Recent content by subkraft

Hi all, Have been reading here for a year or so. As a kid I built my way through most of the aircraft section of the late seventies Airfix catalogue. Then 'grew out of it'. A few years ago casually looking in the hobby section of a local store came across the kits....it was an eye opener. I...

Worked with a guy here who was casting resin to make......dinosaur skeletons. He had a vacuum chamber made from a steel beer barrel with the top cut off. Thick plexiglass top on a lip sealed with plenty of silicon grease. Used an industrial vacuum cleaner to pull the air out, which pulled the...

Business in Great Waters - The U-Boat Wars 1916 - 1945. John Terraine. As per title, deals with U - Boats the Battle of the Atlantic in a wider context than just 39 - 45. Very readable.

Revolutionary? V2 redefined what an aircraft actually was.....

....really great thread. Thanks.....

Two Wall St. banker guys on vacation....as usual they go to Alaska to snort coke .......and shoot bears. The light plane pilot hired to fly and collect them warns: " Guy's, its a small plane. We can only bring back one bear." They accept. Both bears are dead and the bankers are demanding...

I'd suggest that there's a lot of this stuff is about how and what 'respect' has come to mean today. Maybe earlier it was something to be earned, it was awarded to you by others for your achievements, contributions etc. Today it seems to be something that is demanded as a right. Combine that...

....because it is his inalienable right as an American.

....love the Buffallos. Great

Hi Pattern14, Like you I'm in Tasmania too. And after a long hot summer it's starting to cool down now..... My mother lived through the Battle of Britain in London as a young girl...then the blitz came and they were evacuated. Terrible choice, Canada, safe, but via u boat Atlantic or rural...

Fantastic. There's one in the Beijing military museum too. Don't know the version...Didn't look to me as tho it had been restored.....just wheeled in there and chocked up. Very impressive. It's a very interesting museum.....main hall full of early Migs and captured prizes displayed outside...

really stunning..... I'd love to do one even half as good....many thanks.

An LSM...cool. Pity its not 1:72. Pic nicked from a post on Hyperscale showing new releases at Nuremburg toy fair. Which would be a great afternoon... i

I often think that the myth of the Ho229 overshadows the Horten brother's real achievements. They really did build the most incredibly high aspect ratio flying wings as gliders successfully. My limited understanding of the aerodynamics was that they learnt how to manipulate the degree of lift...

My father worked at Croydon airport after the war as an aircraft mechanic. He recounted how there was a hanger full of Tiger Moths, maybe 50. Disassembled, wings stacked on side, fuselages on the other. Guy had bought them ex airforce, went broke, couldn't pay for hangerage. They were all taken...