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  1. I hope these might help: apologies for small image size but this was my first digital camera, circa 2001! First a view of the shock absorber, brake pack removed: Then this is the top end of the Main Gear bay, with the leg and screwjack removed; the hoist for removing the shock absorber is installed where the screwjack usually mounts vertically to the top of the shock absorber: LH gear, showing the transverse shaft that links forward and aft right-angle gearboxes to their respective screwjacks. One of the right-angle gearboxes: And another view of the track, with removal GSE installed and screwjack in situ. The 'window' (dark patch) next to the top of the screwjack was a panel that could be removed from inside the cabin to allow the screwjack to be disconnected from the drive in flight so that the landing gear could still be wound down in case of a system failure/jam up-stream: there was no excuse to land gear-up in a Herc. It was belt and braces and more braces and belts!
  2. Lovely work: I see that you have learned about SAC landing gears the hard way. They are a complete waste of money!!!!
  3. Blast from the past! Gakken was the manufacturer of this kit: RiKo (Richard Kohnstamm) was the importer, in the same way that Hales used to deal with Hasegawa etc.
  4. I thought I'd seen a model somewhere! IIRC it was painted the same grey as those early P-80s. Must have been built from the Sharkit version.
  5. I'm sure this must have been kitted before, being such an iconic milestone. But this looks like it will be nice!
  6. It used to be in the main museum with 'Calvin & Hobbs' graffiti. It looks to be over on the far side of the Conservation Centre now, away from the viewing gallery.
  7. Isn't there one of these at Bovington?
  8. VERY tempted, but the FH-1 also looks tempting. Having bought their X-3, I'm more than impressed by JETMADS.
  9. Those schematics are just that: for illustration purposes only. However from what I see of people doing 3D drawings from images, it shouldn't take much for an enterprising soul to project the photo schemes onto a corrected side view. With luck....
  10. I don't understand the issue with resin kits: I built my first back in the 1980s and haven't looked back. "Dreaded" superglue? Why exactly? As someone who built their first kit circa 1968, I can't wait for more of the same: age should not be a bar to change either.
  11. Serials under both wings (RH wing reading upright from the front; LH wing inverted) and no roundels under wings.
  12. What you describe is dihedral; it might not be much, but there it is. I have a Hastings SRM somewhere and will check what the official rigging angle is.
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