Spreading my wings - Page 2

**Don Boose** · #11 08-15-2009, 03:47 PM

And the York, and Lancastrian, and a backdating of Lex's Comet to the Comet I version and the Hastings and . . .

**Gixergs** · #12 08-16-2009, 04:05 AM

Ooooohhhh Princess there's a thought!

**peter taft** · #13 08-16-2009, 05:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Gixergs

Ooooohhhh Princess there's a thought!

Our Phil loves his flying boats

**Gixergs** · #14 08-16-2009, 06:19 AM

Certainly do! of course there is a certain obligation on my part,this picture of an Empire boat was taken just behind my house,sadly long before I was around to see them although my neighbour did use them as see-saws on the river as a kid.

**Don Boose** · #15 08-16-2009, 08:50 AM

And BOAC Boeing 314s still flew out of Baltimore Harbor when I was a kid in the late 1940s.

Photo: The Yankee Clipper Lands at Harbor Field, March, 1939
Photographed by Robert Kniesche, Maryland Historical Society Library, Special Collections Department. Photo 31: Maryland in Focus; Panel 3: Photogragh as Historical Document

A bit off the topic of British 1940s airliners in general and the Brabazon in particular, but still . . .

Don

**peter taft** · #16 08-16-2009, 11:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Don Boose

And BOAC Boeing 314s still flew out of Baltimore Harbor when I was a kid in the late 1940s.

Photo: The Yankee Clipper Lands at Harbor Field, March, 1939
Photographed by Robert Kniesche, Maryland Historical Society Library, Special Collections Department. Photo 31: Maryland in Focus; Panel 3: Photogragh as Historical Document

A bit off the topic of British 1940s airliners in general and the Brabazon in particular, but still . . .

Don

The CLIPPER is one of the nicest looking FB's and AIRFIX do {or did} a kit which was quite good - but in the not paper variety

**Gixergs** · #17 08-16-2009, 12:03 PM

Shes a Short Empire Boat the precursor to the Sunderland and the Boeing 314 Clipper's main rival.Airfix have re-released the 314,she's a bit long in the tooth now but still well worth having.

**peter taft** · #18 08-16-2009, 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Gixergs

Shes a Short Empire Boat the precursor to the Sunderland and the Boeing 314 Clipper's main rival.Airfix have re-released the 314,she's a bit long in the tooth now but still well worth having.

Yes i had to go and have a look at that because she looked so much like the Sunderland i wasn't too sure. Airfix are re-ashing lots of items and adding new stuff too, but never again will a piece of plastic model pass through my fingertips - papers here to stay

**Gixergs** · #19 08-16-2009, 12:15 PM

Must confess to being Bi Media, I have the Clipper and the 1/48 TSR2 both given to me by my Brother.

**GaryPilsworth** · #20 08-17-2009, 12:15 AM

Textures started !!!!!