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                        AD-4 Skyraider

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                        MIG17
                        • Member since
                          February 2003
                        AD-4 Skyraider
                        Posted by MIG17 on Tuesday, March 30, 2004 7:56 AM
                        I've been commisioned to do a aircraft profile of an AD-4, from VMA 251. This a curve ball, I am not to familiar with the "SPAD". Any good links out there?

                        Particulary I'm looking for AD-4, Marines, VMA 251, grey livery, AL tail designation.

                        Thanks in advance

                        Steve
                        www.thunderboltgallery.com
                        Steve
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                        wayne baker
                        • Member since
                          February 2003
                        • From: Medina, Ohio
                        Posted by wayne baker on Tuesday, March 30, 2004 11:37 AM
                        I found a black and white picture at www.abledogs.com of the pilots. A background a/c shows a dark painted fin cap with maybe stars on it. I couldn't find any pictures at the squadron web site, but I might have overlooked them. There is also an image gallery with a lot of AD pictures. Haven't looked at all of them. Might be moree there that you want.

                         I may get so drunk, I have to crawl home. But dammit, I'll crawl like a Marine.

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                        Tailspinturtle
                        • Member since
                          February 2004
                        • From: Connecticut
                        Posted by Tailspinturtle on Tuesday, March 30, 2004 2:32 PM
                        Are they sure it wasn't an AD-6 if if was gray/white? Most of the kits of the single seat Skyraiders are the AD-6. To backdate them to an AD-4, reshape the big bomb pylons and delete the round plate behind the prop and flaps on the inside of the cowling. An AD-4 probably didn't have the external armor plating and possibly not the exhaust glare shields, but it depends on the specific aircraft.
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                        MikeV
                        • Member since
                          April 2003
                        • From: Hayward, CA
                        Posted by MikeV on Tuesday, March 30, 2004 7:46 PM
                        Steve,

                        I don't know if there are any pictures of that particular aircraft but this web site has some good photos. http://skyraider.org/skyassn/imcol.htm

                        Mike

                        “Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. " Charles Spurgeon
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                        MIG17
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                          February 2003
                        Posted by MIG17 on Tuesday, March 30, 2004 10:22 PM
                        Thanks! These are a definate help.

                        Steve
                        www.thunderboltgallery.com
                        Steve
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