F-100's drone and MIANG

Updated with some MI Huns 1/19/2019

added 01/19/2019

FH2 Banshee 1/48 decals

If you have make the corrections to the Kitty Hawk Banshee why do get some great decals.  Furball has created a very colorful set of decals...   This decal set can be purchased here: FH2 Banshee decal by furball decals

Can wait until someone builds a Banshee with the correction set and any of the aircraft below. 

Kittyhawk F2H Banshee.

Everyone has been waiting for a correctly model 1/48 Banshee.  The aircraft is one that modelers want.   Along comes Kitty hawk with a promise to make the perfect Banshee.  Sadly we got a pregnant guppy.  The wings at where the engine are located...  Well that area is a mess. 

Picture from Cyber Models

Cory in Colorado had a fix to this problem.  More of the story here.Cory's Fix

Next Guy to come along with really fix. But it will cost $45 plus.   But is a great fix.

Mr Reith excellent product can be found here.  FH2 creation set.

Well there you go folks.  You build a excellent FH2 for a total of  $100.  I will pass unless I get a heck of a deal on Kitty Hawk FH-2 Banshee.

Hellcat assembly line

The are great photos of the Hellcat assembly  line.

Condors History

Focke-Wulf Fw 200 C-1 Tranøyfjorden, Dyrøy Troms

1./I./KG 40 WNr.?? F8+BH* 29.05 1940

Took off from Aalborg West in Denmark. On their return leg, after a bombing raid on the power plants at Simavik and Skarsfjord when they were attacked by Hurricanes of 46th. Sqdn.(P/O Neville Banks) based at Bardufoss. The aircraft crashed into the fjord and sank. Two of the six man crew were soon after found dead in the sea. 1.Pilot Lt.Otto Freytag. Oblt. Günther Thiel. Ofw. Heinrich Ruthmann. Ofw. Willi Rieker. Uffz. Franz Seelbach. Gefr. Manfred Stephani. They are all, except from Gfr.Stephani, buried at Narvik Cemetery. source: Knut Larsson.

Fw 200C-3/U4 Condor Hommelvik, Sør-Trøndelag

7.staffel III gruppe KG 40 F8+BR WNr.0063 22.02 1942

Took off from Vaernes airfield at 08:09. Their target were ships on the east coast of Iceland. Nine hours and 44 minutes later, they ditched into Stjørdalsfjord due to a malfunctioning of the flaps when approaching Vaernes. Crew survived. Pilot Oblt. Werner Thieme. 
2nd pilot Wolfgang Tonn. Ofw.Leo Ludorf (mechanic). Karl Kiessling (1st radio operator). Ogefr. Klaus Kappes (2nd radio operator).
Gefr. August Kaufmann (air gunner).

Condor Restoration almost complete.

When you look at what they had to start with it is amazing story.  They had been told it couldn't be done.  Several year later the aircraft is almost done. 

The Condor restoration Project in Germany.

In order to better understand what we can find when we continue to dive at the wreck site for the FW 200 Friesland and the complexity of restoring a Focke Wulf FD 200 we visited the Condor restoration project in Germany, see: https://www.dlbs.de/en/Projects/Focke-Wulf-Condor/index.php

We were guided around by Günter Büker and Horst Becker in Bremen where they are restoring the front and Günter Georges in Hamburg where they are restoring the rear. Later they will finalize and mount the whole air craft in Bremen before the final exhibition in Berlin. They are about 75 people working on the project on both sites. All retired enthusiasts and one 92 years old veteran who had worked on these air planes at Focke Wulf factory.

It´s an astonishing work they are doing saving an important part of the aviation history. The FD 200 was the first plane that flew nonstop over the Atlantic and later to Brazil, Egypt and Japan,