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Combat Warplanes / Re: Osprey deck landing

« on: July 18, 2007, 09:53:31 PM »

Mmmmmmmmmmmfffffffffffffff........

And just think of it that the Fairey Rotodyne COULD have been operational at the British Navy some fifty years ago.
Those British must have done something terribly wrong................

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Mirage III C Eduard 1/48

« on: July 07, 2007, 09:49:39 PM »

Nice story on the Eduard 1/48 Mirage IIC!
I still have an old unbuild kit of the Mirage IIIC/B from Heller.
Believe it is already lying here for some 20 years or so! Interesting on this kit was that both single and dual seat version could be built!
Maybe a nice occasion to build it finally!

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Warplane Art / Re: Challenge- SeaHawk

« on: July 03, 2007, 07:27:53 PM »

Please, note that the Mk.50 for the Dutch MLD had as characteristic difference that it was fitted with a Philips UHF R/T equipment.
The aerial mast is unique for this version!!

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Warplane Art / Re: Challenge- SeaHawk

« on: July 01, 2007, 03:48:45 PM »

Just to give you some guidance: a colour shot of one of the Dutch MLD Seahawks.
'V' on the vertical tail surface meant it was based at Valkenburg naval air base near Rotterdam.

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Forums Works / Re: New Challenge: the Hawker SeaHawk!

« on: June 30, 2007, 09:37:52 PM »

Two weeks ago I found some very interesting original ink drawings of planes used by the Dutch naval flight service MLD (Marineluchtvaartdienst). These ink drawings originate from the early-mid fifties (some of them, however, must date even from the late fourties!) and they were all intended for illustration material in the technical handbooks.
One of these drawings was a 3/4 left view of the Hawker SeaHawk Mk.50. The illustrator did an excellent job with this drawing and the SeaHawk seems to be captured very well.
Now the challenge for the next month: use this basic drawing for your colour (or B&W, I don't mind!) artwork. I leave it completely up to you contestants how you fill this in. You may make a Photoshop colour illustration filling in colours and markings, but you are free to use ANY background you like. You are also free to use any illustration technique you want. So the landing deck of an aircraft carrier is OK, but you may also remove the undercarriage for an in-flight illustration as well; I don't mind! You are also not limited to use the colours of the Dutch version. Again, I don't mind. Even an illustration in purely fictive U.S. Navy markings (or any other markings) would be welcome as long as it looks good!
No. 1 will provide you on request with the full-size file of the basic drawing I mentioned.

And....lots of success!!

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Combat Warplanes / Re: Another aircraft quiz

« on: May 19, 2007, 09:31:12 PM »

I still have some doubts with that Latham 45! The photos on Internet that you find with Google do not seem to show the same plane!
This one has a different bow and a different cockpit!
Assume it has two engines in tandem, although this is also not clearly visible!

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Combat Warplanes / Re: Another aircraft quiz

« on: May 19, 2007, 09:18:17 PM »

I have already considered this earlier, but in the book I have on Lioré et Olivier from Gérard Hartman I cannot find any conclusive answer! The photo in this book shows quite a lot of differences like different bow, different engine installation......
Also the registration 'C°17' cannot be traced!

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Combat Warplanes / Re: Another aircraft quiz

« on: May 19, 2007, 06:15:43 PM »

Its is a French navy seaplane.
Maybe a CAMS, but I do not know which type!

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Combat Warplanes / Re: Another aircraft quiz

« on: May 19, 2007, 04:01:27 PM »

Here is another one from my collection!
All I can say is that this type was on display on a naval airshow at Kastrup, Denmark in 1927.
The photo was taken at Waalhaven, Rotterdam -The Netherlands when the plane was underway to Denmark.

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Combat Warplanes / Re: Warplane at your hometown

« on: March 28, 2007, 10:09:48 PM »

No. 1 - just buy it before it is finally scrapped!

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Combat Warplanes / Re: German jets in the UK

« on: March 25, 2007, 12:14:43 PM »

Arado Ar-234 was also captured by British troops. There is a story of two or three of this type flown from Germany to the UK (one by cpt. Eric Brown!). Also a German pilot made this ferry flight. Because of poor weather he had to make an emergency landing at Eelde airfield near Groningen in  the Netherlands on a strip still full of bomb craters. Miraculously he succeded to make a landing without damage. Dutch policemen promptly arrested him and it took a while before he was released. The Ar-234 remained at Eelde. A few years later, there was a proud announcement in the local newspapers that 'all nazi planes at Eelde were destroyed'............

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Forums Works / Re: New articles

« on: March 17, 2007, 02:08:08 PM »

Srecko,

I can only help you in the Pucara with a shot taken many years ago at the RAF museum in Cosford UK.

Nico

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Combat Warplanes / Re: They lost war

« on: March 09, 2007, 12:44:05 PM »

Maybe No. 1 already has this shot, but here is the Ju-352 in USSR markings after the war.
Plane was used by the CSSR air force as far as I know.......

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Warplane Art / Re: Dewoitine D520

« on: February 09, 2007, 01:35:35 PM »

Here is a shot of the D.520 in Luftwaffe markings.
Santo, the high-res D.520 profiles are underwag by E-mail!

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Warplane Art / Re: Dewoitine D520

« on: February 08, 2007, 05:03:29 PM »

Here is some more D.520 stuff:
A picture I made in 1985 at the La-Ferté-Alais airshow and two pages with b&w profiles from a leaflet of an old 1/48 Gull Wing  vacform kit I ever built many years ago.