Good Morning, Oppo

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 09/07/2018 at 09:30 • Filed to: good morning oppo

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Have a great weekend and, wherever you go, be sure to save room for a friend.

Wheelerguy > ttyymmnn 09/07/2018 at 09:38

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I am fascinated by papercraft models, but even more fascinated with whether or not I can make it run.

Of course, you change the wheels and internals, but do you think it’s doable? How would R/C papercraft  perform compared to a plastic shell?

ttyymmnn > Wheelerguy 09/07/2018 at 10:03

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Is this reply in the right place?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 09/07/2018 at 10:13

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If you’re saving room for a friend, but it’s not a friend you really want to get close to, Vickers has just the bomber for you:

Wheelerguy > ttyymmnn 09/07/2018 at 10:34

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ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/07/2018 at 10:34

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Or the Fairey Gannet. Stick that third wheel in the back and forget about him.

ttyymmnn > Wheelerguy 09/07/2018 at 10:35

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What?

Wheelerguy > ttyymmnn 09/07/2018 at 10:47

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S omehow I managed to mark the wrong lamp-post. I need sleep.

How about this one?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 09/07/2018 at 10:50

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If you have a Catalina with the semi-open front turret, you have a mother-in-law position. If you have a Short Sunderland, you have remote locations for a mother-in-law *and* an ex, or something.

The front turret was hydraulically retractable for mooring purposes, which I’m sure looks really obscene in action.

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/07/2018 at 10:51

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I’m not sure I want to give my MIL or my ex a handful of machine guns. Also, the Sunderland was an awesome beast. The Germans called it the Flying Porcupine.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 09/07/2018 at 10:59

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Speaking of giving people excess weapons, have you run across this before?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.Ae._30_%C3%91anc%C3%BA

I’m a simple man, I saw two Merlins stapled to a small fuselage in an image search and I clicked. 6x 20mm if it had gone into service ... yowza. You’d have had to re-trim the controls every time it fired.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 09/07/2018 at 11:06

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Also, for some reason I either hadn’t encountered or didn’t remember the Martin B-10:

The one I had been trying to think of to make more canopy arrangement jokes was the Fairey Battle, because, well, obviously.

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/07/2018 at 11:13

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I have never seen that before. What a great find. That goes in the “future articles” pile. Thanks.

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/07/2018 at 11:13

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You could put an entire conservatory under the greenhouse of the Battle.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 09/07/2018 at 11:18

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Here’s a video on the Sunderland you might enjoy:

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/07/2018 at 11:27

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That was cool. I didn’t see a year on it, so it’s hard to tell what part of the Airlift they were taking part in. Considering the clockwork operations underway at land-based airports, I wonder just how effective the Sunderlands were, considering the difficulties of unloading to boats and then  ferrying the supplies ashore.

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/07/2018 at 11:32

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Or, you could have had six . 5 0's and a single 75mm.

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/07/2018 at 11:45

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What is that? GIS thinks it’s a Lancaster.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 09/07/2018 at 11:47

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Which one? The very first picture is a Wellesley.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers_Wellesley

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/07/2018 at 11:55

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That’s the one. It’s a type I wasn’t familiar with.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 09/07/2018 at 13:03

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I don’t think there are any Wellesley survivors - probably haven’t been since the ‘50s. The Barnes Wallis exhibit at Brooklands only had a picture of an Africa campaign one and some information, which, if neither the RAF museum nor the Vickers plant has much, it’s nearly as forgotten as a major Allied airframe can be.

Somewhat popular in model form, though.

Also, a link for you:

https://www.barneswallisfoundation.co.uk/life-and-work/geodetic-aircraft-design/

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/07/2018 at 13:06

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Looks like a good read. Thanks!