The Little World

Every model airplane kit I seem to have purchased recently has come equipped with rockets under the wings. Generally they are the 60 lb. British type on rails, though there is a pair of three-tube US versions as well. I must have two dozen of the things sitting on the shelf – so many, in fact, that I have made a separate spares box just for them.

Quite what to do with them is the problem. I already have models of Vought Corsairs and a Hawker Typhoon with the wings full and most of the other British and American planes I intend to build would not have carried them often.

So I have decided to make them the principle armament of the Royal Ruritanian Army Air Force – both for ground defence and on the aircraft. The fact that they would not be effective as dogfighting weapons is beside the point – RRAAF pilots are humanitarians and would not participate in anything that would distress dogs. They would also fit into the RRAAF philosophy of using anything that they could find.

I am a little hesitant to put them under the wings of the King’s Aircraft but will sling them under any aircraft that Ruritanian Airlines buys. After all – there is plenty of precedent in the Middle Eastern wars – the Egyptians bombed Tel Aviv using converted C-47 Dakotas in June of ’48. The RRAAF has no plans to bomb anyone but they do like to present a fierce face occasionally.