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Mark I Models 1:144

This injection-moulded kit contains 51 parts. For modeller’s convenience a display base, made of pasteboard card, depicting tarmac section of the civil airport is added. A comprehensive instruction leaflet and a decal sheet are included.

Colour schemes included in the kit:

1) Hawker Siddeley HS.748 (Srs.2 Model 225), G-ATMJ (c/n 1593), Autair International Airways Ltd., Luton airport, Bedfordshire, U.K., 1966-69

2) British Aerospace BAe.748 (Srs.2A Model 334), G-BPDA (c/n 1756), Scottish European Airways Ltd., Glasgow airport, Renfrewshire, Scotland, U.K., 1988-93

3) British Aerospace BAe.748 (Srs.2B Model 378), D-AHSA (c/n 1784), ‘Red Baron’, Deutsche Lufttransport GmbH (DLT), flown between various regional airports, Germany, 1981-82

Description: Two injection-moulded kits are supplied in this box and each kit contains 13 parts and one clear part (the cockpit canopy). A comprehensive decal sheet is included.

Let L-13/TZ-13 Blanik 'in Military Service' (2 kits in 1 box) (RAF, DOSAAF, Italian AF, Uruguayan AF, Lithuanian AF, Brazilian AF)

Colour schemes included in the kit:
1) Let L-13 Blanik, Black R11 (c/n 026258), RAF Gliding and Soaring Association (RAFGSA), Aboyne, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, U.K., autumn 1980
2) Let L-13 Blanik, Red 21, DOSAAF Volunteer Society for Co-operation with the Army, Aviation and Navy, Aeroclub Novosibirsk, the Soviet Union, early 1970s
3) Let L-13 Blanik, No.23 outlined in Black, MM100047 (c/n 027009), CVV-14 Gliding Centre (Centro Volo a Vela), Italian Air Force (Aeronautica Militare), Frosinone Air Base, Italy, 1985
4) Let L-13 Blanik, Black 690 (c/n 0717), Military School of Aeronautics (Escuela Militar de Aeronautica), Uruguayan Air Force (Fuerza Aerea Uruguaya, FAU), Gen. Artigas/Pando Air Base, Uruguay, 2014-15
5) Let L-13 Blanik, Blue 08 (c/n 1420), Voluntary Border Defence Service (Krasto Apsaugos Savanriskos Paj£-gos, KASP), Lithuanian Air Force, Silute Air Base, Lithuania, 1998
6) TZ-13 (Let L-13 Blanik), White 13 (8013), Clube de V'o a Vela (Sailing Flight Club), Air Force Academy (Academia da Forca Aerea, AFA), Brazilian Air Force (Forca Aerea Brasileira, FAB), Pirassununga Air Base, Brazil, the 1970-80s

Two injection-moulded kits are supplied in this box and each kit contains 29 parts and four clear parts (the cockpit canopy, open and closed, and an armourglass panel). A comprehensive decal sheet is included.

Colour schemes included in the kit:

1)   Lavochkin La-7, White 58 (c/n unknown), 2nd Sq. (AE), 6th Fighter Regiment (IAP), Pacific Ocean Fleet (TOF), Soviet Naval Air Force (VVS VMF), Vtoraya Rechka airfield, Vladivostok, Soviet Union, August 1945

2)   Lavochkin La-7, White 06 (c/n 45210806), ‘Gorkovskiy rabochiy’, 2nd Czechoslovak Fighter Regiment, Soviet Air Force (VVS KA), Kraków-Balice airfield, Poland, May 1945

Lavochkin La-7, White 06 (c/n 45210806), ‘Gorkovskiy rabochiy’, 2nd Air Regiment (LP 2), Czechoslovak Air Force, Piešťany airfield, Czechoslovakia, spring 1946

3)   S-97 (Lavochkin La-7), s/n S 97-860, White SU-60 (c/n 45210860), 3rd Sq., 44th Air Regiment (LP 44), Czechoslovak Air Force, Vajnory airfield, Czechoslovakia, spring 1948

4)   Lavochkin La-7 (3-cannon), White 63 (c/n unknown), 63rd Guards Fighter Regiment (GIAP), flown by A. Maresyev, Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany (GSOFG), Soviet Air Force (VVS USSR), Eggersdorf airfield, Germany, winter 1945/46

Two ex-Eduard injection-moulded kits are supplied in this box and each kit contains 38 parts and one clear part (the cockpit canopy). One small fret with photo-etched parts and a comprehensive decal sheet are included.

The Me 262 Schwalbe was a German jet fighter designed by the team led by Willy Messerschmitt. It was one of the most advanced warplanes to see front-line service during WWII. Its protracted development began in 1939, but aerodynamics research work and jet engine development delayed its mass production.

The training aircraft based on the Me 262A-series was conceived in August 1943, but its prototype, a Blohm und Voss-converted Me 262 S5 was first flown only in July 1944.

In total, some 29 Me 262Bs were modified, with the conversions shared between B&V and DLH, and in fact all two-seaters were adapted from existing Me 262A airframes. Of these, nine aircraft were later upgraded to the combat night-fighter variant, the Me 262B-1a/U1.
The Me 262B was an all-metal low-wing monoplane, of a streamlined design and with two cockpits in tandem. It was powered by two Jumo 004 turbojets suspended under the wings. It was fitted with a swept-back wing and a tricycle landing gear. It had a long clear-view canopy and was fitted with a non-ejection seats. The original Me 262A's on-board offensive armament was to be deleted, but some B-model aircraft carried two or even four MK 108 cannons in the fuselage nose.

A number of Me 262s fell into Allied hands and some were examined in Britain, the USSR and the USA post-war. In Czechoslovakia, three two-seater CS-92s were completed and utilised by the Air Force until 1951.