This is a site you’ll find if you search for “Douglas Bader Hurricane” on Google. It’s a kit review by a fellow named Tom Cleaver,…
As my loyal readers already know, I have a problem with the dysfunctional mini-industry that has been built around the obsessions of a few old-timers…
Now that I’m fully wired up and have access to a “Bat Computer” level of electronic data, I find that building some models takes on…
Did World War II ground crews apply paste wax to fighter planes in order to make them faster? This particular idea show up on forums…
Anybody who is interested in aviation history knows what NASA means–the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States. They are the people who…
Nicholas Millman is an author and blogger who has turned his interest in the science of color and the color of Japanese warplanes in particular…
Since I haven’t done anything on the Ouragan model, I thought I’d continue that FASCINATING essay on the myth of the 02 Messerschmitt. I got…
There isn’t one. A great RLM 02 debate. It doesn’t exist. What I’m trying to say here is that it’s “generally accepted” AKA “the common…
Barely an entry today, at all. But I am going to mention this groovy website. The Internet Movie Plane Database. This site is actually good…
I’m calling this entry “variety pack” because I’m not sticking to any one subject today. IT’S A FREE-OR-ALL. (Recently, someone asked me if “free for…