Stories and Illustrations of combat airplanes, missiles and the people that flew them

It's begun!  The A-1E Skyraider flown by Rich Hall of the 602nd Fighter Squadron, circa 1969, Nakhon Phanom, Thailand.  Her name is ...

Finished!   There's a teeny bit to be done with the engines, but I'll handle that with a pencil on the final prints. I...

She's taking shape and about half way there.  My guess?  Two more posts.  In the meantime, things are going to get really boring.  ...

Stop, start, stop, start... Four and a half months later, I'm back at it; the B-52 I started last August is finally getting som...

To my regular readers:  I'm still here. 54 days ago, I took on a weighty project of writing and publishing the bio of Hank Snow.  I...

Behold the Cessna 0-1 "Bird Dog."  I've skipped the pencil-to-print progress shots because I've simply had no time.  T...

Today, the world lost "One of the Good Ones." George McGovern - U.S. politician, social servant and WW2 bomber pilot has die...

It's..."The Titan II." Having just re-watched the bizarrely hilarious movie, "Raising Arizona," Tex Cobb'...

The missile above is the LGM-30F, "Minuteman II" ICBM. And it is...amazing. No. Not just amazing. It's OMG! W...

To regular readers - I have a little explaining to do. You've noticed that this isn't an "airplane." It's a mi...

It's begun, (gulp)... If you've never seen one take off and fly, it's an awesome sight. Gangly, huge and wickedly li...

Done! I'm surprised, too as I never really wanted to jump into the Vietnam era on account of this particular airplane;  the F-4 w...

Now it's finally starting to look like something!   And we're so close to finishing that the next post will be the final. In ...

Here she is, as she was about 2 nights ago but be warned - THERE ARE TWO MAJOR FLAWS in this rendition!  They will be corrected, but sin...

Ok.  You can look but don't expect to see much.  This thing is a long way from reality.   But, it's moving in the right dire...