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Wings of Fame- The Journal of Classic Combat Aircraft, # 10, Jul-Aug-Sep-1998. The name of the article was "Vietnam FACs" by Robert F.Dorr...
WoF was a quarterly publication from AIRtime Publishing... Dunno if it's still around though... I picked up a 16-volume set from a garage sale a few years back. If it IS still around, I've GOTTA find more issues... It's absolutely the best aircraft periodical I ever found and has tons of photos and color-plates/aircraft profiles in each issue, which features 10 aircraft per, with one "Headliner" and it's got a Centerfold even, lol..
Where'd you read that article Hans? Sounds interesting.
You gotta give those FAC guys credit. To go halfway around the world and get shot at, flying low & slow at treetop level in a Cessna.
great answers thanks alot for the help.going to get the testers o-2 should be fun.
Ron
fermis The Testors kit isn't horrible (some may argue otherwise), but it's not really good either, just kind of OK. I did one last year (got it for $2!!!), plastic was a little soft and warped, but easy enough.
The Testors kit isn't horrible (some may argue otherwise), but it's not really good either, just kind of OK. I did one last year (got it for $2!!!), plastic was a little soft and warped, but easy enough.
Ah, hell, Fermis... Ain't nuthin' you couldn't handle... That kit was a walk in the park, right? Frankly, I thnk I gotta get one now... Never built a FACer.. Just read a rather good article about FACs in Vietnam flying the O-2 (also O-1/L-19s and OV-10s). Covered "BAT-21" too... Didn't realize the scope of effort undertaken (and the airmen killed (Eleven (11) crew-dogs and pilots were KIA trying to get him out), wounded, or captured, and over a dozen aircraft shot down) trying to get Hambleton outta there... The NVA shot down helicopters, Skyraiders, O-2s, an OV-10 , and there were over 800 airstrikes called in, even using B-52s.. I only saw the movi, and it REALLY didn't cover much of what actually happened... The only "Clark" was actually a Bronco GIB named 1LT Mark Clark (Callsign NAIL-38 Bravo), in an OV-10.. The Bronco pilot, Captain Bill Henderson, was captured, and Clark E & E'd until he was rescued.
The artcle covered in detail the in-country FAC School and the unit patch is Snoopy on his bullet-riddled doghouse "Sopwith Camel", looking through binoculars at the ground, 504th TIS (Theater Indoctrination School), otherwise known as FAC University.. Good ol' FAC-U...
My friend Frank Cuden built this beautiful Oscar Duce.
http://www.scaleworkshop.com/workshop/cessnao2afc_1.htm
Gerald "Hawkeye" Voigt
http://hawkeyes-squawkbox.com/
"Its not the workbench that makes the model, it is the modeler at the workbench."
For 1/48th , yeah.. There's some 1/72 O-2s out there though, as well as a 1/50th (close enough) from Heller. They have the Heller O-2A kit for 36.00 at oldmodelkits.com...
http://www.oldmodelkits.com/index.php?detail=10443&cat=Military%20Aircraft&manu=Heller&scale=1/50
Looks like the 1/48 testers kit is about all there is.
Why didn't think of that thanks for answer.
Google is your friend..
http://www.google.com/search?q=Cessna+O-2+Model+Kits&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=2&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=iw&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=
What kits are out there need info .
Thanks Ron
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