This panel is from Blackhawk No. 166, November 1961.


Lockheed F-94 Starfire

The character of Lady Blackhawk was introduced in issue No. 133. Zinda Blake was an experienced aviatrix and adventuer who tried to join the Blackhawks. She was eventually admitted as an honorary member. Obviously, a wealthy young woman, she flew her own jet airplane in Blackhawk livery. It may have been intended to be a Lockheed F-80, which was an old enough plane that perhaps a private citizen could have acquired one, but it was invariably drawn with a long cylindrical nose that looked to me like that of the F-94 Starfire (which, after all, used many components of the F-80).

F-94 Model

1/72 Scale (Click on thumbnail picture for large picture)
F94 frontF94 rear

The model is a combination of the Heller and Emhar kits. The two seater was converted to a single seat configuration and a thermoformed canopy was made from a Banshee's. The Blackhawk insignia were printed with a Star SJ-144 thermal wax transfer printer.

Sven Knudson's photo of the Lockheed F-94 at the 97 IPMS Nats

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