F-86 Sabre

Aerospace Museum of California

My Saturday morning sketching destination was a museum next to a former Air Force base: McClellan AFB in North Highlands Sacramento.

The museum is housed in a hangar with a solid collection of airplanes outside. To sketch the aircraft in the museum’s collection I’d have to head outside and brave the cool temps.

Planes, planes everywhere! The museum has a collection of both prop and jet planes spanning a wide range of aviation history.

I arrived just after the museum opened at 9. It was a cold morning under clear blue skies in the Central Valley.

Looking at the business end of an A-10 Warthog: a 30 mm Gau-8 Avenger was designed to destroy tanks.

I did a total of three sketches including a broken continuous- line sketch (featured sketch).

For two of my sketches I sketched from an unconventional perspective from behind the featured aircraft: A-10 and the F-4.

The McDonnell-Douglas F-4 Phantom II is my favorite aircraft. Each time I sketch one I think I get to know it a little better.

Another sketch was of an F-86 Sabre in the hangar. This was for a previously posted post about the Farrell’s disaster.

A sketch from my sketcher’s bench. The A-10 is an absolute beast.