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Combat Warplanes / Re: Fake aircraft photos

« on: June 18, 2009, 09:31:46 PM »

This is an official Martin press release photo showing the XP6M-1 Seamaster with a very unusual wingload.
Also here: please don't believe what you see!!

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Combat Warplanes / Fake aircraft photos

« on: June 18, 2009, 01:56:15 PM »

With Photoshop it is now vey easy of course to 'edit' images and present photos that may be totally different from reality! However, long before Photoshop existed this also happened.
Attached two nice examples of 'reworked' photos:
-Original F-84A Thunderjet press release photo from Republic reworked by KLu Public Affairs to represent a Dutch plane.
-Photo of the XF-104 Starfighter prototype with J-65 engine, short fuselage and intakes without the shock wave cones. Luftwaffe markings are fake. Also wing-tip Sidewinders are fake.
Most of the times you can see it, but there are also some nice cases of 'perfect' forgery!

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Warplane Art / Re: Fairey Gannet

« on: June 13, 2009, 12:03:46 PM »

Power plant of the Gannet was an Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba driving contra-rotating propeller. One of the Double Mamba elements could be shut down in flight to save fuel with feathered propeller. I still have unbuilt the Dynavector 1/48 vacform kit with decals for Royal Navy or Kriegsmarine AS.1. Especially making the inverted gull wing looks challenging.
I assume this kit is now sold out and unavailable for many years!

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Combat Warplanes / Re: Aircraft photos

« on: June 11, 2009, 09:30:11 AM »

Site is run by Kees Hensen; one of my colleages from Aviodrome.

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Combat Warplanes / Re: Aircraft photos

« on: June 11, 2009, 12:29:58 AM »

Have you seen this:
http://www.aviation-top-pics.com/

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Market / Re: RAF Jaguar for sale

« on: June 04, 2009, 09:37:43 PM »

Price is a little but over my budget.
Anyway; it does not fit into my backyard!

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Market / Re: Junkers book!

« on: June 04, 2009, 12:02:27 PM »

Nearest Western Union office to collect your money is in Amsterdam and that is for me not very practical!

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Market / Re: Junkers book!

« on: June 03, 2009, 11:11:39 PM »

TNT handles regular mail in our country and, as a former state organisation, also regular mail to other countries. If sent, book would be normal airmail ('printed matter') without any special value. Book is softcover measuring 24 x 17 x 1.2 cm and that means it will easily fit in a standard air-bubble envelope.
Normally it should arrive in your mailbox without any additional charges!
For me direct cash payment in a sealed envelope is the easyest (no further transfer costs etc.).
It worked perfectly at sale out of old AIR ENTHUSIAST issues!

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Market / Re: Junkers book!

« on: June 03, 2009, 07:50:00 PM »

Javier,

Unfortunately I have problems with E-mail (I can receive mails, but not send). Option from my way is to send it by TNT courier (=normal post) as priority mail. I see no problems at customs since it it a package without much value.

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: The last kit I've found...

« on: May 18, 2009, 10:24:04 PM »

I still have unbuilt the 1/48 MPM limited editions of the Me-109T and the FW-190S two-seater.
Think they are more or less rare items by now!

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Jicehem's kits at Saint-Victoret on April, 26th, 2009.

« on: May 18, 2009, 11:40:09 AM »

Douglas Skynight must be a very exclusive model.
Is it a vacform?

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Combat Warplanes / Re: French jet fighter project

« on: May 07, 2009, 12:46:29 PM »

Also Flight reports on 17 June 1955 on this SNCASO fighter project with the publication of ta similar photo. Unfortunately no more details were given.
So it is definitely a SNCASO project, not related to the Nord Griffon!

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Market / Re: Junkers book!

« on: May 05, 2009, 04:49:03 PM »

Nobody interested in this quite rare first printing?
It is a real bargain for this price!

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Douglas XF4D-1, No 2

« on: May 01, 2009, 12:25:29 PM »

I also have a nice stock of unbuilt kits, but not so much as Jicehem: just a few hundred!
I am now slowly transferring my 1/48 scale models to the Aviodrome Museum!
I already calculated I have to die at age 124 when I want to complete all kits I still have.
And...........some of these kits are really old Frogs (yes, the mark, not the reptile...)!
I also have an original Aurora kit of the USS aircraft carrier Saratoga. I purchased it in the early seventies at a hobbyshop sale-out for just five guilders (which is now some EURO 2.20!) and I only bought it because it was so cheap! Think it is nowadays a collector's item!

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Warplane Art / Re: Morane Saulnier MS.406 C1

« on: April 28, 2009, 06:17:51 PM »

Morane fuselage was of welded steel tube. Rear fuselage was covered with fabric. Front fuselage with welded aluminium panels that fitted on the tubular frame. The Frence named this 'contreplaque aluminium'! Anyway, they could be easily removed from the plane! Fokker D-XXIII used the same. but here rear part was monocoque light-alloy construction!
Just before the war before the all-monocoque construction became routine, this 'contreplaque' technique was widely used.