I Can Bear A-nother Airfix kit...

A button that you could push and have it rendered already in your mind without the trouble of having to read it at all would be nice...

paintsniffer

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=where+can+i+buy+yeager+autobiography#

That's a great book, TE Bell the author use to visit this forum, but haven't been around in the last few years.  I've built the 1/48 airfix version and it's a BIG kit.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=where+can+i+buy+yeager+autobiography#

A hot-link to where I could buy it on Amazon would have been nice...

YEAGER an Autobiography

What book?

It's in his book. He commanded the 405th TFW at Clark AFB in the Philippines.

Si!

Just a little side note; Chuck Yeager flew combat missions in B-57s over Vietnam.

Yes...

Manstein's revenge

Just got my Osprey book on Canberra Units in the Vietnam War...have read about a quarter of it...

WOW.  I NEVER realized how much action these ***'s saw!!!  I've always heard about this a/c, but now think this is really an incredible airplane that I had no real clue about until a couple of weeks ago...I'm a BIG Canberra Groupie...

You sir, are on the verge of becoming a big GROUPIE groupie...

I was looking for that kit but the US version (B-57) seems to be hard to find these days...

I will be doing my new Airfix Can in the suplied SAAF sceeme but use allover PRU blue instead of the shown silver. Just as a matter of interest regarding the kit's SAAF decals, they are one of the very few makers who actually got the blue castle insignea with the gold springbuck corect!

Theuns

Just got my Osprey book on Canberra Units in the Vietnam War...have read about a quarter of it...

WOW.  I NEVER realized how much action these ***'s saw!!!  I've always heard about this a/c, but now think this is really an incredible airplane that I had no real clue about until a couple of weeks ago...I'm a BIG Canberra Groupie...

Cool---thanks.  PE Set from Eduard came in today for my kit, which is still on its way...looks like its gonna dress up the PIT very nicely...

I read this WIP ( http://www.romseymodellers.co.uk/build-articles/aircraft/aircraft-post-wwii/english-electric-canberra-bi8 )  and found that it was probably a Martin Baker Mk2CA.

A Martin B-57 Tropic Moon Canberra, in SEA camo. Lots of goodies stuck on this one.

Anyone have the dope on the type of ejection seat in this MOJ0?

Argentina honors last airman downed in Falklands’ war. In a moving military ceremony the remains of an Argentine Air Force Canberra navigator shot down over the Falkland Islands in 1982 were handed on Monday to his family for burial in Cordoba.

Mayor Casado urn and sword before been handed to his family
The ceremony in the military premises of Buenos Aires Aeroparque was headed by Defence minister Nilda Garré and Deputy Foreign Affairs minister Victorio Taccetti as well as Joint Chief of Staff Brigadier Jorge Chevalier and the whole command from the Air Force, several of them Malvinas war veterans.
Mayor (post mortem) Fernando Juan Casado and his BMK 62 Canberra were shot down on June 13th, the day before the end of the conflict, but remains were not found until 1986 in a near by beach, and were later deposited in the Stanley Police station.
Earlier this year the remains were returned to Argentina and with the scientific support of the country’s Genetic Data Bank, following DNA tests they were identified as belonging to navigator Casado.
During the ceremony Argentine Air Force commander Brigadier Normando Constantino expressed gratitude to the ministries of Defence and Foreign Affairs for their efforts in obtaining the remains.
Constantino also thanked the Genetic Bank for the identification and praised Mayor Casado who was to be the last airman downed over the Islands during combat with the British task force.
The last mission, two Canberra escorted by two Mirage III, left from Rio Gallegos to bomb Port Harriet House at 21:30 hours but only one of the bombers returned. His companion pilot Roberto Pastrán managed to parachute and was made prisoner.
The Canberra was shot down by a Sea Dart missile from HMS Exeter in Fitz Roy. The following day Argentine forces surrendered in Stanley.
The ceremony ended with the presentation of the remains plus a Malvinas veterans’ cap, graduation sword and an Argentine flag to his widow and three children, one of them Air Force captain.
Casado’s remains and his family were then flown to Cordoba in a Hercules C-130 for the final resting place in the Malvinas mausoleum of Carlos Paz cemetery.
Brigadier Chevalier and Constantino are both Malvinas war veteran pilots. Chevalier belonged to the Canberra bombers wing.
(Mercopress)

GMorrison

I hope it's all new as the old 1/72 Airfix Crannies were crap.

I always wondered if the Harrier pilot had a weird moment as he lined up on it....

Manstein's revenge

...turns out the Argentine's flew them against the Brits in '82...lost two shot down...one from a sidewinder and one from a sea-dart...

I hope it's all new as the old 1/72 Airfix Crannies were crap.

Yeah, I know---the B(I)8 is the one I ordered...some refs imply maybe a Martin Baker Mk2 seat...

Manstein's revenge

Anyone know what type of bang-seat this MOJ0 had?  I do know that only the pilot had one---the navigator/bomber had to bail out the old-fashioned way...

According to Wikipedia...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Electric_Canberra

Each crew member has a Martin-Baker ejection seat except in the B(I)8 and its export versions where the navigator makes use of an escape hatch and parachute.^{[citation needed]}

.....roger...over...

Anyone know what type of bang-seat this MOJ0 had?  I do know that only the pilot had one---the navigator/bomber had to bail out the old-fashioned way...

Yeah, its one of their newer (thus much better than the old Airfix) offerings...loads of model for the money...full bomb bay with different stores options...

Airfix is becoming the next Revell of Germany...of course Airfix is in Britain, and Revell is not Airfix...but other than that...

So this is another new-tool?? Can't decide if I like it or not. I kinda like the quirky offset cockpit and tip-tanks, but the wing is soooo thick.