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    I have three more in my stash, and I'll build every single one. You want a fun HPH build? Try a Walrus on for size. That will give you all kinds of fun times.
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    This is amazing! The Huskie is out of this world!
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    John, you KNOW you’ll be doing another. Its a tough build, but as resin kits go, it ain’t bad at all. Not shake and bake, but decent and nice.
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    As far as I've been able to tell, the Lancastrian started in late 44 as a special built transport from Victory Aircraft, and apparently it was a hit, because they started building a bunch of them. I think they started building them in Britain, as well, but I'm not sure.
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    All we were waiting on....
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    Did they ever pull that one up, or salvage it in any way? That's a priceless artifact. There was once a York, complete with engines, beached somewhere up there. I think the went back and pulled it all out, but some of it might still be there. Mostly it's DC-3s, C-46s, and C-54s. 185s, Beavers and Otters usually get choppered out, but the Fokkers are invisible, even if they're still there. The wing rots away and the steel tubes disappear into the tundra.
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    When Floyd told me he was doing once vertical full power pulls to 11,000 ft over Baltimore on test flights I had visions of some clown like me running him over. I'd bop along just under 10,000 and a chopper is the very last thing I'd be looking for up there. many of those Beaver, 185, and Otter guys think they're rock skimming cars, not low flying aircraft. The 185 was a Provincial bird up there. Anyone trying to make a buck had one. 206s were for the pinky in the air Genteel Class.
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    Resin dust literally everywhere.
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    Time to clean up this mess.
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    Gazz, Gazz, Gazz.... sigh. The 20s certainly was a rapidly developing period in aircraft design. From open cockpit DH.9a’s in 1920, 15 years later we had the DC-2 and DC-3, completely modern transcontinental capable airliners. But to get there, we needed development. The late 20s Fokkers were the bridge. Construction still based on the past, but aerodynamic, capability, performance, reliability, and comfort approaching modern day standards. The Standard Universal, with its open cockpit, was still firmly old timey, but with very small tweaks, the bigger Super Universal was thoroughly modern. And the Soper was a warplane. It was produced in Japan and flew well into WW2.
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    Winnie, the Charon Lake aircraft was a myth when I was flying up there. It was rumored to be a STANDARD Universal, not a Super. G-CAJD. That open cockpit must have been a JOY to work in when it was 50 below at altitude. I’d have never hacked it. Maybe when I was 25, but not now. i just did a search on “The Ghost of Charron Lake”, and indeed it is a Standard Universal. It broke through the ice and was abandoned and left where it was. When the ice melted in the spring, it flew down to its final resting spot, practically undamaged. Which makes it all the more unique, is because the Standard Universal is absolutely extinct in this world and a restored aircraft would be priceless. Theres a lot of Fokkers up in the north to this day. Long forgotten and left where they lay. You certainly are aware of the fun times up north available to all that stick it out for longer than a week. You chopper guys are crazy. The crap y’all do for pennies makes me shake my head. I was always worried about running one of y’all down when joining the pattern at some Unicom gravel strip. Y’all are darn near bloody invisible. Especially end on. Of course we relaxed when we got much over 2000 ft. Then it became swarms of 185s and Otters
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    Way, way, waaay too much information here.
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    That goes for me as well
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    My wife watches it. I just think it’s stupid
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    Awesome attention to detail, and the research on this little gem must be insane!
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    I checked one night and here was one single Like left. Any guesses to who used them all? Leaving one single lonely little Like is rude. Almost like leaving one half a spoonful of ice cream on the bottom of the gallon pail.
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    Just to add to the list of future flyable Lancs, FM104, which was the subject of my conversion build a year or two ago is in the middle of a full restoration and return to flight status. FM104 is being restored to it's final 1964 scheme, and hopefully within several years, we will see a spiffy White and Silver Lanc 10MR grace the skies again. She spent way too many years stuck on a post, so this is very good news indeed.
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    Guys, I'm looking into adding a few features, one of which should make Harv incredibly happy. MORE LIKES! Harv has run us completely out of Likes on several occasions, so we will be increasing the Like Tank from 22,500 per day to over 450,000! And more emojis or emoticons, or whatever they call them, along with different "Like" options. No biggie, but little things like that go a long ways to making it "fun" for others.
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    Happy Birthday to Father Time!! Primordial dust. Love ya, buddy!
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    My guess would be about 5 minutes after delivery to the customer. I can see that fancy upholstery getting yanked and plywood benches with ropes for seatbelts bolted to the floor. Plus fake woodgrain panels for the sidewalls. I'd almost put money on there being more than one northern home with some oddball art deco wicker basket chairs inside that nobody has a clue about where they came from. Who knows, they might end up on the television, featured on "Antique Roadshow" someday. But with history telling us how much of a penny pincher Tony Fokker was, maybe he sold these things to the Northlanders for a $10.00 discount without the fancy fabrics.
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    It seems the witch was already here at my shop.
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    Of all the stupid things, I struggled with the canopy fit on my first one of these. I let my guard down for 10 seconds and ended up creating myself 10 days needless work.
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    Looks great, John. This kit will throw you a curve every now and then Clever, eh? But in your defense, you're always chasing the little things with this. I think it's gonna be one of those great builds.
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