Experimental Attack Aircraft Boeing X-32 – Douglas XA2D – Ilyuhin Il-40P Some military aircraft are designed specifically to attack targets on the ground so their shape and size is dictated by that function. Sometimes the resulting aircraft make it into production and sometimes they don’t. Let’s look at three attack aircraft that didn’t make it…

South East Asia Camouflage General Dynamics F-111A – Boeing B-52D – McDonnell RF-4C During the Vietnam War the United States Air Force adopted a four tone camouflage scheme for its aircraft operating in that region. The upper colours of two shades of green and one of tan were designed to match the terrain over which…

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Additions to the Public Galleries DeHavilland DH-9A in 1/72 by Kovozavody Prostejov Lockheed F-104C in 1/72 by Italeri   Addition to the Workbench Notes DeHavilland DH-9A in 1/72 by Kovozavody Prostejov   Addition to the Royal Australian Air Force Special Display DeHavilland DH-9A  

Air France in the 1930s Dewoitine 333 – Potez 621 – Wibault 283 Air France is one of the world’s great airlines and France’s national ‘flag carrier’ airline. It was created in October 1933 from the amalgamation of five existing French airlines and brought together France’s domestic, colonial and inter-national airlines. The five airlines had…

Big Eyes in the Sky Republic XF-12 – Lockheed U-2R – Northrop Grumman RQ-4 This week let’s look as three aircraft that go about their business quietly and at a great distance. Perhaps the first military role given to aircraft was to look down upon the surface to see what is happening so that the…

Vought Corsair I – Vought F4U-1D – Vought F4U-7 The Curator’s Choice 65 One of the most distinctive shapes of all World War 2 aircraft is the bent wing of the Vought F4U Corsair naval fighter. It came from the desire to fit the most powerful piston engine possible to a fighter to give it…

Three Airliners in Six Decades Boeing 727-200 – Boeing 737-800 – Airbus A.320 Everyone knows that I think airliners are way cool. I like them because, with very rare exceptions, they have never deliberately killed anyone or destroyed anything. Their business is to carry people and freight from place to place as safely as possible.…

Additions to the Public Galleries CAC CA-5 Wirraway in 1/72 by MPM Gloster Meteor F.8 in 1/72 by Airfix McDonnell Douglas F-18A in 1/72 by Hobby Boss Messerschmitt Bf109C-1 in 1/72 by Heller Schneider Grunau Baby IIb in 1/72 by Kovozavody Prostejov Vought Sikorsky VS-44 in 1/144 by Anigrand Addition to the Wayne Eagles Gallery…