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One for you flying boatheads...

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retro_seventies

September 29, 2003, 05:03:18 PM
Blackburn B20

Bit of a nice "what if" section at the end too....
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Captain Canada

#1
September 29, 2003, 06:26:49 PM
That thing is cool....I've always been intrigued by the design. Looks wicked in the Coastal Command colours !

Toad
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Davey B

#2
October 09, 2003, 04:09:43 AM
Pretty cool, but I always preferred the Short Shetland myself  :wub:

There's a page of pics here: the Shetland Gallery

Dave  B)  

Aircav

#3
October 09, 2003, 05:17:47 AM
Hey, I just realised thats the same canopy as the Stirling.......Derrrrr!! :wacko:  
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#4
October 09, 2003, 10:31:51 AM
cor, she's lovely, in an ugly kinda way  :wub:  
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Aircav

#5
October 09, 2003, 11:12:10 AM
I wonder if I can get away with adding a boat lower half to a Stirling kit  :huh:  ;)  :rolleyes:  
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#6
October 09, 2003, 02:55:32 PM
jeez, she's a bit of a biffer....if she could throw javelins she'd be fatima whitbread.
"Computer games don't affect kids. I mean, if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." Kristin Wilson, Nintendo Inc, 1989.

Captain Canada

#7
October 09, 2003, 04:07:05 PM
That is pretty cool, Daveyboy...what is it, a big brother to the Sunderland ? Was it intended to replace it or somat ?

And do you know Bryan Ribbans of the Seawings site ?
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Davey B

#8
October 10, 2003, 03:28:09 AM
I think the Shetland was intended as a Mackem (or Sunderland, for anyone unfarmiliar with nicknames for English regions) replacement. She does look like a Stirling with boat bits, 'specially the wings and around the tail. Post-war, the MR versions were cancelled and Shorts tried to push for a transport version. This never got very far and the prototypes ended up testing engines for Napier.

I don't know Bryan Ribbans Toad, I just found the Seawings site on my many trawls through the 'net and thought it deserved a bit of exposure. Always happy to help... :D  

Aircav

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October 10, 2003, 07:58:25 AM
Quotejeez, she's a bit of a biffer....if she could throw javelins she'd be fatima whitbread.
Oooh!!, you are showing your age  :P  
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#10
October 10, 2003, 03:50:28 PM
i'm not THAT old...

its just that when i was a kid, fatima whitbread held near legendary biffer status, as well you know!

git.

:D
"Computer games don't affect kids. I mean, if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." Kristin Wilson, Nintendo Inc, 1989.

Captain Canada

#11
October 10, 2003, 04:06:18 PM
Biffer ? Is that like 'Swiffer ' ™ ?

Huh ? :huh:  
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nev

#12
October 10, 2003, 11:37:26 PM
Yet her Javelin throwing companion (Tessa Sanderson) was a babe!

Toad, a biffer is a large proportioned lady.
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lancer

#13
October 11, 2003, 01:30:53 PM
Quotejeez, she's a bit of a biffer....if she could throw javelins she'd be fatima whitbread.

Oh COME ON, that is truely insulting to the plane, it's WAY better looking that Fatima Whitbread, sleeker lines too.  And yeah, I agree Tessa Sanderson was gorgeous. just like Denise Lewis is today... :wub:  :wub:  :wub: . Come to think of it, Fatima could probably throw a proper Javelin as well, probably an FAW9..!!!!
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retro_seventies

#14
October 11, 2003, 03:03:24 PM
Tessa sanderson was GORGEOUS?

are you shitting me? i mean, possibly in COMPARISON (direct comparions i hasten to add) to "The Mighty Fatima" tm she's a bit easier on the eye, but my god man...she's hardly a nubian princess.  :blink:

now, katarina witt, THERE was a hot sporty lady, oh yes.  :wub:  :wub:

steffi graf always had a special place in my heart (and drawers) too - bit of a BOBFOC though, right? (body off baywatch, face off crimewatch).

Tessa?

Gorgeous?

craziness.  :ph34r:

"Computer games don't affect kids. I mean, if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." Kristin Wilson, Nintendo Inc, 1989.
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