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UPDATE: I just found out that is a Short Solent Mk.III.Flying boats always remind me of that scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark...
View: https://youtu.be/QWfHIlUkmtg
Or TRASH THAT PoS "KIT" and start with the new Modelvista kit and live longer!By the way, the radar pod for the 1/48 Hobbycraft F-82G is much too small. I have a book on building Mustang kits that shows how to modify it to the correct size.
First day on the job, I see.
That's the second T-6 to do that at our airport that I know of. They come over here on a winter day when the wind is gusting 20 plus knots at an angle of more than 45 degrees to the runway and say, "No Problemo! Hold My Beer and Watch This!"First day on the job, I see.
I still love her even in this condition. A little T L C and she'll purr again.
Is there any other aircraft made by Vickers-Supermarine that came close to the beauty of the Spitifre? This is the same firm that made the Nighthawk.There is only one answer, and it's a Spitfire Mk.Vb.
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Pretty much any early-model Spitfire is physically perfect - they're not as good once you start modifying the wings; but it's the two 20mm Hispanos that make this one the winner...
The Schneider racers were gorgeous, though they're built for straight-and-low and the wing shape's much more straightforward...Is there any other aircraft made by Vickers-Supermarine that came close to the beauty of the Spitifre? This is the same firm that made the Nighthawk.
Wasn't there a view at the time that they would have done better to just keep the existing wing?It's too bad Mitchell didn't live into the 1940s, where I'm sure his Attacker, Swift and Scimitar would have been prettier, if not faster.
True. In March 2022 I visited the British Science Museum in London where I took this photo of the Schneider racer. The hall is a bit crowded with aircraft, though it's neat to see the Spitfire and Schneider racer together.The Schneider racers were gorgeous, though they're built for straight-and-low and the wing shape's much more straightforward...
Who designs a fighter but forgets to include space for the fuel? I'll forgive Petter this one since his Whirlwind, Canberra and Gnat are good 'uns.The Schneider racers were gorgeous, though they're built for straight-and-low and the wing shape's much more straightforward...
Wasn't there a view at the time that they would have done better to just keep the existing wing?
I was going to say "at least we had the P.1"...
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And then I remembered what they did to the fuselage to create the production Lightning...
No argument, is there?True. In March 2022 I visited the British Science Museum in London where I took this photo of the Schneider racer. The hall is a bit crowded with aircraft, though it's neat to see the Spitfire and Schneider racer together.
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Petter designed the P.1 for two slender Armstrong-Whitworth Sapphires, with which the prototypes could supercruise at something like Mach 1.5 and had a comparatively decent range, especially with the conformal belly-pod, which apparently (and I'm doing this from memory of something I read years ago) had the accidental area-rule effect of making it even more aerodynamic at transonic speeds than its drag-defying high-wing design already was, thus reducing the power (and fuel) it needed to get up through the sound barrier...Who designs a fighter but forgets to include space for the fuel? I'll forgive Petter this one since his Whirlwind, Canberra and Gnat are good 'uns.
Complete agreement on the earlier types, though!
$360k will get you one of Petter's Gnats, aka the Sabre Slayer.Complete agreement on the earlier types, though!