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Pilot’s Last Flight

by Greg Kittinger on October 12, 2018 · in Aviation · 21 ≡

For Christmas of 2003, I found a gentleman at a local airport who owned a T-28, one of the primary trainers my dad had flown earning his wings. I offered to pay him to take my dad up for a flight in his plane, but he agreed to do it and [...]

F-100 Super Sabre (The Hun)

by Greg Kittinger on October 8, 2018 · in Aviation · 16 ≡

I've about finished selling these old slides of my dads, so thought I'd start posting some of these pics in a series. Dad flew with a camera frequently and took some great air-to-air photos (as well as some stuff on the ground). I just [...]

John Glenn – almost a MiG ace

by Tom Cleaver on May 31, 2018 · in Aviation · 22 ≡

My entry in the Nose Art group project. John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, had several incidents occur in his life that could be seen as "indicators" of his later achievement. As a Marine pilot in the Central [...]

‘Weaver’s Nude’ Nose Art Group Build

by Paul Barber on May 6, 2018 · in Aviation · 16 ≡

William Joyce, the Irish-American better known as ‘Lord Haw Haw’, was hanged as a traitor in Wandsworth Prison in January 1946. His failed appeal had gone to the House of Lords, as he argued that being an American citizen, also a [...]

F-86F Sabre Skyblazers 1/48 Italeri + PE parts Eduard

by Josef Rössner on October 15, 2017 · in Aviation · 16 ≡

F-86 F Sabre, Skyblazers Aerobatic Team, 48th FBW Chaumont-Semoutiers Air Base, France 1956, Captain Jim Reynolds

1/48 Sabre F-86F-30

by jim wasley on June 14, 2017 · in Aviation · 31 ≡

Have been working to finish this build all week,I know how you guys like aircraft,it is an Academy kit and a lovely build,just one little bit of bad luck it had a crack in the clear cockpit other than that it was an easy build,I've had it [...]

FUJI T-1A and Sabreish aircraft,1/72

by Robert Royes on September 7, 2016 · in Aviation · 13 ≡

Here are some simple builds from a simple modeler . I built these intending to show aircraft with Sabre like lines.First off is Hasegawa's Fuji T-1A JSDAF trainer, Japan's first aircraft built after WW 2, I can't tell you how long this [...]

Hasagawa 1/48 F-86F-40 Sabre of the J.A.S.D.F.

by George Tufnail on January 10, 2016 · in Aviation · 5 ≡

This is an other OOB build for an in club contest from a few years ago. Finish is overall aluminum with minimal weathering. Fun build, and fairly quick, too. All of the decal stencils were in blocks, and weren't too much of a challenge. [...]

Hasegawa 1/48 F-86A Sabre

by Tom Cleaver on December 9, 2015 · in Aviation · 7 ≡

I did this Sabre back in 2003 and recently re-photographed it. The Sabre almost didn't happen. Had the Air Force not been willing to delay the F-86 program while North American undertook to study the swept wing research done by [...]

Special Hobby 1/48 F-86K Sabre

by Tom Cleaver on November 26, 2015 · in Aviation · 4 ≡

The North American F 86D Sabre was a development of the basic F-86 Sabre that had so little commonality with previous sub-types that it was originally ordered as the YF-95. The designation was changed to F-86D in 1950, following the [...]