For My 70,000 Post: Aeroplane In A Bottle.... [View All]

[The Magistrate]

Someone was kind enough to point out to me that a late post of mine last night was the seventy-thousandth I have made here, and as that is a decent round number indeed, I thought to mark the occasion with a display of my private madness cum meditation. This the last scratch-built model I have completed, a Maurice Farman M.F. 11, in 1/72 scale (one foot to the inch). It is a 1914 design, and odd as it looks to modern eyes was a quite successful machine in its day, forming a very large portion of the equipment of the French Aviation Militaire prior to 1916. This particular example, No. 657, was used by Escadrille MF 62 during the summer of 1915, and employed on reconnaisance flights over the Third Battle of Artois.