LetLetLet ~ Warplanes
Let Let Let - Warplanes => Warplane Art => Topic started by: santynus on May 13, 2007, 11:38:43 AM
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who knows this airplane? :-green
all notice photo and draw are welcome... ;) :-wave
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Vickers Wellesley or something like that... one of two aircraft of geodetic construction deployed to RAF during the WW2. Most used is Wellington.
Santino- is the candy prize? :))
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:-obey :-obey No.1
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Bravo No.1 is correct is the Vickers Wellsley, :-clap next post you recive your candy ;)
I like so much this aircraft whne I was young I build the matchbox modelkit...
Five aircraft with provisions for three crew members were modified for long-range work with the RAF Long Range Development Flight. Additional modifications included the fitting of extra fuel tanks. On 5 November 1938, three of them under command of S/L R. Kellett flew non-stop for two days from Ismailia, Egypt to Darwin, Australia (7,162 miles, 11,525 km) setting a world distance record. All three aircraft succeeded in breaking the existing record, but No. 2 aircraft landed in West Timor, 500 miles short of the final objective. The Wellesley's record remained unbroken until November 1945.
During the Second World War, the primary use of the Wellesley was in overseas theatres of operation, mainly in the Middle East. Among its significant wartime operations were the bombing of Addis Ababa in August 1940.
While the Wellesley was not a significant combat aircraft, the design principles that were tested in its construction were put to good use with the Wellington medium bomber that became one of the main types of RAF Bomber Command in the early years of the European war.
info take from wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers_Wellesley
regards
Santino
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Matcbox scale kit 1/72... where to get it :(