Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Wedding Veil http://theidconnection.etsy.com 23 photos monicasantiques@gmail.com Monica Dressler etsy theidconnection
*Veil, Vintage 1950s Bird Cage Lace Wedding Veil, Princess Katherine like Wedding English Wedding Veil, Beautiful, Perfect piece for your Victorian Wedding, Prop or Little Girl Dress up, Here Comes the Bride, Marriage, Bride and Groom, Retro Wedding VeilMeasure from the back of head piece 3 1/2 feet longThis piece is very pretty. The lace is white, veil part is an off white, tan. (see photo) note the discoloration on the inside of head piece. You can recover this with white ribbonThe head piece (bird cage) is adorned with pearls and sequence and lace. Email me with any questions. Oh, I stand 5 foot and it is maybe 6 feet long. Thanks for stopping by the ID Connection
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Sunday, August 7, 2011
Roland Dressler Lockheed P-38 Lightning ultimate combat plane of WWII unique twin boom twin engine design aircraft military aviation
Lockheed P-38J Lightning
Revell kit # 4749
1/32 SCALE
LENGTH: 14 1/8 inches
This ultimate combat plane of WWII was piloted by U.S. Air Ace Major Thomas B. McGuire
Unique twin boom - Twin engine design
Armed with four .50 caliber nose mounted machine guns and one 20mm cannon
Molded in silver and clear plastic
Authentic Army Air Corps markings
The P-38 Lightning introduced a new dimension to American fighters - a second engine.
The multi-engine configuration reduced the Lightning loss-rate to anti-aircraft gunfire during ground attack missions.
Single-engine airplanes equipped with power plants cooled by pressurized liquid, such as the North American P-51 Mustang, were particularly vulnerable. Even a small nick in one coolant line could cause the engine to seize in a matter of minutes
ANOTHER REVELL OLD BEAST The P-38J is part of the Revell family of twin-engined fighter kits released during the seventies, and as such, these models are impressively large.
The P-38 was released in 1970 and reissued a number of times since then.
Although not as large as the Bf-110, this kit surely caused some excitement when it first appeared.
After more than thirty years later, it remains the only 1/32 injected kit on the market, and it can be easily converted to a P-38L.
Contrary to some previous Revell releases of that time, this one has no movable parts.
The shape and dimensions are good in general, and the surface is plagued by thousands of oversized rivets. A serious modeler will have to perform a formidable job to bring this model to competition standards.
The other choice is to partially sand off the rivets and go out-of-the-box with a good paint job.
Considering the size and the forms of this bird, I'm sure most will stop to take a second look at the model... The original 1970 kit came with Richard Bong's "Marge" P-38 artwork (do you remember that box?).
The Lockheed P-38J was the only American fighter in continuous production throughout America's involvement in the war with P-38J and P-38L-LO being the primary production variants.
While there were some teething problems for the aircraft the P-38 proved to be a very reliable fighter notable for its speed.
The P-38 was the aircraft of choice for America's two top aces of World War II Richard Bong and Thomas McGuire.
After the war P-38s were phased out of American military service and sold to the militaries of smaller nations and some were demilitarized and sold to civilian interests including a number of air racers who prized the P-38's speed.
WANTED: MODEL AIRPLANE KITS!
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Roland Dressler Luftwaffe Piaggio P-149 Flugzeugfuhrerschule FFS-S Memmingen & FFS-C Diepholz in West Germany Aviation Aircraft 1/135 model airplane
Wanted: Model Airplane Kits
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Vintage 1950's West German Luftwaffe Piaggio P-149
1/135 scale model kit
Pegaso aircraft airplane retro 50's Cold War military Aviation
PEGASO kit # 108
Equipo de plastico para armar
PIAGGIO P-149
escala 1/135( alas 8.5cm )
DESTUCHE DE EXHIBICION INCLUIDO
HECHO EN MEXICO
Nerdaderas Miniaturas
THIS IS AN OUT OF PRODUCTION MODEL KIT
THE LEGEND OF THE PIAGGIO P.149D AND PIAGGIO FW P.149D
The Piaggio P.149 was a four-seat touring aircraft developed from the P.148 two-seat primary trainer, which first flew on June 19, 1953.
The design came from the team of Giovanni Casiraghi, not as falsely stated by some excerpts as a design of Stelio Frati.
Adolf Galland, the famous fighter pilot and youngest general of the WW2 Luftwaffe and his co-pilot Eduard Neumann tested secretly the Piaggio while winning the First Prize of the Italian Air Tour Flying Rally, flying the Piaggio P.149 prototype in Summer 1954.
One year later the Luftwaffe had a fly-off to select the new trainer from the Beech T34, Saab 91 Safir and the Piaggio.
The flight demonstration was almost a full success, but the Piaggio Test Pilot forgot to lower the landing gear under a great laughter of the competition, he belly-landed.
The damage was small and the fact, that the aircraft was flying again next morning, made a great impression on the Luftwaffe brass.
From the P.149 was than developed the 4-seat P.149 D military trainer, which was selected by the new Luftwaffe in 1955 and one example, was delivered to Germany for evaluation in 1956. The 149 D got a stronger engine, joysticks and different instruments.
Piaggio was scheduled to supply 76 machines and a further 300 would be built under license by Focke-Wulf in Bremen, Germany.
The 149D was built exclusively for the German Luftwaffe.
Only one Piaggio was flown with the Italian Military insignia and was the personal mount of the Italian Air Force Military Attaché in Bonn, Germany.
These quantities were respectively reduced to 72 and 194 aircraft. Initial deliveries from Piaggio commenced in May 1957 and 16 were supplied in component form for Focke-Wulf to assemble. (These being included in the quantity from Focke-Wulf)
However, the in USA used designation of Focke Wulf FW P 149 D is false.
The licensing agreements between Piaggio and Focke-Wulf and the legal designation registered at the German LBA stating Piaggio P 149D and Piaggio FW P 149D
The first batches were delivered to the Flugzeugfuhrerschule FFS-S at Memmingen, and later to the FFS-C at Diepholz.
All the fighter, fighter-bomber, reconnaissance and two of the transport wings received several examples for communications and instrument rating purposes, as well as the three main flight trainings schools WS-10, 30 and 50.
Many of the non-operational units used them and although most of the aircraft were withdrawn from service in the early 1970s, by 1980 some 40 were still serving with the more-recently formed Jagdbombergeschwader 49 at Furstenfeldbruck.
On March 10, 1990 the last flight of the Piaggio was conducted with a celebration of over flight of the last 4-plane formation led by Hauptmann Scheuermeyer in the Werke No. 156, tail number 91+34, in a beautiful Good By paint job in Bavarian white and blue sporting the BavarianNational Flag on the tail surface as well as the crests of the four schools, the Piaggio had done there duty.
With 290.000 flight hours total, this proud bird was the aircraft with the longest time in service ever in a German Luftwaffe.
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