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  • in reply to: Canberra Canopies #1351621
    Bert van Dalen
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    I just had a set of Canberra B2/6 canopy and nosecones delivered by the mail. They come from Aeroclub from Ravenshead, Nottingham. For 3 Euro..in scale 1:72 😀

    in reply to: MIG 9 canopy #1385404
    Bert van Dalen
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    From the book OKB MiG, page 138/139: Canopy consisted of two-piece transparency in frame and mounted on rails for aft-opening.

    To end the discussion, in MiG – Fifty Years of Secret Aircraft Design, page 87, is a nice picture of a MiG-9 with a sliding canopy.

    Since I started the thread.. here’s the photographic evidence coming from

    http://walkarounds.airforce.ru/avia/rus/mig/mig-9/

    in reply to: MIG 9 canopy #1385823
    Bert van Dalen
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    Here’s the deal; I’ll make it two piece, backwards sliding..
    If it turns out to be sideways hingeing, I could still cut it up into three pieces.
    Found another pic like the ealier one, also suggesting sliding..

    in reply to: MIG 9 canopy #1386639
    Bert van Dalen
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    I have a small book on that as well; I’ll have a look on it, and if it does not come up with anything I’ll glady ask for the scans from you mate…

    in reply to: MIG 9 canopy #1386808
    Bert van Dalen
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    Papa Lima, thx mate.
    I got the book as well but did not look that close 😎
    Could still be that someone draw the colour profile and started fantasizing the details he could not see on the fuzzy monochrome pics…
    So i”ll save the canopy separation till the last. Maybe something comes up that shows a open canopy…
    Anyway thx for the trouble!

    PS; Now I know the VVS museum is Monino, not Moshino; thats the handbag 😀

    in reply to: MIG 9 canopy #1387041
    Bert van Dalen
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    before anyone suggests to Google it; i did, but not much comes up mostly 3 view profiles with closed cnopies and a pic of the prototype preserved at Moschino.
    This pic leads me to believe it was a backwards sliding canopy, given the shades you see..
    Anyone else got something better?

    in reply to: Whoopee! Won a TrackIR on e-bay #229811
    Bert van Dalen
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    I’m not sure about the difference between the 3 and 4 Moggy, I seem to recall reading about the resolution, so maybe the 4’s a bit more sensitive :confused:

    Nice work though, it’s a great bit of kit. Incidentally, give the TrackIR website a look, the Vector expansion is well worth it for getting a better look at the instruments and so on. Think it’s about £20.

    3 is ready for vector expansion, 4 has it incorporated, but not much sims are ready for it.
    4 is reported to be more stable and less sensitive to falspositive signals like ambient lightsources, though I know many squadmates that have no issues with 3, though i have them.

    Problem is when you get in the car after a hard night’s simming you start making these same stupid headmoves, and pulling on the gearlever for a deflection shot at the ‘dicke auto’ in front of you

    in reply to: Concorde for the RAF? (Zombie Thread from 2006) #1420153
    Bert van Dalen
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    [B]How many photos have you seen taken at Mach 2? Not such a good idea.

    Ask the americans ; they spent the equivalent of 4 olympic games to get mostly fuzzy shots from the chinese nuclear plants at Lop Nor in the seventies with the dronethingyblackbirdlike creature launched from the B52.
    It woud drop from the mothership, then fly off and then itself launch a drone that later dropped a not so waterthight box into the ocean with the holidaypics on it. In one case it was waterthight but runover by a navy destroyer offering a helping hand

    in reply to: Russell Bf 109 for British tour in 2006?… #1420201
    Bert van Dalen
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    Yo! start plowing the fields and seeding the grass, to be sure we can treat that Emil gently, by not having to put him on concrete strips 😀
    Make sure he can get up and down anyway the wind blows..

    in reply to: Spitfire tree #1424051
    Bert van Dalen
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    🙂 That’s really nice…
    I tried something similar to grasp the developmentpath of mirage/shabak/kfir/nesher/finger/pantera/cheetah but never got beyond the paperdraft

    Something similar on the harrier family would appeal to readers here..

    in reply to: How's this for a classy Canberra scheme? #1358869
    Bert van Dalen
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    Not a Canberra in the true sense, but a classy livery, i think, that was before they put the ugly camera’s on it for shuttle liftoff monitoring

    in reply to: McDonnell Douglas Carrier birds #230457
    Bert van Dalen
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    My pleasure 😀

    It is about 14MB in size.

    http://www.kcox.rchomepage.com/videos/Rhino.wmv

    Great video, very nice plane, some hairy moments in the second round of loops i saw there.

    Congratulations !

    Bert

    in reply to: McDonnell Douglas Carrier birds #230460
    Bert van Dalen
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    The F/A-18 flies for about 5.5 to 6 minutes at full throttle (about 110 mph), at lower throttle 7.5+ minutes are possible.

    The X-32 project has been done flown, crashed, repaired, flown again..etc. 😀
    This was maybe 3 years ago are longer.

    Thanks for the interest.

    Aha, so it it everything the real thing would have done eh? 😀 😀 😀

    in reply to: Jaguar Ground Attack Aircraft CG Painting #230567
    Bert van Dalen
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    Unbelievable Gray,
    I was always able to tell the difference between a GC and a real shot within a second. This is the first time not..
    This is a beautiful piece of work

    in reply to: inhibiting or slowing down corrsion on aircraft #1379206
    Bert van Dalen
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    Hello Guys
    Thanks for the great advice. I soaked them both in wd40 for about 20 mins and cleaned some of the loose corrosion of first. I then placed them in plastic bags and removed most of the air for now. I will change them over to self seal bags in the near future.

    Drop in a bag of silicagel while youre at it, to keep any moisture away

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