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  • in reply to: The "Wot Plane" Thread. (Game rules in Post #1) #1158138
    wilkofife
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    I think he is a Frenchman – what remains of the registration looks European, not US. There is a glider in the hangar – is that one of his too ??

    There was also a similar roadable design, the Aernova AER 1, by S. Pellarini in Milan in 1948

    in reply to: Was Aeroplane – Is now Forums and Facebook groups? #1090511
    wilkofife
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    Like, I suspect, a lot of people here, I read both. We are fortunate to have two such fine publications available in this country, although in a way it is a shame they are so similar, and that there is inevitably so much duplication.

    As one who inspects our shrinking budget regularly, I fear there is going to have to be a decision made !

    in reply to: The "Wot Plane" Thread. (Game rules in Post #1) #1093083
    wilkofife
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    I’m sitting looking at my ’47 Janes. 237c has a Bearcat and Tigercat, 238c two Tigercats.

    I would be happy to scan these (the whole pages ?) How do I get them to you ?

    I’ve just scanned ’em. Unreduced, they are about 15meg each !

    in reply to: The "Wot Plane" Thread. (Game rules in Post #1) #1140501
    wilkofife
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    Amen to all that. On my ‘other’ forum, the thread has rather polarised into obscure types, with only three or four of us participating – if we post ‘easier’ ones, we feel obliged to refrain from jumping in with the answers. But I am also aware there are a lot of others ‘looking in’ and hopefully enjoying it and learning, as I am doing here.

    By the way, and I’m not claiming a hit here, (RT got it) but that Potez is actually a 561, No 3714, F-ANMT.

    in reply to: The "Wot Plane" Thread. (Game rules in Post #1) #1140660
    wilkofife
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    I have noticed that this silly game gets an awful lot of hits, but very few play the game.

    Could be something to do with the fact that there is some pretty obscure machinery being posted, John ! Try finding the Pegna-Bonmartini Rondine
    in any textbook available today….

    But please carry on, this is great stuff – I hope somebody is archiving it all ?

    in reply to: The "Wot Plane" Thread. (Game rules in Post #1) #1148651
    wilkofife
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    I think it is the C.4 indeed. This site is the best I have found for the Argentinian products..

    http://www.mincyt.cba.gov.ar/site/fabricamilitar/19271943/19271943_08o.html

    (needs Google Translate!)

    in reply to: The "Wot Plane" Thread. (Game rules in Post #1) #1149942
    wilkofife
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    Posts crossed again. I have it as the Descamps A.2

    in reply to: Giving Leuchars a miss this year #1149961
    wilkofife
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    I suppose when you’ve spent the last umpteen years being deafened daily by Tornados (and, prior to that, Phantoms) they don’t exactly quicken the pulses.

    As for the Reds, as has been pointed out in more than one forum, they are rather resting on their laurels and gradually becoming the least exciting formation outfit around. (There’s heresy for you) Bring back the Gnats, I say.

    As you can see from the variety of posts here, it’s horses for courses, but I live approximately 15 miles away and wasn’t tempted ! (It’s getting to the stage where to get to Leuchars at all you have to live in Dundee, and I wouldn’t wish that on anybody).

    in reply to: The "Wot Plane" Thread. (Game rules in Post #1) #1149981
    wilkofife
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    A wee bit intimidated in the major league here. Never mind, here’s one I posted in another forum, as Noel Coward once said, ‘long ago and far away’…

    in reply to: The "Wot Plane" Thread. (Game rules in Post #1) #1150101
    wilkofife
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    You snuck in there with your Helio Ratler just as I posted !

    in reply to: The "Wot Plane" Thread. (Game rules in Post #1) #1150400
    wilkofife
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    Think you’ll have to ask your Uncle Bulgaria, John…….

    in reply to: Giving Leuchars a miss this year #1151023
    wilkofife
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    Didn’t go, but there already reports that the traffic was even worse than last year. People gave up after three hours wait still west of Cupar, i.e. nowhere near the park-and-ride.
    And yet others will tell you they drove straight in and out – I suspect it is because the constabulary have no real overview of incoming traffic, they panic and the easiest way is to stop everybody !

    Don’t think there was much worth seeing anyway.

    in reply to: The "Wot Plane" Thread. (Game rules in Post #1) #1152747
    wilkofife
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    Well I’m learning already ! John, can you tell us a wee bit more about the L-8, please ? The only other pic I can find of it appears to have a different engine installation. East European aircraft are a great mystery to me…..

    in reply to: The "Wot Plane" Thread. (Game rules in Post #1) #1157018
    wilkofife
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    (a) another look at the profile will show you the crank quite clearly

    (b) I have used that site, admittedly only occasionally, for a few years and if there was spam attached, my protection must have zapped it. Not all Russians are bogeymen, you know ! The other well-known Russian site , Rusjet, is used as reference by quite a lot of guys at the Outhouse….

    Horses for courses, methinks. Maybe some day someone with the time and motivation will put up a British site as good as Aerofiles and Aviafrance, but I’m not holding my breath.

    in reply to: The "Wot Plane" Thread. (Game rules in Post #1) #1157640
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