This mounting stand makes it possible to represent the angle of flight of an aircraft, such as left bank, right bank, climb, or dive, by adjusting the flexible plastic joint.. The relative altitude of several aircraft can also be represented by moving the antenna up or down. Plus, it finally gives you something to do with those nifty bendable drinking straws that kids get to play with. The flexible joint will support a 1/72 scale WWI single seater, and hold it at any angle. It even supports a load as heavy as a Bristol F2B two seater. I suspect that anything much heavier will sag from its own weight when tilted. I am experimenting with a stand that supports a Handley Page 0/400 two engine bomber with an antenna under each wing and one under the tail. I originally used the Aces High boardgame rules published in The wargamer magazine, with a playing surface of 3" hexes made from RAFM's iron-on transfers. The revision of these rules, called Red Baron, now uses squares instead of here& for movement. This makes it even easier, since you can just translate one movement point in the rules to 2" of movement on the table. With a sheet painted to show an aerial view of no-man's-land (courtesy of Dave Mills) and 1/300 scale buildings and figures as targets for bombing, photo-recon, and trench-strafing runs, the overall visual effect is great. 1, 1/4" diameter plastic tube, 3/8" long, glued to bottom of aircraft.' 2. 1" long piece of Flex-I-Straw which includes flexible joint. The straw is a tight press fit over the plastic tube, and can be removed to change planes or for storage. The straws often come with colored stripes on them, and I suppose you could paint them, but I haven't bothered since they're not very noticeable once the planes are set up. 3. same as #1, epoxied to end of antenna, and press fit into #2. 4. Radio Shack telescoping antenna #270-1406, with knob -0 snipped off and. Don't remove the clear plastic sheath from the bottom of the antenna, as it makes a perfect press fit into #5, sir that the antenna can be removed for storage. As an alternative, Radio Shack antenna #270-1402A gives you more height, and a fitting on the end that is already a perfect fit into the Flex-I-Straw, but be sure to make the base larger so that the stand is stable. 5. 3/8" diameter plastic tube, 1" long, glued to #6. 6. .060 plastic sheet, cut in a 3" hex shape to fit RAFM iron-an hexes. Back to MWAN # 38 Table of Contents Back to MWAN List of Issues Back to MagWeb Magazine List © Copyright 1989 Hal Thinglum This article appears in MagWeb.com (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other articles from military history and related magazines are available at http://www.magweb.com