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Peter Bichier

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Re: Vintage photos
« Reply #90 on: September 30, 2017, 07:05:38 am »
Can't ID the TC behind 742W.  The French source of the photo didn't know the exact location.

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straight 560 on the back which is ironic since your friend John flew them! (you can tell by the external augmenters and yet what seems a swept tail).

donv

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Re: Vintage photos
« Reply #91 on: September 30, 2017, 05:25:36 pm »
I think this is a 520?

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Re: Vintage photos
« Reply #92 on: October 01, 2017, 03:06:37 am »
I think this is a 520?

Four sure.  Don't know of any 2-blade 520's, but it might have been an early model where they were still trying things out. A surefire way to tell, is the small window after the cockpit windows; on every subsequent model they were bigger - only the 520 had the shorter body.
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Re: Vintage photos
« Reply #93 on: January 29, 2018, 05:03:29 pm »
Don- after picking up direct from factory- 1980...
New plane smell and all!



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Re: Vintage photos
« Reply #94 on: January 29, 2018, 06:34:38 pm »
I love it!

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Re: Vintage photos
« Reply #95 on: January 30, 2018, 10:47:48 am »
I think we may be one of the few Jetprops that kept the original paint scheme since new...
We went to black and silver though...



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Re: Vintage photos
« Reply #96 on: January 30, 2018, 12:07:17 pm »
I think the factory 980 paint scheme was the best of all of them, especially in your colors. Maybe I should go back to that when I repaint mine...

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Re: Vintage photos
« Reply #97 on: January 30, 2018, 03:35:41 pm »
Old School... Bring it back Don!

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Re: Vintage photos
« Reply #98 on: January 30, 2018, 04:18:07 pm »
It's funny-- 10 or 20 years ago, that factory scheme would have looked dated, but today, to my eyes anyway, it looks completely up to date.

I'm much less of a fan of the 840 factory paint scheme, though. And certainly not of the various browns (or "Bavarian Creme"), especially in place of the white. But a nice crisp white with blue and gray accent stripes in the factory scheme could look really good.

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Re: Vintage photos
« Reply #99 on: February 05, 2018, 04:08:27 am »
Here is a picture of Hughes Aircraft's three corporate Turbo Commanders, N568H, N569H and N570H sitting at Hughes Field (Was close to LAX, but is now gone).

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Re: Vintage photos
« Reply #100 on: February 05, 2018, 12:41:08 pm »
That's a neat picture!

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Re: Vintage photos
« Reply #101 on: February 05, 2018, 12:41:59 pm »
I wonder how I could find out the original colors of my airplane? They're not noted in the logbooks, and I've not seen any early pictures of it in spite of searching... with my luck, it was probably brown over bavarian creme-- not doing that!

Bruce Byerly

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Re: Vintage photos
« Reply #102 on: February 07, 2018, 12:50:37 am »
Here is a picture of Hughes Aircraft's three corporate Turbo Commanders, N568H, N569H and N570H sitting at Hughes Field (Was close to LAX, but is now gone).

Cool pic.  Interesting history on that airport I?m sure.

There was at least one other one, 567H, Sn 11330.  I found it to have an annunciator on the panel labeled ?TALAR? which no one could explain.  IIRC, there were documents regarding some microwave landing system that I believe Hughes was involved with.  Can?t remember much else, but I worked pretty hard to save that plane and it?s still in service.

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Re: Vintage photos
« Reply #103 on: February 07, 2018, 01:24:21 am »
Who's got it now, Bruce?
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Re: Vintage photos
« Reply #104 on: February 07, 2018, 08:18:47 am »
Who's got it not, Bruce?

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