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Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.
vintage aircraft and scenery screenshots
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Motormouse
SOH-CM-2025
That Avro is a Blackburn monoplane Huub, the Avro F is by Dennis Simaintis (Sp?)
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Pete
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Pete
Oops, sorry! My fault.....
Craig did not only share the wheels, but the used the semi-transparent fabric on both models as well.
Cheers,
Huub
lucb
SOH-CM-2026
Caudron G4 flying above the Yser polder
From Wikipedia
The Caudron G.4 is a French biplane with twin engines, widely used during World War I as a bomber. It was designed by René and Gaston Caudron as an improvement over their single-engined Caudron G.3. The aircraft employed wing warping for banking. The first G.4 was built in 1915, and it was manufactured in France, England and Italy. It was the world's first twin-engine aircraft to be widely used, starting in March 1915.
The Caudron G.4 was used as a reconnaissance bomber against the German Empire. Later, when Germany developed a fighter force, the aircraft was used for night bombing.
The G.4 was in use in Belgium, France, Finland, Italy, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
During the Battle of the Yser in the First World War, by opening the sluices, part of the polder west of the Yser was flooded with seawater between Nieuwpoort and Diksmuide to provide an obstacle to the advancing German Army and keep westernmost Belgium safe from German occupation. The Yser river itself never overflowed its banks
From Wikipedia
The Caudron G.4 is a French biplane with twin engines, widely used during World War I as a bomber. It was designed by René and Gaston Caudron as an improvement over their single-engined Caudron G.3. The aircraft employed wing warping for banking. The first G.4 was built in 1915, and it was manufactured in France, England and Italy. It was the world's first twin-engine aircraft to be widely used, starting in March 1915.
The Caudron G.4 was used as a reconnaissance bomber against the German Empire. Later, when Germany developed a fighter force, the aircraft was used for night bombing.
The G.4 was in use in Belgium, France, Finland, Italy, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
During the Battle of the Yser in the First World War, by opening the sluices, part of the polder west of the Yser was flooded with seawater between Nieuwpoort and Diksmuide to provide an obstacle to the advancing German Army and keep westernmost Belgium safe from German occupation. The Yser river itself never overflowed its banks
Great minds think alike 
I just shot these two screenies from Stuart Green's Caudron yesterday, but I didn't have the time to post the earlier.
The model is available in our library :
I have visited the Westhoek several times. Always very impressive. I can remember I took my wife to the Last post ceremony in Ieper for the first time. She thought there only would be a few people to watch...... there were hundreds!
Cheers,
Huub
I just shot these two screenies from Stuart Green's Caudron yesterday, but I didn't have the time to post the earlier.
The model is available in our library :
I have visited the Westhoek several times. Always very impressive. I can remember I took my wife to the Last post ceremony in Ieper for the first time. She thought there only would be a few people to watch...... there were hundreds!
Cheers,
Huub
lucb
SOH-CM-2026
@huub vink Hundred of people every time.
I have a second residence in Nieuwpoort. I m deeply attached to this region and its history
I have a second residence in Nieuwpoort. I m deeply attached to this region and its history
I already knew as I used to cycle there with a group of Belgian military. As we all had a military background we could sleep in the barracks at Ieper.
When we were cycling there we always visited the ceremony. When I told my wife to hurry she was annoyed, but I knew already you had to be in time to find some room inside the Meenenpoort.
As we Dutch didn't participate in the first world war, it is not something we grew up with. But when you visit the Westhoek you really get an idea about the enormous amount of people who lost there life in a terrible war.
Cheers,
Huub
When we were cycling there we always visited the ceremony. When I told my wife to hurry she was annoyed, but I knew already you had to be in time to find some room inside the Meenenpoort.
As we Dutch didn't participate in the first world war, it is not something we grew up with. But when you visit the Westhoek you really get an idea about the enormous amount of people who lost there life in a terrible war.
Cheers,
Huub
