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Jure Miljevic

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  1. Hello Jan I agree with you about your assumption about German ex-flyer. Also, thanks for the interesting story. Thinking again about P3975 I should probably quit looking for its unpublished photo and just build the model without additional fancy cocardes and emblems. Most of the warplanes on all sides were in standard camouflage and markings anyway. Regards Jure
  2. Hello, Jan Very interesting. I was aware that many foreign pilots in RAF fought under assumed names, but I have been under impression this had been done to prevent German retaliation against their families and relatives, living in occupied countries, and not to conceal their nationalities. I understand German interrogators had been known to be very perceptive and the best policy had been to keep one's mouth shot at all times. Ex-pilot, who interrogated Jiri Manak alias George Manning (hardly very imaginative assumed name: I have no idea how surname Manak would translate, but Jiri (or Jure
  3. Hi, Jan I have found colour profiles of P3975 with Czechoslovakian cocarde, Kosciuszko sqn. emblem and also with both CS cocarde and Kosciuszko sqn. emblem. It is probably just a question of time until profile with CS cocarde, Kosciuszko sqn. emblem and Polish red-white insignia on the cowling also appears. My guess is P3975 RF-U was without any additional markings and with black spinner, although I would be very happy if a photo surfaces, which would prove me wrong. In my opinion Czechoslovak pilots in RAF took a risk of being captured as an occupational hazard. Nazi Germany cared little
  4. Hi, Jan Very interesting article. I always wanted to build a model of the plane, he had been flying that day, Hurricane I P3975 RF-U. There are plenty of colour profiles of this plane around, which is usually presented with a Czechoslovakian cocarde just below cockpit rails and red spinner. Unfortunately, I still have not found a photo, which would confirm these markings. Regards Jure
  5. Hi Punder Probably radio altimeter aerials. Regards Jure
  6. Hi, Don There is also the old IAI Kfir book from AJ Press. About 45 pages, photos, pretty good drawings, colour profiles, the usual. To me the most interesting are two photos of Ecuador Kfir C.2, which got Peruvian A-37 back in 1995. I understand that represent a half of all air-to-air victories of the type. Cheers Jure
  7. Hello Several b/w photos in various publications show F-89H aircraft of the Oregon ANG with three horizontal stripes on the vertical tail between the horizontal tail and the fuselage. The upper and the lower one seems to be fairly dark, with what appears to be white stripe sandwiched between them. There is also an emblem of the 142nd FIG, placed in the middle of the white stripe. Oregon ANG F-89Hs wore these stripes for a short period of time just before being replaced by F-89Js in second half of the 1960. Googling about the issue got me nowhere, although I found out that one of the colours
  8. Hi, Ikar I did not realise you are talking from personal experience. When I first saw photos of this helicopter, it took me some time to figure out how rotors do not cut down one another when operating. That was not clear to me until I saw a model my friend built and realised rotors were tilted. I found photos of both camouflaged and silver or light gray Pedros, used in Vietnam. It is a shame only Mach2 builds it in 1/72 scale. I have their Caravelle in 1/72 and to assure a half decent look of Mach2 kits when assembled one has to invest a lot of work. Still, lacking any other choice ... Ika
  9. Hi, Ikar I googled the web and you were right, of course. The Huskie I was talking about was not in 1/48, it was in 1/32 and it was Italieri kit. In my defence I would like to say that with such a small chopper it is easy to misjudge the scale, especially as the last time I saw this model was some 30 years ago. Your H-43 looks pretty sharp. I like the heat marks on exhaust pipe. I presume the type of camouflage on a real H-43 had been applied locally? Regards Jure
  10. A friend of mine built H-43 in 1/48 a long time ago. I think it was Esci kit and it turned out quite decent. How do Huskie kits fare in 1/72? Regards Jure
  11. IIRC some ten or fifteen years ago one of future improved Grippen propositions included no vertical tail at all. Reasoning behind that was that the plane is flown by wire anyway and dispensing with vertical tail would lower weight and reduce drag. Nothing came out of that (yet), still Grippen E looks like pretty good plane. Regards Jure
  12. Congratulations on your airbrushing skills, wisco8. I would probably run out of patience before completing the first silver curve. I'm going to do my model of Hasegawa/Revell Lear jet 35 in colours of Slovenian government, but I have to make decals for that scheme first. Regards Jure
  13. Yes, I've already found that one and several other spreader catalogues but those all look far too advanced for the WWII period. There's a description of Stearman' spray unit from 1943 or 1944 in Air war against pests article. Unfortunately I can't remember where on the web I found it. It seems Stearman's equipment has been developed from Piper Cub unit from 1943. However the article only talks about spraying liquid DDT so I guess different equipment must have been used for dusting. Regards Jure
  14. OK, we'll see what can be found in the book. Regards Jure
  15. Hi famvburg Thanks for the information about the book, I ordered myself one. About home-made spreaders ... Do you thing AAF would also resort to this improvise equipment? Especially as it appears that three AAF PT-17B had been converted for dusting. Regards Jure
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