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It just may be time to just get it done OC. Get it all taken care of and spend the next few years paying it all off. After all what are they going to do? Put the teeth back? After the teeth are gone so should the bad effects they cause and your dental needs should almost disappear, or so one would think. -
The same here, Even when you have no dental insurance at all! When my wife and I retired there was a year where we had insurance that for all intents was no coverage at all! (Part of the fabulous SS system) We found out this fact as my wife had an abscess. If she had been like me and was able to just have it pulled it would have been something under $200 as she was too frightened for that it ran well over $600. We have since switched her to better dental insurance. But that runs about $900 a year even before any work is done!
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Hi Steve I kind of literally stepped out of things over the last couple of weeks but even though I have not commented much I have been keeping up with your fantastic work. I really like your answer to the stanchion/railing issue. The double stanchion at the joint areas is a simple but very strong option. Give your plans a look and see if there are areas where there are other objects close to the stanchions that may help cover the fact that they are doubled.
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Based on what you are saying you may just get your wish. You could easily end up passed out in the emergency room running a life threatening fever and your body half poisoned. I hope not for your case but it is a possibility.
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You can tell him that if he doesn't get some kind treatment going it will be. Abscesses are an infection that normally need antibiotic treatment or they poison the rest of the body!
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Probably just as well. Anything in color would probably have been altered by hand and I would think the accuracy of the colors would be highly doubtful anyway.
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It is pretty clear that these were "Fly by eye" aircraft. Not much in the way of gauges or controls, But still an interesting cockpit, The different colors are a nice change as well. Are they suggested colors or your choice?
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I tend to enjoy odd naval subjects and the era rigid airship was/is one of them. Another thing I forgot was that I believe the Sparrowhawks were the first naval fixed wing pilots to make regular night "landings" on their parent ship. Something Navy pilots dread even today on conventional carriers.
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Hi Brian Not long ago I did some research for a friend who was on an MSO in the Gulf War. They towed them over so they would not wear out the engines. In his case I was able to find the plans for the USS Agile MSO 421, that included hull lines and pretty much everything it would take to build one of the class. I was almost enticed to build my friend's ship but I already have way too many irons in the fire and unfinished. They are handsome little ships. Your plans of course are much more detailed in regards to superstructure, interior, and deck detail and I would be surprised if you didn't have a lot of photos to go with it. Looking forward to your work.
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Great build of a very worthy yet little known subject J. Their importance in history goes far beyond their size or numbers. It should take a very prominent place in your cabinet. Actually the pilots claimed that "landing" on the airships was much easier than landing on a carrier as both aircraft were operating in the same medium. Navigation was another issue. In order to do their job properly the Sparrowhawks had to fly outward at a tangent from each side of the airship, go over the combined horizons of both the mothership and the airplane so the they were far enough out that both aircraft were not covering the same area of the sea as the airship. When done they had to set a blind intercept course back to where they expected the airship to be! This was sometimes over a period of several hours where the airship could be several hundred miles from where it had been. A surface vessel would only have traveled a hundred miles or less in the same time span. The tactics they developed for this type of scouting not only allowed hundreds of miles of ocean to be scouted at the same time but were so effective that they were adopted by carrier and cruiser based aircraft throughout the war for beyond the horizon flights. It became very important in almost all of the carrier battles from Coral Sea on.
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The first time I went looking for them in a Walmart it took me twenty minutes and that was AFTER I asked someone where they were! Of course I was on the wrong side of the store, where they stock............ TOOTHPICKS! Who would look for them there?
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I think it is only part of the kit: But this one might be even more fun:
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By the time you locate them in the store you will think you have walked to Japan but these are a little closer. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Diamond-Elegance-Long-Toothpicks-250-Count/24659704
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You are probably right, as the practice of avoiding high speed telephone poles was not only practiced, but refined and I think they even carried the practice into the present day using much more capable aircraft. As far as I know survival rate was acceptable for damage inflicted. Just seems crazy at face value of letting someone shoot first, or try to shoot first. I read somewhere that the Iranians were so frightened of the tactic that often times they just fired their missiles ballistically rather than turn their tracking radar on.
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Like I said Ken! Crazy way to make a living!
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I still think the real crazies were the Wild Weasel F4s. "Here I am, shoot at me so if you miss I can take you out." But then what do I know we spent almost all of our time at 75-80 KTS a few hundred feet above the walking area. You can hardly call that flying at all.
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Like Sam said good place to have this happen if you are not happy with it. To me it looks like the perfect working deck of a small cargo or fishing ship that has hauled a lot over the years. It's a cargo deck, not the Lido deck!
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Major kit bash! I wonder if it is all show or if it has some go under that huge hood?
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That's a nice picture of your father. My uncle flew in B-17s and was shot down. I don't have any pictures of him. You do realize that the Mossie was both faster and more maneuverable than the Spitfire? It drove the Spit pilots nuts when they found out that there was a bomber that could do that. Some of them even asked to be transferred!
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Great work Craig the wiring came out perfect. I'm surprised you are't listing to something like "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" fro inspiration. For me this works as well: Looking forward to the coming days and seeing another masterpiece.
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I know when you mean. Years ago I lived close to the Reno Air Races and you ALWAYS knew when a Spitfire flew over. The RR Merlin engine is VERY distinctive! I think the aircraft you are talking about crashed because the pilot did a Mosquito No No. He pulled negative G's starving the engines for fuel at low altitude and with no power was not able to recover. From what I understand it is one of the few faults with the Mosquito. I have heard or seen the Mossy here three times since it arrived a couple of years ago when it has flown over my house. It is still distinctive but sometimes I wish they would really open it up like they did the Spits in Reno. The Merlin engine almost sounds like a jet at 350+ MPH! Unfortunately unless I crawl there I will not be going to see her anytime soon. http://warbirdsnews.com/warbirds-news/paul-allens-mosquito-flies.html https://flyingheritage.org/Explore/The-Collection/Britian/de-Havilland-D-H-98-Mosquito-T-Mk-III.aspx
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Looking forward to this build as well OC. This is definitely my favorite British aircraft of all time. And possibly one of my favorite aircraft of all. I'm also a 633 fan from years ago. You may reconsider flattening the tail wheel. Not only were they fairly light in that area but I believe the tail wheel was a special hard wheel intended for use on the grass runways in considerable use at the time. I still need to get the two miles across town and get a look at the restored Mossy they have there. I think it is still one of two flyable in the world.
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Great build as always Greg You may find that there were many of the US Navy small ships that were looking pretty grungy in the early days of the Pacific war. Long miles of steaming, shortage of upkeep and repair facilities and many other factors made a number of ships look old before their time. For those that survived into the next couple of years things improved considerably and it was much easier to keep up with maintenance and grooming needs.
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