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jimmaas started following A Brewster Corsair Celebration? , Replacement propeller for the 1/48 Trumpeter Fairey Battle , Brewster Buffalo GA drawings showing rivets and 3 others
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Replacement propeller for the 1/48 Trumpeter Fairey Battle
jimmaas replied to Tail-Dragon's topic in Aircraft WWII
Well.....the props on the Wellington Mk II would have the correct diameter, don't know if there's a handing issue. Pretty expensive chasing down the conversion kit just to strip the props, though... -
Brewster Buffalo GA drawings showing rivets
jimmaas replied to cduckworth's topic in Aircraft Interwar
No, but the Matt drawings show a straight line for the bottom of the canopy and rear canopy, whereas the real rear canopy lower line was curved, the Matt drawings don't show the ventral carbon monoxide vents, the Matt drawings show the small bump over the wing machine guns, which wasn't there on the F2A-3....et boring cetera. -
Brewster Buffalo GA drawings showing rivets
jimmaas replied to cduckworth's topic in Aircraft Interwar
The Matt drawings were important but have many errors. -
Brewster Buffalo GA drawings showing rivets
jimmaas replied to cduckworth's topic in Aircraft Interwar
Would F2A-2 Inboard Profiles help? -
A (Dutch) Buffalo soldier, Hasegawa 1/72
jimmaas replied to Marcel's topic in Ready for Inspection - Aircraft
Yes, 72221 provides sidewall 'boxes' that are workable for all versions. What version 339 are you planning - I've just been trolling through my Buffalo pix regarding pilot's seats. I know the British version had a square backed seat, but I don't know for sure what seat applied to the Dutch (or Belgian) versions. I suspect the round backed seat like the US Navy types, but I'm not sure how that worked when the armor headset was installed on the 339C/D's, Otherwise, the main instrument panel is appropriate for the Dutch version which still had the compass top center - it was moved to a pedestal for the British version because the location was covered by the reflector gunsight. (The Dutch also eventually installed N2A 'box' gunsights, I have no idea how they dealt with the compass issue). -
A (Dutch) Buffalo soldier, Hasegawa 1/72
jimmaas replied to Marcel's topic in Ready for Inspection - Aircraft
however, Hannants and Sprue Brothers both list 72221 which may help. -
U.S. Navy DH-4 Ambulance - thoughts on colours
jimmaas replied to Blimpyboy's topic in Aircraft Interwar
Just to throw another monkey wrench/spanner into the works, William Larkins, in U.S. Navy Aircraft 1921-1941 etc in the 1923 section cites the top surfaces of both wings and (by implication) horizontal tail as red...... -
I don't have a photo hosting site so I can't load more {these were posted on the Barracuda site)- too bad, there were some interesting interior shots....
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Recently finished, Eduard 1/48 D.VII, Jasta 30, Hartmann's "Moi Hexle' (My Witch)
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VF-2 used both the F2A-2 and F2A-3. The -3 shown here is flying off Lexington post Pearl Harbor.
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[Borrowing Dana's strident tone] This ignores the fact that about half of the VMF-221 pilots at Midway were fresh replacements just out of training....
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Actually, it was a patchwork. When formed in 1932, Brewster Aeronautical took over the top floor of the Brewster Building in Long Island City, an urban manufacturing area across the river from Manhattan. Brewster was a car manufacturer but had dipped its toe into the airplane business after the First World War. Brewster Aeronautical picked up that business, making parts for other companies (wings for F2F's, for example) until it got a Navy contract to build a monoplane fighter, the F2A. It then moved out of the Brewster Building to the Pierce Arrow Building (Long Island City had been a hub of automobile manufacturers before they all moved to Detroit Michigan). The Pierce Arrow Building was four stories with a central freight elevator; components were fabricated on different floors and moved back and forth for assembly. The prominent ceiling posts made this, as Troy noted, rather cramped, but adequate for penny-packet orders in the prewar period. It was wholly unsuited to wartime production. Brewster recognized this and obtained the eight-story Ford Building across the street, as well as getting the Navy to pay to build a plant outside Philadelphia Pennsylvania at Johnsville, which looked a lot more like a normal aircraft manufacturing facility. Obviously, one of the problems with the Long Island City plants was....no runway. Until Johnsville came online, completed aircraft had to be trucked to an airfield ((Floyd Bennet Field, then Roosevelt Field on Long Island, and then a dedicated hangar at Newark Airport in New Jersey).
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WEZ asked I'm intrigued by this statement, can you elaborate please? A 1943 book about the US war effort at home, by Agnes Meyer, had a chapter on Brewster subtitled "Chaos and Tyranny Compete Bitterly At Brewster Plant". After the Navy took over the Brewster plants (Long Island City in New York, Newark in New Jersey and Johnsville in Pennsylvania) in 1942, there was serious difficulty with the union, Local 365, and its President, Tom DeLorenzo. This ended up in production delays, charges of industrial sabotage, and a strike over contravention of rules which led to the 1944 Congressional hearings and the end of Brewster's Navy contracts. One manager was distressed over reports that workers had carelessly left tools inside wing panels before they were closed up and went to the head engineer (I think R.D. McCart) and suggested constructing a massive gantry at the end of the Johnsville production line. This would, he proposed, pick up aircraft and turn them over, to shake loose any misplaced tools. The engineer asked "Like you'd shake your pants for any loose change?" "Exactly" said the manager. In the event, the gantry was never built....
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WWII Aircraft Colours, Post 1941, Further East than the Middle East.
jimmaas replied to Gondor44's topic in Aircraft WWII
I can't speak to the issue of decals or paints, but Brewster did mess up with insignia - the underwing roundels started out as 1-2-3 proportion (see the photo with folks standing under the starboard wingtip) instead of the correct 1-3-5, until corrected somewhere in the W82xx area (Mark worked out an approximation if he can chime in). They also inserted a specious full stop/period in the Wxxxx serials. Just a question- if the incorrect underwing insignia were decals, did they pop up elsewhere?