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Focke-Wulf 190A-8/R8 of Feldwebel Oscar Boesch of Sturm-Staffel 1 IV/JG3
"Udet" 1945.
Original
Oil Painting By Aviation Artist, Randy Green, Copyright 2012
(Size 24" x 36", Oil on Board) $2,499.00
Shot down eight times, with four
bail-outs and four crash landings, Boesch lost eight FW-190's while
flying total of 120 combat missions over a twelve month operational
period. His last mission ended with a mid-air collision with a Russian
Yak-9 over the skies of Berlin in the last days of the war. Captured by
Russian ground forces, he made good his escape several days later, and
walked 1,000 kilometers to his native Austria.
During his career he scored a total of eighteen victories, earning the
Iron Cross First and Second Class. Among his victims were a Spitfire, a
Mustang, two B-24's, six B-17's, two Yak-9's, two LAGG-5's, and four
IL-2's.
Boesch currently resides in Canada.
"ZEMKE
SCORES AGAIN"
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Col.
Hubert "Hub" Zemke, C.O. of the 56th Fighter Group and POW.
P-47 Thunderbolt ace, shot down 17 German planes in WWII
Original
Oil Painting By Aviation Artist, Randy Green
(Size 18" x 24", Oil on Board) $649.99
Col. Hubert
"Hub" Zemke, C.O. of the 56th
Fighter Group (the "Wolfpack") watches as his victim, an
FW-190 jettisons his canopy to bail-out high over Germany
during March 1944. Hub Zemke was one of the greatest Fighter Group
Commanders of the European Theatre of Operations (ETO), along with his
counterpart at the 4th FG, Don Blakeslee. Zemke's 56th Fighter Group,
the "Wolfpack," was credited with 665 aerial victories,
leading all fighter groups in the ETO. Zemke himself had 17.75 confirmed
victories in 154 combat missions. Hub Zemke spent the first part
of the war on liaison missions to Russia and England before taking over
as C.O. of the 56th Fighter Group in September 1942.
"BELL
X1-B"
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ORIGINAL
X-1 SERIES TESTBED.
Original
Oil Painting By Aviation Artist, Randy Green
(Size 8.5" x 17", Oil on Board) $349.99
This painting
depicts the Bell Aircraft Corporation's X-1B rocket-powered research
aircraft from the original X-1 series. Flying high over Rogers Dry Lake
in 1957 adjacent to the NACA High-Speed Flight Station. The X-1B offered
an ideal testbed for a test reaction control installation. In November
1957, NACA technicians finished installing reaction controls on the
X-1B. NACA test pilot Neil A. Armstrong made three flights in the
airplane to experience the reaction controls performance. Since cracks
in the fuel tanks of the X-1B forced its grounding in 1958, reaction
control research shifted to the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter. The Bell
X-1B was a second-generation X-1 used by the U.S. Air Force for pilot
familiarization before being turned over to NACA in December 1954. The
X-1B had a modified fuselage with greater capacity for fuel tanks, an
improved cockpit, and a turbopump fuel system as compared with the X-1.
The NACA used the X-1B primarily for aerodynamic heating and
reaction-control research from 1956 to 1958. The aircraft was fitted
with special instrumentation for exploratory aerodynamic heating tests.
It had over 300 thermocouples installed on it. The X-1B was the first
aircraft to fly with a reaction-control system; a prototype of the
reaction-control system used on the X-15 and other piloted test
aircraft. The X-1B was given to the Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson
Air Force Base Dayton, Ohio, on January 27, 1959, for preservation and
display. This aircraft completed a total of 27 glide and powered flights
by eight U.S. Air Force and two NACA test pilots. Second-generation X-1
aircraft were 35.8 feet long and had a wingspan of approximately 28
feet.
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