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I built the DR-I, Fokker D-7, Sopwith Camel, Nieuport (with rockets mounted), SE-5A, but never the Triplane; I don't even remember ever seeing the last mentioned on the shelves (this is 60 years ago now!). I remember also building a Bristol F.2 and I think it too was from Aurora, but perhaps not.That's one Aurora kit I would liked to have had. Never found one, though. And to my knowledge SMER has not reissued it. I think I only had the Nieuport 11 and the Breguet.
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This looks like the Sopwith Triplane (Black Maria) that was a part of the Canadian National Aeronautical Collection and is now in the Canadian Aviation & Space Museum in Ottawa, Canada. They did get a number of the old aircraft in the collection flying for the 100th anniversary of Canada (in '67). My old Air Cadet squadron was named after this aircraft ... and no, that wasn't in 1967
That's cool stuff indeed. Do you know if the rotary engine is an original or new build?
Since you all are talking Aurora, great memories, I built a small group of them back in the day. They typically came with black parts for engines, machine guns and wheels which I remember thinking back then was pretty technical! Here is a rescue from my hot attic this year where my 1/48 Aurora Sopwith Triplane "Black Maria" had been squirrelled away for thirty years and forgotten about. I built it around the early seventies probably. Still has the ceiling hook and all. Amazing, the engine rotates like a proper rotary. Debating now to actually try and paint it or leave it in its seventies glory and buy a new one to do properly. I was shocked in doing research after finding it that Collishaw's Black Maria was not all black like Jo Kotula's great box art, and the fabric were in different factory colors of olive drab. I know you can't trust black and white photos for color determinations, but there are other pictures of the Black Flight like of "Peggy" and some others where the whole fuselage looks black or without very discernible difference between the cowling say and the fuselage fabric. Anyone here know if any of the Black Flight planes were painted completely black?I built the DR-I, Fokker D-7, Sopwith Camel, Nieuport (with rockets mounted), SE-5A, but never the Triplane; I don't even remember ever seeing the last mentioned on the shelves (this is 60 years ago now!). I remember also building a Bristol F.2 and I think it too was from Aurora, but perhaps not.
Blast from the past. I built that one too.Since you all are talking Aurora, great memories, I built a small group of them back in the day. They typically came with black parts for engines, machine guns and wheels which I remember thinking back then was pretty technical! Here is a rescue from my hot attic this year where my 1/48 Aurora Sopwith Triplane "Black Maria" had been squirrelled away for thirty years and forgotten about. I built it around the early seventies probably. Still has the ceiling hook and all. Amazing, the engine rotates like a proper rotary. Debating now to actually try and paint it or leave it in its seventies glory and buy a new one to do properly. I was shocked in doing research after finding it that Collishaw's Black Maria was not all black like Jo Kotula's great box art, and the fabric were in different factory colors of olive drab. I know you can't trust black and white photos for color determinations, but there are other pictures of the Black Flight like of "Peggy" and some others where the whole fuselage looks black or without very discernible difference between the cowling say and the fuselage fabric. Anyone here know if any of the Black Flight planes were painted completely black?
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Since you all are talking Aurora, great memories, I built a small group of them back in the day. They typically came with black parts for engines, machine guns and wheels which I remember thinking back then was pretty technical! Here is a rescue from my hot attic this year where my 1/48 Aurora Sopwith Triplane "Black Maria" had been squirrelled away for thirty years and forgotten about. I built it around the early seventies probably. Still has the ceiling hook and all. Amazing, the engine rotates like a proper rotary. Debating now to actually try and paint it or leave it in its seventies glory and buy a new one to do properly. I was shocked in doing research after finding it that Collishaw's Black Maria was not all black like Jo Kotula's great box art, and the fabric were in different factory colors of olive drab. I know you can't trust black and white photos for color determinations, but there are other pictures of the Black Flight like of "Peggy" and some others where the whole fuselage looks black or without very discernible difference between the cowling say and the fuselage fabric. Anyone here know if any of the Black Flight planes were painted completely black?
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I built a wooden Fokker DR1 out of offcuts from my son's picture framing business.