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Lynch Cove run Cleanup 6/22/19: Clean Bread and Cheese Creek Community Cleanups had an absolutely beautiful day to work with over25 incredible volunteers to cleanup Lynch Cove Run. We removed over 87 bags of trash!!! Thank you everyone so very much for all your incredible hard work! Our volunteer dedication to working toward a cleaner, greener, healthier community and environment cannot be topped! Thank you so much!!! We truly wish to thank everyone who came out and volunteered at today’s cleanup!
We truly with to thank Chick-fil-a of Eastpoint for donating food to feed all our hungry and hardworking volunteers! We also wish to thank Tradepoint Atlantic, G and M Food (McDonald’s-Wise Avenue), Redner’s Markets-Dundalk, Baltimore County Department of Recreation and Parks, Norris Ford, Thompson Automotive Group and the Eastfield Stanbrook Community Association and Eastpoint Mall for their generous support of Clean Bread and Cheese Creek's spring cleanups. Thank you so much for your incredible generosity!
We would also like to thank the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, American Rivers, and Baltimore County Highways for all their assistance and support on this cleanup. Thank you so much everyone for another incredible job and another win for the environment!
ETHIOPIAN PEOPLE PATRIOTIC FRONT GUARD The regular meeting successfully of members of EPPFG-group held in Nürnberg city, on August,09, 2014 Ethiopian People Patriotic Front Guard (EPPFG) is established with the purposes of bringing
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ETHIOPIAN PEOPLE PATRIOTIC FRONT GUARD
The regular meeting successfully of members of EPPFG-group held in Nürnberg city, on August,09, 2014
Ethiopian People Patriotic Front Guard (EPPFG) is established with the purposes of bringing the TPLF/EPRDF power to end through all means of struggle, to eliminate tyranny, to bring justice, democracy and equality of the Ethiopian people. To accomplish the mission of the organization effectively, we create awareness for all Ethiopians who are voluntary to accompany us and we organize our members for a common goal. The organization reaches to its members in many ways, one of it is making a meeting regularly through the year.
Accordingly, Members of Ethiopian People Patriotic Front Guard (EPPFG-group) in Bayern has carried out their regular meeting successfully for the second time on August, 09, 2014. During this time, the meeting was opened officially by Mr. Leul Keskis who is the Chairman of the EPPFG in Germany. The meeting was led by Mera Abraha who is the Chairman of the members of Bayern region and by the General secretary in Germany called Mr. Tilahun Gudeta. After agenda of the meeting was explained, the stage was opened to the audiences for discussion. The meeting focused mainly on the following agendas.
1) Current problems in Ethiopia
2) Experience sharing between participants
After the agendas were explained by representative of the group, the audience discussed properly on issues about how we could be strong in our movement for liberation of Ethiopia. Participants became aware of the current problems and situation of Ethiopia due to lack of justice, freedom and democracy in Ethiopia. All members held a stand to be attached hand in hand until the end for establishment of united and democratic Ethiopia. Finally, the meeting was closed by Mr. Leul Keskis after making closing speech for the audiences.
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Contact: EPPF International relation Email: kirarayiso@googlemail.com www.eppfguard.com.
The Partnership for Successful Living hosted its 13th Annual Thanksgiving Dinner Celebration for those in need on Tuesday, November 26th. We are so thankful for all of the staff, community volunteers and elected officials that made this delicious meal a great success!
Successful Business Management Series with John Fish, President and CEO, Suffolk Construction Co. sponsored by Citizens Bank - October 31, 2007
7 kite aerial photos.
1 selective colouring HDR.
1 ND filter long exposure.
1 fractalised light painting.
Herkese, başarılı, huzurlı, sağlıklı ve bol kazançlı bir hafta dileriz.
We wish a successful, peaceful, healthy and prosperous week to everyone.
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This session features successful capacity building partnerships that have been forged by ITU and other organizations.
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Solar Impulse 2’s historic mission to become the first solar-powered aircraft to circumnavigate the globe and to showcase that clean technologies can achieve the impossible was successfully achieved with the logistics support of Chapman Freeborn and Volga-Dnepr Airlines.
The Solar Impulse 2 (Si2) project chose Chapman Freeborn and Volga-Dnepr to provide comprehensive logistical assistance with the provision of both Cargo & Passenger chartered aircraft to transport spare parts, mobile hangar and the technical team to support the record-breaking round-the-world trip which started in March 2015 and came to a triumphant conclusion at the end of last month. The aircraft landed back in Abu Dhabi on 26 July 2016 after completing 23 days of flight and covering a distance of 43,041km over the course of its 17-leg journey.
In addition to providing the Solar Impulse team with highly-responsive support aircraft including a Volga-Dnepr Airlines’ IL-76TD-90VD and an ATR-72 for the mission, Chapman Freeborn’s Wings 24 in-house flight support team helped to manage the project’s operations, ranging from flight permits and customs clearances to ground handling and immigration arrangements for the transport airplanes.
The accompanying support aircraft were responsible for transporting over 25 tonnes of technical equipment as well as flying crew members and personnel throughout the mission. This required significant flexibility by Volga-Dnepr, which ensured an IL-76TD-90VD was on standby ready to support Solar Impulse 2 and be mobilised at extremely short notice.
Pierre van der Stichele, Cargo Business Development Director at Chapman Freeborn, said:
“Chapman Freeborn is honoured to have provided specialist support for the Si2 mission throughout its journey around the world. The challenge for all innovators is doing things that have not been done before – so we’re extremely proud to have been involved in this aviation industry first. The project required all of our global charter market expertise as we were working around Si2’s changeable flight schedules - with support solutions required in Asia, North America, Europe, and North Africa. We would also like to thank Volga-Dnepr for its professionalism for assisting in ensuring the cargo always reached its destination safely and on time.”
Georgy Sokolov, Regional Sales Manager at Volga-Dnepr Airlines, added:
“Volga-Dnepr Group is strongly committed to improving the environmental efficiency of its fleet and to embracing all levels of aviation innovation so it was a special pleasure for us to play a long-term role in the historic achievement of the Solar Impulse 2 team. This demanded a level of flexibility far beyond a usual charter operation as we had to be ready to mobilise our aircraft at extremely short notice. It was also appropriate that the modernised IL-76TD-90VD supporting Si2 features significantly improved operating efficiencies and lower emissions. As an industry, we must always be evaluating new technology that can make flying greener and more efficient and right now, in terms of showing what aviation may look like in the future, there is no better example than Solar Impulse 2.”
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About Solar Impulse
Swiss pioneers Bertrand Piccard (President) and André Borschberg (CEO) are the founders, pilots and life force behind Solar Impulse, the first aircraft able to fly day and night without fuel or polluting emissions.
Supported by partners Solvay, Omega, Schindler, ABB, Google, Altran, Bayer Material Science, Swiss Re Corporate Solutions and Swisscom amongst others, Solar Impulse has been a history making project in the world of exploration and the world of renewable energies.
The Si2 aircraft has a 72 meter wingspan (larger than that of the Boeing 747) for a weight of just 2,300 Kg, equivalent to that of a car. The 17,248 solar cells built into the wing supply four electric motors (17.5 CV each) with renewable energy. During the day, the solar cells recharge lithium batteries weighing 633 Kg which allow the aircraft to fly at night and therefore to have virtually unlimited autonomy.
On the longest leg of the journey, Borschberg, 63, smashed the record for the longest uninterrupted journey in aviation history with the 8,924 kilometre flight between Nagoya, Japan and Hawaii that lasted nearly 118 hours.
The round the world route:
Flight 1: Abu Dhabi to Muscat
Flight 2: Muscat to Ahmedabad
Flight 3: Ahmedabad to Varanasi
Flight 4: Varanasi to Mandalay
Flight 5: Mandalay to Chongqing
Flight 6: Chongqing to Nanjing
Flight 7: Nanjing to Nagoya
Flight 8: Nagoya to Hawaii
Flight 9: Hawaii to San Francisco
Flight 10: San Francisco to Phoenix
Flight 11: Phoenix to Tulsa
Flight 12: Tulsa to Dayton
Flight 13: Dayton to Lehigh Valley
Flight 14: Lehigh Valley to New York
Flight 15: New York to Seville
Flight 16: Seville to Cairo
Flight 17: Cairo to Abu Dhabi
Detroit Speed Has a Very Successful SEMA Show and Makes a Mark at the OUSCI - Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational. Although the CamRally did not win the Toyota Dream Build Challenge, the buzz that is created at SEMA and on the web more than made up for not bringing the trophy back to Mooresville for a second year. The pinnacle was being named a "Top Ten Car of SEMA" by Edmunds.com. Detroit Speed was thrilled to win a Global Media Award for the 1963-1967 Corvette Electric Headlight Kit. The Detroit Speed brand was not limited to just the CamRally and booth. The Detroit Speed logo was seen on many cars from 2012 OUSCI Winner, Mark Stielow's 1967 Mayhem Camaro, to various other Pro-Touring cars eager to compete in the OUSCI on Saturday in Pahrump.
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Col. Gerhard P.R. Schröter, depot commander, and Michael McGinty, American Federation of Government Employees Local 1647, add an Army Safety Excellence Streamer to the depot flag July 26. (U.S. Army photo by Tracey Condi)
Successfully implemented: EUAM assesses pilot project in Kharkiv region, the copy of Sambir Police Station
Successfully completed the Seattle Randonneurs Spring 100 km Populaire!🙌 It was a beautiful spring day, sun and a high in the upper 50's F. The route mostly used trails and corridors like Interurban, Burke Gilman, and Sammamish River. 65 miles by my computer and I got to the finish with two minutes to spare! (80 miles total riding today.) I haven't done a ride like this in forever, and I definitely feel it!😴 #seattlerandonneurs #randonneuring #populaire
Blue Tailed Bee Eater (Merops philippinus)
About to land on the dead tree after a successful hunt..
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A weed in a general sense is a plant that is considered by the user of the term to be a nuisance, and normally applied to unwanted plants in human-made settings such as gardens, lawns or agricultural areas, but also in parks, woods and other natural areas. More specifically, the term is often used to describe native or nonnative plants that grow and reproduce aggressively. Generally, a weed is a plant in an undesired place.
Windsor Ruins near Alcorn, Mississippi
Smith Coffee Daniell II, a successful cotton planter, completed construction of Windsor in 1861. Daniell owned 21,000 acres of plantation land in Louisiana and Mississippi. Ironically, he died in April 1861, only weeks after completing his mansion. His wife and children continued to live at Windsor but were left to suffer the loss of much of the family’s holdings during the Civil War.
Windsor’s basic style was Greek Revival but with added details borrowed from Italiante and Gothic architecture. The house contained 23 rooms, with an above-ground basement, two residential floors, and an attic. The ell-shaped extension on the east side, attached to a single row of columns extending from the main square, contained the kitchen, pantry, and dining room. Rainwater stored in large tanks in the attic supplied two bathrooms. A cupola, from which the Mississippi River could be viewed, was centered on top of the roof.
The mansion survived the Civil War only to be destroyed by accidental fire on February 17, 1890. All was lost except for the columns and the ironwork. One flight of metal stairs from Windsor is now installed at Oakland Chapel on the campus of nearby Alcorn State University. All of the Daniell family’s photographs and drawings of the mansion were lost in the fire. In 1991, historians discovered a drawing of Windsor sketched in 1863 by a Union soldier in Major General Ulysses S. Grant’s army.
Descendants of the Daniell family donated Windsor Ruins to the State of Mississippi in 1974. Today the site is administered by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
Ernest Borgnine and his fourth wife, the former Donna Rancourt, are pictured during a recent Hollywood movie set party for the film, "Fight of the Phoenix"
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Jiyan Foundation organised a one week series of Workshops for staff members on lobbying, PR, campaigning and human rights work. The seminar took place in Berlin.
On the first day, staff discussed political lobbying with Christoph Strässer, member of the German Parliament and coordinator of humanitarian affairs at the German Foreign Office.
On Tuesday, the team explored how to effectively document human rights violations with Fred Abrahams of Human Rights Watch.
The following day, prosecution and international litigation of torture was discussed with Andreas Schüller of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR).
Kattrin Lempp, a freelance supervisor and former member of Doctors without Borders (MSF) provided insights into effective media and PR strategies.
The week concluded with a workshop conducted by Daniel Goliasch of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) on how to organise and carry out a successful campaign, including online campaigning.
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Some Background:
The story of the Dornier Do 36 started with a small vehicle, the “Wiesel”. This was a German Armored Weapons Carrier (AWC), a light air-transportable, lightly armored tracked weapons carrier, developed by Porsche and later produced by Rheinmetall. It was quite similar to historical scouting tankettes in size, form and function, and was the only true modern tankette in use in Western Europe. The Wiesel was developed for the German Army’s airborne troops, as the infantry of the German Bundeswehr, especially airborne infantry, were considered unprepared to successfully fight enemy main battle tanks (MBT) in the 1970s. The requirements were that the vehicle should fit in common NATO transport planes and could eventually be even air-dropped. At only 2.75 metric tons (3.03 short tons), it weighed less than the armored variant of the U.S. Humvee military light truck. It should be able to fight infantry as well as enemy tanks or aircraft. Porsche produced some prototypes of the future fighting vehicle for the Bundeswehr in 1975, but the Bundeswehr stopped the project in 1978 due to lack of funds. Nevertheless, Porsche continued development, because of interest from other countries.
This effort was not in vain because the demand for this type of light vehicle – beyond the armed infantry support role – was still unanswered, and with some modifications the chassis could be used for many other light vehicles like a troop transport, command post, field ambulance or a mortar carrier, too. The Bundeswehr eventually ordered 343 of the vehicles in 1985, and deliveries of the new weapon system for the Bundeswehr began in the late 1980s. The vehicle was named Wiesel ("weasel") because of its small size and agility, which make it very difficult to detect on the battlefield.
In parallel to the Wiesel’s development in the early Eighties the Bundeswehr was considering a new light tactical transport aircraft that would fill the gap between the indigenous light Dornier Do 28 Skyservant STOL transport aircraft, which was powered by two piston engines, and the much bigger C-160 Transall, which had been developed together with France. These thoughts were fueled even more by the unsuccessful attempts to drop the Wiesel from a C-160 with parachutes – despite many attempts and technological solutions to dampen the landing, the Wiesel could not be landed safely, not to speak about potential crews inside. A potential carrier, the ambitious VTOL Do 31, which had only made it to the prototype stage in the Seventies and had then been cancelled, was not available. Therefore, Dornier was requested to design a compact transport aircraft that would a) have a cargo space diameter and a tail ramp large enough to carry up to two Wiesel or other light Bundeswehr vehicle and their crews and still have STOL capability on unprepared airfields. Primary design target was an aircraft that could deploy small airborne commando troops and ensure their support close to moving frontline units.
Dornier initially considered the adaptation of its new Do 228, the turboprop-driven successor of the robust Do 28D, but eventually rejected the idea because the light aircraft would not have the required capacities. Augmenting its structure to integrate a tail ramp as well as a floor strong enough to carry two Wiesel AFVs (the Wiesel 1's length was 3.55 m (11.6 ft), height and width 1.82 m (6.0 ft) each) was eventually just as complicated as developing a new, tailor-made aircraft from scratch, and this route was eventually followed.
The resulting Dornier Do 36 was only slightly bigger than the compact and highly popular Do 28D. unlike the Skyservant, though, It was jet-powered, with a pair of General Electric TF34-GE-100A high-bypass turbofans. An unusual design feature of the Do 36 was the use of the Coandă effect to improve STOL performance, using engine exhaust gases blown over the wing's upper surface to boost lift. To achieve this airflow the engines were mounted in nacelles close to the fuselage over the wings’ leading edge, what also reduced the engines’ sound level. Dornier’s engineers had carried out a series of "powered lift" studies some time earlier, including both externally blown flaps, as well an upper-surface blowing (USB) system, an unusual variation. As a result, the aircraft received a T-tail to keep it outside the jet efflux. In the USB system, the engine is arranged over the top surface of the wing, blowing over the flaps. When the flaps are lowered, the Coandă effect makes the jet exhaust "stick" to the flaps and bend down toward the ground, creating additional lift. Another project the engineers were interested in was the supercritical airfoil, designed by Richard Whitcomb. The supercritical design promised to lower transonic drag greatly, as much as a swept wing in some situations. This allowed an aircraft with such a wing to have low drag in cruise while also having a wing planform more suitable for lower-speed flight—swept wings have several undesirable characteristics at low speed. Both these innovative concepts were combined and incorporated into the Do 36’s design.
The cockpit was pressurized but the cargo bay, separated with a sealable bulkhead, not. The landing gear was fully retractable and featured low-pressure tires and struts with long suspension travel at allow operations on semi-prepared airfields. The front landing gear had twin wheels to lower ground pressure, and the wheels were outfitted with mudguards to protect the fuselage underside, which had relatively little ground clearance to accommodate the short tail ramp. The main landing gear struts retracted inwards and folded into sponsons on the lower side of the rear fuselage which also housed a APU for independent operations, avionics and chaff/flare dispensers.
The Do 36’s first flight was made on 31 August 1984, but production was delayed well into the late 1980s. Two major problems were found and corrected during testing: The first was a problem with air circulating around the wing when operating at low speeds, esp. when taxiing or flying close to the ground, which had a serious effect on the spreading of the jet flow through the nozzle. This led to flow separation near the flap, and a decrease in the effectiveness of the USB system. In response, Dornier’s engineers added a series of vortex generators on the upper surface of the wing, which retracted when the flap was raised above 30°. Additionally, the tail surfaces were initially placed well aft to maximize control effectiveness. But this positioning turned out to interfere with the airflow over the wings during USB operations, and a new T-tail was introduced that moved the elevator forward.
Mending the airflow troubles lasted until 1987, when the Do 36 was eventually cleared for production and officially called “Skymaster”. The first customer became the German Bundesluftwaffe with an order for six pre-production aircraft for field tests and international promotion, followed by thirty more machines that were all allocated to the newly established LTLG (Lufttransport- und Lande-Geschwader) 64, which was closely attached to the German Army’s parachutist troops (Fallschirmjäger) and its headquarters.
The trials with the six pre-production machines lasted until 1989, and during this phase of almost two years the Luftwaffe Do 36s visited several potential customer countries, including many European states, plus Israel, the USA and Canada. However, only the USA ordered twelve Do 36’s for Special Forces units under the designation C-39, which was then internationally adapted for the type.
After its introduction the Luftwaffe Do 36 saw frequent use, also outside of Germany. From 1991, German paratroopers were, together with Do 36s, regularly part of the first German contingent on foreign missions, e. g. 1993 during the German support in Somalia. Four machines accompanied the troops.
From 1996 onwards, the Airborne Brigade was disbanded with the parallel formation of the Special Forces Command as a new branch of service at the old location in Calw. At the same time, Fernspähkompanie 100 and 300 as well as the former paratrooper command companies were disbanded, and parts transferred to the KSK (Kommando Spezialkräfte). Paratroopers and KSK were jointly subordinated to the Division “Schnelle Kräfte” (Rapid Forces Division), with LTLG 64 as a central air transport and logistics Luftwaffe unit now re-located to Lechfeld near Augsburg in Southern Germany, close to the KSK headquarter.
General characteristics:
Crew: 1 or 2
Capacity: 24 passengers / 5.500 kg (12,115 lb) max. payload
Length: 14.18 m (46 ft 5½ in)
Wingspan: 18.14 m (59 ft 5 in)
Height: 4.82 m (15 ft 9½ in)
Wing area: 40 m2 (430 sq ft)
Aspect ratio: 8.3:1
Empty weight: 9.100 kg (20,062 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 15,660 kg (34,524 lb)
Fuel capacity: 1,885 kg (4,156 lb)
Powerplant:
2× General Electric TF34-GE-100A high-bypass turbofans with 9,065 lbf (40.32 kN) thrust each
Performance
Maximum speed: 795 km/h (494 mph, 429 kn)
Cruise speed: 650 km/h (400 mph, 350 kn)
Stall speed (power off, flaps down): 104 km/h (65 mph, 56 kn)
Minimum control speed (power on, flaps down): 65 km/h (40 mph, 35 kn)
Range: 2,950 km (1,830 mi, 1,590 nmi) with max fuel
1,852 km (1,151 mi, 1,000 nmi) in standard configuration
Service ceiling: 11,000 m (35,000 ft)
Rate of climb: 26 m/s (5,120 ft/min)
Armament:
No internal weapons;
2x underwing hardpoints for loads of up to 500 kg (1.100 lb) each,
incl. drop tanks or defensive ECM/chaff/flare pods
The kit and its assembly:
This whiffy Frankenstein creation had been lingering in the back of my mind for a couple of years, and I also had, over time, two Matchbox Do 28D Skyservant kits stashed away to build this rather special transport aircraft someday. The “Re-Engine” group build at whatifmodellers.com in summer 2023 was a good motivation to finally tackle this project, because I had always pushed it back because I knew that it would be challenging and thorough.
The original idea was to outfit a Do 28D with jet engines and a tricycle landing gear – after I came across some leftover Matchbox A-10 turbofan pods from my youth. These, like the Do 28D kit, were/are rather primitive (if not false) affairs but combining them could probably yield an interesting result. The large pods immediately reminded me of the American YC-14 prototype and the very similar Russian An-72 transport aircraft, both with large turbofans on the wings’ leading edges and exploiting the Coandă effect for STOL performance. However, from that simple starting point on things took a VERY demanding route through PSR surgery.
Two Do 28Ds were necessary because converting just a single kit was not enough. For a tricycle landing gear, the fuselage had to be extended with a plug in front of the wings, which was taken from the 2nd Do 28D kit behind the wings, including the side doors, because these had to be removed due to the new landing gear arrangement (see below). However, this turned out to be too low, so that the roof had to be raised with a styrene sheet plug. With the longer fuselage the wings had to be elongated to keep the proportions, too, and this was again solved with plugs (inner wing sections) from the 2nd kit – thankfully this was quite easy due to the straight leading and trailing edges.
To add value to the aircraft and to better exploit a higher payload, I also decided to modify the tail and add a ramp – bold stunt, but it worked better than expected. I used mostly the original Do 28D tail and the fin but widened the tapered tail through long cuts along the upper roof edges, with inserted styrene sheet wedges to fill the gaps, and the lower parts were cut away to make room for a flush ramp, which was scratched from styrene sheet and other bits. Since the interior would be visible now, I added basic interior to the cargo bay: a structured styrene sheet floor, and the side walls and the roof were covered with paper tissue drenched in white glue, what mimics open insulation mats inside of C-160 Transall aircraft. Additionally, side bumpers made from thin styrene profile were added to the walls, too. To display the model later in flight (for the respective pictures) I also added a vertical styrene tube inside of the fuselage as an adapter for a metal rod holder.
From the clear parts only the (poorly fitting) windscreen was used; except for six side windows any other fuselage opening was concealed – after all it’s supposed to be a military transporter for goods and vehicles and not a passenger aircraft like the Do 28D – and the windows after painting created with ClearFix (see below).
To accommodate the new retractable landing gear I implanted a well under the cockpit floor, which required some mods to the cockpit, which was mostly taken OOB but placed on a higher floor, and the cockpit section was separated from the cargo bay with a bulkhead.
The main landing gear was mounted into boxy sponsons on the lower fuselage flanks, the Do 28D’s OOB engine pods could be used/converted and match the aircraft’s overall boxy design well.
The landing gear as such caused some headaches, though, because the aircraft would require a relatively low stance for the tail ramp. I eventually settled upon parts from an Academy MiG-23 kit for both the twin front wheel (including suitable mudguards!) and the main struts, which received a wide stance for extra ground stability. Looks odd, but at the same time very purposeful and plausible, too.
As mentioned earlier, the engines came from a (“used”) Matchbox A-10, and I left them OOB except for cutouts so that they would fit onto the wings, placed upside down so that the exhausts were directed downwards. Since they would now be placed directly in the jets’ efflux the stabilizers had to be move higher, too, and I settled for a T-tail, just like the benchmark YC-14 an An-72, with a clipped original fin. The central body was taken/adapted from a Matchbox Blackburn Buccaneer, the stabilizers themselves are highly modified wings from an AZ Model Kawasaki Ki-78 that better match the increased wingspan than the thin OOB parts with a fabric structure.
Lots of PSR! The resulting airframe looks quite simple and clean, but getting there was a real long and heavy ride!
Painting and markings:
As in many cases, I wanted a rather subtle Luftwaffe paint scheme for this PSR monster, yet something unusual. Even though the time frame would promote a Norm ’83 wraparound scheme in black and two shades of green (seen on Luftwaffe Transalls, Tornados and late RF-104Gs) I rather settled for the earlier, less known Norm ’76 pattern that was applied to the first Luftwaffe Tornados. It was a more disruptive evolution of the Norm ’72 splinter scheme with a more organic pattern and an additional dark contrast color for improved low-level concealment from above. To make things really confusing, there were two Norm ’76 schemes: one for the Marineflieger and a totally different one for the Luftwaffe, yet both carried by the Tornado IDS’. While the Navy’s variant (simple Basaltgrau upper surfaces and Lichtgrau underneath) was worn by several types, the Luftwaffe scheme was exclusively carried by the first production Tornados, and probably only by those trainer aircraft operated by the Tri-National Tornado Training Establishment (TTTE) at Cottesmore. It consisted of Black (RAL 9005, even though I rather used RAL 7021 Schwarzgrau, Gelboliv (RAL 6014, a dark olive drab tone, (FS.24064) and Basaltgrau (RAL 7012, very close to RAF Dark Sea Grey), plus Silbergrau (RAL 7001 (FS.26373) underneath with a low and straight waterline.
The pattern is an adaptation from a Chilean F-80C with a tricolor camouflage – it matched the Do 36’s outlines much better than the Tornado shape. I was a bit uncertain about the engine pods, but due to their round shape (anything else is boxy with a flat underside) I gave them a wrap-around camouflage. The radome and the anti-glare panel became deep black, the landing gear and the inside of the air intakes were painted white. The cockpit interior (hard to see) and the cargo bay floor as well as the ramp were painted in a medium grey while the padded cargo bay walls were painted with a very light grey-beige mix – both inspired by Luftwaffe Transall interiors.
The decals were a mix from various resources, iron crosses, fin flashes and tactical codes were created with TL Modellbau material, plus unit badges and stencils from Luftwaffe F-84Gs. The code 59+47 was never allocated to a Luftwaffe aircraft (yet), but it is a continuation of the real Do 28D code block.
Finally, everything was sealed with matt acrylic varnish and the side windows were created with Clearfix (instead of using the OOB parts, which lack locator support and would have ended in a mess, anyway).
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Successful Women of Modesto Group Meeting @ the Clarion - Photos by Mary Patton dba CBA Photography #cbaphotography #marypatton
Lynch Cove run Cleanup 6/22/19: Clean Bread and Cheese Creek Community Cleanups had an absolutely beautiful day to work with over25 incredible volunteers to cleanup Lynch Cove Run. We removed over 87 bags of trash!!! Thank you everyone so very much for all your incredible hard work! Our volunteer dedication to working toward a cleaner, greener, healthier community and environment cannot be topped! Thank you so much!!! We truly wish to thank everyone who came out and volunteered at today’s cleanup!
We truly with to thank Chick-fil-a of Eastpoint for donating food to feed all our hungry and hardworking volunteers! We also wish to thank Tradepoint Atlantic, G and M Food (McDonald’s-Wise Avenue), Redner’s Markets-Dundalk, Baltimore County Department of Recreation and Parks, Norris Ford, Thompson Automotive Group and the Eastfield Stanbrook Community Association and Eastpoint Mall for their generous support of Clean Bread and Cheese Creek's spring cleanups. Thank you so much for your incredible generosity!
We would also like to thank the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, American Rivers, and Baltimore County Highways for all their assistance and support on this cleanup. Thank you so much everyone for another incredible job and another win for the environment!