Just a photo. But what a photo.
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What great artwork.
And thanks for the links. One led me to the book "Celebration of Flight - The Aviation Art of Roy Cross". Did a quick check on Amazon and they have it in stock! Think I'll treat myself - a Christmas present from me to me.
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And thanks for the links. One led me to the book "Celebration of Flight - The Aviation Art of Roy Cross". Did a quick check on Amazon and they have it in stock! Think I'll treat myself - a Christmas present from me to me.
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His work might be about to get known to a new generation too, although I can't see him doing much Martha in the Tardis artwork.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7131047.stm
http://www.open2.net/blogs/money/ind...t_model_or_toy
BBC2 tonight, 1900 - the return of Airfix.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7131047.stm
http://www.open2.net/blogs/money/ind...t_model_or_toy
BBC2 tonight, 1900 - the return of Airfix.
As this thread seems to have wandered towards Airfix.
Airfix decided to produce a model of the SA330 Puma in the early 70s. They came to Odiham and did all the photos, drawing and measurements using CL, XW 214. I happened to be the general dogsbody who was showing them around.
A few months later they phoned me up to tell me that the first productions models were complete. They asked whether we would we come down to Airfix to have a look and if possible fly them in the actual aircraft. We would get one kit each, they would be certified and possibly be collectors items.
There was a long silence as I was wondering if I could tell them that somebody had bounced 214 in NI a few weeks previously.
The guy sensed it. “Oh No! It hasn’t crashed like the others, has it?” Apparently their Harrier had speared in whilst they were making the moulds.
“It hasn’t crashed,” I lied. “It’s gone to Weston-Super-Mare on detachment.”
Fortunately in those days if you crunched an aeroplane you could nip down to the MU at Wroughton and pull a brand new one out of the hangar. Ours IIRC was XW 235, now labeled CL.
Eventually we flew 235 down to Battesea, looked around the factory and had an excellent lunch in a pub. We then went back to Battesea whilst they did the publicity shots carefully keeping the XW 235 bit out of frame because the model was still XW 214.
Their only amendment was that the certificate said that the kit had been flown in a 33 Sqn Puma ‘CL’.
Airfix decided to produce a model of the SA330 Puma in the early 70s. They came to Odiham and did all the photos, drawing and measurements using CL, XW 214. I happened to be the general dogsbody who was showing them around.
A few months later they phoned me up to tell me that the first productions models were complete. They asked whether we would we come down to Airfix to have a look and if possible fly them in the actual aircraft. We would get one kit each, they would be certified and possibly be collectors items.
There was a long silence as I was wondering if I could tell them that somebody had bounced 214 in NI a few weeks previously.
The guy sensed it. “Oh No! It hasn’t crashed like the others, has it?” Apparently their Harrier had speared in whilst they were making the moulds.
“It hasn’t crashed,” I lied. “It’s gone to Weston-Super-Mare on detachment.”
Fortunately in those days if you crunched an aeroplane you could nip down to the MU at Wroughton and pull a brand new one out of the hangar. Ours IIRC was XW 235, now labeled CL.
Eventually we flew 235 down to Battesea, looked around the factory and had an excellent lunch in a pub. We then went back to Battesea whilst they did the publicity shots carefully keeping the XW 235 bit out of frame because the model was still XW 214.
Their only amendment was that the certificate said that the kit had been flown in a 33 Sqn Puma ‘CL’.
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When Airfix produced their RAF Hercules I believe the photo shoot was done in a hangar at Fairford . The aircraft in question had the nose jacking pads fitted at the time and these duly appeared on the model. It did not detract from a very good kit .
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There was a long silence as I was wondered if I could tell them that somebody had bounced 214 in NI a few weeks previously.
The guy sensed it. “Oh No! It hasn’t crashed like the others, has it?” Apparently their Harrier had speared in whilst they were making the moulds.
The guy sensed it. “Oh No! It hasn’t crashed like the others, has it?” Apparently their Harrier had speared in whilst they were making the moulds.
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I had the privelage of spending a day with Roy to photograph him for a feature in Aeroplane. A very modest man but what a huge talent. he spent some years in America. His paintings of sailing ships are quite something.
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JJ. Thank you for highlighting my deliberate mistake.
- every time Airfix produced a new kit the tail number selected crashed --
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Could they produce a model of the CAS? no spine required and it could spear into the ground when needed. It would also be able to generate lots of spin.
