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20off, P51 Mustangs........
steampunkpete:
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Can I ask which other forum? I've seen this link before you see ...
If the word "Drifter" means anything to you please drop me a PM.
Stilldrillin:
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Can I ask which other forum? I've seen this link before you see ...
If the word "Drifter" means anything to you please drop me a PM.
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Hi Pete.
My other forum, as I call it, is the Steamtoys Forum. http://modelsteam.myfreeforum.org/index.php
Dunno about, "Drifter". But, I'll drop you a pm, whether or not....... :thumbup:
David D
vtsteam:
I fly a model spitfire, it's a fantastic plane. I started building a P-51, carved the fuselage but never finished it. I'd really like to do a Hurricane some day.
This is what my stepfather flew out of Saipan:
Fergus OMore:
--- Quote from: vtsteam on March 26, 2015, 06:19:43 PM ---I fly a model spitfire, it's a fantastic plane. I started building a P-51, carved the fuselage but never finished it. I'd really like to do a Hurricane some day.
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Trouble with model Spits and Huries is that they don't really scale down. I made a so called flying scale 'rubber powered' one in 1939. I was all of 9 years. Never really flew properly. What really turned me on- then and ever since was was a Supermarine S6B model by Keelbuild of Newcastle. It was Boothman's plane who incidentally had one of the Hendon Spits when I was a lad. The Warbird SL-721 IS a Hendon spit flown by 'Jimmy' Robb and my 31 Squadron 'boss' Arthur Fane De Salis. Its engine fitter has just added a note in StarNews of TB-713 and how its plexiglass cockpit canopy sort of surprised a lady hanging out the washing!
Just a note but Spitfires cost £5000 then. 601 Squadron was the 'Millionaires Squadron'. To qualify, one had to be stinking rich and have survived 400 hours. The 'boss' was Max Aitken whose father, Lord Beaverbrook- a newspaper tycoon- was Minister of Aircraft Production.
Regards
Norman
vtsteam:
No Norman, agreed, planes don't exactly scale down. But some things do translate enough to be noticeable in comparison with other models. Eliptical planform, tail moment, degree of streamlining, etc do have an effect on a model's performance and it is possible to say the Spitfire I fly is a fantastic performing plane and not think it entirely coincidental.
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