N4521U
Colonel
A long time ago, I started this build, but failed to post it, correcting that now.
In the 50's I lived in San Lorenzo California, a two minute bike ride from my grandmothers home, I was living with my grandparents.
So I used to hoik out to the hangars, the guys were real good to me. I watched the Mustangs with great interest.
The control tower as on top of a great Quonset hut hangar. To me it was as high as these guys could fly.
To get there a ladder attached to the inside of the hangar got me to a platform on the outside of the building.
Then I had to climb another ladder curved with the arced roof. But when I got inside the tower! Wow.
That was maybe 70 or so years ago, it's like yesterday. They gave me binoculars as big as myself to watch the planes come in from the east,
out Tracy way where the airspace is still a practice area for student pilots, like me when I was 48 learning to fly a Cessna 150D.
I digress.
So this is a photo of one of them, my subject.
Looks like this was taken over Dublin, San Ramon area. Mt Diablo under his little black practice bomb.
Picture from the internet, probably a promotional shot for the news papers.
I want to have a pilot at the controls, in a banking turn to port, gear coming up, the pilot looking up and left.
I tend to build Nothing Out of the Box, this one is no different!
Photos to follow.
In the 50's I lived in San Lorenzo California, a two minute bike ride from my grandmothers home, I was living with my grandparents.
So I used to hoik out to the hangars, the guys were real good to me. I watched the Mustangs with great interest.
The control tower as on top of a great Quonset hut hangar. To me it was as high as these guys could fly.
To get there a ladder attached to the inside of the hangar got me to a platform on the outside of the building.
Then I had to climb another ladder curved with the arced roof. But when I got inside the tower! Wow.
That was maybe 70 or so years ago, it's like yesterday. They gave me binoculars as big as myself to watch the planes come in from the east,
out Tracy way where the airspace is still a practice area for student pilots, like me when I was 48 learning to fly a Cessna 150D.
I digress.
So this is a photo of one of them, my subject.
Looks like this was taken over Dublin, San Ramon area. Mt Diablo under his little black practice bomb.
Picture from the internet, probably a promotional shot for the news papers.
I want to have a pilot at the controls, in a banking turn to port, gear coming up, the pilot looking up and left.
I tend to build Nothing Out of the Box, this one is no different!
Photos to follow.