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Combat Warplanes / Re: Le Bourget show in 1959...

« on: November 25, 2008, 06:55:47 PM »

My first visit to the Paris Airshow at Le Bourget was in 1965!
Atatched some shots from the latest types shown.......
I believe it was the only time the HP-115 was on display outside the UK.
B-58 Hustler bomber made a speed record flight from the US.
On the next event in 1967 the Hustler made a spectacular and fatal crash just outside the airfield premises.

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Warplane Art / Re: Hawker Hunter

« on: November 25, 2008, 04:55:54 PM »

See this!!!

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Combat Warplanes / Re: Old magazine cover photos (2)

« on: November 15, 2008, 10:05:33 PM »

Well, think I also must give a contribution!
How about this one?

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Warplane Art / Re: Dansk Fokker

« on: November 13, 2008, 10:00:39 AM »

Photo of J-42 gives excellent detail of the gun protuding from the gunpack and the opening for the spent cartridges. Note the small streamlined fairing in front of this opening!

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Warplane Art / Re: Dansk Fokker

« on: November 12, 2008, 06:19:13 PM »

Please, note:
-these pattern planes (J-41 and J-42) had the small bulgings on the engine cowling (see photos).
-Registration is in large lettering on the fuselage and not on the vertical fin in small lettering.
-Both aircraft have Fokker logo on tail.

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Warplane Art / Re: Dansk Fokker

« on: November 07, 2008, 12:02:23 PM »

Hope this will be of help!

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Warplane Art / Re: Dansk Fokker

« on: November 05, 2008, 06:32:46 PM »

Looks perfect!
Please, note that part of wheel spat was removed when the plane was used on muddy fields.
You gave this correctly in your profile drawing, but this was definitely not standard on all Danish D-XXI's.
And now? Will next profile be Danish D-XXI in alu scheme with underwing cannons?

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Convair XF-92A

« on: November 04, 2008, 10:15:15 PM »

My model also has no landing gear.
Even every surface detail is lacking! It is completely smooth...
I can remember the Skyray was also in the box of 'give-aways', but is was in a very poor state!
I still have not made up my mind what to do with this model.
I can leave it as it is, but I can also add surface detailing by scratching and add 'home-made' decals or decals from the left-over box.

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Warplane Art / Re: Dansk Fokker

« on: November 02, 2008, 10:05:48 PM »

And I forgot to mention the Danish planes missed the radio mast of the Dutch D-XXI.
Instead they had a loop antenna on top of the vertical tail in a small streamlined holder.

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Warplane Art / Re: Dansk Fokker

« on: November 02, 2008, 10:01:22 PM »

Very nice profile but:
-where is the underwing 20mm Madsen cannon?
-Engine cowling had cilinder bulgings for the rockerbox covers
-Only Dutch D-XXI's had telescope gunsight. Danish machines had simple ring + bead sight
-ALU scheme J-41 pattern plane even had no gunsight + armament at all (and a two-bladed prop!)
-But...pattern plane J-42 had all and a 3-bladed prop but WITHOUT the balancing weights for the pitch change mechanism

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Combat Warplanes / Re: NIMROD flight simulator

« on: November 01, 2008, 10:38:32 PM »

Price is not too high and I guess you already have a deal for EURO 40,000!
Simulator will stay for the time being at the Aviodrome although there are no direct plans to purchase it.
We also still have a DC-3, G-DAKK, at the platform that is for sale (EURO 175,000). It has not flown since a year but it can be made airworthy again without too much trouble....

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Combat Warplanes / NIMROD flight simulator

« on: October 31, 2008, 09:05:48 PM »

As a visitor of the Flight-simulator weekend of 1-2 November at the Dutch Aviodrome aviation theme museum a Nimrod flight simulator arrived this week. This flight simulator was used for crew training and it could do 'everything but flying'. The simulator dates from the late seventies and works completely according to the techniques of that time! The machine is fully operational and will be demonstrated over the weekend.

After this weekend it will stay for a while at the museum and it is for sale at EURO 50.000 (including transport lorry!).

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Warplane Art / Re: Fokker G.1

« on: October 27, 2008, 12:31:19 PM »

Yes. you are right, canopy framing still needs some correction and front engine cowlings shape is also not entirely correct.
For the rest this pencil darwing give a very nice impression of the famous Fokker G-1 and I really wish you the best with your oil-paint version! Please, note that the last insights on Dutch colour schemes is that the 'light sand' colour (as also used for the Fokker D-XXI!) is not correct. In reality it was 'light-beige' rather than light-brown and -interesting enough- a grey-type paint!
In fact the colour scheme of the G-1 model and the D-XXI replica as exhibited in the Militaire Luchtmachtmuseum (MLM) at Soesterberg will need correction on this point!

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Warplane Art / Re: Fokker G.1

« on: October 26, 2008, 03:24:12 PM »

This is the G-1 '301' photo apparently used for the pencil drawing.
As you can see the glass panels of the centre section range from large to much smaller!
The '301' was in fact the '302' with the last digit removed. So it flew for the photo session with registration  '30' and for some odd reason the last digit 1 was later (wrongly) added on the photo. Nose is non-standard colour; most likely just after repair work.
Note also absence of the telescope gunsight on the nose.

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Warplane Art / Re: Fokker G.1

« on: October 26, 2008, 11:07:52 AM »

Please, note that cockpit glazing is not entirely correct.
Clear panels at the rear section were much smaller (see 3-view drawings of the G-1).