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I used to fly with a senior pilot (on CH-53D's) who liked to do serious nose-down takeoffs when the helo was empty. I don't recall the pitch angle, I was usually sucked into my seat and hanging on, looking out through the overhead windows to see forward, or straight down at the ground. It was...

What he said! Add to that no wind, which would be really nice for a change. Particularly with the not-so-great controls the early helos had. Hannah got very badly injured at one point in a crash, recovered to fly again. Cheers

Very nice! Nice truck too. DAF 314? Cheers

Louie, I understand! I thought "When I retire, I'll have so much time to do stuff, I'll get all my projects done!". Now, I wonder how I ever had time to work. :) My kits are waiting patiently for me to get through my ever-changing stack of round tuits, one of which is to get a designated...

How about these - The built models are not mine, I nicked them off the net a while back. One problem I see with the kit is the moulded in weld seam on the nose sides (indicated by arrow in pic 3), that shouldn't be there, it is all one plate with a bend. Cheers

For me, the 13'9" nose height came from the height of the 5th wheel from the ground. The nose of my M129A4 (with the other type frame than yours) now sits at 13'3" on the M931A2 with the Fontaine 5th wheel. The TSS trailer is about the same. I didn't clarify in my previous post- 14' is max...

I believe you are thinking of the 14.5x20. Cheers

That is the majority of what you will get. I had one bunch call wanting to rent my V100. Then they said they wanted to vis-mod it to look like an M1117. "How would you do that?" says I. Says they, "We'd just weld some brackets to the turret and stuff, you know, nothing permanent". "Click"...

That thing is beautiful, Rayzer! Cheers

That HobbyBoss kit is really nice, and looks like it builds into an accurate representation on the outside at least. I'm afraid the interior would have misguided me some, Louie, as it is loosely based on the V150. :) I was reading on a modeling forum where one contributor was talking of...

A tank is $5000-6000 per day! Cheers

We did get our copies of that movie, its.......entertaining. :) Parts of it are on Youtube, The Walk with Darkness. Sigh......Stop Loss :oops: At first I declined to do the movie, as I really didn't like their story. But then we talked money... We did the US stuff, not the "Iraq" bit...

A buddy of mine hauled his stock M146 (9.00x20 tires) behind his M931A2. The rear tires on the tractor would sometimes catch on the trailer landing gear feet, so he trimmed the inside corners of the pads. Still a bit too close for my taste though (and his. He hauls it with his M915 now)...

In a pinch, an M1009 will also move a V100 with little effort, but I recommend the speed be kept low, since stopping would be an issue! Obviously, I drive with a little less abandon than the driver in the video, mainly because I would like to drive my M1009 again. Cheers PS - No, I didn't...

Several years ago, I made good money doing a movie in San Antonio, but that was for Paramount. I'm too embarrassed to name the movie, what a piece of garbage!! We had a contract, they paid the insurance, housing and meals, and they paid industry rates for the vehicles, as well as extra for me...

One of my favourite 'what-ifs', a doubled P-38 Lightning. An exercise in fun, not practicality, its not likely to have been successful (insufficient increase in power for the weight, insufficient vertical stabilizer to make up for the increase in side area, etc. etc.). Cheers

I have had some luck dragging the pictures into the order I want them in the "Attachments" window, after uploading them one at a time. Sometimes it will reshuffle them, but cursing at it and saying "NO, not that way!!" loudly whilst dragging it back does seem to help. Cheers

Thanks John, I didn't know it was there! Cheers

The Minitanks are nice models. I collected them as a kid (they cost about 10 cents apiece in Ireland at the time, within pocket money range for a kid), and still have a bunch of my old ones. Nowadays, I have a shelf with as many of my vehicles, and my buddies', as I can get in that scale (HO)...

Now I know where all the M109s went, Gunboy has them! :) Cheers