Wrong Piccie in Review

QUOTE: Originally posted by fusoPagoda Not sure an airplane looks like an artillery piece, though the Germans were inventing some rather odd items during WW2: http://www.finescale.com/fsm/default.aspx?c=a&id=2269 I believe a biplane image should be there.

fuso if the germans could have put wings on that it would have been .......

i like little mistakes-- lets me know i'm dealing with a human

A simple programming glitch...we'll get right on it.

Jeff

Just got the magazine in the mail this weekend (let's not get started with the "why are subscriptions so far behind the news stand discussion) and the pictures are fine there. Both the Flak 88 and the WWI airplane photos are on the same page, but they are clearly associated with the correct review.

Perhaps it's like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the wings unfold from the bottom, just before taking flight? I do think the RAF officers and crew are in violation of the Geneva Convention by appearing in German uniform.

Actually, I think that's the right picture. The review states that it is

QUOTE: a significant British single-seat fighter in the early stage of the Great War. Its interesting "pusher" configuration allowed unobstructed forward firing of the cockpit-mounted Lewis machine gun.

I only see one guy seated in the "plane", and the forward firing, cockpit mounted gun clearly has an un-obstructed field of fire. I'm pretty sure the guys to the left of the picture are the "pushers" who are supposed to get the thing up to speed before the wings deploy from their hidden storage areas.

I think I'll have to get one of these. I may put it in a WWII diorama, probably painted as a captured German plane, but otherwise I think it looks pretty nice.

hmm... is it like that in the magazine itself?

Oops.