Dear Eric,
I have found Your
website dedicated to the F-86F Sweet Rose, Your father took
care of in Korean War. I am working with Eduard Model company,
which is producing fine plastic model kits. We are just preparing
F-86F-30 version of Sabre in 1/48th scale and I am looking for
some new, not-so-celebrity-like marking planes. I like FU-539,
so we might include Your fathers´plane in decal sheet,
making the FU-539 more famous. J I would therefore like to kindly
ask You, whether You have any more photos of the airplane. They
would be welcome, although the photos on the web are sufficient
to replicate the airplane and its marking. I would like to ask
You to clear one ambiguity regarding the plane. Enclosed photo
shows FU-539 with some different inscriptiont painted on the
right side od the nose. Do You know what i tis? The picture
i stoo small and the painting quite tiny to be readable…
And do You have any idea, whether it was painted prior or after
the Sweet Rose painting? There appears also to be two names
on the right side of the canopy…
