milenio3

I'm glad to announce all my friends at the scale-models forum that some of my card models are now on display at the local Concorde Museum.

The museum is in my hometown, Juarez, Mexico. FYI, Juarez is a border city with El Paso, Texas, USA.

This picture: The Concorde Card model on the exhaust of a real Concorde engine, the Rolls Royce Olympus 593.



You can find more photos here:

http://www.imagestation.com/album/pi...il-AlbumInvite

Museum web site: www.concordejuarez.com

Bunkerbarge

Well done Gerado, it's not often we get the opportunity to show off our work to such a wide audience.

You should be rightfully very proud of the fact that your work is considered good enough for such a display.

milenio3

Thank you Bunkerbarge.
Not only that, the guys at the museum are asking me for more, and for a workshop for visitors.
Thanks again.

GEEDUBBYA

Howdy Gerardo,

Well that is great news!, I am happy for you and it is really good to see that others will get to see some very fine modeling.
You should be proud of yourself.


Have a good day,

Greg

wonwinglo

Gerado,what a great display piece that makes with your model,well done,it is relations with museums like this that are very rewarding,best of luck with the workshop,please take some pictures for us here,they will be appreciated,thank you.

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jankers

Hi Gerado, very nice work!.

Is that museum just for Concorde or does it do other things?


J.

milenio3

Thank you all for your kind words.
The Museum was open to tribute the Concorde, but it plans to be a Museum for Aeronautics in general.
Right now, we - well, I can count myself IN the museum - we are planning on buying a historic plane. We are checking planes that are in the plane cemetery in Arizona, USA. Also, we are trying to get mexican and local aviation history - first flights, pioneers...
There's an Astronomy corner too (that's where I can fit in very well).
The museum is new. We hope it can continue for a very long time... and that they continue to accept more card models.

wonwinglo

Gerardo,it sounds as if you are involved with a very exciting project there in Mexico,can I suggest that you look at your countries postage stamps to get ideas for historic aviators,Mexico is very rich in aviation history,please keep us posted of your progress and activities which we look forward to with interest.

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milenio3

Thank you very much Barry.

In fact, I'm also a philatelist (thanks to my dad), and he and I are already in the pursuit of mexican air service stamps (without cutting off our own collections).

I can guess that you too have good notions of philately, right?

And yes, I will keep you guys in the forum posted with the new ventures on this.

As Barry's suggestions, I'm open for more ideas from you guys for the museum. Thank you very much in advance.

One of the ideas at the museum is dioramas with airplanes, but I am not a diorama guy at all. So if you have ideas, please share. Oh, and photos would be great.

wonwinglo

Gerardo,just to show what a project this could represent,here are a few lines illustrating the history and enthusiasm of aviation in Mexico,as in a lot of aviation events Lindbergh paved the way forward for the long distance flights,so just for a few moments lets transport ourselves back in time to the golden years of flight,the nineteen thirties-

The banquet at the army tent camp at Laguna Salada, a dry lake used for aircraft testing, was over by 10 p.m., but the musical entertainment was just starting. So when General Abelardo Rodríguez abruptly ordered him to bed, Roberto Fierro Villalobos, the guest of honor, turned in reluctantly. Four hours later he was up and making a final walk-around of a high-wing monoplane with Baja California painted on its silver fabric-covered fuselage. Then, taking a last gulp of coffee and exchanging abrazos with fellow fliers and the general, also governor of Mexico's territory of Baja California, he climbed into the open cockpit, checked the instruments and advanced the throttle. The 223-hp roar of a Wright J-5C Whirlwind shattered the nocturnal silence. Moving ponderously with its 1,750-pound load of gasoline, the plane-often referred to as BC-2--lumbered 750 meters across the salt flats, slowly gaining speed, then heaved itself aloft and disappeared into the starry black sky. General Rodríguez telegraphed Mexico City that Major P.A. (piloto aviador) Fierro had taken off from Mexicali at 2:05 a.m. PST, May 30, 1928, en route to Mexico City nonstop.
Fierro throttled the engine back to its 12-gallon-per-hour cruising power at altitude over the Colorado River delta. Then, over the Gulf of California, the engine began to cough. In the excitement of takeoff, Fierro had forgotten to switch from the reserve to the main fuel supply. He twisted the valves and desperately worked the emergency pump. When the engine was running smoothly once again, he mused, "The flight [was almost] over at the start, and as for me, most likely the sea would have swallowed me up."
Using dead reckoning, Fierro followed the route Captain Emilio Carranza, his friendly rival, had blazed five days earlier. Carranza had flown from San Diego in México-Excelsior, a special Ryan B-1 Brougham like the one presented to Charles A. Lindbergh when he donated his Ryan NYP, Spirit of St. Louis, to the Smithsonian Institution. And in August, in a venture funded by Mexico City's daily Excelsior through public subscription, Carranza would fly it nonstop to Washington, D.C., returning the courtesy of Lindbergh's immensely popular Mexico City goodwill flight of December 1927. Since Carranza's pioneering Mexico City-Ciudad Juárez nonstop flight in September, the Mexican and American press had been calling the modest 22-year-old great-nephew of Mexico's first constitutional president "the Mexican Lindbergh."
Roberto Fierro and Emilio Carranza were following the example of Charles Lindbergh, whose landmark New York-Paris flight the year before had sparked a worldwide record-flight frenzy. After meeting Lindbergh as one of his five Mexican army aides-de-camp during his December visit, Fierro wrote, "Lindbergh's arrival gave us the confidence to pursue our dreams of conquering spaces, at home and abroad."
How true that was,early aviators were to become the ambassadors of continents bridging them to bring the world together.

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