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I've just returned from my expediction to Argentina, where
I\'ve succeed in getting all photos and material I need for the Pucara cockpit.
I'd like to thank very much Gabriel, the
museum\'s curator, who kindly opened the cockpits and we've seated and spent a lot of time getting many photos
usually these cockpits are locked, because in the past some tourists had stolen parts of the cockpits as souveniers. The
A-4C Skyhawk present in the museum shows this fact, although it was an incredible experience to seat down and lock myself with canopy closed in this historic aircraft (which performed an attack on
HMS Avenger , it's feels like you're "wearing the plane", due to so tight and small is the cockpit space but it's actually confortable, that's why feels like 'wearing' !
I was also pleased with the hospitality and kindness of argentinean people, in special my hosts, Cancio's family.
Also I've bought a lot of books (in Spanish) about the planes of the conflict, as well as a Malvinas t-shirt and other merchandisings - the museum's content is incredible, and heavily biased towards aviation - there are many ejection seats, pilot's uniforms, helmets, oxygen masks, debris and parts of shootdown planes, empty shell cases, empty/deactivated air-to-ground bombs, and a interesting wall poster showing many photos and description of the infamous "Hercules bomber", an adapted C-130 capable of carrying underwing stores and bombs (!), Sharkey Ward mentions this in his book, and I found it very odd, something hard to swallow, but in the museum I've saw strong evidence that this really was attempted!
I've already started texturing job in Pucara's cockpit(based on my photo session) and probably by this weekend I'll have some WIP shots to show here.