Happy Veterans Day 2013!

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  • GM2780

    We (myself and the rest of the aircraft restoration team at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space museum) just finished restoring this F3H-2N Demon and rolled it out in time for today's ceremony honoring the former crew members.

    Here's a before photo:


    • oh wow you work for the military?
      good job on the restoration.
      pango
    • nice work!prophetone
    • No I'm ret. I volunteer 2 days a week working with the aircraft restoration team repairing the collection on exhibitGM278
    • Thank youGM278
    • why is the cockpit have blue cardboard paper wrapping it?utopian
    • Spending years in the elements destroys the canopy causing it to cloud up and craze - many museums chose to paint them to preserve whats leftGM278
    • to paint them to preserve whats left of the canopyGM278
    • cool. nice work mandbloc
    • It just make the plane to look fake almost like cardboard. The rest of restoration is beautiful!utopian
    • honestly, I agree. but there's only 3 of these planes left in the world and its impossible to get a new canopyGM278

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