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The MG 08/15 was a German modification to the Maxim gun. The idea was to make a squad weapon out of the heavy MG 08. It was lightened by 20 lbs, fitted with a buttstock and bipod, but was still chained to the water bucket to keep it cool. Still heavy at 40 lbs, at least it was mobile, and after deployment in 1917, soon outnumbered all other German machineguns.
This video from AZFUN4ALL's channel, should not only satisfy machine gun freaks, but 19th century machinery fanatics also. Plastic guns may have their place now, but not in our imagination or WW1 battlefields.
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The People's Mosquito is an organisation that wants to return the de Havilland Mosquito, a plywood twin engine fighter from WW2, back to the skies of England. The group is in the early stages of planning, and is just gauging interest and possibly collecting dollars (pounds?). They say no flying versions are in the air, and want to remedy that fact. They have over 1000 people who have signed on (at least to being interested) and base their aim on the fact that many ordinary people, companies and towns in England financed their own Mosquito for the war effort. Their website allows you to sign up, keep up on news and has contacts for you to contribute your talents, if you were a, say, out of work Mosquito mechanic. Will be great to see one fly again.