Warbird Information Exchange

haha what do i win? The original painting? Just Kidding. I just visited your website i have a feeling ill be purchasing some prints from you. Great work!

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A&P all around plane nut

Never pay a jeep expert- there's too many of us, and we argue a lot... lol

Robbie

The tailwheel won't unlock without the stick forward, but once unlocked you can pull the stick back all you want.

But It could be. Lets say you taxi up and push forward on the stick to unlock the tail wheel. You push left brake and as she turns sharply you stop when you are facing the direction as shown in the photo. Now you decide you want to go straight ahead from the dead stop with the tailwheel turned sideways. You can give it some throttle, push on the right brake and pull the stick back. The tailwheel steering mechanism has a spring loaded plunger so as you move forward the tailwheel pivots and when the plunger lines up with the hole it will drop in. Then you will have tailwheel steering connected to the rudder. It will disengage when you push forward on the stick, but will only engage when the stick is aft and the internal parts, the plunger and the hole line up. The stick could be aft but the steering won't be engaged as shown in the painting.
Rich

Strange, I do have time in a P-51 and I could only really focus on the Jeep as I have one (1944 Willys MB) sitting in my garage. Then again, it's been a while since I got into the cockpit of any WW2 plane with the engine running. I have always found it funny when I look at military (and to a lesser degree, aviation) art, in that you can often tell if someone knows how something is used or not as an artist familiar with, say, a M-16 can only paint one to show it's function and someone who isn't will paint parts of it that betray an understanding of that function.

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Former REMF (US Army, O3)

Howdy Jim, the prop tips were sometimes painted yellow on the back so that the pilot could see where is prop arc is during formation flight and whatnot. Most, if not all T-28's were done that way from the factory. I know I painted back of the tips on our T-6's when our group was doing the 3-ship T-6 formation acro act a few years back. It also helped the ground crews when working on a running engine.

Great artwork, Wade!

Gary