[WWI] Lanoe G. Hawker VC

[J.R. Boye]

      Yes, Mike, Flying Machine Press - formerly from right here in Mountain View, California.
       
      Yeah, Mike Vice, I know that Wingnuts is releasing a DH2. So I may be tempted. I have built three 1/32 aircraft in the past, all made into cutaway models mounted on wall plaques and given to my son as gifts. I don't think I could bring myself to do that to a DH2. Besides, it would make a lousy cutaway model :-)

                                                       J.R. Boye




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From: "mkessler73 at verizon.net" <mkessler73 at verizon.net>
To: wwi at wwi-models.org
Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2009 9:42:07 AM
Subject: Re: [WWI] Lanoe G. Hawker VC


J.R.,
 
The book is worth the read, if you're interested in him.  It was written by his brother, who obviously had a lot of love and respect for him.  It is of course a tragic tale due to Hawker's tragic end.  I'll have to pick up Mr.Revell's book.  Is that the one from Flying Machne Press?
 
Thanks,
Matt K.


May 23, 2009 12:13:56 AM, wwi at wwi-models.org wrote:

Hi Mike;

     The "Victoria Cross" book by Alex Revell has a chapter on Mr. Hawker, plus a profile of the Bristol in which he won the VC.
      I've never read the biography you mention, but I should because I have always respected Hawker. I plan to build a model of his armed  Bristol 'C' out of the Omega resin kit (a very expensive little kit which I could not normally afford- I used my Roll Models prize certificate to obtain it. I have a little head-scratching to do on it because a full-circle cowling is not provided for some reason).
      If I were to be tempted by a Wingnuts offering, it would be to build a nice large representation of Hawker's DH 2.

                                                J.R. Boye
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