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Hi Grampa Looks like the 10 engine job was post war if the escorting Vampires are accurate. Dragonsinger

Hey Samisadane Standard description of helicopters in the aviation industry is "A large collection of spare parts flying together":shock: Regards Dragonsinger

Hi Lanc603 Last Shagbat allive is in captivity at the FAA Museum Yeovilton. Helped transport it there in 69(ish) from HMS Condor at Arbroath. And just for the argument I don't think it qualifies as the best but it certainly had a lot of roles, Rescue, reconnaissance, spotter. It was carried...

Hi Ian Lanc Please understand that I have no wish whatsoever to criticise your superb Dambuster Lanc. However a small observation which someone with your attention to detail may find of use is that the Bouncing Bomb in the Barnes Wallis museum at Elvington is green. If you watch the Dambusters...

Drgondog All I am saying is that because of an unbalanced leader pushing resources and men beyond sensible limits Germany ran out of time to fulfil the promise of some very strange ideas. The Germans made plenty of crazy ideas work and they are all there in the records and many of them read...

Hi Guys Just read my way through the thread and one or two things flag themselves up to me. First I must say that I have no real disagreements with the posts and I only picked up the thread from an interest in unusual designs. Flag one. A great deal seems to be made about the stability of...

Hi Guys Watched a program last month "The Last Dambuster". It featured the bomb aimer of the lone Lanc which attacked the secondary target. Seems like they took off late in the reserve aircraft, engine snag on their own cab, and were the only ones to reach the target. The bit to interest you...

Like the cake decorating stand as a turntable. Great idea Jim

Hi Wurger Yes I know about Skoda. Was this anywhere near you? Used to look like this: Regards Jim

Hainus Not a criticism but an observation. I love the idea that you have put in a transparent panel to show the excellent work on the Merlin. Then you get too accurate on the guns showing the patches missing from the gun ports and even the exhaust/shell case vents have smoke on them showing...

Hi Wurger I have some flying saucer info. How big a file can you accept and what is your video standard (PAL SECAM, NTSC) and I can send you an hour long video. Only the first bit concerns the Luftwaffe but here are some stills from it. According to this film the worlds...

Wurger Many thanks for the info. As usual someone asks an obscure question and you don't answer, you write a book. Please accept this below as homage to your knowledge Because if there's one of these out there you will have it's serial number. JIm

Hi Wurger, Wayne, Adler, In fact any of you German experts. Does anyone have any info on the odder developements, like the autogiro towed by a U Boat as a reconasance tool, or the flying saucer built and tested? :?: Regards Jim

Haztoys, drgondog Well the Japanese DID manage to get a couple of bombs on to US soil by launching baloon carried bombs. No it was not a great success but it happened. The RAF got Vulcan bombers over Port Stanley and exactly how far outside the range of a Vulcan is that? NO! Sorry. They did it...

Hi FBJ You mean that the other bombers were a generation earlier dont you? Besides none of them were ever required to do the things the B29 was. It was wartime and the CREWS were unbelievable regardless if they hated the aircraft they were given they flew them to and beyond the ability of...