Recent content by cammerjeff

Go Bears!

The worst shipping issue I ever had with USPS was way before covid. I got a great deal on a manual transmission center console for my old 67 GTO. The seller just wanted it gone and I paid $100 plus shipping for it. From the pictures it looked perfect I would just have to color match the plastic...

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Must have been some sort of display or airshow with the F-8 at a B-36 base!

I agree but I think the Torpedo planes are Albacore's not Swordfish.

I assume that the under wing inspection panels are open?

Thanks for spoon feeding me on that one, I ad forgotten about that design, but I always liked it. And most of Giussepe's other designs as well

Bellanca 28-70?

Lockheed Orion?

Nah Look's more like a Nigel to my eyes ;)

It's for adjusting the tension of flight control cables ( and other cables) then secured with the jamb nuts and or safety wire. If you can still make out the threads on the rod ends (pin forks) one should have standard right hand treads, and the opposite one should have left hand threads.

Is that one of the “neighborhoods” on top of a west coast factory?

Probably one of the few times I would have wanted the diesel engines mounted on the type

Rob I think its an optical illusion. The A6M5 has a taller engine cowling and the panel in front of the windscreen just goes straight. While the panel on the A6M2 slopes down to the smaller cowling.

Late 109's just look so odd with out a spinner spiral!