REMEMBERING THE GROUND OBSERVER CORPS PART 2
YESTERDAY, MY AEROBIBLIOGRAPHIC RECOLLECTIONS encountered Bruce Callander’s “The Ground Observer Corps,” Air & Space Forces Magazine. Today in Part 2, we continue gleaning tidbits from it, together with my (barely … Continue reading
REMEMBERING THE GROUND OBSERVER CORPS PART 1
I WAS LEAFING THROUGH MY AVIATION SHELVES, a collection, I immodestly note, better than in many secondhand bookshops I peruse from time to time. This includes gems such as “Jane’s … Continue reading
COUZINET 10—A SHORT TALE, A LENGTHY PROJECT
I BEGAN MY JUST COMPLETED GMAX PROJECT, THE COUZINET 10, on January 13, 2025. Fabrication of other aircraft (for example, the Consolidated PBY Catalina, the Kalilin K-12) and reporting about … Continue reading
HYPIN’ HOLMES REDUX PART 1
DR. JOHN H. WATSON HAD A CRACKIN’ GOOD literary agent Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. How else to explain the numerous ad placements about the World’s First Consulting Detective? Several of … Continue reading
GRANDE SEMAINE D’AVIATION DE LA CHAMPAGNE, 1909
IT WAS LESS THAN SIX YEARS after the Wright Bros. first flew ever so tentatively at Kitty Hawk that the world celebrated heavier-than-air craft at the Grande Semaine d’Aviation de … Continue reading
BELL AIRACOBRA/KINGCOBRA: INNOVATIVE AIRCRAFT, RUSSIAN FAV, ADVANCED EXPERIMENT, DON’T FORGET PINBALL PART 2
YESTERDAY THE BELL P-39 EXHIBITED advanced features combined with some faults. Today in Part 2 it becomes a Russian fav and has two unorthodox variants. Lend-Lease P-39s. Even with these … Continue reading
BELL AIRACOBRA/KINGCOBRA: INNOVATIVE AIRCRAFT, RUSSIAN FAV, ADVANCED EXPERIMENT, DON’T FORGET PINBALL PART 1
THE BELL AIRACOBRA WAS ADVANCED in several ways and disadvantaged in others. A lot has been written about its virtues and vices. Yet the aircraft and its offspring became one … Continue reading
KALININ’S K-12: WIN SOME, LOSE IT ALL
KONSTANTIN KALININ WAS A SOVIET AIRCRAFT DESIGNER. His designs were unconventional, which made them controversial during the Stalin era—and also, in retrospect, interesting projects for my GMax hobby of building … Continue reading
KALININ K-7—A GMAX CHALLENGE PART 2
UNLIKE KONSTANTIN KALININ, I CAN HONESTLY SAY Josef Stalin did not force me to build a Kalinin K-7. This, despite my usual GMax avoidance of such ungainly craft. On the … Continue reading
KALININ K-7—A GMAX CHALLENGE PART 1
I’VE NOTED THAT GMAX computer modeling of aircraft is a fine hobby, with several recent examples displayed here at SimanaitisSays: the Cessna XMC, the Consolidated PBY, and the Santos=Dumont Demoiselle. Talk … Continue reading
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