flight manual. With all of that said, do anyone have any information about the shape of the reticle of the Cessna A-37 Dragonfly gunsight ?
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