WHITE KNUCKLE AIRFIELD, SITTARD

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Once there was an airfield that was home to the most advanced, the newest planes. It was not a big, modern facility, it was a dry lake bed, somewhere in the USA. A couple of shabby, rusty hangars and buildings, all left over from world war II. And a bar to match it, not far away; Pancho's Happy Bottoms Riders Club. The rest was mainly emptiness. The Right Stuff loved it. Boys among boys, no spotlights, no glamour. And if it would be up to those fly-boys, cool dudes and other daredevils to pick a nice spot for their final meeting, it would not be a well equipped airport. They would find themselves some forgotten airfield in the middle of No Where. A rusty old hangar, enough grass and concrete to land, and enough booze to last the evening, that would be about it. And that's what it is. Once more, those fabulous planes gather. Untested planes, once faster, higher or with different engines then ever before, standing side by side. Chuck crawls out of his cockpit, taking off his cut up football helmet. Lothar looks at the cockpit of a Blackbird and swallows. Scott looks at the Natter and swallows as well. Welcome to White Knuckle Airfield, guy's.

From here you can visit pages about models I have build. In most cases there are only a few pics, but sometimes I have a building review added.

Rocket planes: Messerschmitt me 163 Komet Bachem Ba 249 A Natter Bell X-1 North American X-15 Lockheed NF 104 A Aerospace trainer --o-- Early jets Heinkel He 178 V1 Heinkel He 280 V3 Messerschmitt Me 262 A-1A swalbe Gloster Meteor Mk1 Heinkel He 162 Volksjäger Messerschmitt Me 262 (new version, March 5 2004) Arado Ar 234 C (new june 7 2004) --o-- A jet family Focke Wulf Ta 183 Hückebein MiG 15 bis F 86 Sabre --o-- Secret planes Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird Fiesler Fi 103 V-1 --o-- Links Modeling Madness (many great reviews, one of my favourite sites) Greg Goebels public domain (in his section 'air vectors' some great studies of airplanes Hannants (If I can't get it anywhere, I can get it there)