Ayovan

Patiently waiting for Ali's A-7 parts. I have a some F-4 canopies of his that are outstanding. Anything he produces for the A-7, I'm sure will be too. 

Carried quite a whopping load too. I saw one at a museum on the coast of Oregon. Man that thing was yoooooj !!!
Don't know where it went but it's not there now.
 

 

I would say one reason is simple courtesy to the OP and to keep from wasting others people’s time.  Oh look, there’s a new reply to a thread that I’m interested in.  Go to check it out, and it’s people talking about something unrelated and not interesting to me.  Plus, hijacking a thread is rude.  My two cents.

I plead guilty, I’m afraid, to drifting in some threads where I shouldn’t but it is not with ill intent.  I tend to work from the inside out and for that reason I care less about how a builder created a certain lump on an airframe than why the lump was there to begin with, so I want to ask questions relevant to the airplane but not relevant to the build.  To me, this makes for a better model, but probably has no place in a “look what I’m building!” thread.  This can be annoying to the OP and ill mannered in a forum like this so I will work on that.  I promise.  At least for the rest of the week.

I fired the .50 cal professionally for 27 years.  Your point about the Ma Duce being an area suppression weapon is valid, but I can assure you I've hit many a "thing" with it at ranges up to 500 meters.
It's certainly not a precision instrument and was never designed to be, however, as big ass hammers go, it's a beautiful thing.

Re. cheek guns:
 
Better to have them and not need them rather than need them and not have them.

Just make engine noises with your lips when you look at it...

Yes, it's just south of Salton Sea off hwy 78 in Ocotillo Wells. We ride there every so often. Catch a drywash headed south, just east of Cahilla trail on the south side of hwy 78 for about 3 miles. Not really much there, but it's a riding destination. It's also more or less under the Blue Angles practice area. We have watched them on several occasions.

Yes, it's just south of Salton Sea off hwy 78 in Ocotillo Wells. We ride there every so often. Catch a drywash headed south, just east of Cahilla trail on the south side of hwy 78 for about 3 miles. Not really much there, but it's a riding destination. It's also more or less under the Blue Angles practice area. We have watched them on several occasions.

This came up in The Guardian today. I'd seen it mentioned earlier on other websites. Can't really tell much from the trailer but I'm sure we'll all find it amusing for all kinds of reasons. At least the CGI looks somewhat better. The aircraft don't move around like hummingbirds on meth.
 
I'm happy to wait until it's out to comment. 
 
Enjoy?...
 
"Battle Over Britain" new movie review
 
Richard

Busted out some of the HPH set. They provide a resin piece to reshape the cockpit opening to accept the internal armored windscreen. Got that fit and CA'd into place.
 

 

 

Take your time. No hurry here,  

Busted out some of the HPH set. They provide a resin piece to reshape the cockpit opening to accept the internal armored windscreen. Got that fit and CA'd into place.
 

 

 

Busted out some of the HPH set. They provide a resin piece to reshape the cockpit opening to accept the internal armored windscreen. Got that fit and CA'd into place.
 

 

 

I actually  got a start last night and put the engine together.
 

 
And this made it's way here today too.