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Looks a really great kit ... for those that really want to build yet another Bf-109, which we already have in scales up to 1/18th. Regret for me the subject matter is disappointing with no innovation or imagination. We have kits of Spitfires, Hurricanes, Bf-109s and F-16s up to our ears! I really thought a 1/24th BAe Hawk would have been much better even for the US market - no swastika issues either! Oh well, roll on 2026's announcement?

I took lots of air-to-air photos from Sek Kong with the Wessexes and Scouts. Also with the RHKAAF when they were there on camp in June 80. 660 Sqn. put me up in Scout for air-to-air photos of the Tiger Moth there - wonderful times!

PLEASE - no more WW2 fighters as we are swamped with them in kit form! Time to move on - maybe a Red Arrows Hawk?

Small world - I was in JATC on Hong Kong Island. Loved tasking a Scout or Wessex to pick me up from HMS Tamar!

Mine will also be 28 Sqn as I flew in the whole fleet when I was with the RAF in Hong Kong 1979-81.

Modeldecal Sheet 95 have the 28 Sqn badges correctly facing forward on both sides, but I think Xtradecal X72358 have also got them wrong, facing left!

$135.00 = £100 - far too expensive!! I bought a Planet Models 1/48th DH85 Leopard Moth kit from Hannants for £35 and thought that was expensive at the time.

That's sad! So many requests for an Auster AOP.9 kit. Gary has just messaged me that it has indeed been abandoned!

Just superb! I have two of these in my stash and hope I can do them justice also.

So, over three years later, where is it??

Has anyone heard from Pat Martin in Canada, author, photographer and modeller? Have not seen any posts from him for some time and one report said he has had a stroke?

The 'Jersey Airlines' titles on the wings were not applied to the tops of both wings but 'above port' and 'below starboard' wings.

First AAIB report has revealed the caused being a total electrical failure that shut down both engines. Apparently this aircraft had already electrical problems on its previous flights that were flagged up but not corrected. The system was arcing caused by water from an earlier torrential rain storm getting into the system and creating a short circuit.

Does anyone know how close is the flaps lever to the undercarriage raising/lowering lever? As the aircraft didn't appear to raise its undercarriage, could the flaps lever have been accidentally selected instead of raising the undercarriage?

Was it you that was asking about this on Facebook and I uploaded a couple of photos of the pods? I would guess they were about 4ft long.