Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

@lain they look like twats

@lain Why do politicians do this? This isn't how it works.

@achimfischer@photog.social That is lovely

Here's the story of the 'Messerspit' https://aviationhumor.net/messerspit-the-case-of-captured-and-re-engined-spitfire-en830/ The original Free French pilot was murdered during the retribution for the 'Great Escape', one of those sad bits of wartime trivia.

There was a Spitfire the Germans captured and put a Daimler in . You can find photos - it looks really weird.

And here's an HA-112 'Buchon', a Spanish license-built version of the BF-109. The engine is a Rolls-Royce Merlin, changing the nose shape significantly. A very popular stand-in for the Messerschmitt in film. There's a lot more Rolls motors around than Daimler originals.

If you look at most German aircraft of the era, they feature extensive framing on the perspex cockpit pieces. Making large perspex bits with good optical quality is hard. It is a challenge for restorations nowadays because all the moulds and tooling are gone.

The 'greenhouse' framed cockpit was a good example of the Nazi regime's limited ability to produce complex perspex shapes at this stage. Everyone was using bubble canopies by this point of WW2.

Two examples of the BF-109 'G model, one airworthy, one residing in the Smithsonian in DC. They made a bunch of these and they constitute a lot of surviving examples.

@Archaeostratego @YadyO@xarxa.cloud @histodons@a.gup.pe @militaryhistory @archaeodons@a.gup.pe it's very good but it did change about 20yrs ago and I'm not sure how it is now, in terms of themed exhibits. Their collection is superb.

@mrmcmayhem@noagendasocial.com Demand for EVs isn't real, it's driven by bureaucrats which means there willl be a rude awakening sooner rather than later. Until EVs have their model-T moment, it'll never change.

@AnEnglishHuman@mstdn.party "I told yous guys before!"

@blueblue321@universeodon.com The holocaust exhibition at the IWM employed a similar use of colour; their Auschwitz diorama was in briliant white, lit from above so no shadows; behind it stood glass cases with excavated items of clothing.

@Juju The Archer crossover episode got me into that show. It's fantastic.

@YadyO@xarxa.cloud @Archaeostratego @histodons@a.gup.pe @militaryhistory @archaeodons@a.gup.pe There was a diorama in the IWM in London showcasing pre-war Nazi pageantry and uniforms, and that always stayed with me, it seemed so immediate.

@Marmoset@kolektiva.social @pluralistic Christ that is awful.

@Hollahollara @polarisera He should be made to work in the Caribbean doing community service where he stole all the money.

@checkervest Revelatory