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Scale Modeler Magazine (SMM) published bimonthly by Challenge Incorporated North Highwood, California debuting in December 1965 was from the mid-1960s till mid-1970s the foremost source for news & information regarding new scale model kit releases & reviews. Arriving on scene near the crest of...

Sad news, John Farley has passed away. https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/obituary-john-farley-the-harriers-champion-449661/

The arrival of a new book on the F8 Crusader got me thinking of the old chestnut of giving the RN a fighter for Ark, Eagle, Victorious and Hermes I have always felt that if we had done what France did and purchased the F8 we could have kept a carrier force as long as the French did. We could...

Hello All :) I've been on this forum for ten years and this is my first post. 35 years ago I co-wrote for the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society a detailed study of the French National Space programme form the 1950's until its termination to pass onto Ariane in 1973...

The Thunderbirds series from the 1960s featured in its first episode a wonderful airliner called Fireflash, which was totally improbable but looked very cool. In the series it crops up in a few episodes in the livery of "Air Terrainean", a sort of mixture of Pan American and BOAC. However, in...

The "1935-42" option is still the more difficult to write as a lot of material is missing or only available through previously-published sources (And the more I write, the more I prefer my mistakes to be mine rather than copied on Cuny and others) JCC

Futuristic helicopter from the Russian urban fantasy/horror film Temnyy Mir (Dark World) (2010).

Sad news: http://aviationweek.com/commercial-aviation/joe-sutter-father-747-dies-95 I was just watching him in this BBC documentary a few days ago: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03wtnfv/jumbo-the-plane-that-changed-the-world A great loss - the designer of an iconic aircraft.

At http://imgur.com/a/Qjex8 you may find original drawings of a Swedish aircraft carrier design of 1946 - called in the Swedish "hangarkryssare" (I feel 'cruiser with a hangar'). The aircraft are the Sea Vampires. Piotr

Near Beaconsfield is a picturesque model village called Bekonscot. It contains amongst other things a model airport. In the 50s and the 60s it was called Northrow and tried to reflect the excitement of the world outside. Significantly in 1992 it was decided to change the airport to Hanton and...

Here are some I be no one has ever seen.... Maker unknown and any insight would be great. Found at a local hobby shop in a box, long forgotten. Owner of the shop says they came from the collection of a Northrop Engineer, but these are most decidedly not from the Northrop model shop. Note the...

I found this video on britishpathe http://www.britishpathe.com/video/model-makers It's about a model factory in Hounslow, Great Britain in 1968 They made Models for Movies industry, Gerry Anderson and Britsh Aerospace Company A Lost Art Form, destroy by CAD, CGI and bad PowerPoint Presentation...

Quite interesting video about the B-36! B) View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V9CWQNZRF8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V9CWQNZRF8

Hi All - Found out today that Paul Czysz passed away: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/stltoday/obituary.aspx?n=paul-anthony-czysz&pid=166480027&fhid=16840 Mark

I've been researching North American Aviation designs for quite a while. By now, everyone knows (or should know) that NAA used a rather unique designation system. Most of the US manufacturers used a “model” numbering system that was generally sequential. Each model number was tied to a...

http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2013/02/thunderbirds-set-for-2015-re-l.html Our ancient childhoods are collectively saved!

The Danish engineer Harald Thyregod designed several home built designs during the '50s/'60s, his HT-1 was actually built and first flown in 1964, but in a quite different shape, than drawn in 1958. The first layout was shown in Aero February 1960, the aircraft later built by Arne Hollaender and...

He's at it again! Due out in August according to Amazon (U.S.).

this hurt's http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-20845407 So many Artist died this year Moebius, Harry Harrison, Tony Scott and now Gerry Anderson He enlighten my Childhood, with bright beautifully light. He gave me wonderful dreams called: Stingray, Thunderbird, Captain...

Greetings All - I thought this was interesting - this advertisement was in the April 1965 issue of Air Progress. Enjoy the Day! Mark