Navigating the Far East . . .

. . . at the Baker Aviation Museum.

While snooping around in Brother Baker's hangar earlier today (looking for a 10mm socket) I came across a book of vintage approach plates that, for some unknown reason, was not in a display case.  

USAF Far East Booklet, 1956.

Now close your eyes and imagine . . . You are tracking outbound on the 138 degree bearing from Waglan Island NDB, with a thirty-five knot crosswind . . . Typhoon Martha is 100 miles east of Hong Kong . . .

Kai Tak, Kowloon, (Hong Kong) China.

Too bad the ice cream machine at Wake Island was out of service.

Wake Island

Back cover.

Now on display . . .

A few of Brian "Poppa B" Baker's models.  Folks he's built more than 1,200, give or take a few hundred, mostly 1/72 scale.