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 N69900.To Cook Cleland, …
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article Goodyear XF2G-1 Super CorsairIn 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 the …
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article Boeing B–29 SuperfortressA 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, which was …
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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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XF6F-1 Hellcat: The Prototype That Created America’s Ultimate Carrier Fighter
article XF6F-1 Hellcat: The Prototype That Created America’s Ultimate Carrier FighterOn 26 June 1942, at Grumman’s facility in Bethpage, Long Island, chief engineer and test pilot Robert Leicester Hall lifted the prototype XF6F-1 Hellcat into …
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article Japanese Zero WreckAny self-respecting modeller. You have to creatively destroy a kit at some point, In this article I will try to help you give it a different look, playing with the weather conditions. …
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article Akutan Zero (Koga’s Zero): The Captured Mitsubishi A6M2 That Changed the Air War in the PacificOn 4 June 1942, while the Battle of Midway was unfolding hundreds of kilometers to the south, another operation …
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article Wrecked Japanese Zero Mitsubishi A6M Fighter – History, Pacific War Wrecks & Scale Modeling InspirationThe Rise of the Mitsubishi A6M ZeroThe Mitsubishi A6M Zero became one of the most recognizable fighter aircraft of the …
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F-102 DELTA DAGGERHAF F-102 DELTA DAGGER MENG 1 /72..!!end of construction..!!! Here is a photo of our latest project of an F-102 delta dagger with the colors of the Hellenic Air Force..!!! For the construction …
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F-15 Strike Eagle BAZ “TWIN TAIL SQUADRON” IDF AFIsraeli Air Force F-15 “Baz” and “Ra’am” as you have never seen them beforeThe IAF Israeli Air Force was the first air force to acquire a fleet …