A few days one of Hyperscales members posted about the War Eagle decals. It is great to see some many people remembering buying and using War Eagle products. That why I created the War Eagle items. In a why is a way to Remember Ron. His love of the hobby and aircraft. Plus he was one hell of a nice guy. I wish he was still around to read this comment.
Bit of a blast from the past seeing the old War Eagle Sea Fury sheet.
On of the options was VW.623 of 805 Squadron RAN. It was the very first aircraft I worked on in the RAN after joining VC-724 Squadron
in 1980 (I soon managed to skulk away from the Sea Fury and get my mitts on the Sea Venom on the other side of the shed, but that's a
whole different story)
Long story short, 623 had spent many years as a gate guard at HMAS Albatross and had suffered a very bodgy restoration at some stage
which included painting very nice but completely wrong side numbers (USN style instead of proper RN style) and losing 90% of the internal
components.
War Eagle did a brilliant job of reproducing this scheme, might not be accurate but capture a unique moment in that aircrafts history.
Steve Long
Former RANFAA A-4G/TA-4G Maintenance
Supervisor, Camden Museum of Aviation.
Passing interest in Sea Venom's
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