Clunkmeister

John, or anyone, I'm curious about the GSB FAA Corsairs. What's with that? Did they just take USMC or USN birds straight from US stock in US colors and simply install their own equipment? I was always under the impression that the FAA Corsairs were built to their own unique spec with, other than the first several Birdcages, had British modifications performed at the factory before they got delivered to the FAA. I learn something new every day, it seems.

For some reason, John I thought that FAA wingtips ARE included in one of the Tamiya boxings? I'm SO glad you're doing an FAA bird. Other than the beat up Birdcage Corsairs, the FAA Corsair is by far my favorite scheme. One reason I've never finished my first Corsair is that the blue schemes bore the shit out of me. So model On, John. Let's see this one come to life!!

I've seen it advertised, but have been attempting to binge on The 100, so haven't looked further. Yet

So the main airframe is in resin? All things being equal, you and I personally prefer the resin, but apparently most people don't.

Yay, woo hoo and yippee, the LSM 3rd Annual Christmas raffle will be a go for this year. I expect I will start some thread on it in the next week or so. Maybe, if I actually have the time to figure out what I will personally donate, being that my usual go to of the winner's choice of Wingnut Wings single engine kitsets is now no longer possible (grrrrr), so we'll reevaluate the situation.

I wonder how it compares to HPH kit.....

Amazing detail. Tony, they are now on my list. I need to pull out the two seat version of what you got from me.

Stunning! Good grief! Amazing and flawless.

Dropjaw speechless! Rowdy, it’s just stunning!

Stunning work so far, Carl!

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.

This is amazing! The Huskie is out of this world!

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.

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.

All we were waiting on....

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.

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.

Resin dust literally everywhere.

Time to clean up this mess.

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.

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

Way, way, waaay too much information here.

That goes for me as well