Oh! Calcutta! ;-) Another beauty from Jens! Available over at Avsim.
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Short S.8 Calcutta from Jens B. Kristensen
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Ooo.. Cheers Brian
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That looks rather nice
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Better in the flesh!!
You need to wear wellies in the pax cabin (water creeps in as the aircraft goes down on the wave motion) but a minor detail. The flightdeck remains dry!!
Good work Jens.. lovely model ;-)
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You need to wear wellies in the pax cabin (water creeps in as the aircraft goes down on the wave motion) but a minor detail. The flightdeck remains dry!!
Good work Jens.. lovely model ;-)
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Many thanks Jens
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Many thanks Jens
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Re: Short S.8 Calcutta from Jens B. Kristensen
Thank you Jens
What a terribly gentlemanly and British way to travel - Im almost tempted to try a RTW with it - see you sometime next
year LOL.....Just one question - Isnt this the one that had its picture taken in front of the Houses of Parliment so many
years ago????
Leif
What a terribly gentlemanly and British way to travel - Im almost tempted to try a RTW with it - see you sometime next
year LOL.....Just one question - Isnt this the one that had its picture taken in front of the Houses of Parliment so many
years ago????
Leif
Re: Short S.8 Calcutta from Jens B. Kristensen
I managed to find the picture, sadly across two pages in Wings across the World. It was the first one, as modeled here by Jens, and it flew straight up the river from Rochester in august '28 to sit outside the Houses of Parliament for three days for MPs to crawl over it. Of course Imperial were trying to get subsidies out of the government to start flying boat services round the UK. The Calcutta did fly between Liverpool and Belfast on an experimental service in September '28, run for the Liverpool Organisation that was campaigning for an airport.
Well done Jens, only "Golden Hind" has escaped your modelling of Imperial Shorts flying boats!!
Well done Jens, only "Golden Hind" has escaped your modelling of Imperial Shorts flying boats!!