1/72 RAAF Meteor F.8The Royal Australian Air Force, often shortened to RAAF, is the current air force of Australia and an integral part of the Australian Armed Forces. In 2006 it had a staff of about 15,430 personnel.The Gloster Meteor was a twin-engine, straight-wing fighter jet produced by the British Gloster Aircraft Company in the 1940s.The first British jet to enter operational service and the second worldwide, the Meteor was used for about 15 years by the airforces of dozens of nations.The armament consisted of four 20-mm Hispano guns. Propulsion was provided by two jet engines installed on the straight wing. Speed was between 668 and 950 km/h depending on the models, two of which appeared in wartime. Despite its traditional design and large size, it fought in various regional conflicts until at least 1956 and achieved several firsts and a world speed record. On November 7, 1945, Captain H.J. Wilson achieved the first speed record for a jet aircraft, flying at a speed of 975 km/h at Herne Bay in Kent, England. When it was superseded as a fighter, it found use as a fighter-bomber and especially as a two-seat night fighter, equipped with radar in the nose, as well as a trainer.
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Go to cart1/72 No.77 Sqn RAAFThe Royal Australian Air Force, often shortened to RAAF, is the current air force of Australia and an integral part of the Australian Armed Forces. In 2006 it had a personnel strength of about 15,430.
1/72 Hawker Hurricane Mk.IIb In The Far East P.IIThe Hawker Hurricane ("Hurricane" in English) was the first modern British fighter aircraft before the outbreak of World War II. Until 1941 the Hurricane was the fighter plane most widely used by the Royal Air Force and the one that sustained the brunt of the first clashes with Luftwaffe aircraft in the skies over France and Great Britain.Nearly 3,000 such planes were delivered to the USSR under the Rent and Loan Act, but Soviet pilots were generally very critical of Hawker's fighter, which was considered inferior, not only to German fighters, but also to their own.
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Go to cart1/72 Hawker Hurricane Mk.IIb In The Far East P.IThe Hawker Hurricane ("Hurricane" in English) was the first modern British fighter aircraft before the outbreak of World War II. Until 1941 the Hurricane was the fighter plane most widely used by the Royal Air Force and the one that sustained the brunt of the first clashes with Luftwaffe aircraft in the skies over France and Great Britain.Nearly 3,000 such planes were delivered to the USSR under the Rent and Loan Act, but Soviet pilots were generally very critical of Hawker's fighter, which was considered inferior, not only to German fighters, but also to their own.
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Go to cart1/72 Bell P-39/ P-400 Airacobra over Africa and ItalyThe Bell P-39 Airacobra was a single-engine, low-wing monoplane fighter aircraft developed by the U.S. Bell Aircraft Corporation in the second half of the 1930s. It was the first fighter aircraft in the world to have tricycle undercarriage and the first to have the engine installed in the center of the fuselage, behind the pilot's back.Produced in just over 9,500 examples, it is remembered, however, for being one of the most controversial combat aircraft employed by the U.S. during World War II. Conditioned by the inadequate performance of its thruster at high altitudes, in the European and Pacific theaters it found itself outclassed in the interceptor role and was gradually relegated to secondary duties.Rejected by the British RAF after only one combat mission, it was, on the contrary, particularly appreciated in the ranks of the Voenno-vozdušnye sily, the air force of the Soviet Union, which received almost half of the production, thanks to the "Rent and Loan Law," and employed it, mainly at low altitudes, both in ground attack actions and as a pure fighter and interceptor of enemy bombers and fighter-bombers. And it was precisely a Soviet Airacobra that was the last plane shot down by the Luftwaffe and achieved the last air victory of World War II in Europe.In the course of the conflict, some examples were assigned to the air forces of other Allied countries (Australia and France) and to the Kingdom of Italy, as a co-belligerent country after the events of September 8, 1943.
1/72 P-39/P-400 Airacobra Solomon Isl. (10x camo)Il Bell P-39 Airacobra era un aereo da caccia monomotore, monoplano ad ala bassa, sviluppato dall'azienda aeronautica statunitense Bell Aircraft Corporation nella seconda metà degli anni trenta. Fu il primo caccia al mondo ad avere il carrello triciclo e il primo ad avere il motore installato al centro della fusoliera, alle spalle del pilota.Prodotto in poco più di 9 500 esemplari, viene però ricordato per essere uno dei velivoli da combattimento più controversi impiegato dagli USA durante la seconda guerra mondiale. Condizionato dalle inadeguate prestazioni del suo propulsore alle alte quote, nei teatri europeo e del Pacifico si trovò surclassato nel ruolo di intercettore e venne gradualmente relegato a compiti secondari.Rifiutato dalla britannica RAF dopo una sola missione di combattimento, venne al contrario particolarmente apprezzato nelle file della Voenno-vozdušnye sily, l'aeronautica militare dell'Unione Sovietica, che ricevette quasi metà della produzione, grazie alla "legge Affitti e prestiti", e lo impiegò, principalmente a bassa quota, sia in azioni di attacco al suolo che come caccia puro e intercettore di bombardieri e cacciabombardieri nemici. E fu proprio un Airacobra sovietico l'ultimo aereo abbattuto dalla Luftwaffe e ad ottenere l'ultima vittoria aerea della seconda guerra mondiale in Europa.Nel corso del conflitto alcuni esemplari furono assegnati alle forze aeree di altri paesi alleati (Australia e Francia) e al Regno d'Italia, quale paese cobelligerante dopo gli eventi dell'8 settembre 1943.
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