My Library just grew again 2020

[PR19_Kit]

It's a beast.  Wouldn't so much have flown as blugeoned the air into submission.

Absolutely! With two Gyrons and two rocket motors the air wouldn't stand a chance!

Goodness knows how you'd model that shape though, it's not like ANYthing else!

[NARSES2]

Goodness knows how you'd model that shape though, it's not like ANYthing else!

One of the independent traders was marketing a few of the F.155T projects at Telford and then again at the London Show in December. I think they were in 1/48 but I'm not sure. I think the P.187 was included.

Thinking farther I'm not sure the guy at the London Show was the same as the one at Telford and a few others. Any recollection Nick ?

[Nick]

Goodness knows how you'd model that shape though, it's not like ANYthing else!

One of the independent traders was marketing a few of the F.155T projects at Telford and then again at the London Show in December. I think they were in 1/48 but I'm not sure. I think the P.187 was included.

Thinking farther I'm not sure the guy at the London Show was the same as the one at Telford and a few others. Any recollection Nick ?

I want to say it was Rikki Wolfe and his Lost British Projects but I couldn't be sure.

I don't think Mel of S&M had a F.155 kit but he does do things like the English Electric P.10 and the Avro 730.

[PR19_Kit]

David Hall's done one in /144, but then he is the SIG leader so he knows what he's at. 

And either he, or others in the SIG, have done all the other F.155T competitors as well, awesome stuff.

[Mossie]

It's a beast.  Wouldn't so much have flown as blugeoned the air into submission.

Absolutely! With two Gyrons and two rocket motors the air wouldn't stand a chance!

Goodness knows how you'd model that shape though, it's not like ANYthing else!

It's my favourite F.155T design, a big pub brawler.  Ugly, mean, powerful, you wouldn't want to cross it.  Proves that anything can fly with enough thrust!

The only way I can think to model it is a complete scratch build, the sections in the book would come in very handy.

[PR19_Kit]

I often wondered where they'd fly them from.

Is the Isle of Wight actually long enough for a runway for something THAT big? 

[Mossie]

I often wondered where they'd fly them from.

Is the Isle of Wight actually long enough for a runway for something THAT big? 

It was no coincidence that the M1 was opened shortly before F.155T was meant to enter service..... 

[Rheged]

I often wondered where they'd fly them from.

Is the Isle of Wight actually long enough for a runway for something THAT big? 

It was no coincidence that the M1 was opened shortly before F.155T was meant to enter service..... 

I was told by one of the design staff at Laing Construction in Carlisle(the builders of the M1) that they were given the height and wingspan of current and potential RAF aircraft and instructed that all bridges should allow these to pass under them.

[Gondor]

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I was told by one of the design staff at Laing Construction in Carlisle(the builders of the M1) that they were given the height and wingspan of current and potential RAF aircraft and instructed that all bridges should allow these to pass under them.

While in flight or on truck bead?

Gondor

[Rheged]

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I was told by one of the design staff at Laing Construction in Carlisle(the builders of the M1) that they were given the height and wingspan of current and potential RAF aircraft and instructed that all bridges should allow these to pass under them.

While in flight or on truck bead?

Gondor

Taxiing, prior to take off on one of the two mile straights that you can find on the UK motorway network.

[PR19_Kit]

If they used the M5 just south of Jct 12 they really would be on a runway.

The M5's built on top of Gloster's old Morton Valence airfield runway there.

[Weaver]

It's a beast.  Wouldn't so much have flown as blugeoned the air into submission.

Absolutely! With two Gyrons and two rocket motors the air wouldn't stand a chance!

Goodness knows how you'd model that shape though, it's not like ANYthing else!

FOUR rocket motors akchually....

[NARSES2]

A couple of Osprey New Vanguards from the publisher.

European Ironclads 1860-1880. I was intrigued whilst having a quick flick through how many survived through to the early 1900's and indeed a few were not decommissioned until the 1920's.

British Escort Carriers 1941-1945. Again a couple of interesting snippets from a quick glance. Firstly that with MAC ships being Merchant rather than Royal Navy vessels the trade union negotiated rules applied. This led to some interesting "issues" arising between the Royal and Merchant Navy personnel apparently 

Secondly some of the Royal Navy personnel assigned to MAC ships took to painting Merchant rather than Royal Navy above the serial number on their aircraft.  Land based officers were not particularly taken with this practice apparently, but it would make a lovely addition to a model Martlet or Swordfish. Throw a few JMN's when the photographic evidence was produced to support it 

[Hobbes]

Een eeuw marineluchtvaartdienst: 450 pages on the history of the Dutch Navy aviation service.

[PR19_Kit]

My copy of the Air Britain 'Under B-Conditions' book arrived today. 

It's AMAZING! 208 pages absolutely stuffed with information and pics. Apparently there is no official list of B reggies, so this book is it! 

And the scope for whiffers is massive, many of the reggies were used on more than one aircraft and for more than one manufacturer too, so confusion abounds.   

I can't find the reggie for the prototype PR19 in it yet, but I'm sure I will soon.