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 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: Manchester AU

Sheepster
[ Jump to post ] Posted: March 10th, 2023, 5:19 am 

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El Oro Offensive Finally on 23rd July Peruvian forces advanced into Ecuador’s El Oro Province, with the claim of preventing more border skirmishing. The Peruvian Aeronautical Corps lead the assault with strafing and bombing attacks by the North American NA-50 Toritos of 41 Squadron against Ecuadori...

 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: FD Aircraft 20

Sheepster
 Post subject: Re: FD Aircraft 20 Posted: March 9th, 2023, 2:55 am 

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Douglas 8A in Peruvian service The most successful Northrop design continued in production as Douglas took over after Northrop collapsed in 1937. https://i.imgur.com/K1nqP44.png Designed as a retractible undercarriage version of the A-17 for the USAAC in 1936 as the A-17A, and were further upgraded...

 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: Manchester AU

Sheepster
[ Jump to post ] Posted: March 7th, 2023, 1:13 am 

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July 5 Incident The date of the actual instigation of hostilities, 5th July 1941, is not in doubt, but both Ecuador and Peru blamed the other for crossing the Zarumilla River and attacking the other’s border outposts. Regardless, hostilities spread along the length of the river. In response Ecuador...

 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: Manchester AU

Sheepster
[ Jump to post ] Posted: March 4th, 2023, 2:26 am 

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Ecuador And Peru While the conflicts of 1940 and 1941 could all be pigeonholed into the broader European and East Asian wars, the one exception that had no tie-in to global politics was the war between Ecuador and Peru – rumours of Japanese, Italian and US interference and agitation were never subs...

 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: FD Aircraft 20

Sheepster
 Post subject: Re: FD Aircraft 20 Posted: March 2nd, 2023, 1:58 am 

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Short S.26 G-Class I originally discovered Shipbucket while searching for pictures of the G-Class, and am very suprised it took me so long to recreate the aircraft in FD scale. https://i.imgur.com/pzGtUdo.png The G-Class was the follow on to the Empire C-Class, designed for trans-Atlantic service. ...

 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: FD Aircraft 20

Sheepster
 Post subject: Re: FD Aircraft 20 Posted: March 1st, 2023, 1:09 am 

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Spitfire Mk.I floatplane The conversion of the Spitfire Mk.Vb into a floatplane is fairly well remembered, but it was not the first attempt to turn the Spitfire into a seaplane fighter. https://i.imgur.com/UBypZAx.png With the invasion of Norway, Britain rapidly realised that the German Bf109 and B...

 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: FD Aircraft 20

Sheepster
 Post subject: Re: FD Aircraft 20 Posted: February 28th, 2023, 4:34 am 

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Blackburn Roc floatplane The Blackburn Roc was designed to be either a wheeled or float aircraft, but it appears only one group of aircraft made use of floats. https://i.imgur.com/y5SZ4s2.png With the island of Bermuda being the British defensive hub for the Battle of the Atlantic, both RAF and RN ...

 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: Manchester AU

Sheepster
[ Jump to post ] Posted: February 27th, 2023, 7:04 am 

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Bermuda As one of four Imperial Fortresses Bermuda had a very deep British military history and presence. The Royal Navy had extensive facilities in the colony, with the massive Naval Dockyard being able to co-ordinate and control trans-Atlantic traffic during the Great War, and having been upgrade...

 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: FD Aircraft 20

Sheepster
 Post subject: Re: FD Aircraft 20 Posted: February 26th, 2023, 1:11 am 

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Hawker Tornado Hawker's follow-on model from the Hurricane was doomed by its Rolls Royce Vulture engine. https://i.imgur.com/kLHT6pD.png Hawker had started planning for the replacement for the Hurricane in 1937, using the next generation of engines from the RR Merlin. The new design was an enlarged...

 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: Manchester AU

Sheepster
[ Jump to post ] Posted: February 25th, 2023, 2:58 am 

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Canadian Car and Foundry CC&F had been established in 1909 by the merger of several railway stock producing companies. During the Great War they expanded into munitions manufacture and building minesweepers for the French navy. With its massive facility at Fort William underused with the end of nav...
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