2020年10月5日 · Second Lieutenant Phil Rasmussen was one of only six USAAF pilots able to get into the air that morning, flying an already effectively obsolete aircraft, the Curtiss P-36A. Despite being massively outnumbered by the attacking force, Rasmussen was able to shoot down a Zero and maintain control of a badly damaged aircraft long enough to return to ...

2017年3月19日 · Most people assume that the cockpit of the Hawk 75A was painted with aluminum lacquer, as was the contemporary P-36. This turns out not to be the case, as Stephen Grey was able to demonstrate with the restoration of the Hawk 75A-1 now owned and flown by The Fighter Collection at Duxford.

2015年5月2日 · P-36A to C, for aircraft delivered NMF. under the rear windows: NMF, on some pics of P36 at USAFmuseum before restoration, on these area there was yet smudge prussian blue lionoil which protected the NMF.

2015年7月29日 · From what i read, all P-36 have canvas to prevent dirt to go into the wings. I've made them with lead sheet, cut to dimensions and shaped, then glued with CA. No problem if it's not perfectly neat and aligned, as it is only canvas, so folds are not unrealistic.

2005年12月26日 · The long term goal of all this madness is to represent the developmental history of the P-40 production types in 1/32 scale. I'm currently in the end stages of the Trumpeter P40-B/C and had planned on doing the Revell E model using Jerry Rutman's conversion kit, but since Trumpeter announced that they will be doing an

2016年1月17日 · So it's the Special Hobby P-36A Pearl Harbor defender kit, built OOB. I just corrected the gunsight, buidling from scratch a new correct gunsight + reflector, thanks to Waroff's informations. Same for the windscreen rods.

2015年7月29日 · Gents, took a wee time to find this apologies re the delay. The magazine in question is Scale Aviation Modeller International, Vol 12, Iss 5, May 2006. It contains two 1/32 and one 1/48 Me262 builds, the first being Trumpeter's 262A-1 by David Francis, the second Revell's 262A-1 by Tony Gloster a...

2020年10月5日 · Got some free time to start enhancing the cockpit area. There are precious few photos online of P-36 cockpits, and those that exist are a gmish of American warbirds, export Hawks, early and late models, museum pieces, and mostly poorly or ambiguously labeled.

2020年10月5日 · The P-36 had these little bubble-shaped fairings around the exhausts. In the photo below you can see one of these as it was molded and the other thinned out so the edges are not so chunky. Rather than try to hollow out those exhaust stub moldings, I'm going to get some 2.75 mm aluminum or brass tubing and bend replacements that will look much ...

2020年10月5日 · Regardless, it looks OK from 6 feet away and from above, on the shelf, for now, but I definitely need to do another P-36A at some point. As far as root cause analysis goes, I'm pretty sure that all of this trouble started with the gloss black base coat (like building a house on a weak foundation, nothing good is going to happen once the first ...