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MiG-23 is a Soviet third generation jet fighter. It was one of the first Soviet fighters equipped with ‘beyond visual range’ missiles (R-23 and R-24) and its RP-23 radar was capable of ‘look down-shoot down’ mode. Production [...]
I wanted the enclosed canopy A5M so It was nice to see the new tooled Clear Prop kit . A very nice build. I also have the Wingsy 1/48 Version and it is really identical but larger in scale...Same tooling & nice detail. This build [...]
Polikarpov I-16 was the world's first low-wing cantilever monoplane fighter with retractable landing gear to attain operational status and as such, introduced a new vogue in fighter design. This fact alone makes the type to an obvious [...]
When the Douglas AD-1 Skyraider prototype made its first flight in March 1945 both the U.S. Navy and Douglas’ chief designer Ed Heinemann were already thinking of a successor.
Douglas based their proposals on the Skyraider airframe; [...]
The Curtiss Model 75 was developed by Donovan A. Berlin, a former Northrop designer, and had more in common with earlier Northrop aircraft than with any previous Curtiss design. It was an all-metal low-wing monoplane, with a fully [...]
It is big bird, looking either elegant and weird. It was planned as turboprop-powered heavy attack fighter for US Navy carrier decks in 1950s.
However, Navy did not allowed the plane to operate due to troublesome power unit and due to its [...]