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Hello Derek

I bought a copy of these drawings from the IBDA website.

http://www.ibdaweb.com/shop-ibda.html

They are in PDF format, and not in high definition, but very good.

You can try to contact them for other definition/resolution/dimension.

 

or If I can help you, do not hesitate to let me know.

 

raf

 

Thank you Raphael for the link (I like the website). I will see if I can source the drawings elsewhere first.

 

Many thanks

 

Derek

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Hi Derek,

 

In fact, this was one of my projects as well...!

 

I've nearly 300 files of TM detailed views, walkaround pictures and RC plans I gathered year after year... I'll send them to you by batches...! This should fill most if not all holes!

 

HTH

 

BR

 

Thierry

 

Wow, that would be awesome Thierry :speak_cool: (anything that would help me with my 0-1E would be more than welcomed).

 

Many thanks

 

Derek

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Great link Hubert, very useful indeed - Thank you.

 

Derek

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  Being that TM 55-1510-202-10 was government printed, it has no copyright for US citizens and has been posted online before without having to pay an access fee:

http://73rdaviationcompany.org/pdf/TM55-1510-202-10web.pdf

 

Regards,

 

Hello Saúl,

 

Once more, a brilliant link - thank you very much also.

 

Regards

 

Derek

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Raphael, Thierry, Saúl and Hubert; Thank you all for your assistance. Once I can obtain the L G Hall drawings, then along with your links to the TM's and What Thierry can provide to me (and my internet search and Barry's bits), I know that I can forge ahead with this project.

 

many thanks

 

Derek

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This is one of the reasons why I want to make an FAC 0-1 Dawg:

 

"Capt. Wilbanks was assigned to the 21st Tactical Air Support Squadron at Nha Trang, but he worked for the Air Liaison Officer (ALO) for the southern Central Highlands provinces, Lt. Col. Norman Mueller, who was also a FAC.  He was attached to the US Army advisory team working with the South Vietnamese 23rd Division, headquartered at Ban Me Thuot.  Mueller and his FACs were responsible for the southern half of II Corps, the largest of the four military regions in South Vietnam.  In February, only twelve FACs were assigned to that area as replacements were slow in arriving.  Normally there would have been about 30 FACs in the area.  They flew numerous missions every day. 
 
     On Feb. 22, a North Vietnamese Army battalion arrived in the area of Di Linh.  The NVA regulars joined forces with the local Viet Cong.  On Feb. 23, the communists captured a large tea plantation and forced the owners and workers to help them build an ambush site on the two hills overlooking the road that ran north from Saigon to Dalat.  They had worked through the night digging hundreds of foxholes and several machine gun emplacements among the tea bushes, all carefully camouflaged.  

     The next morning, unaware of the ambush, a company of local RF/PF (Regional Forces/Popular Forces) headed out of Bao Loc in search of a suspected VC tax collection post set up along the road way.  They walked into the ambush at the tea plantation and were all but annihilated.  Later two ARVN Ranger companies (with their U.S. Ranger advisers) set out to see what had happened as the ambush had not been reported.  Several sorties were flown by the FACs searching for the missing ARVN company and the enemy unit but they did not locate them.  Col. Mueller called Capt. Wilbanks (Walt 51) to help in the search.  He scanned the familiar slopes of the hills overlooking the road, looking for signs of change.  He noticed lots of them, including the camouflaged emplacements among the tea bushes.  He had found the enemy force.  He radioed a warning that the Rangers were walking into an ambush.  He fired a white phophorous smoke rocket to mark the target for both the Rangers and the approaching helicopter gunships (which were responding to Col. Mueller's earlier emergency call for air support) as the whole hillside erupted with fire. 

      As the gunships neared the ambush area, one had lost its hydraulics to ground fire a few miles out and had to withdraw; the other two pressed their assault on the main enemy, stopping their attack on the Rangers. During the lull, Capt. Wilbanks released the remaining two to escort the disabled one back to base. However, when the NVA saw the gunships depart, they resumed their attack on the Rangers. With no fighters yet available, Capt. Wilbanks began firing his remaining three smoke rockets at them, and the NVA turned their fire onto his small Bird Dog.  With rockets gone, the only weapon he had was his M-16 rifle.  Ignoring his own safety, three times he swept low over the enemy force, firing his rifle out a side window.  It was enough to slow the enemy, but the U.S. Rangers on the ground could hear bullets hitting his aircraft.  After his third M-16 firing pass, he began to fly erratically and ultimately crashed between the Rangers' and NVA positions.  Two U.S. Rangers managed to extricate him from his wrecked aircraft, but they were pinned down by enemy fire.  
      
      Meanwhile, Col. Mueller had recalled the two gunships, but they and another "slick" helicopter were driven off by heavy ground fire during their own multiple rescue attempts - even as they held the NVA at bay.  Finally, Col. Mueller managed to fly a distracting pattern while a "Dustoff" medevac helicopter picked up Wilbanks and the U.S. Rangers.  Fighters arrived as the gunships were running out of ammunition, and they continued to strike the enemy well into the night.  Unfortunately, Capt. Wilbanks did not survive his rescue flight.  He died enroute to the medical facility at Bao Loc on Feb. 24, 1967.  He saved more than 130 U.S. and Vietnamese lives, but at the cost of his own.

       On Friday, March 3, 1967, funeral services were held at Glen Allan Methodist Church, Glen Allan, MS with interment at Fayette Methodist Cemetery, Fayette, MS."

 

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Derek

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  • 2 weeks later...

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A huge thank you to Barry for the loan of the reference 1/48 kit and Squadron in action book of the 0-1. The drawings of the 0-1 (L G Hall, from MAN magazine, August 1969) were enlarged from the RC Group website (I only have 3 of the 4 drawings sheets, which are poor quality, so I would really like to get all 4 sheets in a higer resolution if I can).

 

All I have to do now is try and figure out how I am going to make it?... :hmmm:

 

Derek

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Hi Derek,

 

You mean you do the maths of dividing 1:1 dimensions by the scale to get the model dimensions ?

 

You should apply for a job by a certain Czech company to "produce the best kit of the Bird Dog ever" :-D

 

Hubert

 

Always Hubert ;)

 

I suppose that the bonus to this project is that this could be a potential 'dry run' for any possible future kit :hmmm:

 

Derek

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