F-51 Korean war pictures

From what I can see the F-51 used during the Korean where pretty abused aircraft.  What I have read these aircraft flew numerous sorties a day.  With very little maintenance, only what was needed to keep the aircraft flying.  Almost all had been painted with silver paint after the second world war.  Spare parts became a problem.  Open air repairs.  Let say it was a major mess.

Note: Most of the cockpits had been painted black on the F-51's.  

  Here are the picture to show how rough the aircraft where.  All pictures are reference and I claim no ownership on them.

Amazing amount dirt from firing the guns.

Note the wear of the wing root.  One can see the prime paint and skin

I really do build models

Didn't even place at Semmax a few years back.

Remembering an old friend Dave Boksanski

 As sit here late at night not being able to sleep well.  It came to me the my good buddy pasted away on Valentines day 1983.   Dave was my buddy.  Our family use to get together for dinner.  He was one of the Premier model builder in 60's, 70's and early 80's.   A lot of his aircraft where in the old Scale Modeler Magazines.   This clean sweep at the IPMS Reg 4 regional.

Miss you Boh.  Hard to believe its been 33 years since I seen that great smile.

Some quotes about Dave.

One last thought. Anyone who attended the 1977 IPMS nationals in San
Francisco would have no trouble explaining why that was the best convention ever,especially
the banquet. This area has also been the home to some of the finest modelers in the world including the late, very lamented George Lee and Dave Boksanski.

Happy Modeling
Tom

David "Boh" Boksanski.
Anyone remember this incredibly talented, cigar-chomping character?  Heard this story, which might, in fact
be apocryphal:
A modeler wsa bragging about his output to am IPMS chapter in California. Fellow IPMS'ers "Boh" Boksanski
and (the late) Mike Dario then built  AN ENTIRE CARRIER AIR GROUP by the next month's meeting to show the first what output REALLY meant!  Don't know whether THAT was true.... but I personally know
Boh constructed 14 Revell 1/48 109G-10 in little over two week's time.
Anyone have similar "Boh" anecdotes?

David L. Veres

Yes Boh, Mike and another individual did indeed build an entire CAG. Whats more they did it over one weekend,
cleaned out all the decals in the Northern CA to do it.
Boh also took second at the St Louis IMPS Nats ( one before the last) with a Combat F-101.  Couldn't
figure out how he did it, (make the Combat kit look so good). Before he died Mike Dario told me that the rear end
came from a Revell 1/32 F-4.   Creative Modeling.

More BF-109 stuff

Amazing photo.   Good for reference.

1/48 scratch built Noratlas by Renaud Pouge

Here is post on face book Cold war models

Hello everyone,

A few days ago, someone published a picture of a C-135FR expressing regret at not seeing enough transport planes.

I am pleased to present my model of North 2501 Noratlas, a Cold War transport aircraft that served in the French Air Force from 1954 to 1986, as in German Luftwaffe or Hellenic Air Force.

This model is the one that brought me into the world of Cold War planes (before I devoted myself to the allied aircraft of the Second World War).

No, this is not the Heller model in 1/72. This model is fully scratch built in 1/48 scale.

Hope you like it ;

)

P-40 restoration at the Glen H. Curtiss museum

In August 2011, the Restoration Shop at the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum purchased the remnants of 3 P-40 Warhawks, one of which is being restored to display condition.  Two of the aircraft were originally recovered from a Florida swamp just off the Suwannee River after a mid-air collision in 1945, while the third crashed at St. Simon Island around the same time. Although it will never fly again, it’s mechanical systems will be functional. The P-40 will be displayed in a flight attitude and one will be able to sit in the cockpit and work the controls for flaps, landing gear, lights, and other systems. The Allison V-1710 V-12 will be re-installed in the aircraft.

The P-40 was made famous by the pilots of the American Volunteer Group (AVG), universally known as the “Flying Tigers”, and those who managed to get airborne over Oahu on December 7, 1941. The variants acquired by the Museum are the later N models. When the restoration is complete the Warhawk will be painted in the scheme it wore when it was lost.

When these wrecks were recovered they had been half-buried and one of the engines was 12 feet underwater. A number of parts are being made to replace those that could not be saved.  An aircraft that is recovered from the ocean is often too corroded for many parts to be used, but the two that were recovered from the swamp were in better shape because the fresh water on top of salt water helped preserve them.  The recoveries were made over a three-year period, and it was not easy as volunteers worked against alligators, snakes and mosquitoes to reclaim the aircraft.  Visitors to the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum are able to watch the progress of the restoration and speak with the volunteers working on the project.

Located in Hammondsport, New York on Keuka Lake in the heart of the State’s Finger Lakes region, the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum is home to a priceless collection of items related to early aviation and dedicated to the “Father of Naval Aviation”, Glenn Curtiss.  He made the amphibian, seaplane and flying boat a reality by developing the technology associated with enabling an aircraft to take off and land on water. He also worked with the U. S. Navy to train its first pilots and built its first aircraft. Visitors to the museum will see a full-scale reproduction of this first naval aircraft along with other vintage aircraft.