Suicide bombers with parachutes? Why are some of the pilots wearing parachutes?

Why don’t you try the National AirForce Museum in Trenton, Ontario?
If you google the museum and go to contacts, you’ll find:

Research
Bill Nurse [email]research@airforcemuseum.ca[/email]

There is/was a disassembled T-Bird sitting on the main floor. T-Bird maintenance manuals may also be in the archives.
The main base is right across the street from the museum, and there are lots of highly experienced T-Bird maintenance personnel in Trenton.

Scale Drawings

I am in the process of starting a Corsair 3D model and initially I set up the Vought drawings (green). Then I found these a bit inaccurate, and set up Paul Matt’s drawings instead (red).
Now I just received these Japanese drawings and they’re different altogether again! Much skinnier! The difference looks trivial maybe, but once it’s all 3D, it’s not. I want to develop all major Corsair variants from my initial F4U-1A/D, so I need to have a near-perfect base to start from.

Can anybody please tell me… what is the most accurate one?! :confused:

If you have better ones, that’d be awesome too!

Thanks heaps in advance! 😀

Just caught this thread so perhaps a bit late, but let me mention the 3/4″-1.0′ drawings of the F4U-4 by
ER Atkins that were made available by SUPERSCALE of Arlington, TX in the mid-1950s- early 1060s.
The drawings are in two sheets, dated 07/01/56. They are actual blueprints.

Superscale offered some remarkably detailed and accurate blueprints, my favorite being that of the P-38. Offhand, the
series included the Spitfire Mk I, Me109G, A6M Zero, B-26, the F4U, the P-38 and P-47, among others.
They’re all in 3/4″ to the foot scale.

Tempest Drawings

Has anyone here purchased drawings from or been in contact with Arthur Bentley recently?

I was hoping to buy some Tempest drawings but I haven’t had any response via his website.

http://www.albentley-drawings.com/

Hope he’s OK. Arthur produces aircraft 3-view drawings that are virtual works of art.
I’ve got several large scale sets of his drawings but I’m not sure whether I’ve got the Tempest ones in large scale. If you are unsuccessful in reaching him and need help down the line, feel free to PM me. I know I’ve got the Tempest drawings but it may only be in 1/48.

Nice!

Not completely unrelated, but I did see a video of a replica Bf109 prototype a while back. Wonder if I can find it again….

Maybe this will help ….

http://www.homebuiltairplanes.com/forums/warbirds-warbird-replicas/3195-messerschmitt-bf-109-a-7.html

Swastika?

Heaven forbid a national museum that has managed to own it for all these years without resorting to swastika’s !

National museum? Swastika? 🙂

Lotus Cortina apart, of course.

And the E-Type brakes were dreadful by the standards of the day, not just by modern standards.

But they did look so cool

Moggy

Moggy, how many other cars had disc brakes fifty years ago?

Hey, there’s lots of truth about the unreliability of the E-Type ….. the trunk would pop open on every other bump in the road, it needed a new clutch after only 6.000 miles (would you believe that the engine had to come out in order for the clutch to be replaced?), the distributor would flood out in the wet (usually while in the passing lane at 110 with oncoming traffic closing in) … the middle latch for the convertible top would blow open with one hell of a bang and roar of wind noise while running at 135 (scaring the sh*t out of me) ….. yeah, the list goes on, but hey, when it was good, it was great!

What a blast it was to cruise around Trafalgar square (LHD) with the top down, and three beautiful, young gals half in and half out of the car! Only in an E-Type.

I believe it was Road & Track that called it, “The greatest crumpet collector known to man.”