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Combat Warplanes / Focke wulf Fw 58 Weihe

« on: January 18, 2023, 07:17:54 PM »

January 18, 1935 - the maiden flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 58 Weihe multirole aircraft. In 1933 the Nazis came to power in Germany. It began the active development of the German Air Force, which had previously been carefully hidden. In 1935, the Luftwaffe announced a competition to develop a multi-purpose aircraft - for pilot training, use as a transport or ambulance. Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau AG presented its project Fw 58 Weihe.

It was a low plane with retractable landing gear for 4 crew members. The Fw 58B version was equipped with 2 ? Argus As 10C (240 hp) engines. Cruising speed was 238 km/h, range - 690 km. Could be armed with two ? 7.92-mm machine guns.

The Fw 58 Weihe was the first twin-engine Focke-Wulf to enter production. In addition to the German Air Force, it was also in service in Argentina, Brazil, Czechoslovakia, Spain, Hungary and other countries. It was produced 1670 planes. Some of them were converted into civilian airliners.

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Aircraft Modeling / Tornado IDS Eduard

« on: December 16, 2022, 09:35:08 AM »

So big kit, I need from very start of build also to seek where to put it  this is basic Revell kit in 1/48 scale, have so many parts so I guess this will be long build.

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Aircraft Modeling / A6M2 302 Kokutai

« on: November 09, 2022, 03:56:33 PM »

New project with remained A6M2, sample from 302 Kokutai, which flew night fighter sorties and was in overall Dark Green color. There will be used a lot of Eduard extras for build.

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Warplane Art / Northrop Grumman E-2 Hawkeye

« on: October 02, 2022, 06:29:44 PM »

The very start of E-2C color profile, just basic shapes

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Combat Warplanes / Bf 109E-7 WrN 6308

« on: September 24, 2022, 01:32:26 PM »

From lake under Pechenga (Russia) was recovered Messerschmitt Bf 109E-7 (WrN 6308) from the the 1/.JG77, shot down on September 14, 1941. The pilot, Lieutenant Heinrich Weil, was wounded. The aircraft was originally produced as E-1, but later underwent modernization. It is planned to restore the machine with further transfer to a museum.

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Aircraft Modeling / Grumman Wildcat, Eduard 1/48 82201

« on: September 05, 2022, 07:36:53 PM »

This is brand new kit from Eduard and for now it look really splendid!!!

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Aircraft Modeling / Spitfire Sweep

« on: May 10, 2022, 09:47:13 AM »

This kit finally come on work bench, its Eduard, 1/48, Spitfire Mk. V dual combo

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Warplane Art / Boeing C-135

« on: April 27, 2022, 01:32:13 PM »

Now something big, in flying tanker version

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Warplane Art / MiG-27

« on: March 18, 2022, 09:58:12 AM »

Absolute new subject, never did it before... so the very start

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Aircraft Modeling / Hawker Hurricane, Eduard 1/72

« on: February 14, 2022, 04:09:54 PM »

This kit look so simply and with Eduard add, look like amazing built to be!!! Kit no. 7099

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Warplane Art / Raytheon T-6 Texan II

« on: January 16, 2022, 04:06:22 PM »

Something interesting and miss in my work 

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Warplane Art / Northrop T-38 Talon

« on: January 16, 2022, 12:26:20 PM »

Very start of this trainer

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Combat Warplanes / MiL-1

« on: January 13, 2022, 08:28:56 PM »

Mi-1 helicopter on the icebreaker "Leningrad", bringing out the diesel-electric ship "Penzhina" in the Bay of Baikal in the Sea of Okhotsk.

photo by Yuri Sadovnikov, May 1966

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Aircraft Modeling / Eduard A6M2 no. 11155 1/48

« on: January 08, 2022, 12:12:14 PM »

Photos from few days behind but did not managed to process em before. Build also start, photos come soon

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Miscellaneous Subjects / Bell X-1

« on: December 09, 2021, 09:37:40 PM »

Already in the middle of the Second World War, it became clear that the future of combat aviation was jet propulsion. Therefore, in 1943, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) began the MX-524 program to overcome the sound barrier. A year later, Bell Aircraft received a contract for the construction of the X-1 aircraft. On December 9, 1946, the first flight of the experimental Bell X-1 aircraft with a running engine.

The X-1 was a mid-plane with a retractable landing gear. It was equipped with a Reaction Motors XLR11-RM-3 rocket engine with a thrust of 27 kN. The maximum speed was 2594 km/ h, there was enough fuel for 5 minutes of flight.

The flight with the engine running was preceded by launches of the aircraft as a glider from the carrier - bomber Boeing B-29 Superfortress. On October 14, 1947, pilot Charles "Chuck" Yeager (Chuck Yeager) developed a speed of 1066 km/h on the X-1, exceeding the speed of sound for the first time. A total of 7 Bell X-1 aircraft were built as part of the MX524 program.