WWI Digest 3896 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Re: proportional detail and the youth of the world by Shane Weier 2) by =?iso-8859-1?Q?Martin_H=E9ctor_AFFLITTO_ECHAG=FCE?= 3) Re: proportional detail and the youth of the world by "Matt Bittner" 4) Re: proportional detail and the youth of the world by john@huggins-leahey.com (John Huggins) 5) Re: Bugs Benny by KnnthS@aol.com 6) Re: Patently Ridcialous by KnnthS@aol.com 7) Re: proportional detail and the youth of the world by Dennis Ugulano 8) Re: 24 Squadron markings by "Steven Perry" 9) Re: 24 Squadron markings by "Steven Perry" 10) WWI] Re: newbie to list by "Grzegorz Mazurowski" 11) Work & Modeling (Kinda Long) by "Brent Theobald" 12) RE: New web goodies by "Grzegorz Mazurowski" 13) RE: New web goodies by "Steven Perry" 14) RE: D.VII has rehabilitaated herself by "Grzegorz Mazurowski" 15) RE: New web goodies by Shane Weier 16) RE: New web goodies by "Steven Perry" 17) RE: New web goodies by Shane Weier 18) Re: Exhaust channel - Dixie Lee by Bob Pearson 19) Age old scale tug of war by Artur Golebiewski 20) Re: D.VII by VMA324Vagabonds@aol.com 21) Re: Age old scale tug of war by "Michael Kendix" 22) RE: Age old scale tug of war by Shane Weier 23) Re: Age old scale tug of war by KnnthS@aol.com 24) Re: Age old scale tug of war by Shane Weier 25) there is no rest for old soldiers by "Diego Fernetti" 26) RE: Age old scale tug of war by "Diego Fernetti" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 08:34:15 +1000 From: Shane Weier To: "'wwi@wwi-models.org'" Subject: Re: proportional detail and the youth of the world Message-ID: <7186131CB805D411A60E0090272F7C7102BCD77E@mimhexch1.mim.com.au> Ken, > do 72nd scalers wear hairnets so they don't confuse with rigging? > the ones with hair, I mean. No, that can't be right. Monsieur Nung-bittner is a bald as a billiard ball. He must be, since his photo always gets ruined by the bright reflection obscuring his face 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. You are requested to forward unwanted e-mail and address any problems to the MIM Holdings Limited Support Centre. e-mail: supportcentre@mim.com.au phone: Australia 1800500646 International ++61 7 38338042 ********************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 07:39:50 -0300 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Martin_H=E9ctor_AFFLITTO_ECHAG=FCE?= To: "WWI Lista" Message-ID: <000f01c16dc1$dc095780$b70de818@fibertel.com.ar> what happed in the list. no news from 13/11/01-03:43 pm Problem???????............... Help!!!!!!!!! Martin H. AFFLITTO ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 16:40:34 -0800 From: "Matt Bittner" To: "wwi@wwi-models.org" Subject: Re: proportional detail and the youth of the world Message-ID: On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 17:39:40 -0500 (EST), Shane Weier wrote: > No, that can't be right. Monsieur Nung-bittner is a bald as a billiard ball. > > He must be, since his photo always gets ruined by the bright reflection > obscuring his face Sounds like one speaking from experience. Nope, not bald, not even balding; nor is there a receding hair line (quick, what do you call 1000 rabbits marching backwards?). Hair...some of us have it; then there's Shane. ;-) Matt Bittner ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 16:46:07 -0600 From: john@huggins-leahey.com (John Huggins) To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: proportional detail and the youth of the world Message-ID: >do 72nd scalers wear hairnets so they don't confuse with rigging? >the ones with hair, I mean. Most of us don't need hair nets. Almost all of what was on top is now suspended between the wings of lovely well built WWI models. JP ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 17:51:43 EST From: KnnthS@aol.com To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: Bugs Benny Message-ID: <33.1dfc0ffa.2925a0ff@aol.com> you mean bug-Hare-ing out? receding maroons? 1,000 maniacs? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 17:54:14 EST From: KnnthS@aol.com To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: Patently Ridcialous Message-ID: thereyago Can no longer rig in 72nd and the glare IS ferocious. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 18:56:31 -0500 From: Dennis Ugulano To: "wwi@wwi-models.org" Subject: Re: proportional detail and the youth of the world Message-ID: <200111151856_MC3-E710-C980@compuserve.com> >> what do you call 1000 rabbits marching backwards?). << A receding hair line Dennis Ugulano email: Uggies@compuserve.com http://ronnieuggie.com/uggie/dju.htm Page Revised 10/13/01 "Each modeler will rise to their own level of masochism." ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 19:04:27 -0500 From: "Steven Perry" To: Subject: Re: 24 Squadron markings Message-ID: <017801c16e32$42556f40$61e82341@tampabay.rr.com> > > Much is made in the literature regarding the famous "sawtooth" markings used on 24 Squadron aircraft (of > interest to me currently, because I'm working...slowly...on my DH.2); however, when looking at some of the > photos in the publications I've got (including the Datafile and the Squadron "In Action"), these markings do not > always appear to be present on aircraft used by this unit. Anyone have any info on the time of use for these > markings? Peter: There were a series of orders which came out during the late Spring and early Summer of 1916 which had the effect of increasing the amount of surface covered by PC-10. The sawtooth on the bottom of the Nacelle was added to 24 Squadron machines after the last order which directed the sides of the nacelles to be painted with PC-10, IIRC. This would have probably been late June or early July. So depending on the machine you are modeling and the time frame you want to represent, it may or may not have the sawtooth pattern. Most of this can be deduced from info in the DF colors & markings section and a few of the captions. It's been a few years and the DF is burried right now, but I seem to recall the sawteeth were painted and not side fabric lapped over the bottom. Someone pipe up if I'm mistaken here. sp ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 19:07:09 -0500 From: "Steven Perry" To: Subject: Re: 24 Squadron markings Message-ID: <017e01c16e32$a2523040$61e82341@tampabay.rr.com> What ken said. I should read all the thread before responding. sp catching up on e-mails. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 01:07:18 +0100 From: "Grzegorz Mazurowski" To: Subject: WWI] Re: newbie to list Message-ID: <009401c16e32$a929e5c0$0200a8c0@x.pl> Dear Darth Bittner! Does it mean we've got him on the right side? Darth Greg (saluting with his light-excel knife) > On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 17:05:25 -0500 (EST), KnnthS@aol.com wrote: > > > does this mean I have to give all the 48th stuff to that elementary school > > and start over in 72nd....? _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 00:07:27 +0000 From: "Brent Theobald" To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Work & Modeling (Kinda Long) Message-ID: Howdy Gang! I don't know about ya'll. But I am thinking that life is too short for a full time job. I sit here all day at work. My job affords me the time to surf the net a little. I can read about all the models ya'll are working on here on this list and over at Hyper Scale. I can surf other modeling sites. Finally, I can purchase or bid on models and have them sent to me. So, I spend all day waiting to get home in order to do a little modeling. This rarely happens. Instead, there's a mess to clean up on the bench or I'm too tired to do anything else but sit in front of the PC working on my own web site. Today I beat the system! Yup! I smuggled a small ot resin model into my secluded mechanical lab. (Iomega Yak UT-1 nice kit!) I fired up the air extraction system and ground the casting plugs off. Wow! I was modeling before 5pm! What a concept! I think I spent 30 minutes grinding with a very nice dremel and now I have a model ready to assemble. (I wonder when that will happen?) Don't worry about my modeling on the job. Things are pretty slow around here. I've been looking for excuses to hide out in the lab in order to avoid people watching me surf all day. Tomorrow I'm bringing my Fredrichshaven G.III in... Later! Brent _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 01:14:15 +0100 From: "Grzegorz Mazurowski" To: Subject: RE: New web goodies Message-ID: <00a001c16e33$a16ac100$0200a8c0@x.pl> Great model, Bucky! Pity not in 1/72 scale! What plans you used? Do you still possess it (plans)? Write something about that model, please! We are curious! Grzegorz _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 19:16:41 -0500 From: "Steven Perry" To: Subject: RE: New web goodies Message-ID: <01b001c16e33$f7bf9580$61e82341@tampabay.rr.com> > > Bucky sent in some photos of his fabulous scratch built > > Friedrichshafen G. Unbefreakinleivable. Outstanding model Bucky! sp ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 01:20:13 +0100 From: "Grzegorz Mazurowski" To: Subject: RE: D.VII has rehabilitaated herself Message-ID: <004d01c16e34$76c596e0$0200a8c0@x.pl> > She's doing a good deed, for sure! But be careful with the acces to the kit > dêpot, Steve... You won't like to find that the rare "Aurora Naglo > Quadruplane in 1/52th scale" you saved for a rainy day would be given to a > deserving kid from, I don't know... Argentina, or Poland, for instance! :-) > D. Kids in Poland prefers Junkers D.I or Cl.I nowadays, 1/72 of course! :-) G. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 10:20:59 +1000 From: Shane Weier To: "'wwi@wwi-models.org'" Subject: RE: New web goodies Message-ID: <7186131CB805D411A60E0090272F7C7102BCD784@mimhexch1.mim.com.au> SP says: > > > Bucky sent in some photos of his fabulous scratch built > > > Friedrichshafen G. > > Unbefreakinleivable. > It is. You know, when Bucky finished the model (back in *May*!!) he said >p.s. No, I will probably never scratchbuild anything more involved than an >ammo crate ever again. I wonder if the burnout has eased enough for us to start suggesting new subjects to him yet? 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. You are requested to forward unwanted e-mail and address any problems to the MIM Holdings Limited Support Centre. e-mail: supportcentre@mim.com.au phone: Australia 1800500646 International ++61 7 38338042 ********************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 19:35:26 -0500 From: "Steven Perry" To: Subject: RE: New web goodies Message-ID: <01cc01c16e36$9620b5e0$61e82341@tampabay.rr.com> > I wonder if the burnout has eased enough for us to start suggesting new > subjects to him yet? Just itchin to share that scratchbuilder's jinx arent ya? sp ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 10:44:38 +1000 From: Shane Weier To: "'wwi@wwi-models.org'" Subject: RE: New web goodies Message-ID: <7186131CB805D411A60E0090272F7C7102BCD785@mimhexch1.mim.com.au> SP > > I wonder if the burnout has eased enough for us to start > > suggesting new > > subjects to him yet? > > Just itchin to share that scratchbuilder's jinx arent ya? Moi ???? 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. You are requested to forward unwanted e-mail and address any problems to the MIM Holdings Limited Support Centre. e-mail: supportcentre@mim.com.au phone: Australia 1800500646 International ++61 7 38338042 ********************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 16:56:50 -0800 From: Bob Pearson To: Subject: Re: Exhaust channel - Dixie Lee Message-ID: > From: "Neil Eddy" > Peter and Steve; Thanks for the info on the exhaust channel thingie. If its > any consolation my SMER/Eduard version also took some fitting and needed to > be sanded down considerably before it fitted flush. Also the SMER/Eduard > Triplane has a similar colour scheme to the latter 5493 but is "Dixie Lee" - > N6290. > > All the Best > > Neil For the exhaust channel it is far easier to just make a new one from sheet styrene. Glue in two oversize pieces and trim back once dried. N6290 was named Dixie III, not Dixie Lee. I have no idea on the reality of the centre section stripes Bob ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 18:45:26 -0800 (PST) From: Artur Golebiewski To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Age old scale tug of war Message-ID: <20011116024526.62383.qmail@web13902.mail.yahoo.com> --- Grzegorz Mazurowski wrote: > Dear Darth Bittner! > Does it mean we've got him on the right side? > Darth Greg (saluting with his light-excel knife) > > > On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 17:05:25 -0500 (EST), > KnnthS@aol.com wrote: > > > > > does this mean I have to give all the 48th stuff > to that > elementary school > > > and start over in 72nd....? Hey guys! quit that sqabble. As the average age of the modeler keeps climbing the scales get larger so the older folks can still see what they are doing. Back in the Heyday of scale modeling in the sixties and seventies every little kid had a few models at home and was working on others...that is what the parents bought and put under the tree. Those days are gone...now we buy our own models and try to hide the prices and models themselves from our spouses...hoping that in their ignorance they will never know which is new and which is old ( Oh, honey I had that one for at least a year! ) as long as the plastic bag is quickly removed from the box :o) This phenomena has two good sides to it... for the manufacturers they have to go through all the possible makes and models untill each scale is exhausted like 1 72 was ten years ago ( yes I know that there are still some kits missing and many are not up to standards, but you must admit that 99%are out there). We are now on the way to exhaust 1 48 ( probably about 90%complete) and in twenty years we will be looking at our 1 32 scale Albatroses through spectacles while we brush aside a lock of silver gray hair... The other good side is that those few, who atually do undertake the masochism of working in 1 72 command the total admiration of those of us working in 1 48. So hey, in the spirit of cooperation and mutual understanding I am pledging to build a 1 72 scale kit...the subject: V1 flying bomb :o) I should be able to handle that? Artur ( wondering why somebody makes decals for 1 72 instruments....this one is the altimeter and that one is the airspeed indicator...oh really?, what if I loose the instructions... can I just read it off the instrument face? ) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals http://personals.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 22:50:13 EST From: VMA324Vagabonds@aol.com To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: D.VII Message-ID: <59.13138200.2925e6f5@aol.com> --part1_59.13138200.2925e6f5_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 11/14/2001 10:38:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, sperry03@tampabay.rr.com writes: > D.VII is most concerned that I point out to y'all that she does NOT wear a > hair net at work. Her job is the "Shusher" she maintains order & decorum > and > directs the classes to and from tables AH! The Dreaded Baroness Von Lunch Mother, I remember her well. Does she still carry her "Vhistel"!. SP a great story, she is now like the dreaded Typhoid Mary spreading the accursed "plastics stickem together disease". I caught this at a early age and have never been cured from this P.S.T.D. I do the same here at my firehouse, whenever a family or small group of children come in to visit, which is almost every day here, I always look to see who is really interested in a few of the models I have in our kitchen, then I open my stash locker and let them pick one of the kits from a large lot I bought for just such a purpose. I hope that I have passed on the dreaded P.S.T.D. to some brave little soul who will someday do something to pass on the hobby to another youngster. Now to get them interested In WW-l that is the real trick. Best Regards, Jon --part1_59.13138200.2925e6f5_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 11/14/2001 10:38:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, sperry03@tampabay.rr.com writes:


D.VII is most concerned that I point out to y'all that she does NOT wear a
hair net at work. Her job is the "Shusher" she maintains order & decorum and
directs the classes to and from tables


AH! The Dreaded Baroness Von Lunch Mother, I remember her well. Does she still carry her "Vhistel"!.  SP a great story, she is now like the dreaded Typhoid Mary spreading the accursed "plastics stickem together disease". I caught this at a early age and have never been cured from this P.S.T.D. I do the same here at my firehouse, whenever a family or small group of children come in to visit, which is almost every day here, I always look to see who is really interested in a few of the models I have in our kitchen, then I open my stash locker and let them pick one of the kits from a large lot I bought for just such a purpose. I hope that I have passed on the dreaded P.S.T.D. to some brave little soul who will someday do something to pass on the hobby to another youngster. Now to get them interested In WW-l that is the real trick.

Best Regards,
 Jon 


             

--part1_59.13138200.2925e6f5_boundary-- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 04:33:02 From: "Michael Kendix" To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: Age old scale tug of war Message-ID: >From: Artur Golebiewski > The other good side is that those few, who atually >do undertake the masochism of working in 1 72 command >the total admiration of those of us working in 1 48. Finally! I can sleep peacefully. >So hey, in the spirit of cooperation and mutual >understanding I am pledging to build a 1 72 scale >kit...the subject: V1 flying bomb :o) I should be able >to handle that? OHHH! He said a bad word -- Doodlebug! >Artur ( wondering why somebody makes decals for 1 72 >instruments....this one is the altimeter and that one >is the airspeed indicator...oh really?, what if I >loose the instructions... can I just read it off the >instrument face? ) Just send them over here and I'll tell you what they say. Small IS Beautiful Michael (5'4" - hey , at least I'm not bald!). _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 14:45:12 +1000 From: Shane Weier To: "'wwi@wwi-models.org'" Subject: RE: Age old scale tug of war Message-ID: <7186131CB805D411A60E0090272F7C7102BCD78E@mimhexch1.mim.com.au> Artur says: > and in twenty years we will be looking > at our 1 32 scale Albatroses through spectacles while > we brush aside a lock of silver gray hair... I'm going to grow back my hair ? !!!! Fantastic !!!! Shane nb Eduard Dr.1 Needs only paint touchup and a coat of varnish nb Konig Badly underestimated how long the brass bits would take :-( nb Snipe Waiting for the above to be completed.... nu Caproni ....sigh............... ********************************************************************** 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. You are requested to forward unwanted e-mail and address any problems to the MIM Holdings Limited Support Centre. e-mail: supportcentre@mim.com.au phone: Australia 1800500646 International ++61 7 38338042 ********************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 00:03:11 EST From: KnnthS@aol.com To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: Age old scale tug of war Message-ID: Grzegorz- We just be havin fun... Think I joined the list just to blow raspberries at Matt. >those few who are working in 72 command the total admiration of those of us >working in 48. Absolutely. I get all excited about good reference and as I look at a new posting of someone's beauty and pride, there sits "1/72nd scale" and I say "whaa...?" Like this: I look at your 72 stuff, guys, as reference for my 48. How's that? It's all good. : | Ken ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 15:11:37 +1000 From: Shane Weier To: "'wwi@wwi-models.org'" Subject: Re: Age old scale tug of war Message-ID: <7186131CB805D411A60E0090272F7C7102BCD791@mimhexch1.mim.com.au> Ken says: > Think I joined the list just to blow raspberries at Matt. That's my job. OTOH, now I can take a vacation with conscience clear ;-) > Like this: > I look at your 72 stuff, guys, as reference for my 48. > How's that? It's all good. LOL 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. You are requested to forward unwanted e-mail and address any problems to the MIM Holdings Limited Support Centre. e-mail: supportcentre@mim.com.au phone: Australia 1800500646 International ++61 7 38338042 ********************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 06:58:25 -0300 From: "Diego Fernetti" To: "ww1 list" Subject: there is no rest for old soldiers Message-ID: <007101c16e85$3bffa540$4640a8c0@ssp.salud.rosario.gov.ar> Sorry for being the carrier of bad news early today, but a friend of mine sent me this excerpt from a newspaper. Can this be true? International airport on Somme battlefield will force the first mass removal of soldiers' graves By John Lichfield in Vermandovillers 15 November 2001 Over the bodies of the living and the dead, the French government will plough ahead with plans for an international airport on the Somme battlefields and war cemeteries 80 miles north of Paris. Despite the collapse in air travel since 11 September and despite evidence that Paris has no pressing need for a third big airport, Lionel Jospin, the Prime Minister, will approve plans tonight to build a futuristic terminal at Chaulnes, almost halfway between Paris and Calais. The government hopes eventually that the airport, designed for long-haul flights, will draw traffic from Britain and other countries. At least one village will have to be destroyed and three largely dismantled to make way for the airport, next to the high-speed railway to London, Brussels and Lille. The site, controversial for several reasons, will force the first mass removal of graves of soldiers killed in the First World War. A small British cemetery containing the remains of 20 soldiers killed in March 1918, on land granted "in perpetuity" by the French state, like all British war cemeteries, falls within the proposed airport boundary. So does a large French military cemetery, also containing six British graves. The 15-year construction of the terminal will also force the removal of the bodies of 22,665 German soldiers, in one of the largest German war cemeteries in France, now occupying the site of what will be the airport's northern runway. Mike Johnson of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission said no British war cemetery in France had been moved before. "We would object vigorously," he said. Eckhardt Holtz, of the German war graves authority in Metz, said his first reaction had been that moving so many graves was impossible. "But if the French insist, and they pay to build another cemetery elsewhere, and they are moving their own cemetery near by, I suppose we cannot stand in their way." Press reports say Chaulnes will be selected from a shortlist of eight possible airport sites by Mr Jospin and a group of ministers in Paris. The location has been chosen, in part, to relieve protests against air traffic noise in the Paris suburbs. But the site has also been pushed vigorously by Air France, the state-owned airline, which hopes the inter-continental terminal will attract passengers from Belgium and from Britain. The airport will be less than two hours from London by rail once the high-speed line through Kent and eastern London is completed. It will be 30 minutes from Paris by TGV and 45 minutes from Brussels. But the choice of the Chaulnes area has infuriated people living there. "It is our memories, our childhoods that they are rubbing out," said Ghislaine Caussin, 71, whose home in the village of Vermandovillers stands in the middle of what will become a main runway. Raphael Poupard, 61, the Mayor, is struggling to mount a rearguard action from his one-room town hall, with one telephone line and no fax machine. "Look at the map," Mr Poupard said. "The other threatened villages may survive a little but we will be wiped out 100 per cent. Vermandovillers will be scratched from the map of France. And why? No airport built so far from a city has ever succeeded." Mr Poupard has a point. Although the Chaulnes site seems logical, next to a junction of two motorways and the TGV line to the north, its apparent advantages are misleading. The A1 motorway to Paris is already choked. The TGV line is running at full capacity. Two new tracks would have to be added all the way to Paris to serve the airport. Northern France is, in any case, an air traffic bottleneck. Putting the airport south of Paris would have made more sense. Yves Crochet, the French Environment Minister, who is from the Green party, says there is no need for a third airport, after Charles de Gaulle and Orly. The complaints of pressure groups in the Paris suburbs could be met by trans- ferring freight and other flights to the provinces. But this misses the real argument. The promise of expansion at an intercontinental airport within 15 to 20 years will give Air France a huge advantage in the battle for domination of the European skies, as smaller carriers disappear. Putting that airport within a short high-speed train ride of Britain, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany will, Air France hopes, prove to be a strategic masterstroke. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 07:06:02 -0300 From: "Diego Fernetti" To: Subject: RE: Age old scale tug of war Message-ID: <009d01c16e86$4c167de0$4640a8c0@ssp.salud.rosario.gov.ar> Artur! > The other good side is that those few, who actually > do undertake the masochism of working in 1 72 command > the total admiration of those of us working in 1 48 We knew that! We knew that! > So hey, in the spirit of cooperation and mutual > understanding I am pledging to build a 1 72 scale > kit...the subject: V1 flying bomb :o) I should be able > to handle that? I guess that you would be able to handle any model that you want. The important thing is having fun and building what you really like. So, BUILD A NIUEPORT! > Artur ( wondering why somebody makes decals for 1 72 > instruments....this one is the altimeter and that one > is the airspeed indicator...oh really?, what if I > loose the instructions... can I just read it off the > instrument face? ) Just install them start the engine and push the throttle gently.... wichever moves first is the RPM indicator. ;-) D. ------------------------------ End of WWI Digest 3896 **********************