My Library just grew again 2020

[loupgarou]

Postie dropped of

American Secret Projects 3: U.S. Airlifters since 1962

Yummy.... going to photocopy and scale to 1/144 a few pages

Gondor

Thanks for having reminded me of that book.
I havejust ordered it from book depo, with a big discount too! 

[PR19_Kit]

My copy of American Secret Projects 3: U.S. Airlifters since 1962 just arrived. 

A quick pass through reveals most of the aircraft in there are awesomely HUGE, and would be difficult to model in 1/72 if only because of the lack of space I'd have to store them!

One is a total Tophe Special, it uses TWO B-52 fuselages and landing gear side by side, with a massive parasol wing a long way above them in order to carry and launch space shuttles! 

[jcf]

Another for American Secret Projects 3.  Chock full of tubby wonders. 

I have my eyes on the Boeing C-5 at some point and even have kits put aside for it as well.

Gondor

Back in '98 a local comic books/collectibles/junk shop had a portfolio of Boeing C-5 artwork,
I don't recall the exact number of prints but it was more than ten, they were about 18 X 20
inches. He was asking $120.00 for the lot. I didn't buy them and I've be kicking myself ever
since.

[Gondor]

Another for American Secret Projects 3.  Chock full of tubby wonders. 

I have my eyes on the Boeing C-5 at some point and even have kits put aside for it as well.

Gondor

Back in '98 a local comic books/collectibles/junk shop had a portfolio of Boeing C-5 artwork,
I don't recall the exact number of prints but it was more than ten, they were about 18 X 20
inches. He was asking $120.00 for the lot. I didn't buy them and I've be kicking myself ever
since.

There is not a huge difference between the look of the main contenders to become the C-5, but then there wouldn't be as the requirement does rather dictate what it will look like. Skimming through the book there was an aircraft I remember from on here, a Fokker 28 as a US Navy COD.

Gondor

[PR19_Kit]

Skimming through the book there was an aircraft I remember from on here, a Fokker 28 as a US Navy COD.

Yes, Hobbes built it in 1/144, and he brought it to Telford too, very impressive. 

I've skimmed through the book some more, but my brain overloaded reading the last few chapters. There's SO many TLAs in there that I just couldn't follow it, madness. 

[zenrat]

Ironically TLA is itself not a TLA but a TLI being an Initialisation rather than an Acronym.

Just saying.   

[Rheged]

A pleasant young DPD deliveryman has just arrived with a copy of the English Heritage book  "AEROFILMS: a history of Britain from above".  Over 200 air photos of the UK from 1919 to 1953, and quite a bit of text about  Aerofilms'  contribution to photo reconnaissance in 2WW.  Quite a few rather tasty views of interwar aircraft, too! 

[Gondor]

received today from eBay, only ordered it yesterday! 

Warpaint Series No. 64  Convair F-102 Delta Dagger

Gondor

[Gondor]

New adition from Amazon,

Setail & Scale Volume 35, F-102 Delta Dagger

Gondor

[AeroplaneDriver]

DOH!!  Fixing!   

[PR19_Kit]

A nice fat package arrived from Sideshowbob9's book sale this morning.

The Osprey book on the F-100 Super Sabre, a delightfully un-official sounding book covering all aspects of The Hun. I've got THREE F-100 kits and never built one, ever. I can see that changing soon.

And a Maritime Books copy of 'Fleet Air Arm in focus Part 1'. Every page a large pic of a carrier or FAA aircraft doing interesting things.

There's one total PEACH of a caption that says 'Folded on deck, the Barracuda looked like the result of an accident. In flight though it could be graceful as this posed picture of a Mk II shows' 

[Rheged]

And a Maritime Books copy of 'Fleet Air Arm in focus Part 1'. Every page a large pic of a carrier or FAA aircraft doing interesting things.

I've a great deal of time for Maritime Books material; they pictured/described a lot of lesser known ships and other naval material in addition to the usual run of major warships.

[zenrat]

I just finished reading Chastise by Max Hastings.
It tells the story of the development of the bouncing bombs and the 1943 Dams missions  Hastings provides a slightly different perspective to Paul Brickhill in The Dambusters giving more information on the aircrews, more on Harris's objections (and credit taking after the fact), and more on the aftermath of the breaches.
It does not continue on after Chastise (other than a brief summary) and cover the Tallboy & Grand Slam missions or Cheshire's time as CO.  Which is a shame as I find this part of Brickhills book nat least as interesting (if not more so) than the Chastise chapters.
If you have The Dambusters and the other books on the subject then I am not sure if you will get too much extra out of this.  It's a good read though.

[PR19_Kit]

A signed copy of 'Cold War Interceptor' by Dan Sharp arrived today.

A fascinating book all about the various F.155T projects. LOTS of drawings and super colour views of the various types, but no pics at all as they never built any of them.

That Saunders Roe P.187 is absolutely ENORMOUS! 

[Mossie]

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