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noelh

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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.
  16. Small world! I guess we did overlap, you must have been one of those snotty nosed recruits we in No 1 platoon used to take the p out of. In fact while I bought myself out in '85, I thought. But I needed discharge papers for my US Green Card in '89. I went to Collins barracks where I met yet another D Coy comrade. He checked and told I was still on the books! I think I'm due a long service medal.😃 Poor Mick Doheny, nice guy. He's not the only old soldier who has 'faded' away. I've lost touch with many of them but our comrades in our little 'Regiment of Pearse' scattered everywhere after service. Many went onto uniformed careers. Foreign Legion, PDF, ARW and rumoured SAS? ,several pilots the Paras and other British regiments, including the Irish Guards. In fact one of our sergeants was ex Irish Guards. A later one of ours was killed in Iraq serving in the Guards. Sadly the Pearse is no more, merged into the 5th Battalion. Did you do a border camp? I did a couple in Monaghan and the the locals were nearly as hostile to us as they were to the BA. I still have my uniform, ready to serve! So I obviously have the patch. I could send a HD photo? I also have the infantry collar badges. I'll be keeping them them though.
  17. That must have been exciting to see. Not something any Swede might have imagined not so long ago. As for the vapour, I would guess it's a vortex as often seen airliners but only on one wing for some reason.
  18. I just finished re-reading 1812, Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow by Adam Zamosky. It's a great read of an incredible campaign and disaster. What is even more interesting is that still echoes down the centuries. Europe was largely united under Napoleon whether they liked it or not. The Grand armee was very much a multinational force. Britain stood apart and the Russians were paranoid about the 'west' and it's intentions. Some things never change. I'm now re-reading Gann's, Fate is the Hunter. It's a great read and a wonderful evocation of an era never to be repeated. Being a pilot these days just isn't the same.
  19. The won't send pudding or sausages to the US but several companies do care packages of Irish staples. As it happens I'm feeling hungry now. Time for brunch. I bought some premium dry cured rashers yesterday. Bacon sandwich coming up. I like your Avatar, philly. I served six years in D Coy, 20th Batt, 'The Pearse' from '78 to '84. When were you in, that's the early patch?
  20. It's a fascinating little time capsule. Great to see it in colour. I had no trouble watching it and I don't live in the UK. I live in Ireland. It was the same with the Bristol film in other thread. I watched it on my android phone. Could that be the answer? Or is there an error on their part? Edit, try clicking the 'watch for free' button repeatedly. Again that's on my phone. It plays eventually. Ssh don't tell me the BFI.
  21. Yes that's correct and indeed the unexploded mine the Germans captured was in primer. But it's also recorded that some were painted under orders by some Captains. I honestly think the band colour thing was later. But don't quote me. I would go with primer unless otherwise described.
  22. Due out soon, a bio of Brendan Finucane the RAF ace. Could be interesting.
  23. Somehow I missed this last year. A very nice build of the old Shawnee. Years ago l worked in an MRO in Dublin. The local Pratt and Whitney rep was a loquacious Texan, Texans always tell you they're Texan in case you mistake them for an ordinary American. Anyway he served in the army. One day his job was to connect some cargo to a flying Shawnee when the pilot got it all wrong and landed on top of him. Even all those years later he was quite annoyed. 🤣 It stuck in my mind and I always fancied building a Shawnee. Great job.
  24. Nice, reminds of a long dead work colleague who was aircrew on the Belvedere in Borneo during the confrontation with Indonesia. Ian had some great stories. We spent far too much time chatting rather than working.
  25. They look great. A proper tribute to your Dad. The pictures are actually very atmospheric and I love your story about the other T34. When my Dad died, he wasn't a pilot and he never flew with me. But shortly after he died suddenly, I took him virtually with me in a rather more prosaic Cessna 152. I had always wanted to fly with him. I think we all want our Dad to be proud of us. So I was sorry I never got the chance to fly with him. I did carry him on the back of my motorbike once. I was very careful but it spooked him. Thanks for the nostalgic moment. That's what modelling is about.
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