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    New Zealand

    Do we? I thought there was really only MOTAT, and the Keith Park Spitfire and the Zero in the Auckland Museum. Would love to know if there's more places.
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    Bf 109 Blueprints/Drawings Needed

    That's interesting. If I recall correctly Pam passed away six years ago, didn't she? Did you have no plans (ha!) to market the plans you have the rights to? Last I heard no-one could get Pam's remaining family to talk let alone discuss transferring her rights. They have a hell of a lot of...
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    Masters of the Air TV series

    The second episode, I thought, was more involving than the first one. Hard to match BoB though.
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    Masters of the Air TV series

    If Band of Brothers is anything to go by, a year after the final episode is released. So middle of next year. Whether that would be the UHD release as well is anyone's guess.
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    Masters of the Air TV series

    That's fair. It could be the technical accuracy was more for the historical events than the mechanical ones. The flying scenes would be mostly CGI done by a third-party, and the producers would have limited access to the modelers and animators, who probably have no aviation experience. The...
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    Masters of the Air TV series

    Apologies if there's already a discussion on this somewhere; a quick search was unenlightening. Have you all been enjoying the new Masters of the Air series on the American WWII bomber crews, from the Band of Brothers people? So far, two episodes in, it's been a fun ride and I'm looking...
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    Could you design anything stranger?

    That picture does look somewhat rendered, doesn't it? The plane did exist though. Edit: oops, didn't notice cluttonfred had already posted this picture. His reply didn't come up for me originally for some reason.
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    "FREE" AV-36 and AV-361 plans

    That's because it's using http rather than https. It's just telling you that any traffic between you and the web-site will not be encrypted. Once upon a time http unencrypted web-sites were common. It's just in recent years that browser manufacturers have pushed to force webmasters to switch...
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    Could you design anything stranger?

    That's what happens when you let a New Zealander design a plane. :D
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    Movies with Cool Aircraft Featured

    Speaking of classic movies, from the great Where Eagle's Dare, I present to you the Nazi WW2 helicopter (that looks suspiciously like a contemporary American one):
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    Questions about material on Jurca Mustang

    Right, sorry, thought the name looked familiar. 👍
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    Movies with Cool Aircraft Featured

    Talking of terrible movies, you can't go past the famous chopping-the-tail-off-with-your-prop move of the Polish Hurricane pilots.
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    Questions about material on Jurca Mustang

    Marian has quite a history here. It's been suggested to her multiple times to tone it down or risk alienating everyone willing to help - and yet here we are. You get used to her. She's genuine, I think, but rather trying. :) And here years later she still can't read plans. But one has to...
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    Bf 109 Blueprints/Drawings Needed

    Heh, yeah, I know why he's using those tips. Still an interesting design choice. I thought he bought his smaller replica from a friend who built it? Maybe I misread that.
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    Bf 109 Blueprints/Drawings Needed

    It's an interesting build. An E front-end with F-style wing-tips.
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    Bf 109 Blueprints/Drawings Needed

    Maybe we should pass the hat around, get donations to buy the rights to his plans so they can be freed. Well, a man can dream. :)
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    Bf 109 Blueprints/Drawings Needed

    I think there's only one known set of MJ90 drawings in existence as they weren't finalised before Jurca's untimely death. Best best is to try for second hand MJ9, or beg / plead / threaten the Jurca Committee for a digital copy and prepare to be ghosted (though I'm not sure if even they have a...
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    Bf 109 Blueprints/Drawings Needed

    As I understand it, the BF109 drawings are not generally available. Years ago an enthusiast arranged with EADS? to offer the drawings for a price, but they were so widely copied and copycat sites popped up to sell them on eBay that EADS withdrew their arrangement before more than about 25% of...
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    Available free plans of homebuilt aircraft

    I think most of those ex-Yahoo plans can now be found here: https://trello.com/b/cL5pgnPQ/free-aircraft-plans
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    BF-109 Aerofoil Question

    Thanks, though not needed as the NACA report mentioned above lists the 2R1 ordinates: These match up with the Messerschmitt factory blueprint wing ordinates, so it's definitely the same 2R1 foil as described by NACA, rather than just being two different ones that happened to be named the...
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