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Applying Clear Dope To The Linen
62-0-53 ... Pioneer Flight Museum (PFM), Kingsbury, Texas, USA. ... 8-21-10.
Steve Freeman is working on #2 of the two Thomas-Morse S4C Scout biplanes from the World War One era. ... Real ones, not replicas. … The Thomas-Morse Scout was affectionately nicknamed the "Tommy" in W.W.I. (more info below).
A clear coat of "dope" is being applied to the linen covering on one of the wings. ... See adjacent photos in this set.
See my photo below of the PFM's Tommy #1 taken when I was there in 2001.
Tommy #1 was originally restored by Roger Freeman and his father ... and is now maintained and flown by Roger and his "Pioneer Flight Museum" (PFM) href="http://www.pioneerflightmuseum.org/"
Tommy #2 is being readied for future air shows.
The Thomas-Morse Scout became the favorite single-seat training airplane for U.S. pilots during World War I. The Scout first appeared with an order for 100 S4Bs in the summer of 1917. The U.S. Army Air Service later purchased nearly 500 of a slightly modified version, the S4C. Dubbed the "Tommy" by its pilots, the plane had a long and varied career.
Tommies flew at practically every pursuit flying school in the United States during 1918. After the war ended, the Air Service sold them as surplus to civilian flying schools, sportsman pilots and ex-Army fliers. Some were still being used in the mid-1930s for WWI aviation movies filmed in Hollywood.
Tommy #1 was used in the movie "The Aviator".
PFM restores rare WWI airplanes and vehicles and builds replicas of WWI airplanes and vehicles if no original is available. Their work is always as true to the original as possible. The expert at Pioneer Flight Museum is Roger Freeman, who is well-known in vintage aircraft circles.
Photo courtesy of the Pioneer Flight Museum.
Enhanced by me with Photoshop.
2010-08-21 applying dope to the T2 lower wing panel
.
Applying Clear Dope To The Linen
62-0-53 ... Pioneer Flight Museum (PFM), Kingsbury, Texas, USA. ... 8-21-10.
Steve Freeman is working on #2 of the two Thomas-Morse S4C Scout biplanes from the World War One era. ... Real ones, not replicas. … The Thomas-Morse Scout was affectionately nicknamed the "Tommy" in W.W.I. (more info below).
A clear coat of "dope" is being applied to the linen covering on one of the wings. ... See adjacent photos in this set.
See my photo below of the PFM's Tommy #1 taken when I was there in 2001.
Tommy #1 was originally restored by Roger Freeman and his father ... and is now maintained and flown by Roger and his "Pioneer Flight Museum" (PFM) href="http://www.pioneerflightmuseum.org/"
Tommy #2 is being readied for future air shows.
The Thomas-Morse Scout became the favorite single-seat training airplane for U.S. pilots during World War I. The Scout first appeared with an order for 100 S4Bs in the summer of 1917. The U.S. Army Air Service later purchased nearly 500 of a slightly modified version, the S4C. Dubbed the "Tommy" by its pilots, the plane had a long and varied career.
Tommies flew at practically every pursuit flying school in the United States during 1918. After the war ended, the Air Service sold them as surplus to civilian flying schools, sportsman pilots and ex-Army fliers. Some were still being used in the mid-1930s for WWI aviation movies filmed in Hollywood.
Tommy #1 was used in the movie "The Aviator".
PFM restores rare WWI airplanes and vehicles and builds replicas of WWI airplanes and vehicles if no original is available. Their work is always as true to the original as possible. The expert at Pioneer Flight Museum is Roger Freeman, who is well-known in vintage aircraft circles.
Photo courtesy of the Pioneer Flight Museum.
Enhanced by me with Photoshop.
2010-08-21 applying dope to the T2 lower wing panel
.