Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Arctic USAF aircraft from the 50's

Pictures are from Douglas K. Rhodes when he was a Capt for the USAF.  All aircraft shown are from Thule Greenland. 


The first  aircraft was called the "Thule Princess".  It fly the boss to Sonderstrom, Goose Bay ad places south. Also flew into a couple of Canadian weather stations Eureka, Alert and a Danish site called Nord on he NE corner of Greenland.








Below classified as an SC-47. Used for search and rescue. Plus to fly people and resupplies to the village of Quaanak, north of Thule.

Cl


Saturday, March 24, 2018

Great site on printing your own decals (Alps Printers)

We all know that Alps printers have pretty well gone the way of the DoDo Bird.  But there are people who still support them.  Plus provide good information on keeping them running.

Design your own ALPS decals.

Thursday, March 22, 2018

Saturday, March 10, 2018

Restoration photos P-39 & P40

These photos are off facebook.  The P-39 and P-40s are being restored to flying condition in New Zealand.  









Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Paul Budzik creating scribed detail

Paul's video are great guide for helping modeler.






P-47 Propeller


These pictures pretty will answer just about all your question on P-47 prop.  Great reference data