I have been driving myself mad just recently trying to answer a question that stems from my childhood. Now, many, many moons ago my mother made a huge mistake. When I was about five years old, she bought me my first Air Fix kit. It was probably a Spitfire or Hurricane and I spent a rainy Saturday afternoon assembling it. As I recall, I had great fun, but this first attempt, well lets say a five year old and a tube of glue.......I was yet to find out that you did not need to use the whole tube so my masterpiece looked like it was covered in dry snot from nose to tail. Anyway, my mother opened Pandora's box and had no option but to feed this new found obsession (my wife is still thanking her for it today
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However, back on track to my question. Around the age of seven or eight I received for Christmas two kits and this is where my question comes in. I am convinced that both of these kits were 1:24 scale. The kits were a F4 Phantom and a BF110. I remember that these kits were huge. The Phantom had removable engines, folding wings and opening canopies. The BF110 had removable engine covers, but mainly sticks in my mind due to the size. Now you could say that time had dulled the senses, but if that was the case, why has these two kits stuck in my mind, I have built just about every scale from 1:1 to 1:44. Right now, I have a 1:32 scale Phantom on my desk ready for the winter months and it is in no way close to the size that I remember. I have spent a long time in the WWW trying to find out if there was kits in this size and can find nothing. Does anyone else know or help?
Thanks
Matt
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1. Captain, if the problem is not entered into the technical logbook.........then the aircraft does not have a problem.
2. And, if you have time to write the fault on a napkin and attach to it to the yoke.........you have time to write it in the tech log....see point 1.
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