There was a difference in length between the F2A-1 (sent to Finland) and the later models. Has anyone checked to see which version that kit really represents?
Finishing up my taxes. Right now Turbotax says I need to send them another $9000+ and I have no doubt that it will be more like $12000 once it is done, plus taxes to South Carolina for the income on the property I own there.
Another from the private junkyard in Ohio. Wouldn't you like to have one of those sitting in your back yard? I think most of the cars in the 50's were trying to look like that, and the Buick LeSabre was not only inspired by it but even named after it.
He means that the engine Nacelles are at right angles to the Wing, not aligned so to be parallel with a vertical line coming up 90 degrees to the ground. The dihedral of the wing makes the difference.
With some new tires I think it would pass a preflight. Be sure to drain the fuel sumps, though!
It is nice to see the USN Museum moved out with that find, but given its history it is to be expected, I guess. With some of the other recoveries the reaction at Pensacola has been "Another SBD or...
Midway Survivor SBD Recovered from Lake Michigan
One need not travel deep into the isolated regions of former European and Pacific theatre combat zones to uncover the long lost wrecks of World War Two aircraft. This Douglas SBD-2 Dauntless, a veteran of the Battle of Midway, was pulled out of...
I recall the day they phased out the KC-97, when I was at Tinker AFB. They found a bad corrosion problem on one airframe where the MLG attached to the wings. They inspected the others and found they all had it. That was that; the directive came out to fly them all to the boneyard. One...
Well, with US Airspace shut down then none of the airplanes coming in from other countries had any reason to fly. I recall hearing that on any typical good weather afternoon half of all the air traffic in the world is over Los Angeles, and if you do any flying out there it is easy to believe...