Searching for "Akagi" right now!
Robert Ballard's team is diving today in search of the Japanese carrier Akagi, which they think they have found at a depth of 17,500 feet.
Here's the livestream:
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Commemoration of 80 years of the B-17
Commemoration of 80 years of the B-17 emergency landing in Utzenstorf on August 17, 2023
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Just landed on my porch! Arma 1/48 Hurricane IIc
So, after a wandering trip from Poland through the US Postal System (thanks, Louis DeNoJoy) of 9 days once the package landed in Florida, my order for two of the new Arma 1/48 Hurricane IIc's landed on the front porch this morning.
Initial [...]
Korean War Group is coming to a close soon....
Hello again everyone. This is a friendly reminder that the Korean War group will be closing soon.
The last day to accept any new build journal entries will be on July 27th, 2023. So if you wanted to build something for the group, the [...]
This is cool news
Article from Warbird Information Exchange:
Bringing a Fokker D.XXI back to airworthiness has been the lifelong dream of Mr. Jack van Egmond sr. owner of Egmond Vintage Wings at Hoogeveen airport in the Netherlands. Reviving a piece of [...]
Scale Model Inc. live – 1900 GMT/1400 EST tonight
Join Tam, John, Dani, Fenris, Wayne and Johan from 1900/7pm GMT/1400/2pm EST Tonight and every Friday night - With other guests and the usual reprobates in chat!
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It's here!! Trumpeter 1/32 TBD-1
The beeg box from Squadron landed on the front porch here at Le Chateau du Chat an hour ago.
Preliminary observation: I was right that it is based on the Great Wall Hobby kit. That's good news. Other than everything is big, nothing looks [...]
Reminder: Korean War group Build is about to end.
The anniversary date for the "Cease Fire" on July 27th, 1953 is quickly coming up.
Since we recently started the Jim Sullivan memorial group build, I mentioned that I would make some minor changes to the Korean War group. Here [...]
Scale Model Inc. live – 1900 GMT/1400 EST tonight
Join Tam, John, Dani, Fenris, Wayne and Johan from 1900/7pm GMT/1400/2pm EST Tonight and every Friday night - With other guests and the usual reprobates in chat!
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I have seen the Trumpeter 1/32 TBD-1 Devastator - Good News
Was up at the LHS this afternoon and they had one of the new Trumpeter 1/32 TBD-1 Devastator kits.
Yes! Thirty years of "coming soon" has arrived! It's no longer vaporware. It's real.
So how is it?
It's like this: 20 years ago [...]
