Miles AIRCRAFT CLOCK
Back to the Boring Stuff then.
An interesting Miles Aircraft Co. Clock – showing seconds only… was production that fast that they needed to watch the seconds ?
From experience of two sons – nothing with propellors or munitions – they will come off/break within 2 days. The child gets upset and doesnt play with it again.
If you have to have a spit/109 – think about cutting off the prop blades before he uses it.
Only buy diecast – the plastic ones dont last a week
Looking through the toy box – the only ones still in existence are
1. diecast Me262 – although plastic tail planes have been broken off.
2. Phantom – all the munitions are to be found in the space between carpet and skirting board.
3. RAF sabre – undercarriage is all gone – glued back the covers instead.
4. Corgi Space shuttle and Red arrows ( although most have lost cockpit glazing)
5. Constellation – metal props removed.
6. Lego Duplo airliner.
Everything else is in a thousand pieces or on its 10th replacement.
On my youngest sons CORGI Al Deere Spitfire the starboard Kiwi is facing the wrong way !
It faces to the rear on the Corgi – where as the wartime photo shows it pointed forward.
http://www.aviationclassics.co.uk/issues/3-spitfire/preview1-5.jpg
RAF Font
I have used this RAF FONT and fond it to be fairly accurate.
http://www.bobsyouruncle.net/font-types.htm
As I use a mac – I had to do some jiggery pokery to transfer it across – but it works well.
Bombing Colours – RAF bombers, their marking and operations 1937-1973 by Michael Bowyer -ISBN 0 85059 128 7 ?
Lots of line drawings/positions etc – but I dont recall a font being explained.
I have a copy somewhere..
A heaped plate of Kudos.
Been annoying me for days – so you have my appreciation!
Marvellous- all done in 5 mins.
Just checked photos and it is as you say – THANKS.
http://data3.primeportal.net/hangar/mark_hayward/tornado_gr.1b/images/tornado_gr.1b_12_of_12.jpg
When will it be on “proper ” telly ?
dont have no new fangled box/dish thingy..
Mainly because the listed building conservation office wont let us have one..
Harrier
A Harrier main Undercarriage door and a small piece of fuselage.
Very Sad
This may seem very sad but here goes
Office:
Catalina, Bf110, Tornado, C47, Vampire, Jaguar, FW190, B24, B25, Tiger Moth, Me262, Albemarle, Buccaneer(?), Halifax, Spitfire, Harvard, Beaufighter, T33…
Workshop:
Spitfire, C47, Hunter, Breguet 693, Yak 3, C47, Huey, Ju88, Arado, Merlin
Not shown Varsity, Lancaster; T33; Shackleton, Viscount, 109, Oxford, Meteor, Mig 27, CF100, Harrier, Lightning and others…
Chap I know is making a film which is about three Liverpool Sisters, the Blitz and an Italian POW.
http://theicecreammanmovie.blogspot.com/
Synopsis includes
Set against the battlefields of North Africa, France and blitzed Liverpool during WW2. The story follows three sisters in there early twenties and how they and their family survived the blitz and rationing etc. The story reflects life in Liverpool at this time, war, work, blackouts, bombing etc. – But mainly the ‘humour’ and the ‘hope’ that got them through each day…..
Each sister finds the love of their life… the story tells how each comes in contact with their man and the background stories of the three men…. one an Italian POW, one an armaments expert and the other a Liverpool dock worker.
If you search by Kampfgeschwader history and eliminate those who flew Ju88 and HE111’s in 1940 – you should be able to get close to the answer.
For example:
KG76 flew Do17s and did Blitz Liverpool in 1941.
A list of KG is here
http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Kampfgeschwader/Index.htm
Not in the same league – just a happy snapper – but some piccies that I have taken at Duxford and elsewhere
Thanks Andy – not sure why a picture of a ZG26 aircraft is linked to a JG26 Ace.
There are several pictures of other Bf110 ZG26 aircraft with the aircraft “Ringelpiez” but no others, I have yet found, with the animal jumping across the channel.
I am off on my travels tomorrow which includes Hay on Wye and will be scouting for more reference books.