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My O2 has some paint chipping to the leading edges. Anyone know the right way to prep and pain so this looks good. Short of stripping the whoe wing? I can have a chip matched, so the paint woul be the exact color in a good aircraft grade paint.

Thanks for any input

O2

I'd just let it go. Put some clear leading edge tape on it or if it's bad repaint the leading edge back to the edge of the cuff.

If you have light primer showing through a dark color you could just spot airbrush the affected areas. When it gets too bad then reshoot the whole leading edge as suggested.

How 'bout a piccie of yr 0-2..

You show me yours and I'll show you mine...

old game, remember??

Here she is OD!







Here she is with 21 TASS at Phan Theit. That's Boron 01 in the picture!



Her tail in the midle of the pile @DMAFB



Cockpit:

Thats my tail on the end, 11055.

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My acft is 67-21431> No SVN photos. Looks like all black at some point when we intially rubbed back the paint.

I'll send the pics via PM for posting.

Brgds

Tease! You got any pics of the rest of her Sky02?
OD hi! and how goes the A-26?

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I don't have any pics posted to link to. The airplane was on display in the LSFM hangar for several years.

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If God had wanted man to fly behind a flat motor, Pratt Whitney would've built one.

Do you remember what years exactly it was at LSFM? I noticed Scott has
"19??", in the Registry.
I found a photo of your bird on the net, Breckenridge 5/1990, Bill Word photo..
Someone getting some shut-eye?
www.skymaster.org.uk/photos/n5539g.jpg
Is she still in this paint scheme?

Skymaster photo-registry, dial-ups be patient..slowload..worth waiting tho
www.skymaster.org.uk/photo.asp

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He bowls overhand...He is the most interesting man in the world.
"In Peace Japan Breeds War", Eckstein, Harper and Bros., 3rd ed. 1943(1927, 1928,1942)
"Leave it to ol' Slim. I got ideas...and they're all vile, baby." South Dakota Slim
"Ahh..."The Deuce", 28,000 pounds of motherly love." quote from some Mojave Grunt
DBF

Added blue wingtips, top and bottom caps on the vertical stabs, and a duck with his tongue hanging out nose art on both sides.

I used to go to Breckenridge every Memorial Day for the airshows there, always had a good time. The "blasters" set off a charge under me and raised my butt a couple of hundred feet. I was making a run in at about 300 feet.

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If God had wanted man to fly behind a flat motor, Pratt Whitney would've built one.

It was in the museum from 1997 until the summer of 2001.

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If God had wanted man to fly behind a flat motor, Pratt Whitney would've built one.

Thanks Skymstr02, we have a photos of Oscardeuce's bird in the registry,
neither yours nor Oscar Duck's deuce..'twould be nice to get some currents of both with noseart of course.

There are a couple of OD's bird at the aforementioned website toward the
bottom with the other Aussie birds...VH-OTO, dunno how current they are..

Is it my computer, or does Oscardeuce's O2 photo from Phan Thiet fail to display?

Nice 02's all, Thanks All!

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He bowls overhand...He is the most interesting man in the world.
"In Peace Japan Breeds War", Eckstein, Harper and Bros., 3rd ed. 1943(1927, 1928,1942)
"Leave it to ol' Slim. I got ideas...and they're all vile, baby." South Dakota Slim
"Ahh..."The Deuce", 28,000 pounds of motherly love." quote from some Mojave Grunt
DBF

These two O-2s were acquired through the Naval Air Museum by Ron Scott and Frank X. Mooney. Picture was shot by me on a Wings Over Houston extracurricular photo flight over Galveston Bay. There were 5 O2s up that day. This picture was submitted to and subsequently featured on the cover of Trade A Plane. We call it the OO-22!

The planes are N593S and N594X . They remained in the Navy paint applied at Fallon NAS. Both have Viet Nam combat history. Ron sold his to a fellow in the Carolinas and Frank stilll owns his but he hasn't flown it in some time.

Photo's not working Rick..got a Fortune City badge showing..

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He bowls overhand...He is the most interesting man in the world.
"In Peace Japan Breeds War", Eckstein, Harper and Bros., 3rd ed. 1943(1927, 1928,1942)
"Leave it to ol' Slim. I got ideas...and they're all vile, baby." South Dakota Slim
"Ahh..."The Deuce", 28,000 pounds of motherly love." quote from some Mojave Grunt
DBF