Planes
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Metal by the time of the "Battle of Britain". Flight controls were still fabric I think. Fuselage was timber stringers covered in doped linen. Took about 2/3 of the amount of time to build as a spitfire. 10,000 hour off the top of my head.
Can well believe it. Just building a Guillows Spitfire balsa & tissue kit and the elliptical wings - groundbreaking for their time - are a real bitch to cover properly.
Bloody nightmare.
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@Machpants said in Planes:
Crazy cloggy!
Certainly crazy - if you are going to steal a plane why the fuck would you take a Grumman tracker?
Confirm mental unfitness?
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@Victor-Meldrew I'm sorry but that's not gonna fly.
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@Victor-Meldrew I'm sorry but that's not gonna fly.
As someone once said to Wilbur Wright
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Planes:
@Victor-Meldrew I'm sorry but that's not gonna fly.
As someone once said to Wilbur Wright
This guy arguably did it first. But in true kiwi style didn't make a deal out of it so he is a footnote instead of the main man
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Planes:
@Victor-Meldrew I'm sorry but that's not gonna fly.
As someone once said to Wilbur Wright
This guy arguably did it first. But in true kiwi style didn't make a deal out of it so he is a footnote instead of the main man
Well I didn't know this about him:
"Late in life he became bitter and paranoid and was admitted to a mental hospital in 1951, where he remained until his death."Nor that his nickname was "bamboo Dick", which is a bit unfortunate these days.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Planes:
@Victor-Meldrew I'm sorry but that's not gonna fly.
As someone once said to Wilbur Wright
This guy arguably did it first. But in true kiwi style didn't make a deal out of it so he is a footnote instead of the main man
Well I didn't know this about him:
"Late in life he became bitter and paranoid and was admitted to a mental hospital in 1951, where he remained until his death."Nor that his nickname was "bamboo Dick", which is a bit unfortunate these days.
That's the thing about nicknames, they can stick forever. Reminds of 9 year old CF Jnr wanting to change his fortnite handle to 'one pump' because of his lethal ability with a shotgun. I advised him not to because (none of the chicks want a guy named one pump) just because
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Planes:
Such a beautiful plane. Even now
Sounds great too with that Merlin engine.
The Fokker Tri-PLane is probably my favourite plane of all time. Just something about it.
The guy most famous for flying it was pretty good too.
It had an unfortunate habit of the wings falling off though.