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[fleetfootmike]

Best Haynes Manual Ever!

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[antonia-tiger.livejournal.com]

And they have this one as well. (http://www.haynes.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/BookFeature_RAFHandbookView?langId=-1&storeId=10001&catalogId=10001)

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Both are going on my 'want' list!

[fleetfootmike.livejournal.com]

Not so much a Spitfire fan, but the Lancaster manual's going on my birthday list.

[antonia-tiger.livejournal.com]

It's even possible to buy your own Lancaster (CGI only)

This is likely good enough for the background in a movie (http://www.vanishingpoint.biz/productdetail.asp?productID=1488)

You can get a Spitfire for free (http://www.colacola.se/expo_303.htm).

[fleetfootmike.livejournal.com]

That'll please Peter Jackson, then.

Though I suspect Weta are modelling his.

[keristor.livejournal.com]

For my taste the Spitfire was the most beautiful fighter ever, the proportions are just right. I have a soft spot for the Lancaster at the top of the bomber category, and the Short Sunderland for flying boats.

[antonia-tiger.livejournal.com]

The outfit selling that Lancaster model have picked up the distribution rights to a pretty big collection of CGI models, and quite a few look to be very similar to commercial plastic kits. You can see it in some parts being a bit out of proportion, such as the thickness of the framing of a cockpit canopy or gun turret, and a lot of the buildings are straight out of model railway catalogues.

I don't think the Lancaster is one of those models.

But (going by YouTube videos) any film-maker has to compete with computer games these days.

[antonia-tiger.livejournal.com]

I'd have to be crazy to argue with that.

[occams_pyramid]

Never mind the look of it, it's the *sound*

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Two of them with Merlins, the other with Pegasus or Hercules engines depending on the mark. Nothing sounds like a Merlin...

[occams_pyramid]

s/Nothing/Peter Morwood/

[willibald.livejournal.com]

The Spitfire manual is a common sight in the windows of bookshops around here - not that suprising as the prototype first flew from Eastleigh. they even had (until last year) a Spitfire theme to their Christmas lights.

[fleetfootmike.livejournal.com]

And nothing on earth sounds like FOUR Merlins.

[fleetfootmike.livejournal.com]

Agree, re the look of the Spitfire.

But the story behind the Lancs and the men who flew them is what gets to me.

[sunflowerinrain.livejournal.com]

happy birthday! (sung with bounce)