asas de portugal

Great drawing! But with one minor mistake. The serial should read 15250, not 58.

Abraços

Ahhh,,

I wish I could remember the full quote but therein…”lies the rub” (and not the massage parlors of Ho Chi Minh City – thats another story) The real joys of the artists life… one can only replicate what one sees. I can recognize past years’ efforts by the squadron to field a demonstration team, but while it can be understood that an operational squadron cannot necessarily dedicate a pair of aircraft to a team, my past photo references (camo years) predominantly show ‘208 and ‘218 operate as the pair and ‘247 in back-up. However, unless someone at the Portuguese air force has altered the photos they post to their web site …, then ‘258 is indeed one of the aircraft newly painted for the Asas.

Humbly I type – I draw what I see.. But thank you for the feedback – it is greatly appreciated

James

3 more photos of the “Flying Stars” and one rare photo of F-86 Sabre Aerobatic Team showing the underside paint job.

all I can say is WOW! that one Sabre shot certainly alters anyone’s ‘views’ of the Sabre team – where did you find that?!?! This week’s top reward is yours! (unfortunately we have to wait ’til I get to Serbia or you get to Canada – but beers all ’round – oh and hopefully I make it that way in the next year or so, I do have a habit of going off to countries no one thinks about for tourism (especially coming out of Canada) – Philippines once, Vietnam twice, and Europe is like the back yard – so don’t go dry in the meantime on my account)

BEERS!! 😉

Oops, that one screwed up – how ‘ bout now?

OK, so slightly outside the realm of this thread – but well worth the acknowledgment…

http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/Feature_Story/2006/04/slovenia_f_e.asp

we may not have the budget… but what we do, we do right!

Chile had many unofficial aerobatic teams, using different aircraft until the ’60s decade, where it was created the Cóndores de Plata team, flying F-80s. In 1981 it was created Escuadrilla de Alta Acrobacia Halcones, with Pitts S2A & S2S; these aircraft were traded in by Extra 300s in 1990, and these were subsequently replaced by Extra 300Ls in 2002.

I’ve seen one photograph of the Condores 4-ship formation – I get the impression there were many other teams formed by various Chilean squadrons at different times – very much like the ‘gold old days’ in the RAF and even here in the RCAF – when almost every squadron had a team.

OOPS! Typo Alert, the Fumaça ilustration you posted above says “de Fumaça” when it should read “da Fumaça”! 🙂 Great art job by the way! Post mor images!

Regards,

Hammer

Thanks Hammer, proof-readers always welcome! Not to worry about more images – the new Asas de Portugal have indeed moved up my list and are in production now. Also prepped and soon to roll (for Fumaca fans) early and late Tucano schemes and T-25 Universal)

Gradually getting these into a website and will have that posted here as well

a few more

A little more eye candy…

Esquadrilha da Fumaca
Asas de Portugal
Surya Kiran
Sherdils

The last 3 are still in progress