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Thanks! I knew you guys would have the answers.

Recent events have brought to the fore a certain crash of A-20G-20 42-86768 "Barry's Baby," 3rd BG (L), 90th BS (L) on May 14, 1944 in the South West Pacific. The survivor T/Sgt Anthony Zulkus listed as "Engineer" survived. He claimed both engines quit at low altitude and the plane went in. I...

Were the black wing walk guides on U.S. aircraft just black paint or non-skid? It doesn't appear that they were re-painted if the wing was painted.

From photos, it appears that the main self-sealing fuel tank bladder in F4U Corsairs must had had issues. Quite a few of them have white tape over the seams around the tank in front of the pilot. Were the panels hard to remove - or easily damaged, making them difficult to fit back properly...

A lot of Naval Aviators had time in these.

has anyone ever read a nickname for the F3F series fighters?

Beautiful work! This is the ancient 1960s Revell F4F-4 that I restored and repainted recently.

Very nice indeed! I did not even know of this kit!

Beautiful! This is my old build (Early 1990s) of the 1/48 Monogram Marauder. In 2019, I took it out of storage, fixed broken parts like the landing gear and made it look nice again. I used a lot of led weights to get it to sit properly and that affected the gear!

I did what I could with the ancient Lindberg Grumman Goose 1/50th scale model kit.

Question - Did USN yellow wing utility aircraft have wing chevrons? Did they have the colored cowls of three-plane sections ? I ask because I want my model of the Grumman Duck to be accurate. it is painted in the markings of I-J-23 VJ-1 1939 in Hawaii. the Curtiss Hawk is for comparison.

The rifle is a Chinese copy of the M1888 Commission rifle in 8mm Mauser. - clled the Henyang 88 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanyang_88

I guess Navy planes used the white stripe marking on the tail too.

Any idea what prt of the B-17 it came from? Wing or fuselage? Is he sure it was from a B-17?

I brush painted this old Revell 1/72 model. I used a camel hair brush with the bristles trimmed to apply the splotches.