Inspiration

[loupgarou]

Someone obviously told Micro Mir we had a GB coming up 

https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MM72-012

Pretty! 
Looks nearly like a Bloch 210, a possible inspiration.

[Weaver]

Well, that'd fix all those fly over states... 

It'd spoil a lot of songs though:

"Well West Coast girls are ..."

"Ah excuse me?"

"What?"

"Which West Coast exactly?"

[Weaver]

Someone obviously told Micro Mir we had a GB coming up 

https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MM72-012

not to forget the open-air version

https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MM72-010

Presumably the forward of the two dorsal gunners was the Political Officer who's job was to shoot the pilots if they flew away from the enemy...

[rickshaw]

Someone obviously told Micro Mir we had a GB coming up 

https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MM72-012

not to forget the open-air version

https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MM72-010

Presumably the forward of the two dorsal gunners was the Political Officer who's job was to shoot the pilots if they flew away from the enemy...

No! No! No!  That would deter them from advancing!  The REAR gunner, behind them is prepared to shoot them all in the back if they refuse to fly forward!   

[Weaver]

Someone obviously told Micro Mir we had a GB coming up 

https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MM72-012

not to forget the open-air version

https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MM72-010

Presumably the forward of the two dorsal gunners was the Political Officer who's job was to shoot the pilots if they flew away from the enemy...

No! No! No!  That would deter them from advancing!  The REAR gunner, behind them is prepared to shoot them all in the back if they refuse to fly forward!   

Think you're misunderstanding me. There are a total of THREE 'upper surface' gunners, but I was talking about this guy:



Having said that, thanks for starting a debate about who's job it is to shoot the pilot: it's a pretty perfect metaphor for Communism in general....

[rickshaw]

Nyet!  Nyet!  It must be the rear most gunner who shoots the rest of the crew when they fail in their revolutionary duties!   

[zenrat]

You lot obviously all need a trip to the re-education camp.
It is quite clearly the job of anyone who has any suspicion that a fellow crew member may be failing in their duties to the people to form a committee to decide who shoots the pilot.

[PR19_Kit]

If I was the pilot I'd bail out and THEN see what they do with their committee............... 

[Old Wombat]

Political Officers all lead from the rear to encourage appropriate revolutionary zeal!

They must also ensure that they are the only person with a parachute, as it is their duty to survive to report on the heroic sacrifices of their comrades!


Seriously, you lot all need to be re-re-educated!

[NARSES2]

Seriously, you lot all need to be re-re-educated!

Don't know about that, but have you seen the size of that torpedo ? Either the crew are midgets or it's ..........

[rickshaw]

Seriously, you lot all need to be re-re-educated!

Don't know about that, but have you seen the size of that torpedo ? Either the crew are midgets or it's ..........

Is Tsar Torpedo!  Is designed to protect the shores of the Rodina from the Capitalist military-industrial complex sea pirates who seek to attack it!   

[Old Wombat]

Seriously, you lot all need to be re-re-educated!

Don't know about that, but have you seen the size of that torpedo ? Either the crew are midgets or it's ..........

Is Tsar Torpedo!  Is designed to protect the shores of the Rodina from the Capitalist military-industrial complex sea pirates who seek to attack it!   

Da, tovarishch!

Видеть! Товарищ рикша показал истинное понимание научной социалистической революционной оборонительной военной доктрины! Да здравствует Родина!



(Tranlate for foreign comrades of socialist revolution: Videt'! Tovarishch riksha pokazal istinnoye ponimaniye nauchnoy sotsialisticheskoy revolyutsionnoy oboronitel'noy voyennoy doktriny! Da zdravstvuyet Rodina!)
(Translate for capitalist pig-dogs & vulgar lackies: See! Comrade rickshaw has shown true understanding of scientific socialist revolutionary defensive military doctrine! Long live the Motherland!)

[jcf]

Seriously, you lot all need to be re-re-educated!

Don't know about that, but have you seen the size of that torpedo ? Either the crew are midgets or it's ..........

The Hall XPTBH was designed for the US with requirement that it
carry a standard USN torpedo of the type carried on destroyers.

[PR19_Kit]

Those are big 'ole floats! 

[seadude]

I have yet to see anybody build a C-130 Hercules amphibian plane.  I always hear and read about this from time to time in books and elsewhere, but never see anybody make a model.
http://www.c-130hercules.net/reference-info/articles/a-c-130-hercules-amphibian-makes-too-much-sense-to-be-true-r4/