i am an airplane junkie, too.
the addiction started innocently enough about 50 years ago with ww2 warbirds, progressed to jets over the years...thuds, phantoms, eagles, etc, but I still go back home to the butcher bird from bremen most frequently. :)
I will check out the link. thanks for the share.
I’m with you. I was one of those kids who incessantly drew Spitfires and Mustangs in class, and then, after I landed at Yokota with my family at the height of the Vietnam War, and saw all those black and green camoflaged Phantoms lined up as we taxied by, dozens and dozens of them...well, I began drawing Phantoms, too!
The 190 was a beautiful warbird. To me, its study beefiness makes the Me-109 look spindly and anemic in comparison...as the 190 had those sturdy looking main mounts...
Yes...I love airplanes. All of them. It is my one regret, that I never got my pilot’s license. My wife would never go up in a small plane now, and I can’t do something like that unless she was into it.
But I had my time in the USN, and was able to work on the flight deck of a carrier, watch jets in all their operations...and I loved that.
I have that...:)