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Good news! It looks like the kit producers decided to commemorate Wsiewołod Jakimiuk, main designer of the Chipmunk and the PZL P.11c Polish fighters! Just 30 years after his death we will have up to date 1/48 Chipmunk (Airfix) and PZL P.11c (Arma Hobby).

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Wsiewołod Jakimiuk, born 5th January 1902 in Kożyno near Bielsk Podlaski in Poland, died in September 1991 in Paris, was Polish airplane designer. After studies in Warsaw and Paris he started work in state-owned PZL factory in Warsaw in 1930, as a member of famous Zygmunt Puławski gull-winged fighters design team. After death of Puławski in air-accident in 1931 became head of the PZL fighters development, designing succesful PZL P.11 and PZL P.24 airplanes, exported to Romania, Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria. Later he designed PZL 44 Wicher commercial plane comparable with DC-2 and modern monoplane fighter PZL P.50 Jastrząb ("Hawk"). 1st September 1939 he was wounded during German bombing of the Warsaw Okęcie airbase and factory. Later that month Jakimiuk was evacuated with hundreds of other Polish aviation industry specialists through Romania to France, then to Britain, and finally in summer 1940 to Canada, where he works in De Havilland Canada on production of the Avro Anson, Harvard and Mosquito. In 1945 he becames head of the team designing the Chipmunk, then he works on the DHC-2 Beaver and DHC-3 Otter. In 1948 Jakimiuk goes to De Havilland in Hatfield and works on the Sea Venom design. After 1951 he works in France on SE 5000 Baroudeur jet fighter, Caravelle and Concorde. In 1972 retired. 

 

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On 07/01/2021 at 18:41, Ex-FAAWAFU said:

It even has an RN scheme out of the box; I can feel my first solo aircraft coming on!

 

At last the FAA gets some representation! I'm incredibly happy as Ive become enamoured with the FAA lately. I see the Navy Wings Chipmunk flying every so often :)

 

@GrzeM I had no idea he designed the P11 too! 

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11 hours ago, neilh said:

Fortunately I made it to the dispersal hut at Filton first on several trips so never decorated the interior in that shade.....

 

I can assure you I was not flavour of the day with the pilot or the ground crew! Went up in a Hercules from RAF Lyneham a couple of months later and threw up four times in that....in a sick bag (or two) luckily! 
 

My surname is Sidwell but after these two incidents I was rechristened by my fellow cadets and called Yakwell 🤮😂
 

 

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5 hours ago, jackroadkill said:

I'm so excited that I might have emitted a small "yip!" when I saw that they're issuing this kit! 

That's some restraint - when they introduced the Chippy on the range reveal video I was pumping my first in the air repeating "YES!" as though my team had scored in the final!

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6 hours ago, jackroadkill said:

This gives me the opportunity to mention once again those immortal words:

 

"Jump, jump, John!"

 

Words that every cadet of a certain age will remember! And for those that missed out, watch the video here.

 

 

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Forgotten link, well it is late!
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Maybe: you're a few years younger than me, but I think "too Australian" is more likely.  It's not a glamour type with war stories and people's connections to it are personal rather than through legend in the manner of the Spitfire and Mustang. The Chipmunk has always had a cult following where people actually encountered it, i.e. UK / Portugal / USA / Canada. But I don't think more than half a dozen ever made it to Oz and it had no cultural impact there as a result. In comparison Australia has always had a soft spot for its Tiger Moth derivatives because significant numbers of people in Australia actually encountered them

 

I suppose by the same token hardly anyone in Europe and the Americas ever really registered the existence of the Wackett and Winjeel, and much as I would like to get my hands on either in full size form it seems unlikely I will ever have the opportunity.

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3 hours ago, Calum said:

it's a yawn from me. Perhaps, at 51,  I'm to young to get the attraction 😁

Exactly the right age, possibly the wrong place😎.  At 51 you’re right in the cohort in the U.K.  to have flown Aeros in these.  WZ878, 11AEF in the plans now!

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On 09/01/2021 at 10:14, Riksbar said:

 WZ878, 11AEF in the plans now!

 

That's one of my possibilities too, I flew in it at my first summer camp at RAF Leeming in 1979!

 

WD373 of 2AEF was my first Chippie flight also in 1979, WP840 was my last in 1982 both with 2AEF at Hurn.

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"And suddenly, it's your turn."

 

WP833 of No.4 AEF Exeter in December 1984 for me.

 

Do you think somebody would be interested in doing a 1/48 figure set comprising an AEF pilot (seated) with a staff cadet standing on the wing, one cadet stepping onto the wing and another cadet walking away clutching a filled sick bag?

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Ahah, telepathy is a great gift - glad I published my Warpaint book on the Chipmunk - a vital companion for anyone that gets this new kit.

 

Interesting to compare this with the Aeroclub 1/48 injection kit of the Chipmunk, I have in my stash,

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It looks like al the proposed schemes for the kit are based on preserved airworthy examples. Still hope that someone will produce decal sets for more civil schemes (and forthe 48th Tiger Moth) as well as military.  RCAF ones will be fine but there are several airframe detail changes that need to be looked at to make a proper Canadian one.

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1 hour ago, Wez said:

 

That's one of my possibilities too, I flew in it at my first summer camp at RAF Leeming in 1979!

 

WD373 of 2AEF was my first Chippie flight also in 1979, WP840 in 1982 was my last in 1982 both with 2AEF at Hurn.

I flew in WD373.... from Hamble November 2nd 1969.  Being from the Horsham ATC we used to go there or Shoreham for our Chippie flights.  The others were (in date order):

10/03/68 WD346:3, Shoreham;   09/06/68 WG482: 12, Shoreham ; 01/08/68 WG458:P Coltishall; 06/10/68  WP855:15, Hamble;  17/11/68 WD346:3, Hamble,  22/06/69 WD346:3, Shoreham,  20/07/69 WK577:V Scampton; 02/11/69 WD373:1 Hamble; 20/09/70, WP852( could have been 832), Shoreham; 09/05/71 WK630:11 Shoreham; 05/08/71 WK627  Bicester; 10/06/72 WP832:4  Hamble; my very last flight in a military aeroplane!

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13 hours ago, wellsprop said:

 

 

@GrzeM I had no idea he designed the P11 too! 

Yes he did!!! Main designer of the whole gull-winged PZLs line was of course Zygmunt Puławski, but he died in a crash of his own privately-constructed little flying boat in 1931, and Jakimiuk took command of his design team, creating P.11 and P.24.

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Great to read that so many members on here will be buying and building this kit as a result of prior early day experiences on type. I recall someone mentioned this fact on here prior to this announcement, so its an obvious popular choice with many ‘middle aged’ modellers. Now an ‘Export’ boxing would also prove popular and hopefully one will appear later on with Irish Air Corp decals. With so many colour options possible, it’ll be hard to stop at just one. 
Cheers.. Dave 

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1 hour ago, Truro Model Builder said:

"And suddenly, it's your turn."

I can still feel the excitement when my name was called, and how hard it was not to let that show, because, after all, no big deal, eh?!  Then kung fu'ing yourself into the parachute for the world's most ridiculous waddle out across the pan.

 

I loved my time in the ATC and flying the Chippy was one of the very best aspects of being a member.

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I never flew in one and it’s certainly not glamorous, but it is certainly a type that was present at any airshow I ever attended through the 80’s and 90’s, so it still appeals to me. My only concern is someone saying that all decal options are privately owned preserved aircraft. Fly did that with their JP T5. Hopefully some aftermarket decals will appear, but it’s a shame that straight away you’re adding a tenner to the cost.

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Some interesting experiences recounted here. I just checked my father's Pilots Flying Log Book, he kept his hand in with 24 RFS out of Rochester which flew Tiger Moths and quite a few entries have Cadets names recorded in the 2nd pilot, pupil or passenger column. I was interested to see that in March 1952, then September, he flew in WB753 / 17 and WP809 / 18 at Rochester. Looks like a research project to see what markings the Chipmunk would have had and build the kit accordingly 👍

 

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22 minutes ago, Filler said:

it’s a shame that straight away you’re adding a tenner to the cost.

How can you say this? With so many built, and most of them having been in at least two completely different liveries, many in three or more, the chances of any individual one at a specific point in time being in the kit box were always negligible.

 

In any case at least three of the ones you're complaining about are exactly as they were in a point in their earlier service life.

 

 

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On 08/01/2021 at 11:34, neilh said:

Fortunately I made it to the dispersal hut at Filton first on several trips so never decorated the interior in that shade.....

I flew out of Filton with the ATC, around 79-81. 2238 sqn Warminster.

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11 hours ago, Harry Lime said:

 

Words that every cadet of a certain age will remember! And for those that missed out, watch the video here.

 

 

Brilliant, never seen that video before. We never got bone domes, they were reserved for pilots only!  I remember after my second flight (Linton-on-Ouse), when I took my parachute off there was a bit of a fuss. Turned out they'd given me the training 'chute by mistake, and it probably wouldn't have worked if I'd had to jump!   Our group was told before one of the flights that a couple of months before a Chippy was delayed before take-off, then as it was taxying out the engine exploded! Never found out whether this was true or they were just winding us up.

 

I will definitely be getting one of these, unfortunately I don't know which aircraft I flew in as my CCF CO "lost" my cadet log book, so I only have the replacement without any flights logged. Annoying. If anyone knows the aircraft used, I flew at Church Fenton, Linton-on-Ouse, Waddington and Odiham that I definitely remember, between 1970 to 1975.

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The beauty of the side by side arrangement of the Venture, Vigilant and Tutor is that the instructor could recognise the signs of an 'unwell' cadet BEFORE the cadet realised it himself. So we would try and get them back on the ground before the bag was used, Because believe me its not easy/pleasant flying an aircraft wreaking of vomit.

We were not always successful and any gathering of ex instructors in the bar will always have a conversation along the lines of "remember when that cadet threw up over the Adj". 🤣

 

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1 hour ago, Aeronut said:

The beauty of the side by side arrangement of the Venture, Vigilant and Tutor is that the instructor could recognise the signs of an 'unwell' cadet BEFORE the cadet realised it himself. So we would try and get them back on the ground before the bag was used, Because believe me its not easy/pleasant flying an aircraft wreaking of vomit.

We were not always successful and any gathering of ex instructors in the bar will always have a conversation along the lines of "remember when that cadet threw up over the Adj". 🤣

 

 

I did IGT and BGT on the Vigilant and one of my fellow cadets on the BGT course was known to be chronically susceptible to airsickness.  Until, that is, one of the instructors cured him instantly - by advising him to take a newspaper up with him and sit on it.  Said cadet did and, voila, was never airsick again, provided he flew with his newspaper.  Now, this is obviously a psychological "cure" but I was fascinated by it.  Did you ever come across this?

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6 hours ago, Rabbit Leader said:

Great to read that so many members on here will be buying and building this kit as a result of prior early day experiences on type. I recall someone mentioned this fact on here prior to this announcement, so its an obvious popular choice with many ‘middle aged’ modellers. Now an ‘Export’ boxing would also prove popular and hopefully one will appear later on with Irish Air Corp decals. With so many colour options possible, it’ll be hard to stop at just one. 
Cheers.. Dave 

Ive never seen one in real life but being a member here have grown fond of a few types. This, Beaufort, Hamden, Whitley, Auster and a few others. So I have added all of them to the future builds list. 

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