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<issue_start><issue_comment>Title: nacos config downgrade to 0.8.0
username_0: `<nacos.config.version>0.8.0</nacos.config.version>`
why nacos config downgrade to 0.8.0 in 2.2.2.RELEASE milestone?
<issue_comment>username_1: The jar version of nacos adapted to spring cloud config server has always been 0.8.0.
refer https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.alibaba.nacos/nacos-config.<issue_closed>The Cessna 172 really needs no introduction. The aircraft was first introduced in 1955 and with little in the way of changes over 43,000 have been produces to date.
The T-41 was the direct result of cost savings. In 1961, the Air Force began using the T-37 in an all jet training program. Unfortunately, this proved unsatisfactory as the demands of the T-37 did not adequately ‘weed’ students from the program and costs were excessive for both maintenance and training. By 1965 the writing was on the wall and the Air Force signed a contract with Cessna Aircraft Corporation for a pilot training/screening aircraft designated as the T-41A. The T-41 served in this capacity with the US Air Force until 1999. Additionally, 23 other countries have put the T-41/C-172 airframe to use as trainers, observation and even light attack roles.
One of those users is the Irish Air Corps (IAC) who began purchasing Reims Rockets as the Europeans know the Cessna 172, in 1972. Initially, the aircraft were purchased with the intent to use them in the counter-insurgency role for the internal security of the Republic of Ireland. Fitted with the latest navigational aids and both military and civilian radio equipment, the IAC ‘Cessna’ could also be fitted with Mantra unguided air-to-surface rocket pods.
Although used almost exclusively in the training role, IAC Rockets did engage in reconnaissance patrols along the border with Northern Ireland as well as providing support to the Garda Siochana (the Irish Police Force) during high profile prisoner transports and cash transfers. The IAC also used their Cessnas in the target towing capacity and parachute training courses. Today, forty years after introduction to the IAC, the Corps still actively use and maintain five C-172H aircraft with no foreseeable replacement on the horizon.
The Minicraft T-41 Mescalero kit comes in a sturdy, traditional style box with an appropriate rendition of the aircraft in flight on the box top. Inside, three sprues of white plastic are bagged in clear plastic, with the clear sprue being individually bagged as well. Decals and instructions are included. The instructions are provided in booklet form and include a brief history, parts location diagram, exploded view assembly diagram and detailed painting and decaling instructions for both builder options.
Over all impressions upon opening the box are high. Looking inside, there is no visible flash, or short shots and the clear parts were intact and distortion free. The panel lines are recessed and very petite. The kit provides a full, although Spartan, representation of the Continental IO-360 engine including engine mount and fire wall. The only obvious disappointment are the provided landing gear wheels as they lack detail, look undersize and nothing like the real thing.
Construction of my C-172 began with research. For 2012 I have decided to model as many Irish Air Corps (IAC) aircraft as possible, and the C-172, manufactured overseas as the Reims Rocket was a staple of the IAC for many years. As such I needed to find images and make notes regarding the specific details that the IAC Rockets displayed.
Ultimately, I discovered via images on line and from the few texts that I had access to that little was going to need to be modified from the provided kit to model an IAC Reims Rocket. Really, the most challenging component of the build was going to be how to make it sit in a proper three wheel stance and not be a tail dragger!
Construction began with the mixing of a custom interior color that I will call Cessna beige. If you have spent any time in a Cessna product you will know that the interiors, almost to a plane, consist of plastic in white and an almost pinkish beige color. I mixed mine using Model Master enamels in a 3 to 1 ratio of Radom Tan and Flat White and sprayed all of the interior parts, fuselage and wing top bottom center section. Once the paint dried, I realized that there were ejector marks in very visible spots that needed attention, so I back tracked and scrapped with a #10 blade to remove the worst offenders and repainted. The seats I painted in a randomly chosen dark green from my bench. Seat belts were taken from my spares bin, painted and installed on both the front and rear set of seats. Pictures of the interior of IAC Rockets are hard to find, but I did come across one that showed the door panels to be a similar color as the seats with bright orange/red arm rests. These I recreated by masking and painting the ‘door’ inner panels with the same color as the seats and creating armrests from scrap plastic sanded to shape and painted with MM International Orange. At this point I glued the seats to the floor, and began detailing painting the instrument panel.
Minicraft for reasons of strength chose to mold an inner ‘framework’ to the top of the cockpit under the wing center section. After looking things over, I decided to remove this structure back to the fuselage side walls as I think it makes the interior look more realistic and it is very visible through the windscreen. Again I touched up the paint and added shoulder straps in their stored position onto the newly accessible panel above the doors using spare brass harnesses. Checking that the installed cockpit did not bind and everything would close up okay I glued the door, quarter and back windows into place (after a dip in Future floor wax) and joined the fuselage together using Tenex. At this point I masked the installed windows and turned my attention to the wing assembly.
The wing top section is all one piece with two oval window cut outs in the center section. The two lower wing sections fit perfectly and were attached with Tenex. Minicraft does not include the option of a wing mounted landing light, even though their box art represents a T-41 with the wing light. Instead, Minicraft provides a single light option centered in the cowling below the propeller as some C-172’s have. The IAC aircraft that I wanted to represent all seem to have had the wing lights, and as such I began searching for placement dimensions. Unfortunately, I was not able to find any measurements or even any good images of a C-172 with this lighting system using on line searches. Oh well, using the images I did have and a best guess mentality I cut a 5/16 inch long by 1/8 inch deep gap into the leading edge of the left wing. From images, it looks as if the light is about 2/3s of the distance outboard, just past where the strut mounts into the wing and on my model the light cover is centered 21/2 inches out from the fuselage. Next I shaped some clear plastic from an old toothbrush handle to the approximate size and drilled two small holes in the back to represent lights and painted them with Floquil Bright Silver. I do not know for sure if the system has two lights, but my memory from years on the Jet West ramp in Reno, NV says there should be two. After painting the edges with RAF Interior Green, I installed the clear piece with CA glue and sanded to shape with progressively finer grits of sandpaper; finishing with 1500 grit and a quick polish with some old wood products I have laying around. At this point I tried to install the clear parts provided for the cabin overhead windows but found they would not sit flush with the top of the wing. Carefully removing the molded step allowed them to push into the provided holes further and sit flush; however, the operative word here is careful; as they are small and the clear plastic is very brittle. Once satisfactorily installed I brushed two coats of Tamiya Smoke on the bottom side-again not sure if this is the correct color, but working from images and past practice with IAC aircraft it seems as safe bet. Finally it was time to mount the wing and fuselage. Overall the fit was great, but I did