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TomCatDriver — Concorde and The Captain
Published: 2007-12-01 05:34:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 1462; Favourites: 18; Downloads: 12
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just to show a young lady named Ellie{concaholic} just how BIG this Concorde model really is! i swear,i,ll never make another one like this again,so help me!{Airfix,1/72,almost 3 feet long!} big kit,big price tag and lots and lots of working hours and special paint too! Created Especially for you,Ellie,courtesy of The Captain and his Credit Card!{and his aching arms,from sanding and polishing this monstrosity!}Related content
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even with a 6-figure salary......
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That's very impressive - and shiny too. You wouldn't want to drop it on your foot, though, you'd be impaled to the floor.
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that would be something to cry about,wouldn,t it? an expensive and scarce kit too,very hard to replace,not to mention lots of hours of work to build it properly!
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and Spy Tech will be here soon as well......
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bearing in mind that these aircraft do not exist,have never existed and will never exist..........
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Correct. They are just figments of our imaginations. Things dreamed up by various people...
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"there are planes who live a life of danger............to everyone they meet,they stay a stranger....."
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on YouTube.....Secret Agent Man,1966. cool tune. BTW,how did you know i was Grimhilde7? {must have had Spy Tech.....!}
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How did you know that I knew?!
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I guess we both have our own spy tech then...
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in addition to ties with Her Majesty,s Secret Service........just another perk of the RROC.
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I kinda wish I had the chance to be a passenger on one of those. Though I'm not a big fan of flying, has nothing to do with needing my feet on the ground. Just a bit claustaphobic and even the 747 was too small for me lol. I love all of your photos, wonderful angles!
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too expensive to operate profitably,so many airlines that were going to get Concordes were forced to cancel due to the skyrocketing fuel prices in the early 1970s. plenty in my gallery,glad you like my stuff! Meow.
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But you know what, the US pretty much made USSR go broke. They still are broke. I would be surprised if they made anything new, fast, reliable, and something profitable for their market.
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the new Aeroflot uses a lot of Boeing and Airbus equipment nowadays.......!
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Well, at least I got the chance inside a Concorde...... and a Tupolev TU-144.^^
Nice model.
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glad you like it....i,ll probably never build another one of those monsters again! {Airfix 1/72}
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I've thought 1/72 models are small, but this Concorde is a proof that they can also be large... xD
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ever see a 1/72 scale supercarrier? someone did a USS NIMITZ with a fiberglass hull for radio control,with a full air wing of planes! imagine just how big a 747 would be in that scale too! almost 5 feet long!
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And I imagine its weight...
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Mach 0.71 are already very cool when sitting in a starting plane, but Mach 2.2 must be soooo awesome!!
Unfortunately i will never have the chance to fly such a uber-mach plane until someone develops one again - and the Concorde looks great - its whole design is just very interesting!!
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Last time I heard, the Russian company Sukhoi was developing one. Its name is the Sukhoi-Gulfstream S-21.
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You seem to be into this, so i ask you something: Is the SU-47 just a project or do they really plan to build that plane?
Because i heard the russians use old german aircraft studies concerning the wingform (by the beans that they are now formed like > and not like <, if left is the nose of the plane)
But great info, thanks!
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The fact that the Su 47 "Berkut" (Golden Eagle. Or "Firkin" to NATO) has the designation "Su" means that Sukhoi at one point in time thought about making it on a large scale. only one has been built, and it is purely an experimental aircraft. There was a second planed to be built but it was canceled. You are probably right about the German wingform design, it looks like the kind of stuff they were designing towards the end of WW2. (on a different note, the late WW2 German planes ROCK!)
Then again knowing Russia, tomorrow there could be Berkuts flying over Iraq. Which would be very bad, there is only one U.S. plane in the same class, the F-22.
But officially, there is only 1 Berkut, and she is just for expiriments.
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Nice. I am not in the theme what concerns Airforce or Marine, but i think i know some things about the ground forces - and concerning the russians using german sources i can say, that they just (2004) made a Camoflage Uniform called Partisan [link] which is like nearly a 1:1 copy of a camotheme the Waffen-SS used in WW2.
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Well, I think because of the nature of Stalinism (a.k.a. communist dictatorship) they have to make every thing them selves, often copying what has been done before.
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never say never....someone may just produce an SST again,if there is enough demand for it. all it takes is money!
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how long? hmmmm. i actually started on it about 2 years ago,did some work,but put it back in the box for a while.....then you came along! i,d say about a good 35 hours working time,altogether.
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The Cat looks very serious here...the dark glasses..I'm thinking of Men in Black here.....
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Watch that one ~ i hear she's got a thing for us handsome men in uniform!!!
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especially for Old Married ones......!
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Now how does that Concorde model compare in size to the Valkyrie one?
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the length is almost identical,but Valkryie has a slightly longer wingspan,and almost half again as much wing area! Valkryie had a straight leading edge Delta wing,whereas Concorde used the curvy ogee planform with conical camber.
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Hey, you do look way cool here, looking damned serious too, and with a very famous model
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i do take this kind of thing seriously.....! just a little something for to show just how big that model is!
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and you have done well here
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