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Osprey Duel 28 Mirage III vs MiG-21 – Six Day War 1967
During the Six-Day War, the IAF demonstrated the importance of air superiority during the course of a modern conflict, especially in a desert theatre. Following the IAF’s preliminary air attack, in which the IAF achieved near total tactical surprise (only four unarmed Egyptian training flights were in the air when the strike began), it was [...]
Douglas DC-9 series 32 1/144 AZ model
The DC-9 was designed specifically to operate from short runways and on short- to medium-range routes so that the speed, comfort and reliability of jet transportation could be extended to hundreds of communities previously served only by propeller-driven airliners. There are five basic DC-9 versions, designated Series 10, Series 20, Series 30, Series 40 and [...]
Fokker 100 for Aviodrome Theme Park Museum 23 June 2010
One of the many airline companies operating the successful Fokker 100 is KLM. Although Fokker went already bankrupt in 1996 their aircraft continued to fly, without doubt also for many years in the future. However, because of increasing maintenance costs KLM has decided to terminate its use of this very versatile plane. They will be [...]
ILA 2010 report
From 8 to 13 June 2010 the ILA or Internationale Luftfahrtausstellung (International Aviation Exhibition) was held at the airport Berlin-Schönefeld. First ILA was already in 1909 and that means it is more than 100 years ago the first one was held! The ILA is every two years and together with the shows at Le Bourget [...]
Moonlight serenade
This Messerschmitt Me 262 B- 1a/U1, WNr. 110635, red 10, belong to the 10/NJG 10 and pilot of this airplane was Oberleutenant Kurt Welter. Oberleutenant Kurt Welter was German top jet night fighter pilot during the WW2. This airplane show on this art has standard camouflage pattern with black bottom of the airplane, green top [...]
Dora by Eduard
From my point of view, Fw190D is one of the most beautiful designed German WW 2 fighter introduced in large scale into the combat. This version was born after the decision of the German authorities to stop manufacture of the bombers and result of that was that great number of the Jumo engines become available [...]
Fokker D.VII in Finland
Splinter is well know camouflage type where the camouflage colors are applied in the large geometrical shape over the entire airframe. Well known user of this type of camouflage was German Luftwaffe before and during the WW2 but there is also other operators who have use this type of the camouflage in the limited service. [...]
English Electric Canberra
A legend is born… The Canberra can be classed as one of the greatest aircraft of all times, it was the first jet bomber to enter service with the Royal Air Force, the German Arado Ar 234 “Blitz” being the worlds first. Near the later stages of WW2 the UK Ministry of Aircraft Production was [...]
The Hawker Hunter – A comprehensive guide
Number sixteen of the SAM monograph publications is on one of the most beautiful aircraft ever built: the Hawker Hunter. Just like the other volumes, this book is fully packed with photos (and a lot of them in colour!), colour profiles and technical drawings from the Hunter manual. In almost 130 pages, the following chapters [...]
