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Not Darth but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express...yes indeed there are many kits of the Super Shermans and the Centurions in Israeli service. AFV club, Tamiya, RyeFieldModel to name a few.

"Give them a whiff of grapeshot"

It's science fiction, Its also a very popular board game, and is comprised of about 350 novels.

Sometimes it gets boring building historical or even modern military tanks, armored vehicles, and aircraft. If you don't like it you can just scroll on brother, this is the off topic lounge.

Canada owns and operates exactly 0 F-35's. They're still thinking about the Swedish Gripen instead.

I mean couldn't we all be listed day to day?

When I worked for PHI the older hands who worked on the 222 told me nightmarish stories about changing multiple engines in one 7 day hitch due to low power, cracks Etc. When I started a PHI, I was a light ship mechanic working on Bell and Eurocopter. When I got moved to the Exxon contract the base I worked at had a bell 206 L3 and a Sikorsky s-76A+ and a Beechcraft King Air 200 and soon after I was there they got rid of the 76 and got a Bell 230 which was a 222 with the Allison now Rolls-Royce engines. When I left they were getting ready to get a Bell 430 to replace the 230. Now I pretty much work on Bell light and mediums along with the turbine powered Robinson R66

From someone who's worked that aircraft before , the first horn the pulsating one is the engine out horn which happens when the engine falls below a certain percent Ng or compressor speed. The pilot muted that horn and as the aircraft started to descend he would pull up on the collective which would then cause the low rotor RPM horn to go off as he manipulates the collective control the RPM would raise and lower which is why the horn came on more than once. Considering how low and how stationary they were they really didn't have a whole lot of choices where to auto rotate and try to land. Once the power comes off the aircraft is going to try to spin around its own axis from the torque of the main rotor continuing to spin forward flight can arrest this happening so that's why I don't believe this was a tail rotor failure, you can definitely hear the engine / transmission spin down. They were in the height velocity curve a bad section of it called Dead Man's Curve which means if something happens when you are at this AirSpeed & altitude combo there is not much you can do about picking your place to land.

One of my all time faves. But about every 2-3 years the bring that flavor back as a limited edition. I used to get them at Rouses. They are not as good as they were back in the day. Keep an eye out, they do re release them.

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In a first for me Tamiya had included three steel ball bearings about the size of a gumball and had actually cast little semicircular holding pits in both the nose and the fronts of both engine nacelles. Would have been interesting if you decided to add an aftermarket engine or open up the nose panels to view the machine guns because you would lose the place for the weight in any of those spots and it would definitely be a tail sitter.