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by Gawdzilla Sama » Tue Apr 27, 2010 11:33 am
klr wrote:Gawdzilla wrote:klr wrote:The plot thickens ... so far I've managed to corner four kits of the MiG-15, and three of them are "short" - which is
not to say that they are all the exact same. Far from it.
Maybe
Janes was right after all. Which would mean ...

...that their picture of
Saratoga with a flight deck full of biplanes "in 1944" might be right?

Biplanes in 1944 ... this isn't the Royal Navy we're talking about.

I have to post that pix in WW2F.com.

(It's from their
History of War at Sea book.) (And I'm surprised they didn't say "
Lexington".)
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by klr » Tue Apr 27, 2010 11:35 am
Gawdzilla wrote:klr wrote:Gawdzilla wrote:klr wrote:The plot thickens ... so far I've managed to corner four kits of the MiG-15, and three of them are "short" - which is
not to say that they are all the exact same. Far from it.
Maybe
Janes was right after all. Which would mean ...

...that their picture of
Saratoga with a flight deck full of biplanes "in 1944" might be right?

Biplanes in 1944 ... this isn't the Royal Navy we're talking about.

I have to post that pix in WW2F.com.

(It's from their
History of War at Sea book.) (And I'm surprised they didn't say "
Lexington".)
The
Lady Lex in 1944 ...

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by CJ » Sat May 08, 2010 5:37 pm
Did you get a resolution to this?
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by klr » Wed May 12, 2010 7:16 pm
CJ wrote:Did you get a resolution to this?
No, although I am leaning back towards the shorter answer. I now have five kits of the MiG-15, and the differences between them (never mind the trivial matter of the length) are enough to make me ...

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