Tag: Switzerland
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Swiss F-5E – Part One – Another Odd Buy
I make snap decisions when I am in the aisle of a hobby shop. These involve kit choice, paint colours, and must-have tools. They are nearly all bad. Later, when the fever passes, I look at the purchases and wonder where I’m ever going to use them. Some sit dormant for years, and then become…
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Dornier Do.17Z – Part Four – Interniert
” What! ” you say…” The Swiss Air Force never bought Dornier Do.17Z bombers in WW2! ” you say… You say right. They never bought any – they were given one by chance. One landed by mistake at Basle – Birsfelden in April 1940 and the four crew members were interned. The plane was repaired,…
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De Havilland DH. 100 Vampire FB.6 – Part Two – Well That Was Fast…
You’ll forgive me for not taking any pictures of the pignose as it was being assembled. Too much was going on in the house at the time. The build was uneventful – thanks to the precision fit of the components hardly any filler was needed. And the tail sections fitted perfectly with no long packing…
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De Havilland DH.100 Vampire FB.6 – Part One – Those Riotous Swiss
Congratulaions – you have coped with one vampire. now you can cope with another… One thing – you have to hand it to the Swiss. They’re a barrel of laughs. All you have to do is sell them a old jet fighter and they’re out with the paint pots making a carnival float out of…
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