Recent content by Rato Marczak

I found this photo in the 1938 Aviation Year Book. Apparently, NACA was exploring the concept of 'air bleeding' cowling ring.

And the last Claude combat missions in Pacific were flown in May/1942 (source: Claringbould/South Pacific Air War, vols.2 & 3)

Is it possibly Ike Kepford's 55995 coming back home after the second tour? Are there more of these photos?

These are duraluminum manufacturer id stamps. I had to study the subject a while ago to review a modeling product. Note the pic of a Me-262 with unpainted panels showing these stencils: MDC - German WWII duralumin manufacturers stamps decals (1/32 scale) HTH Rato Marczak

Danny, I got the same manual from eflightmanuals. After writing to them about the lack of drawings, they told me that the drawings will be scanned as a separated manual, but they don't know when as yet. Rato