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lancer

#45
April 01, 2010, 03:19:45 PM
Quote from: dragon on April 01, 2010, 10:34:16 AM
So does that mean that we are not really a modelers' site, but really a TOP SECRET MAVERICK CIVILIAN THINK TANK? :blink:

Wait.  I will get back to you.  I must answer the door, there are two gentlemen dressed in black suits and ties and wearing sunglasses as well as a black helicopter circling overhead for some reason and raising quite a racket!
:lol: :cheers:

Shoot first, answer questions later... :wacko: :wacko:
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

PR19_Kit

#46
April 01, 2010, 03:29:47 PM
Quote from: Weaver on April 01, 2010, 04:30:27 AM
An "authoritative" report from the Missouri University of Science and Technology (page 12):

http://web.mst.edu/~rogersda/gis/Airborne%20Remote%20Sensing-1946-present.pdf

WHAT????

Oh no, here we go again...........

Anyway, who said there aren't any plans?  -_-
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

Weaver

#47
April 01, 2010, 04:28:23 PM
Quick! Somebody post them on a different website before Kit realises that he's just put the plans on the web!  :wacko: :wacko: :wacko:
"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot."
 - Sandman: A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Neil Gaiman

"I dunno, I'm making this up as I go."
 - Indiana Jones

PR19_Kit

#48
April 02, 2010, 03:03:49 AM Last Edit: July 05, 2014, 03:19:49 PM by PR19_Kit
CLICK!

Having re-read the whole thread, I wonder if that paper by the Missouri Prof was the one that triggered off the USN Lt. working at Langley to phone me?

Is there a scource date for that .pdf anywhere? There's no mention in the file itself, not even the name of the guy who produced it.

[Later] Ah, worked back through the URL and found that the author is one Dr. J David Rogers. I wonder if I should email him......?  -_- :wacko:

[Even later] It gets worse, the guy was in the USN himself, and served on carriers, flew in P-3s etc. Is he going to be PISSED when/if he finds out the awful truth........  :lol:
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

#49
April 02, 2010, 05:44:47 AM
Kit. The whole PR-19 story has to be writen up for the ipms mag 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.

PR19_Kit

#50
April 02, 2010, 08:25:34 AM
OGL,

Have they ever printed anything about Whiffs in there? Apart from the results of the Mushroom each year we do tend to be treated a bit like plastic lepers within the IPMS community, they're all too busy counting rivets or doing colour scans on Luftwaffe models......

But it's a great idea, I may do that. The only problem is, it will out of date before it gets printed!
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

dragon

#51
April 02, 2010, 10:07:38 AM
Quote from: PR19_Kit on April 02, 2010, 08:25:34 AM
OGL,

Have they ever printed anything about Whiffs in there? Apart from the results of the Mushroom each year we do tend to be treated a bit like plastic lepers within the IPMS community, they're all too busy counting rivets or doing colour scans on Luftwaffe models......

But it's a great idea, I may do that. The only problem is, it will out of date before it gets printed!
Actually, yes, at least in the IPMS USA Journal.  They had an article about an Italian Navy A1-H Skyraider.  I know for a fact that the IPMS USA Journal's Editor has built "Hypotheticals" (a whiff by any other name) in the past.
:cheers:
"As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefits of it?  It liberates you from convention."- from the novel WICKED by Gregory Maguire.
  
"I must really be crazy to be in a looney bin like this" - Jack Nicholson in the movie ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST

Aircav

#52
April 02, 2010, 10:13:51 AM
Quote from: PR19_Kit on April 02, 2010, 08:25:34 AM
OGL,

Have they ever printed anything about Whiffs in there? Apart from the results of the Mushroom each year we do tend to be treated a bit like plastic lepers within the IPMS community, they're all too busy counting rivets or doing colour scans on Luftwaffe models......

But it's a great idea, I may do that. The only problem is, it will out of date before it gets printed!

I like that, Plastic Lepers"  ;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

Martin H

#53
April 02, 2010, 12:19:12 PM
Quote from: PR19_Kit on April 02, 2010, 08:25:34 AM
OGL,

Have they ever printed anything about Whiffs in there? Apart from the results of the Mushroom each year we do tend to be treated a bit like plastic lepers within the IPMS community, they're all too busy counting rivets or doing colour scans on Luftwaffe models......

But it's a great idea, I may do that. The only problem is, it will out of date before it gets printed!

There's always a first time Kit LOL.  The powers that be within the IPMS(UK) have mellowed towards us in recent years. They have even taken one or two of our ideas on bord, like the bugler sounding the last post for the act of remembrance at SMW. (I claim a 50% share on that one with Rob Monfea)
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.

KJ_Lesnick

#54
November 09, 2010, 05:09:07 PM
While it does look very realistic, I amazed they actually thought that was a serious concept model :lol:
That being said, I'd like to remind everybody in a manner reminiscent of the SNL bit on Julian Assange, that no matter how I die: It was murder (even if there was a suicide note or a video of me peacefully dying in my sleep); should I be framed for a criminal offense or disappear, you know to blame.

dragon

#55
November 09, 2010, 05:55:23 PM
Quote from: Martin H on April 02, 2010, 05:44:47 AM
Kit. The whole PR-19 story has to be writen up for the ipms mag LOL

If I could get all the data about the entire story, I could write it for the IPMS USA magazine.......
They will be printing up my primer on "Whiffing" next week in the SVSM Newsletter.  I predict that it will be "cussed and discussed" and then "cussed" some more...Stay tuned.
"As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefits of it?  It liberates you from convention."- from the novel WICKED by Gregory Maguire.
  
"I must really be crazy to be in a looney bin like this" - Jack Nicholson in the movie ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST

Aircav

#56
November 09, 2010, 11:57:26 PM
"It's not dead it's just resting" 
Can't wait for the response.  ;) ;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

Hobbes

#57
November 10, 2010, 12:26:10 AM
QuoteThey will be printing up my primer on "Whiffing" next week in the SVSM Newsletter.

Dragon,

could I get the text of that primer? I'm planning to write an article on whiffing for the IPMS NL magazine and could use some ideas.

PR19_Kit

#58
November 10, 2010, 12:46:47 AM
Quote from: dragon on November 09, 2010, 05:55:23 PM
If I could get all the data about the entire story, I could write it for the IPMS USA magazine.......
They will be printing up my primer on "Whiffing" next week in the SVSM Newsletter.  I predict that it will be "cussed and discussed" and then "cussed" some more...Stay tuned.

Dragon,

How much data do you need? After Telford (3 days to go, agghhhhh!) I can get you anything you want on that front.  ;D
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

PR19_Kit

#59
November 10, 2010, 12:48:14 AM
Quote from: KJ_Lesnick on November 09, 2010, 05:09:07 PM
While it does look very realistic, I amazed they actually thought that was a serious concept model :lol:

KJ,

And why shouldn't it be? The same thinking worked fine for Kelly Johnson and Lockheed, so why not Armstrong Whitworth?
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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