No Blue Thunder in your house then?!
I love Airwolf! Have the series on DVD. Is was a Bell 222B.
That made a spin off tv show as well, a converted Gazelle? Airwolf was a lot sexier though, and supersonic!
Airwolf!!!!
😮 Ok, this is an old thread but somewhere in the depths of sky digital, channel 206 I think (not an advert, I promise) I just saw Airwolf…. Ok, does it count as Sci Fi (which is why “Skydiver” from UFO didn’t get a mention!) but mistakes, great flying clips of the bell (222?) but as for the names (stringfellow…St John etc etc) Ok, questions, who will own up to watching it, and who can hum the theme tune…….
The stealth products from the Skunk Works were not the first attempt at making Stealth Aircraft. Making aircraft ‘invisible’ to the enemy is not as new as you might think.
Bri 🙂
the Northrop flying wings were a major headache to the USAF radar stations when they were being tested in the late 40’s/eraly 50’s (?) Unable to get a trace until right on top of them – as for Mossies, didn’t the wooden airframe reflect/refract less of a radar return?
Another sad looking collection but at least they are saved from the scrappers!
with you on that one, I’m only a few miles away and often drop by with my son – for a long while the F-104 had a huge old bit of carpet over the cockpit secured with bunjies – trapped lord knows how much moisture against the bodywork, always in two minds – scrapped almost for certain, or rot away and fall to bits over time – if they try to move any of them now I’m sure they would fall to bits!
I’m preaching to the choir here !
here you go :
the http://www.crowood.com site is a bit spartan, it doesn’t tend to show new publications until they are off the press in my experience. My own feelings on the series are that they vary depending on the author, I’m looking forward to this one though
have you got “Fleet Air Arm at War”?
Ray Sturtivant – P81 & P111 – may be what you are looking for?
its all out now
he was home to test fly the Nazi UFO that he stole which was later used to get away from Dallas in 1963 when he used a hollowed out leg to hide a rifle used to shoot JFK from the grassy knoll. This was confirmed when he came back to earth for pipe tobacco in another UFO that landed at a USAF base in the UK in the late 80’s…….
there are two men in white coats at the door, I’ll be leaving now……
what a bunch of pap, Hess in the Sunderland holds some water, but this……
how about a statue of John Prescott?
well, I’d get in a line behind the pigeons to do, well, what pigeons do to statues if he were to be put there. :diablo:
as for the plinth, why not a statue of pilots, or a group of three, pilot, mechanic and waaf ?
any else remember tales of the golden monkey?
Flying around the pacific in a Grumman Goose, lugging cargo, fighting pirates and of course, getting the girl…………. that’ll do me just fine…..;)
I’ve got a copy of Desert air force at war, shows a B&W image of a 114 squadron boston, certainly looks “dark” especially when compared with the other prints, far from conclusive though. Cracking book (like all of the Ian Allen at war series) if you can grab a copy.
Thank you both…
not quite grasped searching old threads – mind you, having read these, I almost wish I hadn’t:mad: 😡
hang my head in shame….
1 whirlwind(****** kestrals i want peregrins:D )
2)
where did I get that from?:confused: I’ll go stand in the corner…..:( 🙁
it would have to be :
Tempest VI (just love that thin wing and chin radiator)
Beaufighter (costal command strike colours, dummy rockets etc al)
Westland Whirlwind (please find me some RR Kestrels)
FW-190 D, HE-219 Owl, Maybe HE-177
and to fly above your houses and show off, Martin Baker MB-5 (because I can….)
Aussie spits buried?
I remember that one, and crates of lend lease stuff burried (or burned and burried) I guess the Hellcats etc thrown off of aircraft carriers have been checked or have rotted away.
so, you like Sea Furies then???
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I got a display cabinet for my die-cast models 🙂
I have three cabinets, two from Index that are about to fall apart, and a decent one from Homebase with a backlight – where is this from if I may ask?
Mine are tall rather than wide like yours, and the Homebase one strong enough to put some mirrored tiles on the shelving so the undersides can be seen.