For your viewing pleasure ...

[Chicoartist]

Here's a few quick grabs from a couple of films we're working on ... just couldn't resist ...

Enjoy!

[Jack Cook]

where's the 354th FG?????????????????

[Chicoartist]

where's the 354th FG?????????????????

Patience, my friend ...

[Trey Carroll]

I'm thinking the next 'Stang to come out of Midwest Aero Restorations would look kick-butt pained as "Down For Double"

Mike???

[Chicoartist]

I'm thinking the next 'Stang to come out of Midwest Aero Restorations would look kick-butt pained as "Down For Double".

Isn't that a great scheme? First time I saw it, I immediately envisioned about 3 or 4 paintings ...

Ah, darn need for sleep!!

And look at that close up of that young jock sitting there with all those swastikas on the side of his kite ... always amazes me thinking about all those young college-age (some barely) kids and what they accomplished.

I am a "casual fan" of the WWI era, and I'm probably overgeneralizing, but from what I gather the "farm boy turned fighter ace and bomber pilot" was more of a WWII thing than WWI. American fighter pilots in the "first unpleasantness" were more a case of college studs looking for adventure, rather than the "kid down the street" types that manned these cockpits in WWII.

Slinging only slightly off topic, read "Donald's Story", by Sandy Merrill. Don Emerson (4th FG P-51 pilot, KIA 12/25/44), to me, typified the young kid who ended up at the tip of the spear back then. Sandy is Don's niece, and she had access to all the family history, et al, plus all of Don's letters home from Day 1 of his training to near the end, just after returning to Debden for his second tour. Highly, highly recommended.

Wade

[Shay]

Beautiful shots.

Any 339th FG specifically the 504th FS?

Shay
_____________
Semper Fortis

[T J Johansen]

I did suggest the "Down For Double" as one possible paint scheme for the TF to Provenance Fighters Simon Brown last year, but no such luck. At least they shelved the idea of another "Red Dog"! It would also be nice to see a 51 in the 20th FG colors with the piano keys. Any takers...?

T J

[Steve T]

Wade--

Any shots in there of WR:B "My Catherine" showing the name?

BTW, our fearless leader Scott has a "bespoke" T-shirt with a Mustang on it in that group's livery...coded WR:G, of course...wonder if there was ever a unit with the code WI (or W1) so one could render WI:X??

TJ--

Yeah, it would be cool to see a 20FG Mustang again. Ages ago there was one, Bill Clark's in Pennsylvania, in "piano key" finish as KI:S "Dolly" (Bill later went with a 339FG finish 5Q:C, and of course sadly perished in the airplane not too much later). It's strange, isn't it, how certain schemes get done over and over again (352FG; 357FG; 4FG etc), while other equally nice ones get passed over. I was jubilant when Charles Somers' Mustang took on 359FG green-nosed finish, especially since the specific machine depicted was Ray Wetmore's surpassingly classy-looking "Daddy's Girl". Far as I know that is the first 359FG livery to fly in modern times... one of the Tallichet plastic replicas was done as the 359th's "Ole Goat" but that's about it, I think...

S.