Looks great Matt! Do you have a picture of the wing top too? Looks like it has a neat design on top of the wing also.
I will have to take one. The wing is similar to the fuse, the horizontal stab is solid silver. All of the checkers fade. I have to credit Fernando for inspiration on the fuselage checker lines. We will be flying formation Oshkosh 2014!
Here's a picture of Charlie's RV. He said he would chime in and tell you about it.
I bet Paul doesn't know and the squirrel also ate the NASA symbol too!!!!
Bird
Matt,
The paint job looks great. I think you should fly to Sun and Fun next month to show it off. I know a place you could stay.
Rich
We shot some air to air photos over the weekend. Turned out OK.
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Those are really good pictures. I like the nice prop disks in these two.....the background is stunning as well.....
Those are really good pictures. I like the nice prop disks in these two...
Definitely not taken with a digital camera.
Brian,
I disagree. You CAN get pictures like that with a digital camera...a digital SLR (like my Canon Digital Rebel). The trick is to slow the shutter down to 1/60 of a second or as close to that as you can. A gyro-stabilized lens helps a bunch!
Here's a picture I took of Rosie's 628PV with my Digital Rebel at LOE 2005.
Had the shutter set to 1/125 and hand held (no IS lens). Not a full blur on the prop, but you can tell it's moving.
My point is, with the right type of digital camera, you can get those type of pictures pretty easily.
Definitely not taken with a digital camera.
Little known is that the US made over 50,000 P-40's in the 3+ year war effort. That is even faster than the VANS Hobbs meter is turning.
Robin,
The actual number of P-40's produced according to several sources is just shy of 14,000 (13,700+) not 50,000. It placed second to the P-47 (15,600+) in US production.
Regards,
Unless you count the 19,257 B-24 and B-24 variants produced.
Just finishing up my 3rd C/I... 200 hrs.
ECi IOX-360 180hp AeroComposites C/S prop
1 EMag & 1 PMag... Never had conventional mags. The EMags are sweet!
2 Grand Radips Horizon I screens & EIS, P/S intercom.
Garmin 430 & 327, TruTrak ADI Pilot/ alt hold.
Empty wt... 1117. Speeds true to Van's specs.
Paint color and N# are from one of two of my grandfather's aircraft that he designed
and built in the early 1930's. The squadron nose art & the triangle "L" on the vertical
stab are representative of my Dad's B-17 Squadron & Group in WWII.
Fred, the airplane turned out really nice and I hadn't seen a picture of it till now - nice job. I'm not sure what is more impressive though, the airplane or the caslte it's partked in front of!
Cheers,
Stein