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Hmm, I could put one of my 1/72 Vanguards to good use there, any more info on that ?

To be truthful, the DH Ceres is a figment of Nevil Shute's imagination. As he wrote his book in 1952 and then published it in 1953, and that he was an accomplished aeronautical engineer in his own right (he started at De Havilland, then went to Vickers, then co-founded Airspeed), I'm thinking he...

Thanks Pedro

When I started my Atlantic project, I had been in contact with Mike Meehan. After a bit of going back & forth, he then sent me a load of info on it along with some notes on why it was his pet project (it's when I learnt he had a hand in the drawings that appear in the brochures). One 3-View he...

Well that was a piece of the puzzle I have been trying to connect Skyblazer. I've resurrected my Atlantic build in a GB on the 'Beyond the Sprues' forum where it's in the 'Anything from a Book, Movie or Game' GB. I'm revising my backstory so it would gel with the DH Ceres that is the main...

Having read the article in Flight Global about Sidetrack, and knowing that Lonewulf Models makes a Harrier conversion for it, I decided to have a go at a F-35B variant with this system which would have been RN operated. I asked Lonewulf if I could get some extra wing pods with my order for the...

One time when I was at the Cold Lake (Alberta) Airshow, a B-1B was being demonstrated and after whipping down the runway at very low level and wings back, it pulled up and did a barrel roll as it gained height. Sometime later at the Abbotsford (BC) Airshow I was talking to the captain of...

The B-36 fuselage came with a bunch of other parts I got hold of so I could build my XC-99. It was a surprise part of the package as I practically got the whole model, when I did the deal I thought I was just getting the wings, u/c etc.

Yes I do, but it's on the 'What-If' Forum --- http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,27077.0/highlight,atlantic.html Unfortunately it hasn't progressed much more than in the thread, got really busy with work, then I wandered off on a couple of other projects. Soon as I get those...

My build is getting there --- just taking a while though

There's reference to the X-24's in David Myhra's book (Schiffer) about the Ta.183. It says the the X-24A/B were the design of Hans Multhopp (Focke Wolf's Chief Designer during the war) when he worked at Martin and after he had designed the XB-51. There's a photo of him holding a wind tunnel...

I hoping PlanesPictures tells us that it would have used the RR Crecy (all 5000 hp of it) ::)

Hi Woody, yeah I didn't explain that too good did I (I'm not an aero engineer so I don't know the correct termology for it all), but the way I understand it is that if you have a dyheadral or even a level wing in the shoulder position, and you bank as you turn, the air gets trapped as I said...

I'll see if this works, but this is my model of the F.2 MetroVick Meteor Robert

Below is a note given to me by Phil Butler (the author) when I asked him if he knew what serial number the RAF Concorde might have got, he also added a very interesting note which seems to point to the idea that it was considered quite seriously: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> My best guess would be XW520...

I have a few pictures and 3-views of the Atlantic as I have a build project going for one of these. I have been in contact with a fellow who's name is Mike Meehan, he used to work in the Avro design office, and he sent me them, one of them shows the engines at mid span with the u/c between the...

An aerodynamist could probably explain this better but I've read that most shoulder wing aircraft have anheadral because when the aircraft banks in a turn, the air under the wing (the wing that's on the lower side) gets trapped between the wing and the fuselage therefore creating more lift, so...

I personally like this one:

;D ;D hmm! yeah well I've got eight B-52's in 1/72, only one built though (gonna build one of each version), only one B-36 which is built. I've never thought of the B-52 as a tanker though, that's an interesting idea. I had this idea that it might have been an AWAC or something. Robert

Actually the Italeri offering is an 'H', it has different engines to the 'G' But you are correct that it is the old AMT kit. Robert