moebius from the SDOE forum!!! I cant believe this!!! 🙂
I wandered around there with the “lil’ ba$tard” nick, remember me? 😀
And u know a funny thing? I’m restorating a Harvard!
PM me and we’ll try to sort something out!

Cheers!!

Alex

anyway martin, do u know if those hoods were produced in several plants? They might have had some minor differences.

Alex

P.S.
Did u have any luck with the stuff I mailed u? I think I found some other datas about the ITAF P-51.

swiss mustang will surely enjoy this one! 😀

Alex

TTC, were you at Old Warden yesterday (Sunday)? In which case you may have noticed a small army of forumites with feather dusters.

The PO-2 needs a fair bit of work. A recent propswing cited “non-standard construction techniques” as the reason.

Rob

now that u mention that, I think we’ve seen u guys, ain’t it ben?
I’ve been drinking several gallons of beer/cyder/whisky in these days, had a fantastic time with Ben, who showed me SO many interesting stuff!! The OW collection is absolutely stunning, I’m looking forward to come there and attend the airshow, it must really be wonderful!!! We’ve been to Sywell too, and I was lucky enuff to see Susy, which is in brilliant shape and eagerly waiting to take back to the air! Ben’s running an awesome museum there, really worth visiting, and the local bar and restaurant are superb!
But the thing that really blew me off saturday was their Beech and T-6, and the Vulcan too was really amazing!!!!
I’ll stop boring u with this guys, u r probably used to this, but trust me, for me it was incredible and I enjoyed every second of my weekend there!!!
Thanks again to u and yr family Ben, I’m back home now but I already miss UK!!!

Cheers

Alex

ben, didnt u know about this??

Alex

Triplanes are interesting, but there have been many weird and wonderful aircraft with four or more wings, as well. I’ll dig up all of the photos and profiles I have. Anybody else interested? Here’s two of the strangest I’ve come across, for a start. The Caproni CA60 Transaero had nine wings and eight engines. It took a brief hop over Italy’s Lake Maggiore on March 4, 1921, but crashed shortly thereafter. The Fokker V 8 single-seat fighter could be described as both a quintuplane and a tandem-wing aircraft. Anthony Fokker actually made an abbreviated flight in it in October, 1917, but after one more flight, no further development ensued. I’d be glad to provide more info on both if anybody’s interested. As I said, I’ll dig up some more photos and profiles and post them. If you come across any really interesting triplanes, you can sneak them in, too. Let’s see what weird planes we can dig up.

The Ca60 didnt crash, he made a quick hop on the Lake and received some minor damage when touching water again, it was put on hold but was destroyed by a fire soon afterwards.

Alex