Skyshark Database

The Skyshark Database at iModeler

5 articles

Items tagged with Skyshark
5 articles
Publicly visible
Last addition 1 year, 7 months ago

Clear Prop 1/48 XA2D-1 Skyshark

by Tom Cleaver on September 23, 2022 · in Aviation · 17 ≡

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; [...]

XA2D-1 Skyshark – monster figher that failed (ClearProp 1:48)

by Martin Dytrych on August 20, 2021 · in Aviation · 20 ≡

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 [...]

Dynavector 1/48 XA2D-1 Skyshark

by Tom Cleaver on May 13, 2021 · in Aviation · 15 ≡

Why I am not standing in line for the new kit, good as I hear it is. History By the end of the Second World War, with operational analysis demonstrating that Navy fighter squadrons had protected the carrier-based strike aircraft so well [...]

1/72 Anigrand A2D SkyShark

by Dan Lee on July 2, 2020 · in Aviation · 8 ≡

The A2D Sky Shark was originally designed to be a turboprop powered contra rotating propeller equipped reply to the short range and low thrust of early jets based on a requirement for an attack plane able to fly off escort carriers. [...]

Building The 48th Scale SKYSHARK Outside The Box

by Jack Mugan on January 27, 2014 · in Aviation · 23 ≡

Years ago I built the old Allen kit of the SKYSHARK in the dark blue scheme. I let a friend talk me out of it, so when I ran across the Dynavector 48th scale kit some time ago, I snapped it up as a replacement. The Dynavector kit is a [...]