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Aircraft Modeling / Re: B-25J Eduard 1/72 kit no 7012
« on: May 27, 2023, 06:47:29 AM »
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Aircraft Modeling / Re: B-25J Eduard 1/72 kit no 7012
« on: May 26, 2023, 10:22:03 AM »
Ready for decals
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Combat Warplanes / Re: Aircraft photos
« on: May 25, 2023, 03:23:18 PM »
Italian designer Luigi Stipa in 1931 demonstrated a new way to increase propeller efficiency. For this he surrounded the propeller with a special ring fairing. This design is called an intubated propeller (sometimes called an impeller) and is considered the forerunner of the turbofan engine. One of the first to put the idea into practice (around the same time as Stipa's own Stipa-Caproni plane) were engineers Frank Nixon (pictured right) and Carl Hall of Compton, California, USA.
In 1933, they purchased the Felio SP-2 Ranger parasol monoplane, part number X-12211, from its designer Harold Felio. The airplane was modified and from the photo it is easy to see how. Engineers installed a ring fairing with guide vanes and claimed in the pages of Flying Magazine a fantastic increase in efficiency. Speed increased by "39 to 140 percent." A "reduction in landing speed" was also reported. In theory, that's what it should have been. But, alas, there is no credible confirmation that the plane flew in this fashion.
In 1933, they purchased the Felio SP-2 Ranger parasol monoplane, part number X-12211, from its designer Harold Felio. The airplane was modified and from the photo it is easy to see how. Engineers installed a ring fairing with guide vanes and claimed in the pages of Flying Magazine a fantastic increase in efficiency. Speed increased by "39 to 140 percent." A "reduction in landing speed" was also reported. In theory, that's what it should have been. But, alas, there is no credible confirmation that the plane flew in this fashion.
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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Breguet 694 (Special Hobby 1/72)
« on: May 25, 2023, 03:22:35 PM »
Does not sound fine and maybe better not to ask anything else...
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Aircraft Modeling / Re: B-25J Eduard 1/72 kit no 7012
« on: May 23, 2023, 02:23:22 PM »
Thanks! I mask nose today, will paint it blue
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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Breguet 694 (Special Hobby 1/72)
« on: May 23, 2023, 02:22:52 PM »
IPMS Belgium does not look like problem... some contest there?
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Ground Forces / Re: Tunisian Tiger I (My Father's Tank)
« on: May 19, 2023, 05:53:27 AM »
Interesting details about turret size and nice to see this one with numbers 
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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Tamiya F-84G 1/48
« on: May 19, 2023, 05:51:49 AM »
just some time ago I think to open various boxes and start finishing projects start ling time ago!! Interesting to note- completed kit use less space then boxed.
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Aircraft Modeling / Re: My Miscellaneous Builds
« on: May 19, 2023, 05:49:42 AM »
Thank for this nice info 
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Aircraft Modeling / Re: B-25J Eduard 1/72 kit no 7012
« on: May 18, 2023, 01:37:59 PM »
Last details done and I start painting
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Aircraft Modeling / Re: My Miscellaneous Builds
« on: May 18, 2023, 01:37:08 PM »
Even in this scale it is big one. Is any available in 1/48 scale?
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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Trumpeter F-106B
« on: May 17, 2023, 04:18:18 PM »
Lovely one and hope your friend will ask for one more 