1949 T28 aluminum training plane detailed

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I was fortunate enough to help work on this plane this week. I couldn't help the last day had cars todo. I help my friends company Clean Craft Detailing when I have time. I'm a huge fan of any thing military so this plane was a joy to work on and the customer was a great guy. The last picture is one finished side we did last night.









 
Was scanning the forum before turning in for the night and read your post and had to login and post...

Freakin Awesome Dude!!!!!!!!

I love these old fighter planes and actually like polishing aluminum! I'm so jealous! This is now on my A-List of things to buff out. I love the huge planes Joe, Renny and Anthony are always buffing out but ding-dang, those things are flying fortresses! I want to work on one of these classic aviation hotrods!!!!

Excellent work and thank you for sharing!

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Great work. That is one hell of an airplane, the plane looks amazing with the work you and your buddy have done to it, I enjoy old planes as we'll but never got the chance to touch one yet. Thanks for posting and sharing. Excellent job again.
 
Thanks for sharing. That is one cool detailing job.

I love to look at old aircraft, especially after a good polishing.

What did you guys use to do this?
 
Mike.Phillips@Autogeek said:
Was scanning the forum before turning in for the night and read your post and had to login and post...

Freakin Awesome Dude!!!!!!!!

I love these old fighter planes and actually like polishing aluminum! I'm so jealous! This is now on my A-List of things to buff out. I love the huge planes Joe, Renny and Anthony are always buffing out but ding-dang, those things are flying fortresses! I want to work on one of these classic aviation hotrods!!!!

Excellent work and thank you for sharing!

:dblthumb2: :dblthumb2: :dblthumb2:
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Thanks Mike :) This was my first time polishing an all aluminum plane. It was a lot of fun to do and he is getting another one next spring for us to do.
 
Skoob said:
Thanks for sharing. That is one cool detailing job.

I love to look at old aircraft, especially after a good polishing.

What did you guys use to do this?
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We used aluminum deoxidizer and purple metal polish.

Italian Guy said:
Great work. That is one hell of an airplane, the plane looks amazing with the work you and your buddy have done to it, I enjoy old planes as we'll but never got the chance to touch one yet. Thanks for posting and sharing. Excellent job again.
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Thanks :)
 
Mike.Phillips@Autogeek said:
I love these old fighter planes and actually like polishing aluminum!
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Allow me to get technical for a bit. This aircraft isn't a fighter. The "T" in its T28 destination indicates it is a trainer. (F- fighter, B- bomber, and so on) This aircraft is were countless fighter and bomber pilots learned to fly. :xyxthumbs:
 
Very cool! Would love to add some aircraft to my portfolio. :)
 
Just beautiful!

That puppy is gonna blind a lot of folks when it hits the sun.

There is a P-51 that lives in my area (know nothing about it) it also has a 'super shine', really something when he is exiting the pattern at 'mins' and "$%^ to the wall!" Sounds like the old hydro days on Lk Washington.

Is that plane on display at the Museum of Flight or the museum up in Everett?

Bill
 
BillE said:
Just beautiful!

That puppy is gonna blind a lot of folks when it hits the sun.

There is a P-51 that lives in my area (know nothing about it) it also has a 'super shine', really something when he is exiting the pattern at 'mins' and "$%^ to the wall!" Sounds like the old hydro days on Lk Washington.

Is that plane on display at the Museum of Flight or the museum up in Everett?

Bill
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No it's a private owner he is part of a flying club that does air shows. He puts about 50 hours a year on it.
 
Joe@Superior Shine said:
Allow me to get technical for a bit. This aircraft isn't a fighter. The "T" in its T28 destination indicates it is a trainer. (F- fighter, B- bomber, and so on) This aircraft is were countless fighter and bomber pilots learned to fly. :xyxthumbs:
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Technically true and mostly accurate. T28s were used in Vietnam and actually made up a good part of the South Vietnamese AF. The US also flew them in COIN operations. According to #### (have to consider the source) we lost 23 to various causes during the war. One of the few T (trainer) Aircraft to actually be used in war. Other versions of trainer vs. operational aircraft took on different names such as the F5/T38. I have not been able to find anything that says the T28 was designated as an F aircraft for operational use. I found this to be very interesting.

BTW, that is really cool, would love to see it in person just not on a sunny day. I don't know if there are sunglasses made that would protect my eyes :dblthumb2:
 
It does have gun monts under the wings for guns.
 
Okay, I could be wrong- but I thought I read somewhere that the T-28's were fully equippable for combat and, like demonstration teams (Blue Angels, Thunderbirds), although they didn't have a combat role, within 24 hours they could be switched to a combat role (if push comes to shove the Blue Angels will slap on some missiles and bombs and have at it! They are, in fact, trained for such a situation!). I THINK I read somewhere, that the T-28 was the same way.

To an aviation Guru it'll always be a trainer, but it performs like a fighter, is designed to train fighter pilots, and (maybe?) could be equipped to fight. So there's the old "If it quacks like a duck" thing going for ya.
 
The problem with the T-28 as a fighter is that it came into service at the same time as the F-86. The same reason the P-51 (P-pursuit), the power horse of WW II, became obsolete within a few years of being introduced. The jet age was upon us! That is the reason the US used them for COIN (COunter Insurgency) and training operations. They would not have lasted long in a fight against a MiG 15
 
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