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Red and Rover by Brian Basset for January 23, 2016
January 22, 2016
January 24, 2016
Transcript:
Rover: Whatcha doing? Red: Building a model of the "Spirit of St. Louis." Rover: Are you following directions this time? Red: Where's the fun in that?! There- done! Rover: No wheels? No propeller? Red: Errr... looks much faster this way!
Catfeet Premium Member about 9 years ago
It’s the new, improved Spirit of St. Louis! What would Lindbergh say?
Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member about 9 years ago
Rocket powered!
neverenoughgold about 9 years ago
That’s the “Spirit” Red…
mggreen about 9 years ago
Looks pretty good to this ’ol pilot, Red!
cometkid about 9 years ago
Every model kit builder in the 50s reached the point where he didn’t use the instructions. That’s why my Battleship Missouri had the guns pointing inward…to the consternation of my Navy veteran Dad! Red’s attitude makes perfect sense. Red just “kit bashed” the Spirit.
hippogriff about 9 years ago
Or go the other way and superdetail it. There is a lot of documemtary material available on the Ryan NY-P.
neverenoughgold about 9 years ago
Is it rubber band powered?
hippogriff about 9 years ago
neverenoughgoldI think the kit was for static scale, not flying. It should be noted that the 87 who flew the Atlantic before had no landing gear either – flying boats or dirigibles, except for Alcott and Brown’s modified Vickers Vimy, which was first to do it non-stop. Lindbergh was merely the first to do it solo. (The second was Douglas Corrigan in an off-the-shelf Curtiss Robin. Denied permission to attempt the Atlantic, he filed for California non-stop, but flew to Ireland, gaining the nickname, “Wrongway”.)