Dave Swindell

Or High Planes https://www.scalemates.com/search.php?fkSECTION[]=Kits&q=Lockheed U-2 u2*&fkSCALENORMALISED[]="1:00072"&fkTYPENAME[]="Static model kits"&fkSUBJECT[]="Lockheed ER-2"&fkSUBJECT[]="Lockheed TR-1A"&fkSUBJECT[]="Lockheed TR-1A Dragon Lady"&fkSUBJECT[]="Lockheed U-2R Dragon Lady"&fkSUBJECT[]="Lockheed U-2S Dragon Lady"

Looks way too far up on tippy toes to me. All that narrow tube fixed framework at the top of the leg should be up inside the nacelle, and the top of the hinged thicker rubber block suspension tubes should fit snuggly into the cutouts in the bottom of the firewall. Those legs should sit much higher up in the nacelle, I'd suggest checking the location points before committing to glue

Yes, or to be more precise, the Westland-Hill Pterodactyls, and the program was killed off. The program wasn't killed by the Air Ministry, they were providing specifications and buying prototypes. He did indeed. There was a bit of nepotism going on at Westlands, Sir Ernest Petter, Teddy's father appointed him to the board as technical director over much more senior and experienced engineers, which ruffled a few feathers including Geoffrey Hill. One of Teddy's first decisions as technical director was to cancel the Pterodactyl program, which had the Pterodactyl VI in development as a front turreted fighter version of the rear turreted MkV, wind tunnel models of a 4 engined seaplane MKVII were being tested, and a proposal for a transatlantic airliner MkVIII was being worked on.

No, but you're getting closer in time frame....

1) almost certainly, better decals 2) they'll be cheaper than a Fujimi release 3) You can never have too many Phantoms

Sorry, no, not the aircraft, and I'm after who killed them Sorry, not the USAF Or Congress, and not the A10 either Indeed he did, but again, not what I'm looking for. A layman would call the aircraft's namesake a dinosaur, a paleontologist would argue it wasn't.

Thanks Seán, try this for size Who killed the dinosaurs?

There is a small panel there but it's circular. I'd suggest its either a paint repair (ie fresh Extra Dark Sea Grey) or fresh primer (so probably dull red or a medium grey, and going on the grey scale it's similar to the roundel centre so I'd err towards red)

Err, Keith, or Ferris??? Apart from them all being B-17G's I'm not finding a common link at all. different blocks, manufacturers, air forces, theatres, fates, mission tallies Keith Ferris panted a huge mural at the NASM featuring Thunder Bird and 3 other B17's, but not the 3 in question, I wondered if he'd done others that included them.

???Keith Ferris???

? B-17G 42-38047 Fever Beaver B-17G 42-38050 Thunderbird B-17G 42-38201 2nd Patches B-17G 43-37707 Madame Shoo Shoo ?

B-17E 41-2595 Desert Rat B-17G 42-38050 Thunderbird B-17G 42-31678 Little Patches B-17G 43-37707 Madame Shoo Shoo

Should've gone to Specsavers!

442 Sqn Royal Canadian Air Force

There's a 1:1 scale kit of a Beverley at Carlisle Airport at the moment Otherwise it's 1:72 - Contrail/Sanger vacform or Magna/Combat Kits Resin For the Whistling Wheelbarrow in 1:72 there's the old Airways vacform, Magna resin or the fairly recent Mach 2 injection moulded kit.