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    Thanks very much Farmer matt . Blimey , not been down that road ( a lot narrower btw) since about 1964 . I notice Mono Lane still exists in name ( From General Aircraft Monospar ) Me and Dad used ride bikes round there , buildings were still there about 1960 ( about 6 years old ) and he'd be giving me an aviation and car history lesson Hanworth Air Park / Aston Martin etc. ,I was soaking it up like a sponge and some of it stayed with me . !
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    Amazing . I lived in Feltham until I was 10 . Never heard of these Trams . The Union Construction Company tram factory must been in the industrial Estate / complex next Hanworth Air Park also housed Aston Martin, Lagonda and General Aircraft builders of Monospar, Hotspur and Hamilcar Gliders , Hawker Fury amongst a long list and the prototype Universal ( forerunner to Blackburn Beverley ) Built it in 1950 and then stripped down for trucking to Blackburns at Brough some redesign and developed in to the Beverley . All the industrial area got flattened in the 80s/90s and a Cinema/ Ben and Jerry's /KFC / Carpark type place now . Thanks for this build I've learned something new ,always a good thing . Looks very good so far . BTW it's pronounced Feltam , outsiders always say the TH sound .
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    Was going to say the exact same thing . Mass balance one side (weights ) , Horn balance , aerodynamic the other
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    How about earlier C-130 props ?
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    That's the best thing about it too . Not easy at all .
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    Kind of , not quite though , answered your own question and muddied the waters at the same time
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    Lots of studying the detail required to get to this . Sublime . Really is good . WELL DONE !!
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    It was converted from a DC-8-54F so yes using the DC-8-50 kit ,fuselage is the same length and same wing span
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    There were 2 different schemes for the 1st few years to at least 1962 on the DC-8 fin . Started off with NMF bottom half ,under the Red flag portion , That changed to White a few years after but CV990s remained NMF for some reason
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    It's a Monogram kit btw not Revell
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    I made this back in 1975 ish , forgot all about it . Great job . Do you remember a real "C" Cab , Nick Butler's Revenge with the Supercharged Rover V8 about 1976 ? Nick Butler's Revenge - https://kustomrama.com/wiki/Nick_Butler's_Revenge Was originally Metallic Green ,same Graphics
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    Love that one . Are you at Namao AFB ? Went through there July 82 in a RAF VC10 . Weekend trip .Goose Bay , Namao next day Cold Lake and then non-stop back to Brize Norton Great weekend
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    Try and find out what your bags fly in on .. Might be a new type for your list ! Your shreddies count as you flying by the seat of your pants !
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    You need this book . Peanuts on Amazon Railway Air Services: Amazon.co.uk: Stroud, John: 9780711017436: Books
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    Love it ,great work .Thanks for showing it off
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    I sure was Doh ! 😳 Well spotted Dave
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    All good and very clever open cabin display ... Are the engines on that kit too close to the fuse ? You shaved the prop tips but those 4 cowlings are hinged backwards , they are longer at 90 degrees than the prop tips and won't open completely and hit the fuselage - . Well done
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    Ours had a suction and pressure selector ,suck to empty the kite's tank ,pump to empty the truck . Before I got to Brize there was a story somebody connected up to a VC10 and selected pump instead of suck .. It was a bit messy and the bog door was open so it wasn't just confined to the toilet . We had Commer Karrier Bantams . Can't imagine a tipper honey truck or where they even tipped it , had strict dumping rules . We had tipper refuse Bantams though . It's more like a slurry btw mixed with Racasan . Hell of a subject I didn't think I'd be mentioning on a modelling forum .
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    That looks like plane on a check with air lines ( for air powered tools ) trailing everywhere .
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    It goes to G-AI til G-AM as Vikings and that doesn't count the Varsity or Valletta that came on to the Register after RAF service .
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    1920/ 30's Art Deco style seats in the late 1940s . We had Shorts ( of Sunderland fame) built seats on all the RAF Transport planes until the 80s very similar to those in shape .
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    I hadn't seen this thread before . Last night I transferred a big ish folder ,about 600 Gig of Soul music from one external HD to another in one big copy and paste with no problem . I've never had that size limit you pointed out and thats from using steam powered Windows 95 252 Mb RAM ! through 2000 ,vista and 7 .Now on 11 they might have been a lot slower like a whole day on 95 but they all transferred . I have had it when trying to transfer the entire folders with everything on it from an old laptop to the new one replacing it though .Not including programme files obviously .. . Backed up on 2 hard drives and looking at BT's Cloud storage next month , love belts and braces . Remember some bloke on Soulseek ,music file sharing site lost all his music ,gone . I'd die . Still got 800 ish LPs to remind me of happier times Can't believe the size of your music files .You must be going back to Nero , Live in Rome
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    Might be . They had shiny NMF .That one is dull alluminium like it's un loved or perhaps it was shot on the ground and showed reflections of people and vehicles so was touched up .
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    It's all a bit confusing given the 1951 date of the trip . I've been collecting postcards since I was nearly 4 and They didn't always keep up with colour scheme changes back in the late 50's / 1960s , and still give out postcards with the older look to save waste maybe or just slack staff . I got white fined BOAC Britannia and were were flying on a Brit 312 with the dark fin , 1st and only Dark fin 707 postcard ,flying on a Gold Speedbird 707 . BEA were probably like that and worse ,looking back .I remember BEA weren't very good with postcard releases or weren't put in the seat back pockets tight as a duck's wotsit and trying to get hold of them at their head offices and terminal ticket desks was like proverbial blood from a stone . They did the odd multi view "fleet card" , 2 in Peony and one Red Square so they could put on any plane and would match the one they were on . Even an aircraft cleaner that used to get me a lot postcards couldn't get hold of BEA cards very often . You mentioned 'HPK and that is a good idea but why mess with the photo ?
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    That's the correct BEA scheme for 1951 on that postcard when they took that trip and continued to 1953 at least on Vikings anyway .
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