Tag: Silver City

• Bristol Mk32 Superfreighter – Part Four – Ferryfield

  

  Also known as Lydd Airport. Still exists in Kent and does a roaring trade in light plane movements. But the Bristol 170 era was the 50’s to the 80’s before roll-on-roll-off ferries at the seaports took the vehicular Channel traffic and the Channel Tunnel took the train passengers. They were flying an amazing number of…

  Dick Stein

  November 2, 2025

  1:72 scale, airliner, British aircraft, Civil aircraft, Colour Schemes, design, History, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models

  Airfix, Bristol, Lydd, Silver City

• Bristol Mk32 Superfreighter – Part Two – Bristol Box

  

  Just seeing the kit parts in the cardboard box doesn’t prepare you for the shape of the Bristol 170…it is too unbelievably boxy to exist. Yet, it did. And my wife was a passenger on a number of flights on Bristol 170 air ferries between Lydd and Le Touquet. So the RCAF conversion has been…

  Dick Stein

  October 30, 2025

  1:72 scale, airliner, British aircraft, Colour Schemes, Model Airplane, Scale Models, subassembly

  air ferry, inkjet, Silver City