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Vickers Type 161 COW-gun fighter

Vickers Type 161 COW-gun fighter

The Coventry Ordnance Works (C.O.W.) designed and built in 1915 a small 37 mm cannon capable of firing a 1 pound, and then later 1.5 pound high-explosive shell. Vickers had acquired in the early twenties the rights for this gun and after a proposal to the Air Staff a specification was issued to develop a [...]

Plamen nad Sumadijom

Plamen nad Sumadijom

During the short war against Yugoslavia in 1941, German have sent many recognizance missions in the depth of the Yugoslav territory. Yugoslav pilot managed few interceptions as well shot down of the aircraft. Scene here, named “Plamen nad Sumadijom”, show one scene where is German airplane Henschel Hs126 being downed by Yugoslav fighter Hawker Hurricane.

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Modernization of Yugoslav VV

Modernization of Yugoslav VV

In the mid of thirties Yugoslav aviation operated with the modern airplane of the period but it’s time were slowly running out. All other foreigner air forces was similarly equipped with biplanes but they looking forward for their replacement in close future with all metal monoplanes with retractable undercarriage. A plan for modernization of VV [...]

SAAB J-29 Tunnan

SAAB J-29 Tunnan

Honor to become first European sweep wing fighter belong to the Swedish plane SAAB J-29. Tunnan.
In the wake of the Second World War it was decided that Sweden needed a strong air defense and it should be built around the hottest new technology around, jet engines. Project “JxR” began in the final months of December [...]

US WW I failed fighter program

US WW I failed fighter program

Much has been written about the failures of the American aircraft program in the First World War, most echoing the biased and distorted conclusions of the congressional and presidential investigations of 1918-1920. In recent decades several definitive-appearing and wel1-documented studies have perpetuated these misconceptions by analyzing only the planning and management of the program, concluding [...]

Pulqui II

Pulqui II

FMA I.Ae 33 Pulqui II [Arrow] was projected by the team headed by brilliant German designer Kurt Tank and the idea was to replace British Gloster Meteor Mk. 4 in the Argentina’s air force. In this reason in the project were included some results of the test made in Germany during the second world war. [...]

Lavockin La-7 three cannon 1/72

Lavockin La-7 three cannon 1/72

La-7 is one of the best fighters of the Second World War and many of the famous Soviet aces flew this type of fighter. This is the final world of the long development starting with LaGG fighter, developed into the La-5 fighter and its final was the La-7. There was two main version of the [...]

Yak-1b 1/48

Yak-1b 1/48 “Eduard”

“Eduard” from Czech Republic released in the limited number model of the Yak-1b in 1/48 scale. This limited edition feature a lot of new material for the kit such as decal sheet and the best possible etched detail set I have ever seen!!!
The same plastic kit coming on the seven fret but one of this [...]