Best scale photo!
#5327
Nice looking plane. I like the bomb drop caught on-camera. One minor point for future reference. On the photos of the right side of the aircraft, the squadron code letters should be "WZ", not ZW. This is a common error because very few planes were photographed on the right side, so unless you know about squadron codes being the same on both sides, you'd have to guess what it looked like. "WZ" refers to an aircraft assigned to the 84th Fighter Squadron, 78th Fighter Group out of Duxford England in WWII. The single letter aft of the star and bar on the fuselage was the individual aircraft letter, unique to that aircraft. If you see a bar below the individual aircraft letter, that means that there was more than one assigned to the squadron with that identification.
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davegee
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davegee
#5329
#5331
That's one nice looking plane. With a decent engine (read power), the models fly staggeringly well too don't they.
Sorry for the pun but they do.
Interesting to note that the F3A guys discovered only a few years ago that if they added a small wing behind the canopy, alined approximately with the trailing edge of the lower wing, it dramatically improved performance/ earodynamics.
What goes around, comes around.
Sorry for the non scale picky BTW. Descriptive purpose only... you understand
Sorry for the pun but they do.
Interesting to note that the F3A guys discovered only a few years ago that if they added a small wing behind the canopy, alined approximately with the trailing edge of the lower wing, it dramatically improved performance/ earodynamics.
What goes around, comes around.
Sorry for the non scale picky BTW. Descriptive purpose only... you understand
Last edited by David Bathe; 02-04-2014 at 05:01 AM.
#5349
That's what I thought! Fantastic image. I know a lot of time, the tack-sharp photos get all the praise but these other types of photos can sometimes be more evocative of the feel and even weight of the full-scale. The fact that I can't quite make out all the detail, makes it all the more appealing to me.