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Warplane Art / Re: Fairey Firefly
« on: February 13, 2011, 09:15:02 PM »
Museum also has a beautiful example of the Curtiss Model 75 Hawk with fixed undercarriage!
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Market / Re: Large number of aviation magazines for sale!
« on: February 11, 2011, 02:08:35 PM »
I have also for sale:
The Aeroplane 1928 (2 volumes)
The Aeroplane 1929 (3 volumes)
These rare volumes are EURO 50/year!
The Aeroplane 1928 (2 volumes)
The Aeroplane 1929 (3 volumes)
These rare volumes are EURO 50/year!
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Combat Warplanes / Some things never change!
« on: January 30, 2011, 01:21:34 PM »
It seems not only civil but also military aircraft types have now an extreemly long service life!
Boeing B-52 is a good example: flew first in the early fifties and is still operational.
Also Russian types like the Antonov An-2 and An-8 seem to have the eternal life.
And Russian 'Bear' is operational, like the B-52, for more than fifty years.
Another nice example is the Grumman Hawkeye. On the two photos you see it photographed at Le Bourget in 1965 and in 2009. Location where I took the photos is almost identical, only C-141 cargo plane is now replaced by C-17!
Timespan between two pictures is almost 45 years!!
Boeing B-52 is a good example: flew first in the early fifties and is still operational.
Also Russian types like the Antonov An-2 and An-8 seem to have the eternal life.
And Russian 'Bear' is operational, like the B-52, for more than fifty years.
Another nice example is the Grumman Hawkeye. On the two photos you see it photographed at Le Bourget in 1965 and in 2009. Location where I took the photos is almost identical, only C-141 cargo plane is now replaced by C-17!
Timespan between two pictures is almost 45 years!!
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Market / Large number of aviation magazines for sale!
« on: January 28, 2011, 01:55:57 PM »
At the Aviodrome Museum we have a very large bulk of bound volumes of various aviation magazines.
Greatest bulk is:
The Aeroplane: volumes over 1949-1968
Interavia: years 1949-1976
Flight: volumes over 1945-1979
Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society: years 1949-1967
Shell aviation news: years 1957-1972
Aviation Week & Space Technology: volumes over 1963-1972
R.A.F. Flying review: several years 1955-1965 and 1969
Price is EURO 5 per volume or EURO 50 per metre.
And.....sorry, NO parcel order service! If you are interested you'll have to come to the Aviodrome at Lelystad Airport -The Netherlands and collect them personally!
Greatest bulk is:
The Aeroplane: volumes over 1949-1968
Interavia: years 1949-1976
Flight: volumes over 1945-1979
Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society: years 1949-1967
Shell aviation news: years 1957-1972
Aviation Week & Space Technology: volumes over 1963-1972
R.A.F. Flying review: several years 1955-1965 and 1969
Price is EURO 5 per volume or EURO 50 per metre.
And.....sorry, NO parcel order service! If you are interested you'll have to come to the Aviodrome at Lelystad Airport -The Netherlands and collect them personally!
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Aircraft Modeling / Re: SBD/A-24 Group Build
« on: January 27, 2011, 10:39:50 PM »
This is from the 'Nico Braas Aircraft Model Kit Museum' (joke)!
I'll leave it in the box for a while!!
I'll leave it in the box for a while!!
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Warplane Art / Re: Fokker D. XVI
« on: January 26, 2011, 11:24:37 PM »
Is Dutch saying! Meaning 'busy enough to stay home'!
What about D.XVI photos we have on file? Nice occasion to place them on the Forum; they are all Public Domain!
What about D.XVI photos we have on file? Nice occasion to place them on the Forum; they are all Public Domain!
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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Old kit boxes art work...
« on: January 24, 2011, 11:26:02 PM »
This is Douglas X-3 artwork with ground tractor!
Believe this is a re-issue of the original 'fifties kit from the seventies.
I haver built it many (some 30!) years ago mounted on the half-world globe standard.
Lindberg ever had X-3 kit at 1/48 scale but this was of poor quality.
Also Revell kit was not all too good conform present standards, but in the 'fifties this was of course different!
Believe this is a re-issue of the original 'fifties kit from the seventies.
I haver built it many (some 30!) years ago mounted on the half-world globe standard.
Lindberg ever had X-3 kit at 1/48 scale but this was of poor quality.
Also Revell kit was not all too good conform present standards, but in the 'fifties this was of course different!
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Warplane Art / Re: Fokker C.5 drawings
« on: January 22, 2011, 09:54:23 PM »
Assume we'll get a copy for a book review on Letletlet-warplanes website?
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Combat Warplanes / Re: Trash
« on: January 17, 2011, 10:12:05 AM »
These photos are the remains of the large photo archive of the Royal Netherlands Aeronautical Society KNVvL. This organization had more or less its own monthly magazine for many years since it was founded. Photo archive was for this magazine. When KNVvL stopped publication their magazine (Avia Vliegwereld) it was taken over by a commercial publisher until the late seventies. With the editorial team disbanded the archive stayed unused in the KNVvL premises, but some years ago it was decided to split it up to individual members. What was left was only two standard removal boxes with photos. The nicest have already been published earlier on this website. The rest went to the Dutch aviation museum Aviodrome. Here all photos that were relevant were picked out. What was left was discarded as trash after all photos showing aircraft were picked out for sale in the secondhand bookshop. I just picked out the nicest of what remained!! So, there are good reasons why these photos were discarded.
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Ground Forces / Re: Kubelwagen
« on: January 12, 2011, 05:59:20 PM »
About VW: I have a 1996 model Polo.
Not as a model but as the real car.
It's my second Polo; I owned the previous old model over 1988-1996.
Don't know when I am going to chance present Polo for a new model.
It still runs perfectly and it is completely without rust; even after fifteen years//
Not as a model but as the real car.
It's my second Polo; I owned the previous old model over 1988-1996.
Don't know when I am going to chance present Polo for a new model.
It still runs perfectly and it is completely without rust; even after fifteen years//
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Combat Warplanes / Re: Douglas A2D Skyshark
« on: January 10, 2011, 10:46:20 AM »
Design of the Skyshark was very sound and it would have been a welcome successor of the Skyraider. However, it was marred by a very unreliable engine that never gave its full output and problemsome contra rotating propeller. Only two prototypes were built.
It was a machine more or less similar to the British Westland Wyvern.
It was a machine more or less similar to the British Westland Wyvern.
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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Project 2011: "What-ifs" Belgium 1940
« on: January 02, 2011, 03:38:12 PM »
Heinkel He-100 fighter has also made flight demonstrations at Soesterberg airbase and Schiphol before the war and there were even detailed plans to order the Do-17 as bomber for the Dutch air force.
Also Focke Wulf FW-56 Stösser was demonstrated before the war at Soesterberg and Waalhaven. Eventually it flew at Dutch AF, but AFTER the war as captured plane!
Only German plane operational at the outbreak of the war was the FW-58 Weihe. Also the Weihe demonstrated at Soesterberg!
Kits must be avialable for all types, so also some interesting Dutch What-If's are possible!!
Also Focke Wulf FW-56 Stösser was demonstrated before the war at Soesterberg and Waalhaven. Eventually it flew at Dutch AF, but AFTER the war as captured plane!
Only German plane operational at the outbreak of the war was the FW-58 Weihe. Also the Weihe demonstrated at Soesterberg!
Kits must be avialable for all types, so also some interesting Dutch What-If's are possible!!
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Warplane Art / Re: Curtiss P-40N
« on: January 01, 2011, 12:31:48 PM »
Assume you know the meaning of the name 'Snafu'?
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Combat Warplanes / Re: Douglas Skyhawk
« on: December 29, 2010, 06:58:15 PM »
With so many Skyhawk photos available: I would say: let's start a book!!
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Warplane Art / Re: Short Sunderland
« on: December 26, 2010, 04:37:50 PM »
Flying boat parts under water were treated with a coat of anti-fouling white. Must have been clearly more 'off-white' than the glossy white type 'C' as specified for flying boats!
Reference: British aviation colours of World War Two, RAF Museum books series Vol.3.
Book is an absolute must!!
Reference: British aviation colours of World War Two, RAF Museum books series Vol.3.
Book is an absolute must!!