New Wheel Strut for Temco

[BoeingDriver]

I was hoping to inspire just such a response with my BAC 1-11 postings. Maybe we need a less obscure subject. How about we start one new plane a month???

Ladd

[MichaelB]

Sounds good to me!
Does this forum have the capabilty of a photo gallery?
That would be the place to hold photo sets? Or we could start Flickr page for same.
I'll have to scan the pic of the B36 model, but it's what you would expect. Remember Convair also actually rebuilt the B36 as a real, flying 8 jet bomber! The YB-60! They tried hard (as Convair always did) to get as much mileage as they could from their products. Ever heard of the B58 "biz jet" or the full SST based on the B58? They are in the literature out there as models proposals.
Michael

[Tone]

I just discovered the maker of this toy. The name is Nakayama.

The green camo version has the hollow "N" trademark inside an elongated ellipse. I'll add this Identification to my lists. This firm also made a small VT-107 Helicopter (7 1/2" L) in several color schemes. Alas or HoverMD please post some photos!

[grwebster]

Tone, the fact that the toy was also done in camo reenforces my ID as it being a Cessna A-37. The A-37s in VN had that camo scheme. Some were based at the same place I was in 1968 and I got to fly attack missions in one.

[grwebster]

Clarification, I was not rated as a fixed wing pilot, only helicopters so I flew in the right, co -pilot seat.
I also see on the fuselage side the graphic depiction of the FOD intake door grills which were closed for takeoff, taxi, and landings. FOD- foreign object damage- the ship was very low to the ground and would suck into the engines anything on the ground as it went by.

[grwebster]

Here is a rather rare Topping model of the Cessna A-37 in its VN war camouflage finish.