joncarrfarrelly

From P&W and Wright documents on the AEHS (Aircraft Engine Historical Society) site. Douglas A-20A/B/E, P-70, Boeing A-20C: R-2600-11, Diameter 55" (1397 mm). 1.145833" (29.104167 mm) in 1/48th. Lockheed PV-1, PV-2A/B/C/D, RB-34, RB-34A/B: R-2800-31, Diameter 52.5" (1333.5 mm). 1.09375" (27.78125 mm) in 1/48th. Lengths are 65" (1651 mm) and 75.72" (1923.288 mm), respectively. FWIW the R-2600-13 used in the B-37 variant of the Ventura series was 54.26" diameter, 63.1" long. http://www.enginehistory.org/reference.shtml BTW those "factory" cowl drawings are assembly drawings, not patte

CW Lam also has a site on Chinese aircraft insignia which includes 'warlord' forces: http://storm.prohosting.com/cwlam/part1.htm He also has this site on Chinese aviation, mostly in Chinese but still useful: http://cwlam2000.0catch.com/index.htm Jon

S.T. Joshi writing in The Annotated H.P. Lovecraft in note 7 to At the Mountains of Madness (page 181) 7 Dornier aeroplanes: More exactly, as Jason C. Eckhardt ("Behind the Madness: Lovecraft and the Antarctic in 1930", Lovecraft Studies No. 14 [spring 1987]:31-38) points out, Dornier Do-J "Wal" airplanes ... Eckhardt quotes Lincoln Ellsworth's explanation for the use of these planes for flying over the North Pole in 1924 ... The Dornier-Wal planes were capable of carrying 7000 pounds of cargo. Eckhardt basing his calculations on those supplied by Byrd, has conjectured that the total cargo o

Not quite, the Mr. Color line are a synthetic acrylic lacquer, not a cellulose lacquer. Cellulose lacquers are derived from plant sources, thus the word cellulose. The Tamiya sprays are also a synthetic acrylic lacquer. BTW the word acrylic in paint terms is a reference to the resin base and has nothing to do with water, acrylic-resin based paints can be water thinned or hydrocarbon solvent thinned it all depends on the particular paint formulation. Tamiya acrylic paints can be thinned with water, alcohol or lacquer thinner. Jon

Kinda hard to walk on the bottom of the airplane. Also not simply an issue of bad paint, there was the matter of combat conditions, tempo of operations and lack of maintenance time/materials. Jon

1/48th http://www.hlj.com/product/FUJ32031 Jon

In 'The Curtiss Hawks: P-1 Through P-40 Series' by Shamburger and Christy they quote Curtiss engineer Edwin C.Walton on designing the Hawk III: "... substituted short stub exhaust stacks on the engine in lieu of the newer collector ring, modified the NACA cowl to suit,... " " I recall that I installed armor plate behind and under the pilot's seats on Hawk going to China." No aluminum cockpit lining is visible here: http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/2841/chiiipo8.jpg The cutaway in the Curtiss Hawks book does not show a cockpit lining on the BF2C-1/Hawk II but it does show a lining on t

FWIW, from Scale Models January 1980. Jon

Irrelevant to the post-1962 designation system. But, to play the game, the original C-5 was a Fokker F-10 and the C-17 was a Lockheed Vega. Jon

Nope, those are still KC-767s, which BTW was originally the Boeing company designation not a DoD designation. The use of KC-767A by the DoD to designate the 'leased' tankers (remember that debacle?) came later. http://www.designation-systems.net/usmilav...html#_MDS_KC767 I doubt very much that the tankers already sold or on order to foreign buyers will be re-designated as KC-45, and if they are it will be done by Boeing for marketing reasons. Jon

SOS Sergio, SOS. :D The finish is pretty much dead flat, yet still has a subtle metallic sheen. Try some steel metallizer mixed with light grey. Tondelayo's gun awaits, sitting in its little package pining for a sunnier clime. Cheers, Jon

Hi Sergio, howzit? The guns most likely are parkerized, the finish can vary from very light to very dark grey. Cheers, Jon

The pic is of the sole XP-37. Jon

The Curtiss is one of the 13 service test YP-37s, the XP-37 was finished in aluminum lacquer. Both types had the scoop under the nose on the stbd. side, the XP-37 scoop was slightly different in shape and had a single center-mounted splitter plate. The YP-37 was 25 inches longer than the XP-37, the length was added behind the cockpit. Jon

The method of construction, not the actual component design is what I was referencing. Fokker DVII reproduction PW-9D/Model 15D earlier Army cousin of the FB-5. Jon