Reviews of scale model kits, products and publications.
The Blue Angels and the F9F Panther:
The Grumman Panther, being the first fully-operational carrier based jet fighter in the Navy, was quickly adopted by the Blue Angels, who first used the F9F-2 Panther for the 1949 season, performing [...]
The sky over the English Channel on July 28, 1943 was partly cloudy, an early indicator that the past week of clear weather over northwestern Europe was coming to an end. Fifteen miles west of the Dutch coast, the 40 P-47 Thunderbolts of [...]
The battle against the kamikazes in World War II demonstrated the need for the earliest possible early warning of attack. The solution was to raise the search radars high enough to expand the “horizon” around the task force, which was [...]
The F-86 Sabre almost didn't happen. Had the Air Force not been willing to delay the F-86 program for a year while North American undertook to study the swept wing research done by Messerschmitt during World War II, the F-86 would have [...]
