Category: Canadian aircraft
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Short Skyvan – Part Five – Glide Like A Brick
One can only imagine what the situation would be if one or both of the engines of the Short Skyvan quit working. It is bad enough when one of the four engines of a big airliner powers down – or when one of the military engines on a Nimrod needs to be stopped. In the…
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Short Skyvan – Part Four – Progressive!
If I were still in Canada I would probably be a Progressive Conservative. As it is I am in Australia and have become a Progressive Cementer. I assemble the fuselages of my model aircraft with a great deal less dash than I used to exhibit; I am cautious and careful and rarely glue myself to…
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Short Skyvan – Part Three – Once Seen…
Never forgotten – provided you photograph it. The inclusion of detailed interiors in scale models is not new – this Short Skyvan kit had a full set of seats for Olympic Airways passengers in the 70’s and benches for Austrian skydivers in the 2020’s. When my example served as an arctic transport in the 60’s…
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Short Skyvan – Part One – Never Saw It Coming
Which is remarkably short-sighted of me – this thing is as wide as a house trailer. And as long and as high. In fact, if it had an oil stove and a porch you could take your muddy boots off in, you could park it in Peace River for the winter… Never before have I…
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When You Rethink…
And you do it for yourself – free of any prompting from necessity, or advertising, or other people’s opinions… You step up to the bridge of life and take command. You decide the course and the speed. You decide the cargo and the loading. You take the risk and make the profit or loss. It’s…
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De Havilland Kate Moth – Part Two – Bobbing On The Lake
Nothing said sport flying like a Kate Moth on floats. Whether it was in the Yukon or Ontario, the Kate Moth formed reliable transportation for hunters, fishermen, and prospectors. Of course nothing heavier than a dead chipmunk could be flown out strapped to the floats, but these were prized anyway. Red floats are good for…
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De Havilland Kate Moth – Part One – Airfix of Middle Age
Grown old in the mould – but tarted up with a new box. This Airfix model is a 1990 re-box of a series of Moths that originally hatched in 1957. It started in a plastic baggie cocoon but eventually graduated to the small cardboard box. At least that allowed Airfix more surface area to print…
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RCAF Hudson – Part Four – 145 (BR) Sqn
Eastern Air Command, Torbay, Newfoundland. Well, if you cannot have dedicated patrol bombers from the British Air Ministry, you buy or borrow them from the USAAF. Pressed into service for a long time, they did succeed in sinking a U-Boat and damaging several, The last few years of their service was arduous and even the…
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RCAF Hudson – Part Three – Mother Hubbard’s Hudson
She went to the cupboard – or in this case the interior of the bomber – and it was bare… Just as well my model of the Lodestar from Special Hobby has a full passenger interior- even their Harpoon had a better cockpit. About all you can say for AIrfix is that the bulkheads fit…
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RCAF Hudson – Part Two – I Been Airfixed Again
And I didn’t even know it until now… Look at Part One for the parts layout picture. Note that only one elevator panel is shown on the shot. I did not pick this up until I came to assemble the horizontal stabiliser. Airfix had dudded me again. But I don’t dud easy. I remembered what…
