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Nice piccies Terry, I wouldn't like to be the guy who keeps the texan polished.
 
SteveB said:
Nice piccies Terry, I wouldn't like to be the guy who keeps the texan polished.
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Heck, just spray the thing with some PAM cooking spray before rolling it out of the hangar. The skin would be so slickery that dirt would slide right off it, and the plane would slip through the air 30 miles an hour faster.

OBIO
 
Just observing the reflective surfaces of the NA T-28 Trojan is mind boggling. It's almost too perfect if that's possible. I'm sure when that aircraft rolled out of the plant many decades ago it never looked that good. But hey,...that's besides the point. Itsa' beauty.
....I think the USN gave up something when they did away with the navy blue color in lieu of monotonous gray.....
 
Here's an old aircraft detailer's trick...

A terrycloth hand towel and a bag of bleached flour does wonders. The flour polishes off all the little black specks of oxidation. However it's the second to last step in the full polish job. but works well between a complete polishing.

for the whole job:

Start with a variable speed buffer and non abrasive polishing compound. Work a small area at a time. buff out till you have a lot of black residue. wipe off with a terry towel. apply polishing wadding (Eagle one makes some good stuff) and wipe over the area until it gets black again.

Buff off by hand with another clean terry towel.

Take another clean terry towel and sprinkle the flour on the area you just polished, wipe until the surface is clean and glossy. Coat with a high quality carnuba based wax, buff by hand until polished.

You should be able to just about shave in your reflection if you did it right. Repeat for the whole airplane. Don't expect to do it in one day... or even a weekend.

Took me on average, 6 hours to do the wing leading edges on a Challenger 604...

Ercoupe took almost a week (But it was really bad, hadn't been polished in years)


Brian
 
OBIO said:
Heck, just spray the thing with some PAM cooking spray before rolling it out of the hangar. The skin would be so slickery that dirt would slide right off it, and the plane would slip through the air 30 miles an hour faster.

OBIO
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Try that in this dust bowl and the whole thing would be brown in an hour.
 
Nice pics. Too bad there's not a better shot of the Navy Beech C-45 parked in front of the Red Bull Grumman.
 
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