It would have been early in the Skyvan's development I think, notice it has Astazou engines which were the second engine installation before they eventually settled on Garrett engines
Now that's an interesting comment Chris, I had figured something along those lines while developing my backstory for my model Atlantic I'm building. My story is Avro Canada built them for the RAF and the RCAF bought in on it afterwards ---- My Atlantic will be an RCAF one and was purchased...
Interesting stuff Justo, I still don't think the Supermarine design had anything to do with the Heinkel design, the He 280 wasn't known about until after the war and as far as I understand, the 391 was being designed in the last couple of years of the war.
The 391 was to be much bigger than a Spiteful/Seafang. The Spiteful wing would have been attached to the new inner wing, the undercarraige was not Spiteful u/c, much heavier type which also kept the wheel in the vertical position as it retracted (look at the plan view). There are some photos of...
Not as difficult as you might think. I worked it out some time ago by drawing it in my AutoCAD. As simply as possible, the props were geared in the remote speed reduction unit so would be 'timed' to the gun synchronization. It would just be like it had just one 3-blade prop. I've even worked...
Thanks Paul, I'll get some pics done then.
I should mention the figures that come with the model are not your normal Lego figures. They look like the real astronauts in shape.
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