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[Town]

Now when I was very young, someone bought for me a little Ladybird book on aircraft. It contained things like the Jet Provost (Strikemaster), the Buccaneer and the Sea Vixen. These aircraft all stir up something very deep down inside me but are they classic?

Oh I cannot recall the Belfast off the top of my head but the Blackburn Beverley still has a special place in my heart :-({|=

[TobyV]

Oh I cannot recall the Belfast off the top of my head

...Imagine John Prescott hang-gliding from a Bristol Britannia wing...

Actually, contrary to what I have put, I don t hate it that much, I just dont like it and I cant understand why it appealed so much to others. At the same time as he showed us the WIP Belslow, DG also previewed a P.1121 and a Shar FRS.1 - the latter of which is a very very hard shape to get right and he'd done what I regard as the tricky bit already and got it spot on... so more that I wanted to see a Sea Harrier instead.

[Garry Russell]

Hi Toby

Don't know about the Sea Harrier but the Belfast is a very tricky shape to get right

In fact so tricky Shorts didn't even manage it :roll: .......



Garry

[TobyV]

Garry, have you ever built an Airfix or Matchbox 1:72 Harrier kit? To my mind the hardest part is that fuselage because you have all the very complex shapes around the nozzles, the large intakes and blow-in doors and the various bits up the rear end where the tail merges in and a relatively normal nose section... and I was suitably inmpressed by Dave's rendition of it

If you have one of those kits, it shows very clearly (in isolation) what I mean.

[Garry Russell]

Sense of himour failure Toby :roll:

I do know what you mean Toby but.........

My reference was to the mods Short made in an effort to try and reduce the drag due to problems with the rear fuse shape on the Belfast



Garry

[TobyV]

I realised you meant something like that, but I dont know much of its design history.