Welcome to the forum, Phil.

I love all types of aircraft but mainly classic/ww2.

It’s wonderful what they’re building with the 5 Me-262’s. The workmanship just looks amazing. I’ve been following their progress on the site but often it’s a bit out of date.

To be more ‘precise’ 🙂 , look at ALL the wheels. Kind of like one of those new cars/trucks with all wheel steering.

Here’s a snip on Chevrolet’s Quadrasteer…

http://www.chevrolet.com/silverado/quadrasteer.htm

Seem likes there was a European sports car that also had four wheel steering (but out of my price range of course)

Mark

I notice the main wheels are crabbed but the outrigger wheel is not.
Wonder if that flat-spots it to any degree

I believe the Dutch had some of the in-line engine model (STM) on floats.
I don’t know if any were in the East Indies.

You’re right, the Dutch used the STM model. Apparently when the Jpanaese overrun the East Indies they got destroyed but 34 did manage to escape to Australia and were used by the RAAF.

Too often these pilots are overlooked as they did a sterling job just trying to get the aircraft out of the country and not get killed.
Okay, the aircraft aren’t as glamorous as a Spitfire or Mustang but they were equally as important to the war effort, IMO.

TNZ

In that pic of the “mostly tiffie” are those real rockets or replicas ?

When it comes to Spitfires, that doesn’t sound like you at all, Daz… 😀 😉

Does having a wooden prop affect the performance of a Spit to any noticeable degree ?

Thanks for the info.

I couldn’t imagine the rocker box lubrication being particularily difficult as they’re easy to get at what with the barrels and heads stuck out uncowled.

A great aircraft, one I would definitely like to own one day.