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This past week, somebody put out a graphic combining the new Steve Trevor from the Wonder Woman movie with the current Captain America (who as we know, has the real name of Steve Rogers) with the title Steves on a Plane.

Being the airplane/comics nerd that I am, I could not let that go past. So to Super-Team Family: The Lost Issues, I proposed the All-Steve Squadron, which includes the above and...

* from DC's War Heroes, Steve Savage the Elder, better known as Balloon Buster

* from Avon Comics of the Fifties, Steve Savage the Younger (Captain Steve Savage)

* from TV and Charlton Comics, Steve Austin (The Six Million Dollar Man)

* and from Archie Comics, Steve Stacey: Sky Detective.

I guess I need to get into Steve Stacey. He had a very very brief career. He only appeared in 16 PAGES in the anthology Blue Ribbon in 1941. His series was an okay idea for a comic, but the writing and visuals didn't work so it's no surprise to me that it ended.

In the story, Steve was a flight instructor who broke up a sabotage scheme against his flight school, and as a result, he got recruited into the Civil Aviation Authority as an investigator. In the course of his adventure, he also saved the life of a female student pilot named Joyce Barton--who appointed herself his assistant. Together, they fought mob hitmen, air pirates, Nazi sleeper agents and the like.

There wasn't much backstory for either character. It was alluded that Steve was previously a competitor in air races, and before that, flew for the U.S. Mail.

(I found out a fact this week I should have known decades ago.) The Feggans Brown company, which built aircraft mockups for movies and TV series, also built scores of Daleks for various Doctor Who productions.

Image courtesy of: SnapKnot - Wedding Ideas

Don't mind the above thingy. I'm just doing that to enter a sweepstakes.

Roughly 1/72nd scale, the fuselage is just a little over 6"/15 cm long.

Military Aviation Movie Clips From History

It took me about fifty days to complete a 1/48th P-40 for the Revell/Gearz National Scale Model Contest.

Sagittarius Horoscope for week of May 2, 2013

Search your memory, Sagittarius, and recall a time when you pushed yourself to your limits as you labored over a task you cared about very much. At that time, you worked with extreme focus and intensity. You were rarely bored and never resentful about the enormous effort you had to expend. You loved throwing yourself into this test of willpower, which stretched your resourcefulness and compelled you to grow new capacities. What was that epic breakthrough in your past? Once you know, move on to your next exercise: Imagine a new assignment that fits this description, and make plans to bring it into your life in the near future.

Probably when I was in training to be a pilot. Which ended in 1992. I hardly remember those times and I've been too far away from that place both physically and emotionally for too long.

In my travels yesterday I saw that the second set of AXIS & ALLIES: AIR FORCE MINIATURES game, BANDITS HIGH, is already out. (The official street date is a few days from now, but some stores have them on the shelves and pegs.)

Nominally, I'd be all over it. Nowadays, with nobody to play against, it's hard to care all that much.

Over the weekend was the local IPMS club's Swap Meet, and I got several kits for very very cheap. Including a few more Spitfires.

Anybody feel like coming up with a paint scheme or two?

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Dad and I went Christmas shopping today. We went to a store in Newport that I liked but he hadn't seen before, and sure enough he fell in love with the place.

But before that, we were driving there and talking about the relatives on Lynn's husband's side of the family...how their kids and their needs were going to play out in the near future. He mentioned that having all three of us, myself and my siblings, in college at mostly the same time almost brought the family to financial ruin. Now, only my brother Dana made it all the way to a four-year degree; Lynn dropped out to work and I had to settle for a two-year Associate's degree.

Dad reassured me, though, that he never regretted the fact that I went to flight school and completed it as much as I could. He'd wanted that for himself all his life, and couldn't because of an eye defect he had. So I wasn't just doing it for my own selfish ends.

I don't know if I'll ever get back in the cockpit again, but I guess I can't be so down on myself that I couldn't work in aviation like I wanted.

http://www.aviationwarehouse.net/

I'd had a suspicion that the mockup fighter jet in DEAL OF THE CENTURY was based on a Learjet, and I'm still looking for harder evidence.

But I found this place that builds fake Learjets and other fake planes for the movies.

In one-to-six scale, an Avro Lincoln bomber/transport has a wingspan of twenty feet.

At the latest "Build Day" at Paul Francis' shop a few weeks ago, one of the usual gang told me that there is a trend of home-brewed movie host shows over the Internet. He said, "There's no money in it, of course," but since when has that stopped anybody who yearns to be a TV star?

The other day, I got a circular from Oldies.com with their latest offerings of antique movies on DVD and I was flabbergasted with how many old aviation movies--some I never heard of before!--that are available. Titles like Atlantic Flight, Mercy Plane, Lost In The Stratosphere, Navy Born and The Flying Fool...and suddenly I was thinking, "There has to be enough content here between this and old aviation promo and training films to make up a TV series!"

Maybe I'm not exactly the kind of guy you'd want to see hosting a TV show. Thing is, I wouldn't do it ALONE. I'd get a "crew" together, just like they did with Mystery Science Theater 3000 and they still do with Wolfman Mac's Thriller Drive-In and Off-Beat Cinema, just to name a few. Yes, this pipe dream has me on a set, which I'd call the "Doofer Room", with posters on the walls and aviation props and old airliner seats and who knows what else bric-a-brac-wise. I'd have a set of costumes, from the basic airline Captain to bush pilot to military fatigues to space gear. Maybe, on occasion (if I could swing it), I'd shoot an episode at one of the airports in the area, or at the Museum of Aviation in Sevierville.

The chances of me actually doing something like this is miniscule. I wonder if somebody beat me to it, tho'.

For the last while I've been attempting to port CRIMSON SKIES planes into AXIS AND ALLIES: AIR FORCE MINIATURES rules for no good reason.

And I may as well blab it because I don't think I have any hope of patenting it--and because I think the sooner it's put together by somebody--anybody!--the better.

I was watching the news coverage of the aftermath of the NAS Oceana F-18 crash and how the newsies were saying it could take weeks to arrive at a cause of the accident. I remembered that most military jets didn't have flight recorder systems as such, simply because they didn't have space for them. And then I realized that the aircrew already were plugged into the plane whenever it was in operation. The helmet headset. Run a data feed from the aircraft's computer to a memory module in the headset and then there would be a flight datalog even if the crew ejects from the plane. The module wouldn't have to be big...probably smaller than an iPod.

I don't think this made the news.

Is Writer's Block...dead?

Fourteen years ago, CRIMSON SKIES came and I was so excited about it. I wanted to design planes, and get games going, and really get into the setting. I never got to play, but I did put a few models together and these are some of the paint schemes I'd invented for my fleets. I decided to take an old magazine ad illo (for Cox's model airplanes) and use it as a respository for these schemes and others.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/03/philadelphia-airport-closed-after-rogue-vehicle-drives-on-runway-police-chase-ensues/

Not the first time something like this has happened. In fact, this was fodder for a commercial for replacement windshield wiper blades a long time ago.

For some years, my thinking was that if I were a terrorist, I'd probably get my gang to ram-raid into the airport perimeter near the terminal after the last departure of the night, so I could steal one of the freshly-refueled jets parked for the early morning flights. Airport police departments are usually at their weakest at that time and could easily be overwhelmed by just a few gunmen.

I don't think I'm saying anything that would actually compromise secrets...and in fact I hope that the justice establishment in this nation has already thought about this.

http://web.ipmsusa3.org/content/buccaneer-s2b-mask-set

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