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Aeroworks

Locality: Adelaide, South Australia

Phone: +61 8 8357 4756

Address: 20 The Strand, Colonel Light Gardens 5041 Adelaide, SA, Australia

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25.01.2022 Just a few new books in over the last week or so...

23.01.2022 Due in this week

23.01.2022 New and restocked kits in this week...

22.01.2022 Apparently hobby shops aren't considered 'essential' (obviously by non-modellers ) consequently the shop will be closed this Friday and Saturday. Hopefully we can resume as usual next week. Not 100% sure about a Click & Collect type arrangement as yet for those that can't wait but with takeaways being closed (which never were in Melbourne) it looks doubtful. Mailorder is unchanged. Stay well and get modelling.

21.01.2022 In new kit news (Oops. I said the 'N' word ), these just in this week...

19.01.2022 Some of the new books in over the last couple of weeks...

16.01.2022 Always check your references

15.01.2022 Yes Virginia, you can mask those D-Day stripes

08.01.2022 Due soon in 1/32

07.01.2022 Tiger-what? How much?

05.01.2022 Some of the new and restocked kits in over the last week or so...

04.01.2022 A very interesting 1/72 kit due in early next year. Price expected to be $190.00 at this stage.

03.01.2022 Some of the new and restocked kits in this week so far...

03.01.2022 Looking like the largest Airfix model you could possibly imagine, parts of a WW2 Lancaster bomber are laid-out in a hanger waiting to be assembled. But this is ...no toy. The pieces of wing, fuselage, bombs, machine guns and propeller blades are all real. The famous aircraft is three years into a ten-year restoration which will see it become the third flying Lancaster bomber in the world. Before it can fly again, each part of the four-engined plane known as ‘Just Jane’ needs to be stripped-down, checked, repaired or rebuilt in order for a certificate of airworthiness to be issued by the Civil Aviation Authority. During the summer months the bomber is used for ground displays and taxiing passengers around a former RAF airfield in Lincolnshire. But every winter, as part of the 4m project, different sections of the Lancaster are restored. This year it’s the huge tail and rear fuselage that’s being worked on . Andrew Panton, 33, general manager at the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre in East Kirkby said: ‘This year we’re looking at the rear fuselage section and thought with the number of parts we’ve removed from the aircraft it looks very much like an Airfix kit. ‘So we’ve set it out to see just what it would look like from the air as an Airfix kit would have done in the packet. ‘The Lancaster is a sectional aircraft so it does come apart in its major component pieces and bolts back together again in a similar way you’d glue an Airfix kit together. ‘It’s very reminiscent of being a child and building it up. I made many models of Lancs as a boy, but this is the ultimate build. ‘On a plane this age, the rivets start to crumble and need to be replaced. As for ‘instructions’, we have original RAF manuals and thousands of original AVRO drawings to work from.’ Mr Panton’s great-uncle Christopher Panton was shot-down and killed during a raid on Nuremberg, Germany in a Halifax bomber in March 1944 when he was only 19 years-old . The Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre is a tribute to him and the whole of Bomber Command. Andrew added: ‘At the moment she’s the only running Lancaster that you can get on board in Europe. The Lancaster here was bought in the early 1980s and moved here in 1988 and has become the centre-piece of the museum. We taxi passengers around the airfield and they get the experience of a WW2 Lancaster bomber on an original WW2 airfield. ‘The next stage which we’re progressing to is making her airworthy so she can fly on air-show circuits and possibly with passengers in the future’ ‘In the past we’ve had many veterans come back to East Kirkby, whether they flew from here during the war or whether they operated with Bomber Command, so for them to come back and experience the Lancaster again brings back many memories. Good memories and of course bad memories as well. And now we’re getting the families of those veterans coming to experience a little bit of what their fathers and grandfathers did during the Second World War’. Next year will be the 80th anniversary of the Lancaster first going into service. ‘Just Jane’ was built by Austin Motors in Longbridge, in 1945. She had the serial number NX611, and was intended to become part of an RAF squadron in the Far East. Following the surrender of Japan the bomber did not see active service. After the war she was bought by the French and used for air sea rescue. A fundraising club has also been set up for people wishing to make a regular donation. For details visit www.lincsaviation.co.uk Facts: - Just Jane is one of only 17 surviving and intact Lancasters - The Lancaster is 69ft 4in long and has a 102ft wingspan - The bomber was nicknamed ‘Just Jane’ after the popular wartime newspaper cartoon pin-up painted on the side of aircraft cockpits at the time. - A total of 7,377 Lancasters were built. They were the most famous and successful RAF heavy bomber of the Second World War - Nineteen specially adapted Lancasters carried bouncing bombs and took part in the Dambusters raid of 1943. - Two Lancasters are still flying, one belongs to the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight and the other belongs to the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Ontario.