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Jed
26th September 2006, 06:36 PM
Get a note from the post office saying theres a parcel waiting for me that I have to collect. Odd, seeing as I wasn't expecting anything.

So I go and collect it, unwrap it and it contains this...

http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/1785/lighbm6.th.jpg (http://img241.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lighbm6.jpg)

It was from an old friend who I'd lost contact with about a year ago and he'd just sent it without even telling me he was going to.

What is it? It's the front navigation light from a G.A.L Hotspur II glider (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Aircraft_Hotspur). :D

http://img82.imageshack.us/img82/2467/hu014696gl1.jpg
fess
26th September 2006, 08:11 PM
Cool man, I guess not all surprises are bad ;)
Jed
26th September 2006, 08:18 PM
Well what was cool is the fact I've been researching into that kind of aircraft and the units that use it for over 10 years now. There are, as far as Im aware, only two examples of the glider still in existence worldwide. One is complete but a rebuild based on an existing tailsection and the other is just a cockpit section.
Ginger Lord
26th September 2006, 09:11 PM
God help you if you ever decide to move, half a flat worth of random bits of planes....
Jed
26th September 2006, 09:24 PM
I'm doing a Colditdz. I'm carefully assembling a glider by myself with the intent of escaping the country when the guards aren't looking.

Still at least this isn't THAT big. Not like the Harrier outrigger tyre I brough through customs! :|
Trp.Werewolf
26th September 2006, 09:34 PM
yeah, but that catapult made of bustenhalten ain't gonna cut it!
fess
26th September 2006, 10:18 PM
At least you got good reference for when/if you ever come to model a Hotspur Glider's navigation light :p
Jed
26th September 2006, 10:44 PM
At least you got good reference for when/if you ever come to model a Hotspur Glider's navigation light :p

LOL. The ammount of references I've got I could re-build an entire one from scratch.

If I had the time and money I was actually toying with makeing a 1:12th or 1:6th scale RC version.
Faceman
27th September 2006, 01:43 AM
Put it on your car or bike.
Jed
27th September 2006, 02:13 AM
Ship might be more appropriate.

BTW, I though I saw you asleep on the metro today until I realised it was geographically impossible.
Wile E Coyote
27th September 2006, 03:05 AM
There is no record of the Hotspur being used in combat as the larger glider types overtook them in functionality.LOL no wonder I had never heard of it!
War Pig
27th September 2006, 05:14 PM
o_O

How did you recognize it wasn't a bomb that was waiting for you in the post office:/
Spartacus
28th September 2006, 01:33 PM
Now that's friendship!
Faceman
28th September 2006, 10:17 PM
BTW, I though I saw you asleep on the metro today until I realised it was geographically impossible.

REQ: PICS
Jed
28th September 2006, 10:54 PM
REQ: PICS

I wish I could. I did reach for my camera but I'd forgotten to put it in my bag :(