"This airman is a sound pupil, though inclined to be cautious, learns quickly and has made good progress in all departments of his flying training. Shows exceptional ability at night flying, and will develop into a sound, safe pilot."
FOCKE WULF 190A-8/R11 “Wilde Sau” Nachtjager Dragon 1/48 Scale
I decided to tackle the Dragon kit for a couple of reasons; the first that the kit looked interesting and secondly, because I wanted to have a go at a free-handed paint scheme.
Major Egmont Prinz zur Lippe-Weissenfeld’s MESSERSCHMITT BF 110G-4 March, 1944
...it was because Weissenfeld had been marked for elimination, that the aircraft was destroyed over the Ardennes Forest in Belgium...
CV-9 USS Essex & AVG-83, March-August 1945
"I often think of 409 at the bottom of the Pacific with some of my personal gear aboard. After all this time there is probably nothing left..."
Added Value
The F/O Ian Keltie, RCAF Feature Article I published a few days ago...
Flying Officer Ian Keltie’s Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IXc
"August 24, 1942 was a particularly hot day, as I recall. It was to be a hot day in more ways than one..."
Wing Commander Peter Mallan Brothers’ Spitfire HF.Mk.VIIc
Air Commodore Peter Mallan Brothers CBE, DSO, DFC Born in 1917, Pete Brothers learnt to fly at age 16. …
