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Short S.8 Calcutta from Jens B. Kristensen
Posted: 16 Sep 2007, 13:26
by FlyTexas
Oh! Calcutta! ;-) Another beauty from Jens! Available over at Avsim.
Brian

Re: Short S.8 Calcutta from Jens B. Kristensen
Posted: 16 Sep 2007, 14:07
by DaveB
Ooo.. Cheers Brian
ATB
DaveB :tab:
Re: Short S.8 Calcutta from Jens B. Kristensen
Posted: 16 Sep 2007, 14:26
by RAF_Quantum
That looks rather nice
Rgds
John
Re: Short S.8 Calcutta from Jens B. Kristensen
Posted: 16 Sep 2007, 15:58
by TSR2
Lovely stuff.... very nice indeed.

Re: Short S.8 Calcutta from Jens B. Kristensen
Posted: 16 Sep 2007, 16:35
by DaveB
Re: Short S.8 Calcutta from Jens B. Kristensen
Posted: 16 Sep 2007, 18:16
by Filonian
DL as I type this.
Many thanks Jens
Graham
Re: Short S.8 Calcutta from Jens B. Kristensen
Posted: 17 Sep 2007, 17:57
by DispatchDragon
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
Re: Short S.8 Calcutta from Jens B. Kristensen
Posted: 26 Sep 2007, 20:57
by AllanL
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!!
