OT: New Airfix 1:24 Mossie

BeauBrummie

BeauBrummie

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Check this out, a FBVI with two kit variations, the NF.II & the Fighter Bomber FB.VI.

The kit will also have five decal variations;
FB.VI
No. 418 Sqn, "City of Edmonton", RCAF
No 143 Sqn, Baniff Strike Wing
No 1 Sqn, RAAF, 1945

NF.II
No 23 Sqn, Luqa, Malta, 1943
No 23 Sqn, Ford, 1943

Top my Christmas list I think!
 
Hope you`ve got someplace to put it once its been built.
The old Revel 1/32nd one was big enough, this one is going to take up a LOT of space.
 
Wow, that'll need a pint or two of glue, never mind the paint!

Did anyone see James May with the Airfix Spitfire the other night?
 
Pat Pattle said:
Wow, that'll need a pint or two of glue, never mind the paint!

Did anyone see James May with the Airfix Spitfire the other night?
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Yes. Never mind the Airfix Spit, how about the Grace Spitfire - originally a Mk IX, that one has a successful combat record. And he got his mitts on the controls!
I'm sitting here, still green..... :crybaby:
 
Talking of Mossies, FlyPast mag did a special recently on the Mosquito: lots of lovely pics inside and out and accounts of those who flew them. The cover photo is the late lamented RR299 which crashed in 1996, and there's a gorgeous air-to-air pic of the same inside.
Just this week I spoke to a chap who flew Sea Mosquitos with the Fleet Air Arm - a lovely aircraft when both motors were running, but quite nasty when reduced to one he said.
 
hairyspin said:
Just this week I spoke to a chap who flew Sea Mosquitos with the Fleet Air Arm - a lovely aircraft when both motors were running, but quite nasty when reduced to one he said.
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That's intersting Hairy, as the Mossie had a rep for flying almost as well on one as on two. I've read numerous crew accounts of this being so, from the prototype being flown by Geoffrey Dehavilland impressing Air Ministry types by doing aerobatics on one engine, to a solo engined Mossie asking the escorting ASR Warwick if they should slow down so that the Warwick could keep up!

I have the Mossie mag and yes there is some nice stuff in there, worth the money I'd say.
 
Perhaps this chap hadn't spent as much time on Mossies as others - afaik he spent most of his flying career on transport/communications aircraft. A bit like newcomers to the Tempest who were frankly terrified - six months later they flew them like old hands and landed them as lightly as an autumn leaf. Not bad for a seven ton beast!
 
I remember reading Eric `Winkle` Browns biography where he described what happened with the experimental deck landing trials with an arrestor hook equipped Mossie.
Can you imagine putting on of those down on a WWII carrier.
 
Rabbit 3 said:
I remember reading Eric `Winkle` Browns biography where he described what happened with the experimental deck landing trials with an arrestor hook equipped Mossie.
Can you imagine putting on of those down on a WWII carrier.
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By odd coincidence, this pilot, Winkle Brown and my favourite twin-engined fighter are all connected. The first carrier landings of the DH Sea Hornet, in the hands of Winkle Brown, were on 10th August 1945. The pilot I spoke with gained his wings on the same day.

The Sea Fury was also first landed on the same carrier HMS Ocean later the same day. Jaycee, this was within sight of you (had you been around at the time)! The aircraft flew from Prestwick and HMS Ocean was out in the Clyde. The Sea Mosquito deck landings were also trialed in the Clyde the previous year.
 
BeauBrummie said:
Check this out, a FBVI with two kit variations, the NF.II & the Fighter Bomber FB.VI.

The kit will also have five decal variations;
FB.VI
No. 418 Sqn, "City of Edmonton", RCAF
No 143 Sqn, Baniff Strike Wing
No 1 Sqn, RAAF, 1945

NF.II
No 23 Sqn, Luqa, Malta, 1943
No 23 Sqn, Ford, 1943

Top my Christmas list I think!
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Now where was this 30 years ago?:mixedsmi: Somehow I cant see the missus having this sitting on the coffee table!:icon_lol: Pity!

What a great kit, great choice of aircraft too!
 
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