27 June, 2013

Profile 78 - FINAL: "Pardo's Push".

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Do you remember when President George H. Bush talked about the "Thousand points of light"?  The actual quote was something like...
05 June, 2013

Profile 78 - "Pardo's Push"

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You know, they're all interesting.  And they're all thought-provoking. And they're all important. "They" ar...
05 May, 2013

Profile 77 - FINAL: "647" as flown by Major Forrest Fenn, 309th TFS, 31st TFW

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Oh yeah ... Just look at it—do you think the aeronautical engineer's art could get much wickeder?!  When I think of my left hand ...
14 April, 2013

Profile 75 - FINAL: "Sweet Marlene" as flown by Rich Hall, 602nd FS

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ORIGINALLY POSTED 14 APRIL, 2013. Rich Hall ‘flew west’ 19 April, 2024 ******* And here she is— Sweet Marlene, circa 1968. One of the ...
17 March, 2013

Profile 75 - UPDATE: "Sweet Marlene" as flown by Rich Hall, 602nd FS

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8,000lbs of power.   That's the burden this beast could carry. It struck me while listening to Rich describe his service, that t...
08 March, 2013

Profile 76: FINAL - "XR K" as flown by Steve Pisanos, 4th FG

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Finished—the Spitfire Steve Pisanos flew after the Eagle Squadron transferred into the USAAF's 4th Fighter Group.  It's hard...
01 March, 2013

Profile 76: BEGINNING/UPDATE: "XR K" as flown by Steve Pisanos, 334th FS

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HA! Sometimes a blind squirrel gets a nut! And that blind squirrel is ME.  Being frank, I thought my last WW2 bird was done.  Two wee...
25 February, 2013

Profile 75: BEGINNING: "Sweet Marlene" as flown by Rich Hall 602nd FS

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It's begun!  The A-1E Skyraider flown by Rich Hall of the 602nd Fighter Squadron, circa 1969, Nakhon Phanom, Thailand.  Her name is ...
20 February, 2013

Profile 70: FINAL - B-52G of the 77th BS

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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...
26 January, 2013

Profile 70: UPDATE - B-52G of the 77th BS

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She's taking shape and about half way there.  My guess?  Two more posts.  In the meantime, things are going to get really boring.  ...
17 January, 2013

Profile 70: UPDATE - B-52G of the 77th BS

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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...
19 December, 2012

Profile 74: "Francie" as flown by Lt. Harold Snow

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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...
01 November, 2012

Profile 73: "870" as flown by Hank Snow, 173rd Airborne

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Behold the Cessna 0-1 "Bird Dog."  I've skipped the pencil-to-print progress shots because I've simply had no time.  T...
21 October, 2012

Final Flight: George McGovern, 455th BG

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Today, the world lost "One of the Good Ones." George McGovern - U.S. politician, social servant and WW2 bomber pilot has die...
01 October, 2012

Profile 72: FINISHED - LGM-25C Titan II missile

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It's..."The Titan II." Having just re-watched the bizarrely hilarious movie, "Raising Arizona," Tex Cobb'...
19 September, 2012

Profile 71: FINISHED - LGM-30F Minuteman II missile

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