Very cool.

Nice! 

Things were so much easier many, many years ago when as small kids we could just stick a bomb onto the underside of an Airfix Wildcat and call it a dive bomber, the innocence of youth 

I do like where this is going 

Quote from: NARSES2 on April 13, 2024, 04:35:36 AMThings were so much easier many, many years ago when as small kids we could just stick a bomb onto the underside of an Airfix Wildcat and call it a dive bomber, the innocence of youth 

I do like where this is going 

Ah yes, we didn't worry about how the internal structure would be affected and stuff like that: "they" (the designers) would have figured all that out anyway! 

I was mainly worried about whether there is enough space for a bomb between the ground or deck and the belly of the Wildcat.

Quote from: perttime on April 13, 2024, 09:57:57 AMI was mainly worried about whether there is enough space for a bomb between the ground or deck and the belly of the Wildcat.

Definitely! It's something to check up on before going too far 

Quote from: perttime on April 13, 2024, 09:57:57 AMI was mainly worried about whether there is enough space for a bomb between the ground or deck and the belly of the Wildcat.

Especially with the landing gear in the compressed (touch-down) configuration.

In wartime it was common practice to drop any unused ordnance as an extra safety precaution but peacetime operations sometimes saw aircraft return & land with their weapons loads.

Then there's the terrifying "failure to deploy", where the crew tried to drop the bomb(s) but they didn't fall off.

Quote from: Old Wombat on April 14, 2024, 05:11:06 AMThen there's the terrifying "failure to deploy", where the crew tried to drop the bomb(s) but they didn't fall off.

At least when they wanted them to... 

Quote from: Rick Lowe on April 16, 2024, 10:44:38 PM

Quote from: Old Wombat on April 14, 2024, 05:11:06 AMThen there's the terrifying "failure to deploy", where the crew tried to drop the bomb(s) but they didn't fall off.

At least when they wanted them to... 

In a book about the Dambusters (617 Squadron) the author tells of a time when a Tallboy (6 ton bomb) that had just been loaded into a Lancaster somehow released and landed on the hard-standing under the aircraft.  The whole aircraft bounced on its undercarriage, and someone then yelled that the bomb might have fused itself.  Then followed the quickest mass exit from a Lanc that anyone had ever seen!  The armaments officer jumped into a van and roared off to tell the squadron CO, and swears that he was passed by a terrified mechanic on a push-bike. 

Can't really blame him ...

Quote from: Scotaidh on April 20, 2024, 02:22:34 AM

Quote from: Rick Lowe on April 16, 2024, 10:44:38 PM

Quote from: Old Wombat on April 14, 2024, 05:11:06 AMThen there's the terrifying "failure to deploy", where the crew tried to drop the bomb(s) but they didn't fall off.

At least when they wanted them to... 

In a book about the Dambusters (617 Squadron) the author tells of a time when a Tallboy (6 ton bomb) that had just been loaded into a Lancaster somehow released and landed on the hard-standing under the aircraft.  The whole aircraft bounced on its undercarriage, and someone then yelled that the bomb might have fused itself.  Then followed the quickest mass exit from a Lanc that anyone had ever seen!  The armaments officer jumped into a van and roared off to tell the squadron CO, and swears that he was passed by a terrified mechanic on a push-bike. 

Can't really blame him ...

That tale is related in Paul Brickhill's The Dam Busters.

Quote from: Scotaidh on April 20, 2024, 02:22:34 AMIn a book about the Dambusters (617 Squadron) the author tells of a time when a Tallboy (6 ton bomb) that had just been loaded into a Lancaster somehow released and landed on the hard-standing under the aircraft.  The whole aircraft bounced on its undercarriage, and someone then yelled that the bomb might have fused itself.  Then followed the quickest mass exit from a Lanc that anyone had ever seen!  The armaments officer jumped into a van and roared off to tell the squadron CO, and swears that he was passed by a terrified mechanic on a push-bike. 

Can't really blame him ...

 

Wouldn't the bomb have had to drop through a couple of thousand feet for it to arm ? Mind you even if it had to have I'd of still scarpered just in case 

Quote from: Scotaidh on April 20, 2024, 02:22:34 AMIn a book about the Dambusters (617 Squadron) the author tells of a time when a Tallboy (6 ton bomb) that had just been loaded into a Lancaster somehow released and landed on the hard-standing under the aircraft.  The whole aircraft bounced on its undercarriage, and someone then yelled that the bomb might have fused itself.  Then followed the quickest mass exit from a Lanc that anyone had ever seen!  The armaments officer jumped into a van and roared off to tell the squadron CO, and swears that he was passed by a terrified mechanic on a push-bike. 

Can't really blame him ...

As has been stated elsewhere:
"An Ordnance Disposal Tech at a dead run outranks everyone!"

A was going to be that became a Whif, RN
Bell HSL-1.
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Quote from: jcf on May 29, 2024, 07:34:56 PMA was going to be that became a Whif, RN
Bell HSL-1.

Originally 2'6, now on ebay for 8.99 on ebay. I'm guessing that, given inflation since 1955, it's probably a wash.   





And Anigrand did one in 1/72nd. Hmmm...  https://www.anigrand.com/AA2043_XHSL-1.htm

They got the colour scheme completely wrong!



did this some years ago. Anigrand 1/144 kit.

TomZ