article F2A Buffalo, 21 by Commander Joseph C. Clifton Designed and built by Brewster Aeronautical Corporation in 1937, the F2A Buffalo aircraft was the U.S. Navy’s first monoplane fighter aircraft and was intended to replace…
article A-7E Corsair OLYMPUS 336 SQM Our Air Force received its first A-7H (60 units) & two-seat TA-7H trainers (5 units) in August 1975. Their fleet increased and their capabilities were upgraded with the addition…
article Микоян-Гуревич MG-21 Iraqi Air Force (IQAF or IrAF) More Features The kit consists of over 170 parts, includes 8 clean parts – fuselage & wing with fine etched panel lines – detailed cockpit The…
article FG-1A Corsair “94” NX69900 Lucky Gallon” Built as FG-1A by Goodyear. Received Strength/Charge with the United States Navy as BuNo 13481. History12 August 1946To Cook Cleland Air Service/Cook Cleland, Willoughby, OH with new c/r…
article Goodyear F2G-1 Super CorsairThe apparent capability of the Corsair meant that there was interest in exploring how far the design could be pushed. Vought, as already mentioned, was fully occupied with existing work and…
article Goodyear XF2G-1 Super Corsair In March 1944, Pratt Whitney requested an F4U-1 Corsair from Vought Aircraft to evaluate their new P&W R-4360,28 engine. Vought shipped an F4U-1, BuNo 02460 (Birdcage Canopy) to see if…
article Boeing B–29 Superfortress A series of historical images of the legendary Boeing B-29 Superfortress during WW2, depicting its life at the Pacific resort. Although it bore the “Superfortress” tag, a nod to another game-changer, the B-17,…
article F-16D BLOCK 52+Advanced The conversion of TAMIYA’s F 16C to the F-16D version was not a simple matter. I bought the F-16D 1/48 KINETIC kit and kept the top fairing piece as it matched…
article Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Engine study scaled R-2800 WASP ENGINE DOUBLE The Double Wasp, an 18-cylinder, 2,800 cubic centimeter radial engine Technical Specifications: 2,804 Cubic Centimeters • Speed Per Minute: 2,250-2,800 • Weight: 2,360…
article SEA COWSometimes when an airplane doesn’t perform as expected, it falls outside the specifications for which it was designed and ends up getting weird or even derogatory nicknames. Seamew also belonged to this category.…
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