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Little known Meteor type

Started by Aircav, January 18, 2010, 02:09:08 AM

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Aircav

January 18, 2010, 02:09:08 AM
"Subvert and convert" By Me  :-)

"Sophistication means complication, then escallation, cancellation and finally ruination."
Sir Sydney Camm

"Men do not stop playing because they grow old, they grow old because they stop playing" - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Vertical Airscrew SIG Leader

PR19_Kit

#1
January 18, 2010, 05:44:51 AM
Oh NO!  :banghead:

It's back again!

At least it's the full article, with the modelling bit, which is a saving grace.
Kit's Rule 1 ) Any aircraft can be improved by fitting longer wings, and/or a longer fuselage
Kit's Rule 2) The backstory can always be changed to suit the model

...and I'm not a closeted 'Take That' fan, I'm a REAL fan! :)

Regards
Kit

Aircav

#2
January 18, 2010, 10:51:31 AM
The kit that follows Kit about  ;D
"Subvert and convert" By Me  :-)

"Sophistication means complication, then escallation, cancellation and finally ruination."
Sir Sydney Camm

"Men do not stop playing because they grow old, they grow old because they stop playing" - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Vertical Airscrew SIG Leader

lancer

#3
January 19, 2010, 06:22:44 AM
That model seems to take great pleasure in taunting and haunting Kit dosen't it?
If you love, love without reservation; If you fight, fight without fear - THAT is the way of the warrior

If you go into battle knowing you will die, then you will live. If you go into battle hoping to live, then you will die

JayBee

#4
January 19, 2010, 06:56:35 AM
LoL! :rolleyes:
Alle kunst ist umsunst wenn ein engel auf das zundloch brunzt!!

Sic biscuitus disintegratum!

Cats are not real. 
They are just physical manifestations of collisions between enigma & conundrum particles.

Any aircraft can be improved by giving it a SHARKMOUTH!

PR19_Kit

#5
January 19, 2010, 02:59:28 PM
It's driving me NUTS!  :banghead:

Every time I think it's gone from the Net, or at least simmered down a bit, something else pops up about it. What with it being in the Harpoon 4 computer game and on the CIA's 'list of types' it's getting well bizarre by now. It wouldn't be so bad but it's SIXTEEN years old!
Kit's Rule 1 ) Any aircraft can be improved by fitting longer wings, and/or a longer fuselage
Kit's Rule 2) The backstory can always be changed to suit the model

...and I'm not a closeted 'Take That' fan, I'm a REAL fan! :)

Regards
Kit

Scooterman

#6
January 20, 2010, 06:19:16 AM
Quote from: PR19_Kit on January 19, 2010, 02:59:28 PM
It wouldn't be so bad but it's SIXTEEN years old!

Oh so it's time to build another one, Kit?   ;D
ducks for cover

PR19_Kit

#7
January 20, 2010, 09:32:21 AM
Quote from: Scooterman on January 20, 2010, 06:19:16 AM
Oh so it's time to build another one, Kit?   ;D
ducks for cover

I've been building the PR19b for about 10 years now, I even took the bare bones to the SIG meet at Coventry last year, but I've STILL made no progress on it. And there's the original PR19 to build too (the one I did make was the PR19a) for which I have all the parts, but not started it at all.  >:(
Kit's Rule 1 ) Any aircraft can be improved by fitting longer wings, and/or a longer fuselage
Kit's Rule 2) The backstory can always be changed to suit the model

...and I'm not a closeted 'Take That' fan, I'm a REAL fan! :)

Regards
Kit

Martin H

#8
January 20, 2010, 02:55:59 PM
Quote from: JayBee on January 19, 2010, 06:56:35 AM
LoL! :rolleyes:

I second that comment LOL

Serves you right Kit, that has got to be the ultimate back story. So realistic the CIA swallowed it as gospel truth.
I always hope for the best.
Unfortunately,
experience has taught me to expect the worst.

Size (of the stash) matters.

IPMS (UK) What if? SIG Leader.
IPMS (UK) Project Cancelled SIG Member.

lancer

#9
January 21, 2010, 09:25:13 AM
Quote from: Martin H on January 20, 2010, 02:55:59 PM
Quote from: JayBee on January 19, 2010, 06:56:35 AM
LoL! :rolleyes:

I second that comment LOL

Serves you right Kit, that has got to be the ultimate back story. So realistic the CIA swallowed it as gospel truth.

That tell's you just how good the story is and how gullible the C(not so)IA are!
If you love, love without reservation; If you fight, fight without fear - THAT is the way of the warrior

If you go into battle knowing you will die, then you will live. If you go into battle hoping to live, then you will die

jcf

#10
January 22, 2010, 10:59:02 AM
What CIA list?
Anyone have it?

Aircav

#11
January 22, 2010, 12:18:23 PM Last Edit: January 22, 2010, 12:32:45 PM by Aircav
"Subvert and convert" By Me  :-)

"Sophistication means complication, then escallation, cancellation and finally ruination."
Sir Sydney Camm

"Men do not stop playing because they grow old, they grow old because they stop playing" - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Vertical Airscrew SIG Leader

Martin H

#12
January 22, 2010, 03:26:45 PM
opps LOL
I always hope for the best.
Unfortunately,
experience has taught me to expect the worst.

Size (of the stash) matters.

IPMS (UK) What if? SIG Leader.
IPMS (UK) Project Cancelled SIG Member.

Martin H

#13
January 22, 2010, 03:37:40 PM Last Edit: January 22, 2010, 03:42:56 PM by Martin H
Quote from: joncarrfarrelly on January 22, 2010, 10:59:02 AM
What CIA list?
Anyone have it?

Kit tell's it better than any one else of course.

He got a phone call one night from a gent claiming to be a researcher at the CIA, putting togeather a list of the worlds intel/recon aircraft assets., old and new. And that he had found mention of a Meteor PR-19 on the web. But no offical documents could be found, and that a certain Mr K Spackman appeared to be the expert on the aircraft in question. It took a fair while to get the guy to understand that it only exsisted in 1/72nd scale and that the said model was sitting in a display case a few feet from where kit was sitting. Even thou the CIA were finaly happy that it was just fiction, the myth has taken on a life of its own on the web.......

All because some idiot posted up a copy of Kits original magazine article (as displayed in Steve's post at the start of this thread) but minus the build section, just the back story.................

I dont know about the rest of the world, but its become the most notorious what if? model in this country as a result.

Even the staff at the RAF Museum Cosford have heard of it. Every now and then they get the odd idiot turning up demanding to know were the PR-19 is displayed. So far its been there once, last years Shropshire model show. Kit was a little concerned that the Museum people wouldnt look to kindly on us if they found out that the cause of all their hassle was finaly on site.
I always hope for the best.
Unfortunately,
experience has taught me to expect the worst.

Size (of the stash) matters.

IPMS (UK) What if? SIG Leader.
IPMS (UK) Project Cancelled SIG Member.

PR19_Kit

#14
January 22, 2010, 05:45:37 PM
Almost...........

The guy who called me was a US Navy Lt. working at Langley with the CIA on some research project on PR assets worldwide. He'd read a paper by an American university professor that mentioned the PR19 (!) and had dug deeper at Langley. Apparently they had files on the aircraft somewhere and I'm in the files, thus the contact! Quite how he got my phone no. I'm not going to dig too deeply, but as Martin says he took SOME convincing that the darn thing only existed in 1/72 scale.

He kept on quoting me my own back story's dates about deployments etc. back at me, and I kept on saying 'Well yes, but that's exactly HOW I fitted the story into the real world history'. Viz the twelve missing NF14 serials, there really ARE twelve missing ones. And 13 Sqdn was in  two different places at the same time in 1956, and so it goes on.

Eventually he realised the awful truth but I'm not sure if he updated the files. As the two references above note, it keeps ON coming back at me. <sigh>
Kit's Rule 1 ) Any aircraft can be improved by fitting longer wings, and/or a longer fuselage
Kit's Rule 2) The backstory can always be changed to suit the model

...and I'm not a closeted 'Take That' fan, I'm a REAL fan! :)

Regards
Kit
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