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I don’t know prices at your country, but several years ago I had a film commercially translated to video. results were good and I don’t think it was too expensive. Now you should certainly go digital and not for a casette. I suggest that you ask around in photo shops. Try also forums dedicated to photography.

Ihave just seen this giant thread

which is very interesting
my comments:
1) I am surprised that despite several photos of the Israely Mig-23, there was no comment about it

2) about G-loads and airspeed
while it is true that there is no “direct” connection between them, they are nevertheless connected. It is the airspeed that creates the lift that causes the acceleration=> G-load. And the high angle of attack required to produce the high lift creates high drag, which reduces the speed and the lift and the acceleration. Every aircraft has an airspeed-g envelope, which shows how many G-s it can puul at any speed. The best speed for combat is the “corner velocity” – the point on theenvelope where the aircraft can sustain a certain acceleration without slowing down. It is not the maximum G for this aircraft, but the optimum for combat.

3) the argument about which aircraft is better, based on published maximum G-s, rreminds me of a story
A young Israeli Mirage pilot, who flew by the rules, could not understand why he always lost in training combats. Then one day he flew in a two sitter with one of the old hands , who never accepted defeat. To his surprise he sow the veteran pilot pulling a lot more than the permitted G-s (and off course winning). From that day on he was not a luser any more…
So much for quoting manuals………..

In Oshkosh I have seen the remains of a Spitfire that I was told is one of the Israeli Spits sold to Burma in the late 50’s.
I cannot remember if it was in 1999 or 2003.
I think the owner was British
It will be interesting to know if any more of these Spits has survived

Replica Mosquito???

[QUOTE=dcollins103]Phillip

Yes it is possible to re-make an Albatross, Glyn powell is using exactly the same process on his mosquito projects,

can you give some details? anything on the net about it?

A Mosquito Story

A Mosquito story

29.11.1954
The Mosquito squadron at Hatzor air base was on night flying training. It was a stormy night and the base electrical system failed, making it impossible to land the planes. The squadron leader, Major yaakov Shalmon, sent the planes to another base, but his own plane caught fire – maybe from a lightning – and crash landed in the mud, short of the runway. The wooden plane burned and the ammunition started to explode.
In the ambulance that raced to the plane was a young women, Esther Ardity, 18, a recent immigrant, who barely finished her medic course and did not even have a driving license. Hearing the screams from the airplane she left the ambulance that got stuck in the mud, and ran to the burning plane, with bullets flying around. She managed to extract the navigator, and dragged him away from the Mosquito, getting burns in the procces. Then he told her that there is another person aboard – the pilot. She returned to the fire and found the pilot, a big man, unconscious and tied to his seat. She did not know how to open the belt, so she cut it with her medical scissors. During this a bullet had grazed her forehead and hit the pilot. Again she pulled and rolled the heavy pilot until they got away from the fire. Just like a Holywood movie , that was the moment for the airplane to explode, leaving hardly any trace.
Esther accompanied the pilots to the hospital, and even volunteered to donate blood, but fainted from exhaustion and was put in hospital herself.
The navigator died of his wounds. The pilot survived, and his family adopted Esther Ardity, who came on her own to Israel, and treated her as a doughter.

Many years later, after she left the nursing profession, she volunteered two more times: during the Six Day War she joined the paratroop units in Jerusalem, and treated the wounded soldiers in the streets, under fire; and during the Yom Kipoor War she served in a field hospital west of the Suez canal.
For the Mosquito rescue she received a medal from the chief of staff of the army, who was amazed to see the small women who managed to save two big pilots

Here are some rare Israeli Mosquitoes

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My first model

as far as I can remember it was a 1:144 avro Lancaster. I had no one to help me so its a wonder I managed to build it at that tender age. the glue problem mentioned above sounds familiar. In any case there was very little glue and no way to get more. Off course I knew nothing about painting so it stayed gray, but was a great toy anyway. Then came a yellow Hotspur glider, an X15 and PT109.
After that I switched to paper models, the first being a Hunter.
Anyone here built paper models?