John vd Biggelaar (@johnb)
Yes sir, she is airworthy. I have some very cool videos of her starting up and running, plus some of her as she took off. It's an incredible plane, and I think it is their best restoration to date. They decided to depict the plane as it would have looked at the factory, before any specific unit markings were added. They also decided against painting on the last 3 digits of the bureau number on the cowling as we often see in original wartime pictures. I think this was an excellent choice on their part.
Brian Mennenoh (@brithebuilder)
No problem with what you have done with the pictures. It confirms what I thought I was seeing in the pictures. The anhedral area they were talking about was supposed to be the top portion of the wing, just where it connects to the fuselage and outward to the folding joint seam. Apparently this area has been depicted with anhedral in the Otaki mold. I have not noticed it in my Hasegawa kits, but then again I have not looked at them very close in this area either. I don't have an Otaki kit in the stash, only some Hasegawa and Eduard versions, so I can't make a comparison for myself.
What you did with the red lines is OK by me. No worries here, and these are my actual pictures that I personally took. It's all good as far as I'm concerned.
Spiros Pendedekas (@fiveten)
Thanks for the compliments on these pictures. I was very fortunate to have been at the shop on numerous occasions during the restoration process. I took a lot of Hellcat pictures, and these are just an example of a few of them. I'm sincerely thinking about someday writing several books, with the Hellcat being the subject of one of them, and the Corsair another one.
Eric Berg (@eb801)
I hope these pictures I posted on your build journal helped to answer your questions about the upper wing surfaces.
Your F6F is looking great, and judging by the latest pictures, it just might be in the headlines section soon. Well done !
