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Rokket:
James May (Top Gear) had school kids build a 1:1 scale Spitfire, complete with giant sprue.

AWESOME.







http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8327914.stm

NZSnowman:
This episode just show in New Zealand about 3 weeks ago. Was a good watch!!

Greif:
How very interesting.  Great job teaching the kids some skills and history at the same time.  The "kit" looks great!

Ernest

Rokket:
Yes it has many levels. Wonderful to see some of the kids go "woe, this is hard, and takes patience" and "this is fun"! I LOVE hi-tech, but I find it sad that simpe stuff (well, not "simple" but perhaps more basic) model making is not being embraced by youth.

Pat:
You're right on the skills learning Ernest.

And so are you rokket, that the kids nowadays don't seem to have the patience and skill to embrace building models models like this.

Do you think it's the electronic games and tech, or kids are more mobil than years ago and so don't spend as much time at home, or what?  I don't know the ages of everybody on this forum but I'd bet there are few of us under 25, and most a lot older than that.

BTW, I think the "Spit" was one of the most beautiful aircraft ever designed, by any nation.  It always reminds me of a bird with the shape of its wings.

Perhaps I gained that appreciation from my father, who was always relieved to see them coming up to meet him as the sun rose over the Channel on his way headed west back to base in the morning?

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