Username: PlasticHero First Name: Alan Category: Intermediate Scale: 1/144 Model: F-14A with deck and fire engine and F-14D TomCaters Manufacturer: Dragon 4020 and 4559 Extras: None The plan is to have a F-14A and D, wings swept, and wings out for launch. I have one set of wings cut up and I'm mulling how to reattach the bits. As long as the top is about right, I'll be happy ..read more

I'm interested, how efficient the German night fighters were during the second half of WW2 in terms of combat sorties/kill, both claimed and estimated to actually happen. I've searched the internet pretty extensively, but I was not able to find any dependable data on it. I would also like to know, how those numbers compare to sorties/kill for the day fighters in the same period, for which I can find data about actual USAAF losses, but not for sorties flown by Luftwaffe. I'm interested mostly... Read more ..read more

Hey everyone, I need some help identifying this Bf-109 from JG 54, most likely 9th Group. Yellow 1, Green Heart and this weird yellow thingy at the end, whatever you call that^^ I was able to find Yellow 3, so I'm pretty sure its that, but I wasn't able to find Yellow 1. Planes aren't exactly my strong suit, so if anyone knows anything about this one, especially who piloted it, I'd appreciate it! Thanks in advance for any help ..read more

Hey all, Does anyone have or know of any reports or studies comparing the ballistics of the British HC bombs to their GP and MC counterparts? I ask because the shape of the HC bombs was not particularly aerodynamic and thus it would seem to me more difficult to aim accurately. The 4,000 lb and 8,000 lb HC were flat-ended cylinders with no tail fins of any kind, while the 2,000 lb HC was a long cylinder that had a tail consisting of a cylinder the same diameter as the bomb body which had... Read more ..read more

Home of the Canadian Harvard Aircraft Association. C-FGIR The work on warbirds is never done. This NA 64 Yale is getting close to being airworthy again. Cheers Jeff ..read more

so that other countries making the engines in the 1930s-40s don't feel neglected. So the French make HS 16Y instead of the 18Y, RR makes the Merlin-based H16 (or even the Buzzard-Griffon-based H16), Allison makes a V-1710-based H16, Chrysler makes a H-2200 instead of IV-2200, Napier makes one big & powerful H16 instead of Sabre etc. Cancel the other types that are getting in the way in the respective companies. There is no requirement for sleeve valves to be incorporated. Shortening... Read more ..read more

I've started reading the book "the Last Escaper" by "Cooler King" Peter Tunstall. He described his last flight before becoming the most irritating POW the Germans ever had. One night in 1940 they took off from Hemswell in their Hampden, with the objective of bombing the synthetic oil plant at Leipzig, 600 miles away. They flew the whole way at about 1000 ft AGL, peering through the clouds where possible to try to figure out where they were. Somewhere around the time they should have... Read more ..read more

I didn't know where to post something like this so this looks like a good place. As some may know from my dusty, recent posts, I had bought a motorhome with the intentions of living in it an traveling the country. That was until the transmission broke down last October. So we decided we would just stay where we are, buy a small travel trailer and head out for maybe two or three week flights. That was until this past April. I received a phone call from our landlords. They are selling the... Read more ..read more

An Ottoman supply train still resting where it was ambushed by Lawrence of Arabia 104 years ago on the Hejaz railway ..read more

Erich Hartmann was officially credited with 352 kills. We all know this, however primary Soviet sources prove that many of his victims never actually crashed and were repaired. So... Are the Soviet archives reliable? Yes people have found the serial number of multiple aircraft that were listed as lost, and then they found the wreckage in real life and the wreckage had the same serial number, so the archives are accurate. Of course, we can't find every single wreck, however since we have... Read more ..read more