Author Topic: Pony lovers DON'T LOOK!  (Read 709 times)

Offline edge12674

  • Nickel Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 433
Pony lovers DON'T LOOK!
« on: December 29, 2009, 05:41:06 PM »
For those that love the P-51 I just had to post this link.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1237180/THE-WIDER-VIEW-Three-years-making-boys-dream--ultimate-home-model-aeroplane.html

Almost makes you cry!  :devil

TShark =Ghosts=

TShark
"If you are alone and meet a lone Zero, run like hell...You're outnumbered" - Joe Foss USMC 26 kills

Offline Widewing

  • Plutonium Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 8801
Re: Pony lovers DON'T LOOK!
« Reply #1 on: December 29, 2009, 06:57:28 PM »
 I noted that one commentator on the P-51 said the following:
"Mr Park claims this was the "most beautiful of the WWII fighters". But look at the aeroplane again, is it not descended directly from the iconic Supermarine Spitfire, itself regarded by so many as the most beautiful of its kind ever made? This model is superb and deserves its place on display. Was not the Mustang, designed at the request of the British, to enter the war in late 1943 powered by the (British) Rolls Royce Merlin engine?"

Ignorance has a cure, unlike stupid which is eventually fatal.  ;) Unfortunately, they are not taking further comments, so this series of errors cannot be corrected.


My regards,

Widewing
My regards,

Widewing

YGBSM. Retired Member of Aces High Trainer Corps, Past President of the DFC, retired from flying as Tredlite.

Offline Kweassa

  • Platinum Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 6425
Re: Pony lovers DON'T LOOK!
« Reply #2 on: December 29, 2009, 07:52:55 PM »

Bah.. big fat Ami planes and smurfy Brit planes...wimpy Italian planes, origami Japanese planes, and stubby Russky planes..

Who needs those when you can have the elegant 109s and 190s?




Offline PFactorDave

  • Platinum Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 4334
Re: Pony lovers DON'T LOOK!
« Reply #3 on: December 29, 2009, 08:19:56 PM »
One of the photos looks like he is working on an F4U...  Very cool, wish I had the talent.

1st Lieutenant
FSO Liaison Officer
Rolling Thunder

Offline MachFly

  • Platinum Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 6296
Re: Pony lovers DON'T LOOK!
« Reply #4 on: December 30, 2009, 12:18:54 AM »
 :O
It probably costs as much as the real thing  :old:

I have never seen any model airplane made that well before.
"Now, if I had to make the choice of one fighter aircraft above all the others...it would be, without any doubt, the world's greatest propeller driven flying machine - the magnificent and immortal Spitfire."
Lt. Col. William R. Dunn
flew Spitfires, Hurricanes, P-51s, P-47s, and F-4s

Offline Rich46yo

  • Platinum Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 7358
Re: Pony lovers DON'T LOOK!
« Reply #5 on: December 30, 2009, 12:33:00 AM »
Very impressive work. :aok
"flying the aircraft of the Red Star"

Offline bravoa8

  • Silver Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 1571
Re: Pony lovers DON'T LOOK!
« Reply #6 on: December 30, 2009, 01:13:26 AM »
That's detailed! :O