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Blohm & Voss BV 142 edit

I've had a quick look at the article and its pretty much perfect. I speak german too and the translation looks quite good. There's always a need for people willing to translate articles; in fact there is a page with a list of requests: Wikipedia:Translation into English. It's certainly much better than most people's first articles, mine included! There were one or two minor changes that needed to be made to the format - there's no need to make a link for section headings, for example - but these were all very small.

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I'm surprised at how good the article was, to be honest, if this is your first time using a Wikipedia then you've picked up the basics extremely quickly! Robdurbar 21:25, 4 April 2006 (UTC)Reply

I've removed the last section of the page too. In general, content shouldn't really be in two articles at once. It's not really a big problem, but avoids too much repition. A 'see also' section is usually put at the end to direct users to related pages. Robdurbar 21:36, 4 April 2006 (UTC)Reply

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F.222 edit

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Glider task force edit

You may be interested to know there is a new joint task force between WikiProjects Aircraft and Gliding covering gliders. Please join us by adding your name at: Wikipedia:WikiProject Gliding/Glider task force. Dhaluza 18:07, 25 February 2007 (UTC)Reply

Aviation WikiProject Newsletter edit

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Image requests edit

Hi Diego - I notice that you seem to have a lot of photos from the Museo del Aire. I wonder whether you have a picture (or could take one) of the Aerotécnica AC-12 and Aerotécnica AC-14 helicopters there? Cheers --Rlandmann 01:05, 18 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for your offer to help! The only other aircraft there that I know that we need soon is the CASA C.207 parked outside. --Rlandmann 01:28, 20 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for getting these pictures! I haven't started work on the C.207 article yet, so please feel free to create one if you like. --Rlandmann 23:25, 8 August 2007 (UTC)Reply

Thanks again for the AC-12 - because these articles are so short, I will probably trim down the photos when I get time. Also - did you actually do the drawings of these two aircraft yourself? If not, we can't use them under the GFDL.... Cheers --Rlandmann 00:36, 9 August 2007 (UTC)Reply

A mystery edit

Hi again Diego - I wonder if you or the Museum have any information on the CASA C-112? (Different, of course, from the C-212!!!) This was a side-by-side primary trainer in development at some time (definitely before the 1980s). I think the project must have been abandoned, because I can find no trace of it now. If you can find out anything, I'd love to hear about it! --Rlandmann 02:29, 9 August 2007 (UTC)Reply

Wonderful speedy work on the outlines of the helicopters! Amazing! Thanks for offering to check out my mystery - there is no hurry - just whenever you have the opportunity. And no, it's not the Ha.1112 unfortunately. All I know is that it was a basic trainer and that the student and instructor sat side-by-side --Rlandmann 04:11, 9 August 2007 (UTC)Reply

Gliders and Gliding edit

In an effort to streamline the subprojects of aviation, and given the fact that the Glider task force has four members and a total of 51 articles tagged under its scope and the Gliding project has 7 and 56, I'd like to mere the Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft/Glider task force and the Wikipedia:WikiProject Gliding into one project, Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Gliding task force. Any objections? - Trevor MacInnis (Contribs) 19:48, 30 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

An exciting opportunity to get involved! edit

 

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MOS:UNIT edit

Hello @Diego Dabrio: having just edited one of your articles I see that you have placed horsepower or PS ahead of kW in articles. The manual of style states: Quantities are typically expressed using an appropriate "primary unit", displayed first, followed, when appropriate, by a conversion in parentheses e.g. 200 kilometres (120 mi). With the exception of strong national ties to the UK or the US, The manual of Style further states: In all other articles, the primary units chosen will be SI units, non-SI units officially accepted for use with the SI, etc. All of this can be found in the Manual of Style - Unit section (MOS:UNIT). I'm going to be editing some of your articles with no national ties to the US or UK to the correct Wikipedia format. Avi8tor (talk) 15:31, 24 January 2023 (UTC)Reply