I am on the road heading home after 3 months of being a "snow bird" in the sunny south, and received the following information from the museum I volunteer at. After rumors in 1959, that one of the arrows flew out of Toronto before the torches cut up all of the CF-105's, it seems to be true. The...
The 35mm Kodchrome 'slides' of the RCAF Starfighters arrived today from my 'big bro', so I've had a go at scanning them.
Unfortunately, my little transparency/negative scanner is about as useful as a chocolate teapot (I guess you get what you pay for !), so I'll see if I can project the...
Just got this in the mail today and could not wait to get home from work to start on it. I am blown away by how nice the kit is done. Perfect detail and not killed by a ton of rivets. The fit is really great and cockpit detail is great. Only thing is maybe replacing seat with true details resin...
Somewhere I read--can't remember where--that a Black Widow's belly-pod cannons could be deflected by the pilot a quarter of a degree left, right, up or down (which minuscule amount would, of course, have a substantial effect on where the fire went a hundred or more yards out from the airplane)...