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Pilot Busts

Written by Dennis Norman Free Flight Scale Column As seen in the March 2018 issue of Model Aviation. At last year’s Flying Aces Club (FAC) Non-Nats, Dave Niedzielski from Easy Built Models, and others, expressed interest in my methods for making pilot busts. I wrote about carving pilots in the June 2007 and the December 2010 issues of Model Aviation. You might want to refer to these articles, but I am happy to again discuss the subject. A completed pilot bust graces the cockpit of a 1920s Cleveland Curtiss P-6E Hawk from the famed Snow Owl 17th Pursuit Squadron of…

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