WWI Digest 3023 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Re: Your Fav(s) by "David Calhoun" 2) Q's about French Pilot Seats by "diaphus" 3) Re: Your fav by "Mike Dicianna" 4) Re: Your fav by CAUhlir@aol.com 5) Fav by "Michael S. Alvarado" 6) Re: Fav by Suvoroff@aol.com 7) the other dimension? was RE: Research Quirks by "Gaston Graf" 8) Re: Your fav by "Limon3" 9) I'm back by "dfernet0" 10) RE: I'm back by Crawford Neil 11) Re: Glass fibre brushes by Jan Vihonen 12) Re: And Proud of It!! - John Porte - and book tip by Jan Vihonen 13) RE: I'm back by "dfernet0" 14) RE: your fav by "dfernet0" 15) Re: Your fav by Witold Kozakiewicz 16) Re: Laskodi's Strutter by Witold Kozakiewicz 17) Re: OOOPS He Did It Again, More Tom Morgan On Hyperscale by Witold Kozakiewicz 18) Sopwith Swallow by Witold Kozakiewicz 19) book review on the topic of MvR's Death by "Gaston Graf" 20) RE: Fav by Crawford Neil 21) RE: And Proud of It!! - John Porte - and book tip by Crawford Neil 22) RE: Your fav by Crawford Neil 23) RE: your fav by Crawford Neil 24) RE: SAM Feb 2001 by Crawford Neil 25) Re: SAM Feb 2001 by Shane & Lorna Jenkins 26) Re: Favs by "Mark Shannon" 27) Re: I'm back by "Dale Sebring" 28) Willows No. 3 by Friedrich Kappes 29) RE: Sopwith Swallow by =?iso-8859-1?Q?Volker_H=E4usler?= 30) New stuff at Hannants by Crawford Neil 31) RE: I'm back by =?iso-8859-1?Q?Volker_H=E4usler?= 32) Back in the saddle by Mark Vaughan-Jackson ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 22:42:25 -0800 From: "David Calhoun" To: Subject: Re: Your Fav(s) Message-ID: <012c01c089be$a5d27a80$ca0c3ccc@oemcomputer> Spad 12 - 37mm cannons are awesome! Dave Calhoun ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 23:00:05 -0500 From: "diaphus" To: Subject: Q's about French Pilot Seats Message-ID: <006f01c089a7$f71eaba0$11551a18@tampabay.rr.com> All, Am just getting ready to install my MoS AI interior and have a question about the seat color. The seat is the style that has a curved backpiece perforated with a number of holes. Is this pieced formed from molded, drilled wood, or is it metal? If it IS metal, was it painted or left NM? Also, did these things have a padded seat cushion in black or brown or was it just bare wood? TIA. Jack Gartner diaphus@tampabay.rr.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 20:17:10 -0800 From: "Mike Dicianna" To: Subject: Re: Your fav Message-ID: <000201c089ab$32c5a340$87a5bdcf@pavilion> Have to go with Albatrossen D series. Prefer the red end of the spectrum here..... For the good guys, I love a colorful SPAD! MikeDC "Der Rote Modellflugzeugbauer" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 23:50:23 EST From: CAUhlir@aol.com To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Your fav Message-ID: --part1_c9.cba95bc.27a6508f_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Pflaz DIII !! Just a beautiful looking airplane. Candice --part1_c9.cba95bc.27a6508f_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Pflaz DIII !!   Just a beautiful looking airplane.

Candice --part1_c9.cba95bc.27a6508f_boundary-- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 00:32:52 -0500 From: "Michael S. Alvarado" To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Fav Message-ID: <3A750083.325B7A6D@bellatlantic.net> I've always been partial to the SPADS. As a kid the SPAD XIII was the epitome of the WWI biplane fighter, beefy, sleek and looking like the racers it ascended from. Put me down for the SPAD XIII as my favorite with the Nieuport 28 as number two. Alvie ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 00:47:32 EST From: Suvoroff@aol.com To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Fav Message-ID: Funny; the SPAD and the Nieuport were little different in size, yet the SPAD looks so much larger. Yours, James D. Gray ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 07:00:32 +0100 From: "Gaston Graf" To: Subject: the other dimension? was RE: Research Quirks Message-ID: My own little prob with such things is it that I stumple over something a hundred times in a week but in the very moment that I really NEEED it the damn thing has VANISHED - as if it came alive and ran away to hide somewhere in a different dimension. My trick to bait it back into my world again again is simply to IGNORE it - to NOT search for it, then it will soon popup again somewhere. Strange, but this always works! All the things that I do not search for pop up again, but as soon as I search for something it vanishes... Strange world... Gaston Graf (ggraf@vo.lu) Meet the Royal Prussian Fighter Squadron 2 "Boelcke" at: http://www.jastaboelcke.de > -----Original Message----- > From: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu [mailto:wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu]On Behalf Of > Lee > Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 1:05 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: Re: Research Quirks > > > I believe it is called Chronicenditits. It means everthing is on the > other end, even if you start in thre middle and go one each way as you > check. > > I always laughed when some one would say "It will be in the last place > you look". > > Of course it will. That means you found it. The only known cure for > Chronicenditis. > > Lee M. > > KarrArt@aol.com wrote: > > > In a message dated 1/28/01 12:52:09 PM Pacific Standard Time, > > dave@vga-graphics.com writes: > > > > << Does anyone know if there is an actual name for the phenomenon which > > causes any particular > > photo or bit of research material you're looking for to be at the very > > bottom of a stack > > of, say, 30 issues of WW1 Aero? >> > > > > Yes, it's called "RK's Life" > > RK > > > > > > ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 19:41:01 -0800 From: "Limon3" To: Subject: Re: Your fav Message-ID: <001801c089a5$4d3fa640$acf7303f@f4w2s5> For me, has to be the Alb. DV series also, Gabe -----Original Message----- From: diaphus To: Multiple recipients of list Date: Sunday, January 28, 2001 10:37 AM Subject: Re: Your fav > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Steven M.Perry" >To: "Multiple recipients of list" >Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 12:24 PM >Subject: Your fav > > >> It's been a while since a similar thread, so let me ask: >> >> What, to you, is the most asthetically pleasing OT airplane? > >Without question, Albatros D.V (or Va). Pleasing lines and GREAT color >schemes! > >Jack Gartner >diaphus@tampabay.rr.com > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 06:46:31 -0300 From: "dfernet0" To: "WW1 modeling Mail List" Subject: I'm back Message-ID: <00bf01c089d8$5c646b00$4640a8c0@ssp.salud.rosario.gov.ar> Hi friends! I missed you all during these two weeks off list. I had a rest from my routine during vacations and I admit that I couldn't resist to check the archives from time to time (by the way, my hotmail account wich is list subscribed is still working OK!) Now I'm back with more energies and eager to tackle delayed projects, both to model and to research. Dicta Ira! D. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 10:55:02 +0100 From: Crawford Neil To: "'wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu'" Subject: RE: I'm back Message-ID: Welcome back, how did all your vac-forms do, did they mix well with the swimming pool? Anything finished? /Neil > -----Original Message----- > From: dfernet0 [mailto:dfernet0@rosario.gov.ar] > Sent: den 29 januari 2001 10:54 > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: I'm back > > > Hi friends! > I missed you all during these two weeks off list. I had a rest from my > routine during vacations and I admit that I couldn't resist > to check the > archives from time to time (by the way, my hotmail account > wich is list > subscribed is still working OK!) > Now I'm back with more energies and eager to tackle delayed > projects, both > to model and to research. > Dicta Ira! > D. > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 11:57:31 +0200 From: Jan Vihonen To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Glass fibre brushes Message-ID: <3A753E8B.2A645AF8@helsinki.fi> It may be a good idea to do the most extensive brushing in the kitchen sink under the water. Thats how I've been doing the sanding of resin parts for years now. Jan > >Be careful with these brushes! Little bits of the glass fibers can break > off > >and fly through the air. You don't want that in your eye, no, not at all. > > > >Yours, > >James D. Gray > > James, thanks! I forgot this warning. That's the reason why I hate them > using it back in the seventies. Those small fibers stuck in your fingertips > and are so small you can't get them with the finest tweezers. > > Hans ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 12:03:46 +0200 From: Jan Vihonen To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: And Proud of It!! - John Porte - and book tip Message-ID: <3A754002.DF04306@helsinki.fi> Neil Crawford wrote: I looked this up > in a book that I recommend very much, it's called "The complete illustrated > Encyclopedia of the worlds Aircraft" by David Mondey. It has a Swordfish > on the cover, I was given it as a present, and my initial reaction was "oh no > not another coffee-table book", and the first 61 pages are just that, but then > you get an A-Z of the worlds aircraft manufacturers, nearly all of them, and > I mean historically too, there's a section for Wight, and J.Samuel White another > Supermarine predecssor. Just opening at random I turned up Descamps, how > many of you knew that he was cheif-engineer for Anatra, worked for Aviatik > at Mulhouse before the war, and then built several prototypes under his own name > after the war. This book is a gold-mine, snap it up if you ever see it, written > in 1978 it probably flopped, because it was too difficult for the coffee-table > buyers, and looked wrong to us others. Ditto! It's an excellent collection of otherwise rather hard-to-find information. It's major deficiency is OT Russian aeroplane manufacturers. Jan ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 07:02:54 -0300 From: "dfernet0" To: Subject: RE: I'm back Message-ID: <010c01c089da$a5d13140$4640a8c0@ssp.salud.rosario.gov.ar> Neil! Well, in fact the vacations -as other matters in life- weren't exactly as I expected. I haven't visited a pool in the whole two weeks! :-) While I was in the Patagonia, right by the shoreline, the wind is very strong and sanding vac pieces on a sanding surface would have been very akward. Beach sand flew everywhere and no exacting job ccan be done while outdoors. Fortunately enough, I did some modelling chores on injected plastic fuselages that I also carried, sanding interiors. But by far the most productive modelling activity was to plan and to think some methods to do things in the future, solving by pure introspection some troubles. Now I have to practice them! :-) later a detailed report and a few musings D. ----- Original Message ----- From: Crawford Neil To: Multiple recipients of list Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 7:00 AM Subject: RE: I'm back > Welcome back, how did all your vac-forms do, did they mix > well with the swimming pool? Anything finished? > /Neil > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: dfernet0 [mailto:dfernet0@rosario.gov.ar] > > Sent: den 29 januari 2001 10:54 > > To: Multiple recipients of list > > Subject: I'm back > > > > > > Hi friends! > > I missed you all during these two weeks off list. I had a rest from my > > routine during vacations and I admit that I couldn't resist > > to check the > > archives from time to time (by the way, my hotmail account > > wich is list > > subscribed is still working OK!) > > Now I'm back with more energies and eager to tackle delayed > > projects, both > > to model and to research. > > Dicta Ira! > > D. > > > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 07:03:32 -0300 From: "dfernet0" To: "WW1 modeling Mail List" Subject: RE: your fav Message-ID: <010d01c089da$bc6fe720$4640a8c0@ssp.salud.rosario.gov.ar> mmmhhhh.... (hesitation) Let's say that: Single seaters, I like Albatros D.III Nieuport 28 Double seaters I like BE2c MS parasol D. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 09:43:25 +0100 From: Witold Kozakiewicz To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Your fav Message-ID: <3A752D2D.A7383E72@bg.am.lodz.pl> Hard to choose one. fist is Albatros D series HD-1, SSW D.III, Pfalz D.VIII and D.XII, Snipe - all waiting unbuilt. I want to do them perfectly. And all giants - Ilya, Gotha, Staaken etc. -- Witold Kozakiewicz ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 09:17:15 +0100 From: Witold Kozakiewicz To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Laskodi's Strutter Message-ID: <3A75270B.8994777E@bg.am.lodz.pl> Laskodi napisa³(a): > > << that finger breaking board, be sure to perform self-molestation. ;-)>>> > > Thanks for the kind compliment Matt, but I'm afraid I'm not into > "self-molestation" or "dis-abuse" (wasn't that the term we were kicking > around before?). I only enjoy doing it to others! > ---------Bob Bob, let me use your pictures as references for my Toko Strutter. I'm going to start it this week (for cook-up) -- Witold Kozakiewicz ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 09:14:28 +0100 From: Witold Kozakiewicz To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: OOOPS He Did It Again, More Tom Morgan On Hyperscale Message-ID: <3A752664.405950F4@bg.am.lodz.pl> Laskodi napisa³(a): > > More Tom Morgan magic is featured today on Hyperscale. Today it's the Fokker > "Razor" (E.V). Absolutely stunning, how does this guy do it? Go to link > below to be humbled: > http://www.hyperscale.com/gallery/fokkerevtm_1.htm > ----------Bob Great work. Very nice weathering, delicate but realistic. -- Witold Kozakiewicz ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 09:07:31 +0100 From: Witold Kozakiewicz To: WWI Subject: Sopwith Swallow Message-ID: <3A7524C3.8F539DCD@bg.am.lodz.pl> Hi, One simple question. How many Swallows were produced and was anyone of them operational used? Thanks -- Witold Kozakiewicz ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 10:00:44 +0100 From: "Gaston Graf" To: Subject: book review on the topic of MvR's Death Message-ID: You may find a detailed review of this book at John Woods website: http://www.anzacs.net/Gen-Review.htm The review got written by Dr. M. Geoffrey Miller in February 1999. Gaston Graf (ggraf@vo.lu) Meet the Royal Prussian Fighter Squadron 2 "Boelcke" at: http://www.jastaboelcke.de > > Lance says: > > > > Hardcore devotees of Manfred's demise should avail themselves > > of these issues; if anyone has interest, LMK and I will > > search these out over the weekend and reply on Monday. > > I highly recommend Norman Franks and Alan Bennets "The Red Baron's Last > Flight - A mystery investigated" > > They deal exhaustively with every known source and include discussion of > such furphies as the holes in the seat, allegations that he was > murdered on > the ground etc. > > FWIW it includes good stuff like an exact description of the path of the > bullet. > > Read it THEN decide for yourself > > Shane > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ********************************************************************** > The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and is > intended only for the use of the addressee(s). > If you receive this e-mail in error, any use, distribution or > copying of this e-mail is not permitted. 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Gray > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 12:05:11 +0100 From: Crawford Neil To: "'wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu'" Subject: RE: And Proud of It!! - John Porte - and book tip Message-ID: Yes, I can well believe that, it's not perfect, but it does keep surprising me, I can look up the weirdest a/c manufacturers and they are in there, nearly always. /Neil > -----Original Message----- > From: Jan Vihonen [mailto:jan.vihonen@helsinki.fi] > Sent: den 29 januari 2001 11:08 > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: Re: And Proud of It!! - John Porte - and book tip > > > > > Neil Crawford wrote: > > > > I looked this up > > in a book that I recommend very much, it's called "The > complete illustrated > > Encyclopedia of the worlds Aircraft" by David Mondey. It > has a Swordfish > > on the cover, I was given it as a present, and my initial > reaction was "oh no > > not another coffee-table book", and the first 61 pages are > just that, but then > > you get an A-Z of the worlds aircraft manufacturers, nearly > all of them, and > > I mean historically too, there's a section for Wight, and > J.Samuel White another > > Supermarine predecssor. Just opening at random I turned up > Descamps, how > > many of you knew that he was cheif-engineer for Anatra, > worked for Aviatik > > at Mulhouse before the war, and then built several > prototypes under his own name > > after the war. This book is a gold-mine, snap it up if you > ever see it, written > in 1978 it probably flopped, because > it was too difficult for the coffee-table > > buyers, and looked wrong to us others. > > Ditto! It's an excellent collection of otherwise rather hard-to-find > information. It's major deficiency is OT Russian aeroplane > manufacturers. > > Jan > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 12:08:33 +0100 From: Crawford Neil To: "'wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu'" Subject: RE: Your fav Message-ID: Must agree about the Nieuport 28, it's not really very good looking. /Neil, who despite this just built one. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 12:13:52 +0100 From: Crawford Neil To: "'wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu'" Subject: RE: your fav Message-ID: SPAD XIII SPAD VII SPAD XVI SPAD XI SPAD XII And seeing as nobodys counting I can dilute my vote with the following Sopwith Baby Felixstowe F2A Of the germans I like the Albatross DV, and the Pfalz DXII, but my favorite is the Siemen Schuckert DIII and IV Austro-hungarian fav is the Phönix DI and from Italy the Macchi M5 /Neil ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 12:17:03 +0100 From: Crawford Neil To: "'wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu'" Subject: RE: SAM Feb 2001 Message-ID: Sorry, screwed up again! /Neil > Say what? I thought RLR was editor of Scale Models (Now Scale Models > International) and Alan Hall was editor of SAM back in the > good ole days > > > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 22:29:17 -0800 From: Shane & Lorna Jenkins To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: SAM Feb 2001 Message-ID: <3A765F3D.182EF884@tac.com.au> Shane Weier wrote: > Say what? I thought RLR was editor of Scale Models (Now Scale Models > International) and Alan Hall was editor of SAM back in the good ole days > > > Can't recall RLR as ever having an official capacity with SAM, though he was > a writer, then associate editer under Ron Moulton on SM Hi, Ray also edited Airfix Magazine at one stage as well. IIRC, it was after he left SMI & before he started Windosck or thereabouts. He did a nice issue with the Airfix 0/400 in it (Which btw, rumours are starting to flow about it being re-released this year). Shane ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 07:09:29 -0600 From: "Mark Shannon" To: Subject: Re: Favs Message-ID: I guess I'm just lacking in imagination. My favs are: Sopwith Camel Sopwith Triplane Albatros D.III Fokker Dr. I D.H. 2 These just epitomize the age of fighting biplanes ( I know, I know, but you know what I mean ). Add on top of them the two favorite two-seaters that led to the encounters of the above - the Roland C.II and Fe.2b - and you've got the whole air war. Please, no brickbats, I know a lot of favorites others have are not involved and mine is a really biased list. It's just that the question was about favorites. ;{) .Mark. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 06:43:45 -0700 From: "Dale Sebring" To: Subject: Re: I'm back Message-ID: <001b01c089f9$8147c400$75b58dd0@main> ----- Original Message ----- From: "dfernet0" To: "Multiple recipients of list" Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 2:54 AM Subject: I'm back > Hi friends! > I missed you all during these two weeks off list. I had a rest from my > routine during vacations and I admit that I couldn't resist to check the > archives from time to time (by the way, my hotmail account wich is list > subscribed is still working OK!) > Now I'm back with more energies and eager to tackle delayed projects, both > to model and to research. > Dicta Ira! > D. Welcome home D, hope you enjoyed yourself to the fullest! Regards, Dale ------------------------------ Date: 29 Jan 01 14:56:14 MET From: Friedrich Kappes To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Willows No. 3 Message-ID: <20010129135614.7090.qmail@www0u.netaddress.usa.net> I have a drawing said to be Willows airship No. 3 City of Cardiff. I have some trouble, because 1. wasn´t No. 2 the City of Cardiff? 2. hadn´t No. 3 a different rudder? Because I can´t simply send it around, please visit http://sites.netscape.net/frederkappes Can anybody help? Friedrich The FriedrichFiles http://sites.netscape.net/friedkappes Lots of nice links, pictures (photos, drawings, ...), book reviews, literature aids, a dictionary,... Also owner of the yahoogroups navalships, aeroplanes and airships, to join, simply visit my homepage. ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 09:05:14 +0700 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Volker_H=E4usler?= To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: RE: Sopwith Swallow Message-ID: Witold, according to the various publications of JM Bruce like "British Aeroplanes 1914-1918" and "War Planes of the first WW - Fighters" vol 3 only one Swallow was aproduced, serial B 9276 (strangely enogh based on a Boulton and Paul build Camel. No operational use. I remember there was a thread a few weeks ago concerning the Swallow Cockpit. While researching for my cookup contenders, I stumbled across one photo in WW I Aero, vol 105 p 13. No idea wether that was posted at that time. Volker -----Original Message----- From: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu [mailto:wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu]On Behalf Of Witold Kozakiewicz Sent: 29 January 2001 17:18 To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Sopwith Swallow Hi, One simple question. How many Swallows were produced and was anyone of them operational used? Thanks -- Witold Kozakiewicz ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 14:56:18 +0100 From: Crawford Neil To: "WW1 list (E-mail)" Subject: New stuff at Hannants Message-ID: I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned these yet, they are on the Hannants news list: Eduard EDK7213 1:72 Fokker Dr.I Triplane This is etched not plastic. Strp down series £11.65 ALBATROS PRODUCTIONS WSDA85 Short 184 Datafile £9.25 General purpose Masking materials EDXF503 Circles 12mm & 6mm £1.99 £1.69 EDXF504 Circles 14mm & 8mm £1.99 £1.69 EDXF505 Circles 16mm & 10mm £1.99 £1.69 EDXF506 Circles 23mm & 18mm £1.99 £1.69 EDXF507 Circles 26mm & 20mm £1.99 £1.69 EDXF508 Circles 32mm & 28mm £1.40 £1.19 PEGASUS PEGD4803 5 colour WWI lozenge £7.49 PEGD4804 5 colour WWI lozenge £7.49 RODEN ROD72002 Gotha G.II/G.III bomber £15.95 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 09:09:34 +0700 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Volker_H=E4usler?= To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: RE: I'm back Message-ID: Welcome back, Diego! Now what about a Sopwith? Volker ----- Original Message ----- From: "dfernet0" To: "Multiple recipients of list" Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 2:54 AM Subject: I'm back > Hi friends! > I missed you all during these two weeks off list. I had a rest from my > routine during vacations and I admit that I couldn't resist to check the > archives from time to time (by the way, my hotmail account wich is list > subscribed is still working OK!) > Now I'm back with more energies and eager to tackle delayed projects, both > to model and to research. > Dicta Ira! > D. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 10:42:18 -0400 From: Mark Vaughan-Jackson To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Back in the saddle Message-ID: After all of the ot work for the museum I have managed to get the monkey off my back and return to the land of two wings. Actually it's still related to the museum job. . .I had a Jenny kit on order to depict a plane conducting an aerial survey in labrador c1919 but it didn't arrive in time. Since it won't be finished for the exhibition anyway, I'm rather enjoying tinkering with the old Lindberg jenny kit. Been playing with the interior so far: coat of radome tan, added wood and wire interior framing, painted my best plywood effect to date on the floor and added a firewall-to-be-gas tank forrard of the observer's seat. Idly considering adding throttle mechanism and some other bits and pieces to the interior before the final cross braces and closing the fuse. The engine is remarkably nice given the age of the kit but looks like it will present some fit problems. Had a look at the site but didn't find any good clear images of the engine area. . . any suggestions, just in case I really give in to my incipient masochism and add some frills to the engine?? Didn't some Jennys do away with the cowling altogether and simple have an exposed engine?? We're getting nailed with our third blizzard in as many days so I am anticipating an evening in front of the TV with my kit. Will likely close the fuse and fill, and perhaps turn my attention to the wings. Planning to rig with surgical suture and perhaps hypodermic needle sections for turnbuckles. . .still undecided. Best thing about this particular A/C is nothing much in the way of markings, just an overall CDL with either a dark olive or perhaps a very dull metallic grey on the engine cowling and back along the deck as far as the cockpits.. Having a wonderful time wish you were here . . . .because if you were you could help me shovel out my driveway. . .again. 30 cms of snow on Saturday another 15 last night and a further 25 today. This on top of all we've had this month and I have a driveway cut through two 12 foot plus walls of snow. That and the snow plow driver seems to have taken out a personal vendetta against me. I had just finished 2 hours of shoveling to clear my driveway and was standing in my driveway resting (panting) over my shovel when the Ba***rd came by, gave me a cheery nod and proceeded to very carefully push an eight foot wall of snow across my drive. Who says homicide or at lest GBH ain't justified. Diego, the Shanes and other listees from warmer climes, any of you looking for a longterm houseguest?? OT modeler, good cook and lover of red wine. . .and I'm housebroken. . . .please, please? MVJ ------------------------------ End of WWI Digest 3023 **********************