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Admiral Puff

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  1. Oh yes! I became addicted to that after I picked up a bottle at Auckland Airport when last over there - WONDERFUL stuff!
  2. but meant something different (Tzulscha, if I'd gone into detail I'd have earned a FLOCK of penguins ...)
  3. I'm lucky - I get my bacon from the local smallgoods shop, which cures its own, and it's BRILLIANT! Thus I'm with Hairystick on this. I do prefer wholegrain bread, though. If you're not so fortunate, and have to make do with the cryovac-ed, plastic-encased rubbish from the supermarket, you probably need something to give it some taste. Otherwise, just add bacon ...
  4. Monarch of all she surveys ...
  5. Have a look at the Wingnut Wings web site - the instructions from their SE.5 kit should be there. I don't have the kit, but if the instructions are up to the usual WNW standard there should be some useful information there.
  6. or Australia, depending on
  7. not there, like Macavity
  8. marriage licenses, drivers' licenses
  9. stumbling, as usual, towards
  10. when the Highway Patrol knocks
  11. all incriminating evidence destroyed
  12. The RAAF had three Princes - A90-1, -2 and -3. All arrived in Australia in early 1952 and were taken on charge by 34 Sqn, mainly for communications work in and out of Woomera. A90-1 was also used by ARDU at Laverton during 1953. The Prince did not take kindly to the operating conditions out here, and all three suffered various mechanical failures which left them unserviceable for long periods. They were not the RAAF's favouritest type, and all had been WFS by the end of 1957. I can't give you a definite answer to your question, but given the use to which they were put whilst they were in service it's a fair bet to presume that they all had some kind of passenger interior rather than being simply painted metal.
  13. for purely medicinal purposes
  14. and now, as always (Boag's Brewery - Tasmania's oldest. However, my bad - Forty Lashes is from the James Squire Brewery in Sydney ...)
  15. or even Mister Boag (Australians, and particularly Tasmanians, will know ...)
  16. If the 1:72 one ever sees the light of day, they've got me. The 340 is by no standard a big aeroplane, and (nostalgia aside) in 1:288 it would be almost invisible; in 1:144 barely so. 1:72 is more than manageable. Plenty of "VH-" schemes, too - Hazelton, Kendall, Vincent (even if they went belly-up just after they started using Saabs), REX ...
  17. Only one colour for one of them - black, with gold John Player details. We had at least one over here for a while. "Gentleman Jum" (Jim Richards, who was a Kiwi) peddled it with more than a modicum of success. Always looked, and sounded, spectacular!
  18. who desperately needs it (@busnproplinerfan: "There's a man in the funny papers we all know ...")
  19. Definitely has Airfix in its ancestry! Even looks to have the same problems-that-should-not-have-been: no escape hatch over the cockpit, no trim tab on the starboard aileron. Not a deal breaker - I'll have at least one, regardless. I see from the web site, though, that it's "Sold Out" - does this have its normal English meaning, or does it just mean that they're not selling it yet? And a Spectrem conversion would, to quote Kylie Mole, be "rooly excellent"!
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