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About to touch down at RAF Lossiemouth on the 05 end of the main is this German made RAF Grob 115E Tutor training aircraft.
My English tutor trying to figure out places in Berlin to stop at on the train, on our way to Leipzig, Germany.
Avro tutor G-AHSA at Old Warden during one of the drive-in Air Shows 2020. Owned and operated by the Shuttleworth Collection, this is the only surviving example of this type and is painted to represent K3241 of the Central Flying School aerobatic team circa 1936. The RAF operated the Tutor in the basic training role from 1933 to 1939, and the type was supplied in quantity to several other nations including Greece and South Africa.
The so much requested twins are finally making their debut!
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Despise their love for creation, the Great Beings reproduction tendency is quite low, as they have a very long lifespan and the care of a baby translates into a lot of time not used for investigation. Hence, a lot of Great Beings avoid having descendance, and the ones who go for it, rarely have more than one or two childs. With this, their evolution has erased the chances to have twins.
So, naturally, Malda and Nelde started a revolution when they appear in their homeland. How could be it possible? With apparently no parents to ask, a lot of Great Beings discussed many theories about irregular births, cloning, or even the creation of perfect androids, but with no results: genetically exact, no one was clone of the other, but it was proved Great Beings had become biologically unable to make twins. In the middle of this mystery, Inquene, now holding a quite high position among the members of her species, decided to adopt the twins under her tutoring as she found them quite interesting. Quite avid of fun as the Empress was, soon the twins would become her right and left hands.
Aware of Eruei's disappearance and learning from Oreum about the appearance of Mari and Remi, Inquene was quick to think that Eruei had something underway, so in order to find him the first she send the twins to befriend Aigara and stay near her when the moment arrives... But she should have learned that the twins' sense of orientation is quite deficient first!
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Back then when I posted Aigara for the first time, I mentioned I wanted to build more Great Beings children. These twins were the first (but not the only) idea I have for them, after seeing the ghost-themed Ninjago sets. I think I started building them around December, during holidays, but they ended quite in the backseat as it was hard to get designs matching in proper colors... And the Dollies were more fun to come up with, honestly. =P
I finally had them finished around May if I recall properly, but the leg design wasn't as good as I wanted and at the time of posting them I have an idea for a better one. Hence the delay until now, since I had to get the 2x2 domes... And during the wait I took chance to add them a few more details.
As a few notes, their design was supposed to be Arabian, to go with the diversity of Japanese in Inquene, European in Requia and Aigara, or Aztec/Mayan in Vereda. I didn't want to go with something as obvious as turbants or veils this time, so I hope you can see the inspiration behind this time. Also, I was thinking to use purple instead of the blend of greys, but I found they didn't go that well with the dark blue and spring yellow, so...
Hope the wait was worth, dears! ^^
Oh, right, I forgot: Malda is the red one, Nelde the blue one. ^^"
A V Roe's Type 621 Tutor was a two-seat British radial-engined biplane from the inter-war period. It was a simple but rugged initial trainer that was used by the RAF as well as many other air arms worldwide.
The Avro Model 621 was designed by Roy Chadwick as an Avro private venture metal replacement for the Avro 504. Conceived as a light initial pilot trainer, the biplane design featured heavily-staggered equal-span, single-bay wings; the construction was based on steel tubing (with some wooden components in the wing ribs) with doped linen covering. A conventional, fixed divided main undercarriage with tail skid was used in all but the latest aircraft, which had a tail wheel.
The Model 621 was powered either by a 155 hp Siddeley Mongoose or Armstrong Siddeley Lynx IV (180 hp) or IVC (240 hp) engine; later Lynx-powered models had the engine enclosed in a Townend ring cowling (as seen above). The Mongoose-powered version was called the 621 Trainer and the more numerous Lynx-engined aircraft the Tutor. The Tutor also differed by having a more rounded rudder.
The first flight of the prototype G-AAKT was in September 1929, piloted by Avro chief test pilot Captain Harry Albert 'Sam' Brown.
Production was started against an order for three from the Irish Free State and 21 Trainers from the RAF. The RAF required a replacement for the wooden Avro 504 (see elsewhere in my stream), and after three years of trials against other machines such as the Hawker Tomtit it was adopted as their basic trainer, supplanting the 504 in 1933 and remaining in this role until 1939. As well as the 21 Trainers a total of 381 Tutors and 15 Avro 646 Sea Tutors were eventually ordered by the RAF. RAF units to operate the type in quantity included the RAF College, the Central Flying School and Nos. 2, 3, 4 and 5 Flying Training Schools.
Subsequently, the Model 621 achieved substantial foreign sales. A V Roe and Co exported 29 for the Greek Air Force, six for the Royal Canadian Air Force, five for the Kwangsi Air Force, three for the Irish Air Force (where it was known as the Triton) and two for each of the South African and Polish Air Forces. In addition 57 were licence built in South Africa, and three licence built by the Danish Naval Shipyard.
A total of 30 Tutors were exported to the Greek Air Force and at least 61 were licence built in Greece by KEA. A number of Greek Tutors was incorporated in combat squadrons after Greece's entrance in WWII, used as army co-operation aircraft.
Known for its good handling, the type was often featured at air shows. Over 200 Avro Tutors and five Sea Tutors remained in RAF service at the beginning of WWII.
The 621 was designed as a military trainer and few reached the civil registers. In the 1930s, in addition to 10 prototypes and demonstrators, two were used by Alan Cobham's Flying Circus and two trainers were retired from the RAF into private use. One 621 was used from new by Australian National Airways. After the war another four ex-RAF 621s appeared on the civil register.
G-AHSA (above) was used for communication duties during WWII, struck off in December 1946 and purchased by Wing Commander Heywood. After suffering engine failure in the early stages of the filming of Reach for the Sky, it was purchased by the Shuttleworth Collection and restored to flying condition.
Up to the end of 2003, G-AHSA was still flying as K3215 in RAF trainer yellow. Since January 2004 it has flown painted as K3241 in the colours of the Central Flying School. (The real K3241 built in 1933, served RAF College Cranwell, until transferred to the CFS in 1936.)
Seen tucked-in for the night after the Shuttleworth Collection's 2015 Wings and Wheels Show.
Teaching “basic mathematics” to a Freshmen class at the University of Washington.
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Apple iPhone 8 Plus.