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Chief Petty Officer Riley Robinson, a Sea Fendrake F Mk. II pilot of the 332 Marine Air Squadron, discusses with his plane captain Aircraftwoman Iris Coleman before sortieing for the morning combat air patrol off Fleet Carrier Nordenfeld. Rating pilots like CPO Robinson are a rare breed of Imperial Marine aviator, with only a few hundred enlisted men accepted for flight training during the Border Crisis and trained alongside their officer counterpart. These 'Silver Eagles' wear silver pilot wings instead of the golden one worn by officer pilots, but that doesn't undermine their skill and experience as the tally beside CPO Robinson's cockpit bore the testament to.
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Not exactly a Mustang . I believe i haven't introduced the air forces of the United Terran Republics yet, but they have similar roundel to RAF type D with black in place of blue.
Thanks anyway!
Thanks anyway!
Holy crap, you seriously took the time to think that bird out completely.
Yeah, graphite tends to not express color well.
But I can see where the 51 inspired the image. Having worked as a volunteer at the Pima Air Museum for years allowed me to explore areas not allowed to the public. Climbing in and about the various warbirds was a thrill. Finding out that the bombardiers position in a B-25J is connected via a tiny tunnel to the main crew area. And in an emergency, I'd be screwed, squeezing myself through the tunnel, and that still doesn't allow quickly attaching the parachute which sat in the crew area.
Plus sitting in an original Mitsubishi Zero, how cheaply in was made, pushing on the skin from inside was like pushing on a soda can, then sitting in a F6F Hellcat, it was like sitting in a tank, so well built, plus the room! But sitting in an original bF-109, was claustrophobic, makes the Zero cockpit look like sitting in a large car and the F6F like sitting in a city bus in size .
Sadly lost 90% of the photos I took inside various aircraft in a move. Though I still have the original gun sight that came off a either a F6F or F4U that had been scrapped decades prior from a pile of scrap metal and located next to a recovered B-17G fuselage that was a converted bug sprayer and crashed .
Yeah, graphite tends to not express color well.
But I can see where the 51 inspired the image. Having worked as a volunteer at the Pima Air Museum for years allowed me to explore areas not allowed to the public. Climbing in and about the various warbirds was a thrill. Finding out that the bombardiers position in a B-25J is connected via a tiny tunnel to the main crew area. And in an emergency, I'd be screwed, squeezing myself through the tunnel, and that still doesn't allow quickly attaching the parachute which sat in the crew area.
Plus sitting in an original Mitsubishi Zero, how cheaply in was made, pushing on the skin from inside was like pushing on a soda can, then sitting in a F6F Hellcat, it was like sitting in a tank, so well built, plus the room! But sitting in an original bF-109, was claustrophobic, makes the Zero cockpit look like sitting in a large car and the F6F like sitting in a city bus in size .
Sadly lost 90% of the photos I took inside various aircraft in a move. Though I still have the original gun sight that came off a either a F6F or F4U that had been scrapped decades prior from a pile of scrap metal and located next to a recovered B-17G fuselage that was a converted bug sprayer and crashed .
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