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    A walk-around of the Dutch Mk.4 from the Miltary Aviation Museum in Soesterberg: http://aircraftwalkaround.hobbyvista.com/meteor/meteor.htm
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    Hmmm, but another Group Build? We do have 4 running at the moment. Another one would be a bit too much in my view. But to vote the "LSM model of the year" would be great!
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    Eh? You're jesting I'm sure?
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    Yes!! PCM Hurricane build! I have both the fabric and the metal wing kit! Which of the kit markings in the metal-wing kit had the DeHavilland prop? As for Jim's question: the Trumpeter is the better one and looks real good! I personally have a set of Techmod decals for it, although the codes are a bit dark...
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    This P-47D on display in the Main Hall of the RAF Museum, Hendon was never on charge with an RAF unit. Indeed, this P-47D-40-RA, built at Evansville, in June, 1945, was never issued to a U.S. frontline unit! It remained with various USAF storage units until May, 1952, when it was sent to Yugoslavia (at that time nominally neutral) under the Mutual Assistance Pact. In 1985, Doug Arnold, who was a great aircraft 'wheeler and dealer', managed to get two stored Yugoslav P-47s out of Belgrade and brought them back to his nascent 'Warbirds of Great Britain Collection' in Leicestershire. He swapped one of them for a Spitfire LF XIVe which had been 'on the gate' at an RAF base, and the RAF Museum took charge of the Thunderbolt. Work was undertaken at the Restoration Centre at RAF Cosford, then a heavy rebuild to static exhibition standard was undertaken by The Fighter Company at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford. Evetually, it would appear in 2004 at Hendon in a Dark Earth, Dark Green camouflage scheme, typical of SEAC, with the white markings on the cowling, wings and tail to identify it as a P-47. It is shown as a Thunderbolt Mk II, 'KL216' of No 30 Squadron (Motto: 'Ventre a terre' - 'All out'), coded 'RS - L', which flew the T-bolt from July, 1944 to June, 1946, when they were replaced by Tempest Mk II aircraft. (Tekst copied from http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/16/1216519/-RAF-P-47D-Thunderbolt-big-and-burly-just-right-for-Burma# ) I didn't do a complete walk-around, just snapped a couple of details that may come in handy when you're building a big-scale P-47!
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    Lancaster B.1 R5868 - RAF Museum, Hendon The oldest surviving Lancaster in the world, the RAF Museum's R5868 has an enviable war record, having flown 137 operational sorties, including 8 trips to Berlin and 16 to the Ruhr. The aircraft actually started life on the Metropolitan Vickers production line in Manchester as an Avro Manchester (part of a batch ordered in 1939), but was completed as a Lancaster. It was delivered to 83 Squadron at RAF Scampton on 29 June 1942. Text from: http://www.lancastered627.shaunmcguire.co.uk/Surviving%20Lancasters.htm
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