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Although not designed to be a dogfighter, the J 35 Draken proved to have good instantaneous turn capability and was a very capable fighter. It entered service in 1960 with the Swedish Air Force; 644 Saab Drakens were built for Sweden as well as other European nations. Sweden’s Draken fleet came in six different variants [...]

Hans Jacobs designed the prototype Weihe in 1938, after his Reiher of 1937 and before the Olympia Meise of 1939. As Hans Jacobs had been taught sailplane design by Alexander Lippisch, designer of many gliders during the 1920s and the Fafnjr of 1930 and Fafnir 2 “Sao Paulo” of 1934, one can state that the [...]

The basic Mk V was a Mk I with the Merlin 45 series engine. This engine delivered 1,440 hp (1,074 kW) at take-off, and incorporated a new single-speed single-stage supercharger design. Improvements to the carburettor also allowed the Spitfire to use zero gravity manoeuvres without any problems with fuel flow. Several Mk I and Mk II airframes [...]

The de Havilland DH.100 Vampire was a British jet-engine fighter. It was commissioned by the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, and was the second jet fighter to enter service with the RAF, after the pioneering Gloster Meteor. Although it arrived too late to see combat during the war, it served with front [...]

This kit was released by the end of last year in the CMR series of gliders. As usual for CMR it is a nice little kit with much detail included. Ka-6 was a common sight in the fifties and sixties as a standard glider-trainer for many gliding clubs until it was replaced by the Schleicher [...]

Blaník entered production in 1958 and quickly gained popularity as an inexpensive, rugged and durable type, which was easy to fly and operate. It was widely adopted in the Eastern bloc and was exported in large numbers to Western Europe and North America. Total production was in excess of 2650, or more than 3000 if [...]

Spitfire offer are growing every month and in this moment largest offer coming from the AZ Model from Czechs Republic. Their 1/72 range of kit of this airplane are rapidly grown up with the number of new releases and in March 2010 two brand new kits are released. One kit is the sample machine flown [...]

Finally we have injected kit of the Rogozarski IK-3 available on the market in large quantities! This is fighter airplane which was in limited number deployed into the service of the Yugoslav Kingdom and this machine was used in short April war. As well it is not much known, it is normal that it is [...]

Advancing from D.II to D.III, Albatros’ engineer Robert Thelen kept good fuselage of D.II and had changed wings to known Nieuports’ sesquiplane style with V-struts. Unfortunately he coppied also weakness of this wing form, and it required careful piloting to avoid the risk of wing failures… When in beginning of 1917. D.III type became obsolete [...]