Mr. Hoover’s famous words “Gentlemen, You Have a Race” were uttered from this P-51 for many years at the National Air Races in Reno, Nevada. Sponsored by North American Aviation, later known as Rockwell, this colorful P-51 was owned and flown by the “Pilot’s Pilot” R.A. “Bob” Hoover.
This set will letter one P-51 in the various versions of the Rockwell era markings on Mr. Hoover’s P-51D, and is available in 1:144, 1:24, 1:32, 1:48 and 1:72 scales.
Offering High Quality and Unique Aircraft Decals Since 1999!
How did we get our Name?
My father is a US Army-trained draftsman, and he always signed his drawings with the initials “DRAW.” Since we have to DRAW our decals, and DRAW is also the first four letters of my last name, it seemed to be a natural name for our company.
What is the idea behind DRAW Decal?
I produce airline decals that normally would not be popular enough to justify mass producing. Each decal is printed as demand warrants, one page at a time by a professional print house. This makes for slow production, but it allows us to individually inspect each decal and to also update the decal sets as the need arises. While these production sets are all currently available, they are only produced (i.e. printed) as they are ordered. I have no large pile of unsold, unpopular decals to contend with this way. Our decals are as close to custom-made as possible.
Who creates your art?
The art work for our decals is created by a group of artists, with each one contributing sets of their own unique design and preference. Currently, DRAW Decal offers decals designed by: Tim Bradley, Mike Egan, Norm Filer, Mike Jernfors, Jeff Thomsen and yours truly, Greg Drawbaugh. Each set is identified by whom designed it unless I was the one who designed it.
How do I do that?
Our decals are printed in our exclusive Next Generation DIGITAL Silk process using a large format digital printer that prints white ink. We do NOT sell ANY laser-printed decals. Laser printers are for printing instruction sheets, not printing decals.
We are made the switch to our latest Next Generation DIGITAL Silk process to provide what we believe to be among the highest quality decals in the industry. We also want to be able to provide subjects that just would not print well using any other process. Quality and value have always been our driving force, and we continue to push the limits of what our printer and artwork is capable of producing. We operate under a continual improvement process for all of our decals.
Do you run out of stock?
No, as I print decals only as they are ordered. This ensures that the decals are fresh and never out of stock. This also allows me to make corrections and additions to each set as they occur.
Once applied, these decals will look just like they were painted on, rather than just “stickers” applied over a paint job. Remember, the art of decaling is making it look like you did not use any decals!
Thanks for stopping by, and come back often to see what we have added.
Very, very, nice! I am going to order this!
Can these still be purchased?
Yes, these decals are still available.
Brings back a fond memory when Bob was flying for Evergreen.
I was in a group of sales folks that were sent to Redmond, Oregon to work an airshow. We all flew over on the Evergreen Ford Tri-Motor, that was very memorable.
Bob Hoover performed in his Commander and his P-51 there as well. As always he put on a great show.
That first evening we ran into Bob in front of our motel. He was waiting for a limo that was going to take him to some sort of dinner honoring him. I remember his saying, “Just what I need is another silver platter, or trophy, wish I could go with you folks”….
As an an employee of the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum, I would love to see the Evergreen version as well. I have access to the Evergreen Aviation logos from our corporate communications and can talk to the owner, (which I do a couple times a week) about making such a project happen if you like.
We would love your assistance with this project for the Evergreen version of Mr. Hoover’s P-51.