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September 8, 2007 at 8:09 pm in reply to: How to hide an aircraft factory. #1271838

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Drove past the southern end of Burbank airprt a couple of weeks back, The former Vega works has now been replaced by what appears to be the Yahoo! world HQ.. 🙁

September 6, 2007 at 12:55 am in reply to: Hunter "Wet Start" #1275660

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You can do it with a Merlin or a Griffon as well, I have, oops. Over primmed and a full set of flames from all twelve exhausts..

mick

I’ve been on the recieving end of that with P51’s..which standing on the wing ********* about with something 😡 (yes, plural, I guess I didn’t learn the first time..) At least the big fan up front kinda cools you down & extinguishes the conflgration once the engine catches…:)

Sometimes I hate pilots…… lol

September 4, 2007 at 2:35 am in reply to: Fw-190 in the Battle Of Britain? #1278602

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Probably the same deal as if we’d had a few Boomers during the Napoleonic wars…

September 3, 2007 at 9:03 pm in reply to: Spotted #1278924

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Not sure what it was.. looked like a “pointy” A26 sized thing droning around today. twin engine turboprop…. We have a few fires going right now from lightning strikes yesterday & I can’t see the Tanker # on the tail…

Neptune possibly? Looks kinda like a *mini-me* Orion

September 2, 2007 at 6:56 pm in reply to: Help!! college warbird project… #1280454

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I fully realise that the Spit isn’t the easiest, Vulcan would be a piece of cake in fact…. but I have this “I’ll show these bloody colonials how it should be done & with a PROPER bloody aeroplane” thing going on.

In fact what I should do is drop by the local bar where they have one of the original skins from PA908 (screwed to the ceiling) that belongs to me & made the model out of a REAL Spitfire 🙂

September 2, 2007 at 12:43 am in reply to: Help!! college warbird project… #1281325

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If it would help I can send you a repro WW2 American aircraft recognition model of a Blackburn Skua. These were made from parts stamped out of a sheet of card and assembled into a semi-3D model. I have an unassembled version which I’ve scanned. Might count as cheating, but you’d have the flat sections already there…

Thanks for the offer, but after my cunning UFO/PieDish plan the instructor is keeping a close eye on me.. 🙁

September 1, 2007 at 9:24 pm in reply to: Playground aeroplanes! #1281548

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At least two and possibly three Mustangs. The Lamplough recoveries of c1977.

Mark

The Pete & Angelo Regina Mustangs (Princess Elizabeth & whatever the D model was called) had some Israeli *input*….

September 1, 2007 at 5:19 pm in reply to: Help!! college warbird project… #1281723

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I know it’s not strictly old historic but what about the F117 Stealth fighter, it has no compound curves,it is a warbird & getting on for 20 yrs old.

If you go for it a number of companies make a 1/72,1/48 & 1/32 scale models.:)

I’m just up the road a bit from Plant 42.. one of the other projects we have to do is a carbon fibre B2 or F117…& I just happen to have some genuine F117 (rejected) skin laying about someplace that I could incorporate into it..I use it for paint scrapers… The college has a 12ft wide B2 on a stick in one of the parking lots.

Cees: I did look at a Halifax model while at the local model shop.. briefly considered it.. The shop is run by another ex-pat Brit who asked me to paint his Ercoupe last time I was there.

September 1, 2007 at 4:10 am in reply to: Help!! college warbird project… #1282362

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I went with the Mk9 Spit… LOL! I figure if I can build a real one I sure as hell ought to be able to knock out a scale model of one…. Don’t forget this is just built out of flat plate & gluing a blueprint to a sheet of 2024 T3 is one advantage over bulding a real one….It’s basically a siloette model.

Anywho, dropped by the local print shop & had the model plans enlarged & while there had em run off 3 (huge) copies of a genuine ’42 Lockheed P38 blueprint. Got the copies for free after I asked the boss if he’d like a copy for himself…. (saved a miserly $12)….

Gonna buy a disposable pie dish just to mess with the instructor…:diablo:

& of course there is the other advantage to picking the Spit.. class cutie will be asking for help etc..:cool:

damn! thinking with the wrong head again… 🙁

August 31, 2007 at 7:58 pm in reply to: Spotted #1282783

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Some bloody yahoo in a B1 almost rattled the fillings out of my teeth while driving past Plant 42 a couple of days back..:mad:

August 30, 2007 at 12:30 am in reply to: b17s etc down cornish mine shafts #1284197

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And don’t forget what was pulled out the ground at Burtonwood, a stash of 0.50 cals for one all neatly chopped with a gas axe, most of this appears to have come from the graving area.

That’s the standard US method of de-miling them. You drill out the rivets holding the plates to the side of the gun, machine up new ones & rivet them on. The rivets are available, the side plates are not (go figure?). I rebuilt quite a few of them about 15 years ago.

banging those steel rivets is a PITA. 🙁

August 30, 2007 at 12:27 am in reply to: b17s etc down cornish mine shafts #1284200

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😎 😎 😎 yeah the crated harleys are indeed in devon they are appearing with the boxed dakotas ,should be a great gig:cool: 😎 😎

The crated Harleys WERE in Devon, they were dug up in the late ’70’s. I personally worked on 4 of them. The guy who dug em up was Iain Cotteril (sp?) & it’s well documented.

August 25, 2007 at 11:32 pm in reply to: Wartime use of primer in British factories #1288219

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Sometimes you find matches where you’re not expecting them. Had some aluminium honeycomb that came out of the Kawasaki aircraft plant in Japan a few years back. The green coating on it was a dead nuts match for what was used on Jap planes in WWII..

August 25, 2007 at 11:26 pm in reply to: Magnesium rivets…. #1288222

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Rick,
Those black L36 rivets are in fact pure Aluminuim, thus very soft…great for filling up those holes that you did not mean to drill!

Chumpy.

All the holes I drill are deliberately drilled…

… it’s just that sometimes they’re not exactly where I expected..;)

August 25, 2007 at 6:00 pm in reply to: Spotted #1288848

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Douglas SkyRocket………. On a stick outside the welding shop at the local college, walked past it on the way to grab a coffee yesterday morning.

(erm… does that count?)
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