WWI Digest 176 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Re: Sierra Catalog!! by jsthorn@mindspring.com (Jesse Thorn) 2) Re: Sierra Catalog! by "Valenciano . Jose" 3) Re: Sierra Catalog!! by lothar@ncw.net (mark) 4) Prop rotation on Bristol fighters? by bshatzer@orednet.org (Bill Shatzer) 5) Re: Sierra Catalog! by MEBA@cso.com 6) Re: Prop rotation on Bristol fighters? by MEBA@cso.com 7) Re: Jacobs bios by MEBA@cso.com 8) Re: St. Louis! by aew (Allan Wright) 9) No. 11 FE2b 7691 by Charles_A._Duckworth@notes.up.com (Charles A. Duckworth) 10) Re: Revell Fokker D.VII by boeke@bucknell.edu (Joseph R. Boeke) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 22:44:05 -0400 From: jsthorn@mindspring.com (Jesse Thorn) To: wwi Subject: Re: Sierra Catalog!! Message-ID: Ryan, Please send me a copy of the Sierra Catalog. I have built a couple of these and have really liked them. Thanks, --Jesse ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 12:51:44 +0800 (GMT+0800) From: "Valenciano . Jose" To: wwi Subject: Re: Sierra Catalog! Message-ID: HEY GUYS, LOOK AT THIS !!!!!!! > SIERRA SCALE MODELS CATALOG July 1996 > > 1/48 WWI Vacuformed Kits (All with metal and/or injected molded parts. > Decals not included.) > (Current, excellent, products snipped) > ***Coming soon....*** > Gotha G.V, Friedrichshafen G.III, Rumpler C.IV, LVG C.V, Sopwith Dolphin. The big ones are coming out! YAHOO !!!! ********************************************************************* Joey Valenciano WW1 modeller, teacher, jazz musician, joeyval@pusit.admu.edu.ph sitarist tel. (632) 921-26-75 Metro-Manila, Philippines "The more you know, the more you don't know." ********************************************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 21:59:37 -0700 From: lothar@ncw.net (mark) To: wwi Subject: Re: Sierra Catalog!! Message-ID: <199607010459.VAA21337@bing.ncw.net> >Sierra Scale Models has recently produced a new catalog. For those who >don't know, Sierra is one of the most popular and almost the only vacuformed >company. WWI and WWII aircraft are produced and distributed anywhere from >Aeroclub to Aviation USK. I work directly with the company and "help out", >so to speak. If you are interested in obtaining a catalog, simply e-mail me >with your request, and I'll be glad to e-mail you back a copy. Some AOL >users have already done this and may remember it (SMHead). The new catalog >includes a note from the designer and future releases. We are open to >suggestions for new kits also. Thank you for continuing to make Sierra Scale >Models a tradition in vacuformed kits. > >Ryan >doctp@ne.infi.net Please email me the above referenced catalog. TIA Mark R. lothar@ncw.net ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 22:16:32 -0700 From: bshatzer@orednet.org (Bill Shatzer) To: wwi Subject: Prop rotation on Bristol fighters? Message-ID: <199607010516.AA08349@ednet1.orednet.org> To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Bristol fighters props rotate which way? Cc: Reply-To: bshatzer@orednet.org What is the correct rotation for F2B's props. Looking at the contemporary photos, the rule seem to be that they rotate clockwise (as viewed from the cockpit) except for those Bristol fighters with the Sumbean Arab engines which seem to rotate counterclockwise (anticlockwise for our English speacking friends.) But, just to confuse things, I picked up a copy of the Squadron 'In Action' on the F.2B today, and they have a series of photos of the RAF Museum's F.2B which has a RR Falcon engine and a counterclockwise rotating prop. And, on page 42, they've a photo of an Arab engined civil F.2B with a clockwise prop. What's going on here? Did engines come in two different flavors? It doesn't appear that the negatives were reversed on either of these photos. Cheers, -- Bill Shatzer - bshatzer@orednet.org -or- aw177@Freenet.Carleton.ca - "Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 07:14:58 -0500 From: MEBA@cso.com To: wwi Subject: Re: Sierra Catalog! Message-ID: <199607010711.HAA07842@cso.com> On 1 Jul 96 at 0:45, Valenciano . Jose typed diligantly: > > Gotha G.V, Friedrichshafen G.III, Rumpler C.IV, LVG C.V, Sopwith Dolphin. Egads. Talk about HUGE! Matt meba@cso.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 07:16:55 -0500 From: MEBA@cso.com To: wwi Subject: Re: Prop rotation on Bristol fighters? Message-ID: <199607010713.HAA07947@cso.com> On 1 Jul 96 at 1:15, Bill Shatzer typed diligantly: > What is the correct rotation for F2B's props. Looking at > the contemporary photos, the rule seem to be that they rotate > clockwise (as viewed from the cockpit) except for those > Bristol fighters with the Sumbean Arab engines which seem to > rotate counterclockwise (anticlockwise for our English speacking > friends.) Please correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the rotation of the prop designate if it's being "pulled" versus "pushed"? Matt meba@cso.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 07:18:28 -0500 From: MEBA@cso.com To: wwi Subject: Re: Jacobs bios Message-ID: <199607010714.HAA08048@cso.com> On 29 Jun 96 at 12:42, Carlos Valdes typed diligantly: > Last December, Matt Bittner posted a list of references on Joseph > Jacobs which included a pair of articles by Stephen Lawson, > entitled "Jasta 7 under `Kobes'," appearing in Cross & Cockade > International Vo.25 #s 2 and 3. I would like to get copies of > these, but I have been informed by someone in contact with an owner > of these journals that said articles are not in fact in the > above-mentioned numbers. Could someone with access to C&C Int. > confirm the existence of the Jacobs articles in that journal? Matt, > could it be that you were referring to the original C&C USA? Many > TIA. I still have them listed in my Jacobs' references as such, so I'm sure they're still in those issues. However, I'll check when I get home, just to be sure. I've never known myself to get something wrong when dealing with "Kobes". ;-) Matt meba@cso.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 10:26:00 -0400 (EDT) From: aew (Allan Wright) To: wwi Subject: Re: St. Louis! Message-ID: <199607011426.KAA00116@pease1.sr.unh.edu> > You need to check out CRM hobbies in St. Louis. It's roughly 15 minutes from > the zoo. They specialize in out of production stuff as well as current > inventory and WWI stuff. The owner Chris Merseal goes out of his way to keep > us WWI guys happy. He's got roughly 10 of us and he knows we are all addicts > of some sort or another. He is in the phone book under CRM in the businss > pages of the white phone book. He is on Watson Road At Fyler I did get to CRM (and had a Ted Drew's on the way back). Neato little store. It reminds me of what one of the stores up here used to be like before they moved to larger quarters. Unfortunately for me most of you guys had picked it clean of anything really cool. He had the Edward D.VIII though and I took a look at it. > On Friday night, 5 of us are getting together to start an interest group. We > are meeting at Charlie Duckworth's. Charlie is also on the mailing list. My > # is 314 537 2095. Give me a call if you need any other tips or what have > you. Sorry I missed the meeting - I wanted to go but got left responsible for taking care of some things the night before the wedding (Friday night). Thanks for the invite! How about a recap of the meeting for the list? -Al ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Jul 1996 10:08:49 -0500 From: Charles_A._Duckworth@notes.up.com (Charles A. Duckworth) To: wwi Subject: No. 11 FE2b 7691 Message-ID: <1996Jul01.060946.1155.392221@uprr-internet.notes.up.com> In looking over Vintage Warbirds No. 1 'The RFC in WW1' I came across photo (76) on page 42 of FE2b number 7691, from No. 11 Squadron, shot down by Lt. Kurt Wolff on 3/21/17. I am thinking this would be a good subject for the Aeroclub model but I am having trouble making out the presentation notation painted on the side of the cockpit. In the photograph I can make out 'South Wales No. 4.' on the first line; on the second line it 'appears' to read '...Mar.. and Baldblair. I looked through the two presentation lists in the back of the Camel and Bristol fighter books by Chaz Boyzer (sp?) and could not find anything that would give me a lead on the full content of the second line. I assume the first line correctly should read 'New South Wales No. 4.' Does anyone on the list know how I can determine the full verbage. I can then work up the lettering and have decals made? thanks for any help - Charlie Duckworth. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Jul 1996 16:13:28 GMT From: boeke@bucknell.edu (Joseph R. Boeke) To: wwi Subject: Re: Revell Fokker D.VII Message-ID: <9607011610.AA09510@coral.bucknell.edu> I saw these on r.m.scale, I thought they were interesting (particularly the part about fixing the wing taper. - Joe boeke@bucknell.edu -------- In rec.models.scale, dwill@gate.net (Dave Williams) wrote: >Just picked up the Revell 1/28 Fokker D.VII (the US Revell release, which is half the price of the Revell Germany release). Like the >MMP review pointed out, the taper of the wing top and bottoms is essentially reversed when viewed from the front (the top should be >straight and the underside of the outer wing panel should taper upward toward the tip. The kit has the bottom straight and the top of >the outer panels tapering downward toward the tips.) For the life of me, I can't see how they got this so wrong! This is an all new kit >so I assume some research went into it, but this is a pretty glaring error. Actually, the kit seems fairly decent otherwise. Just can't >understand how things like this get out. >Dave In rec.models.scale, ctdavies@aol.com (CTDavies) wrote: >I corrected the wing taper by epoxying a strip of glass to the inside of >the top upper wing shell. It works! However, that's about all I did on the >kit, as the fuselage is also totally out of wack compared with the >drawings in the Datafile # 8. Total surgery would be necessary to correct >that, so I gave up. The engine is good though... There is a good article >on the kit with scale drawings in >one of this years' Windsock. ------------------------------ End of WWI Digest 176 *********************