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  1. The Ercoupe is always interesting. What model do you have? Rudder pedals?
  2. Very nice indeed and I too have a soft spot for the type. At least the civilian 337 version. A friend of mine flew one and lost an engine on take off. He just landed thanks to the push pull layout. Twins at the time had a dangerous reputation. There was a period during take off when losing an engine meant loss of control and an inevitable crash. The 337 solved that problem, somewhat. There was a joke that in a single you crashed immediately after an engine failure, in a twin, you flew to an airport and crashed there. Cessna partially solved that problem.
  3. Nice builds, this time last year I was working at an airport and got a little excited when a Ryanair Max arrived. I chatted to the pilots about the differences but the they never mentioned the nose wheel. I loved the new aeroplane smell about the Max. Quite literally they were just delivered. People think airliners are boring but try standing on the ramp watching it taxy in and tell me they're boring.
  4. Wow, as a Corsair fanatique. That's tres beau.
  5. What's not to like? Everytime someone posts a Jug. I wonder why I haven't built one in ages. Particularly one as brilliantly made as that.
  6. I sort of knew someone would fall into that trap. 🤣 i kind of alluded to it by mentioning the chart which is an obvious modern CAA version. Interestingly I noted that the RAF memorial flight Spitfire crowbar is aluminium. But they are military, so different rules. Superfan or groupie, you're both. Brilliant work. I find RW382's history fascinating starting off as low back MkXVI and now an IX. I wonder if Airfix has an MkXVI in mind for a future release?
  7. Very nice indeed. I wonder if that makes you biggest fan of that particular warbird? 😀 I love the detail of the chart wedged into the crowbar.
  8. Unless you count the bottle of wine and pink lady apples in Tesco and the latest edition of Airfix magazine. Then it's the big box from Takom. As a primarily aircraft modeller who still loves AFVs, it's a big commitment.
  9. Meanwhile on this side of this pond we can now get 'American style' bacon. I like to wrap it around a chicken breast for dinner. Tasty! Texas has a pig problem. Texas has guns. I can see a solution.? We have a deer problem. But not so many guns. But you can get a hunting licence for culls. Venison anyone?
  10. They have, sort of:
  11. But none of this helps with bacon. It's all very amusing culturally but who does the best breakfast? In the English speaking world? Oh controversial.
  12. Yup, welcome to a different and better and richer country. We're more European. Although most so called foreigners are British who aren't actually foreign. A friend of mine from Africa said we were a country of opportunity. Like we thought of America. For us oldies that's strange
  13. It may be niche within niche but if your little vehicle is anything to go by, you have something to offer. Sometimes I wonder at our fascination with military vehicles because we're surrounded with interesting and fascinating equipment. I'll definitely follow your builds.
  14. CH53D and colin may be disappointed to hear, that while tea is still popular. Everyone does coffee in both Britain and Ireland. We've been continentalised. As I drive the boys to school every morning I see the queues outside the coffee shops.
  15. Great, but on the subject of white pudding there is no blood in it. Pork, maybe. Tesco use Turkey, well they're British. 🤔 In fact it's mostly oatmeal, a poor mans ingredient, some pork and some other ingredients. No blood. Black pudding is now an artisan food. My local supermarket is a battlefield of black puddings. Colin will be disappointed to know, I casually went to my local Tesco and bought Clonakilty Pudding. Sorry😃 There's a real danger that this thread will drift into a debate as to the best fried breakfast in Britain and Ireland. The full Irish the Ulster fry, full English. Scottish? Not sure about the Welsh. Sheep probably.🤔 I can add the full Zimbabwe. A few years ago me and an English friend got into his aeroplane and flew into Victoria Falls very early. We went to the 'Camp' and had a full Zimbabwe. Bacon, eggs, sauages, tomatoes. Home from home. No white pudding though.
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