Les Ailes Francaises;
'The Wings of France'! Only, they all have British roundels! We saved them in
1914, we tried to save them in 1940 (but they didn't want saving and left us on
the beach with 600,000 of their own troops!) and now it seems we helped save
their toy industry in the 1950's! And what thanks do we get? Stroppy De Gaulle,
"Rosbiffes"
and 'English Overcoats' - charming!
[For the dimwitts in the PSTSM and Vichy -
the above paragraph is meant to be humour]
Yeah! They 'aint British that's for sure,
what appear to be two matelotes and a Tin
Tin style paratrooper! Below them the confirmatory marking; MADE IN FRANCE
(in English!), so only flown by Brit's?
Three views of the 'plane, it has no
obvious means of propulsion, but is best described as a generic jet-fighter/trainer
type of the mid-late 1950's. As far as I know it has no US (Lido, Banner &etc.) or British (Tudor
Rose et al.) antecedent, and is a wholly French design, but Manurba and Siku were also producing this kind of thing, around the same time,
so a mould-share can't be ruled-out?
I sometimes get bored sorting Blog posts
(how dare I!) and have a play in Picasa with the rudimentary 'instant' effect
tools. This is the result of one of those plays, and I was quite pleased with it, which I think looks like an Art Deco mural or mosaic of the kind
you might find in Underground tube-stations (Metros, U-bahns). By-the-by it
also manages to correct several of the roundels - see; the Brit's helping the
French again!
Will we ever get to go off into the wilderness and be ourselves again . . . oh . . . well-done Boris you fucking cockwomble!
Cockwomble! Ha ha. The word beginning with C that came to my mind was shorter.
ReplyDeleteCall me melodramatic Maudlin', in fact call me barking at the moon mad and over-excitable, but I never realised through my 20's and 30' that I had in fact been given a ring-side seat to the end of humanity back in 1964, but it's starting to look like that might be what mum and dad kindly bestowed upon me!
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