Gliders Schneider Grunau Baby 1 – Waco CG-4A – Castel Mauboussin CM8/13 Looking at Swiss aircraft, as we did last week, I was struck by the appearance of the lovely little, yellow, F+N N-20.1 Arbalete glider that was made to test the concept of the Aiguillon fighter. This set me wondering how many gliders there…

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Swiss Aircraft EKW D-3800 – Doflug D-3802 – EFW N-20.10 When we think of Swiss manufacturing an aircraft manufactuging industry is not the first thing that comes to mind. There is the the Pilatus company which has been manufacturing light transport aircraft and trainers since the 1950s that have sold around the world, but before…

NEW IN THE READING ROOM Addition to Workbench Notes Royal Aircraft Factory SE5a in 1/72 by Roden Addition to The MoB Chronicles What Wayne and Leigh Learned at ModelExpo 23 NEW IN THE GALLERIES Additions to the Galleries Bloch 81 in 1/72 by Dujin Curtiss Tomahawk I (349Sqd, RAF) in 1/72 by Trumpeter Curtiss P-40B…

Turboprop Twins Antonov An-32 – deHavilland Canada Dash-8-100 – Piaggio P180 Avanti Turboprop engines occupy the space in aero engines between piston engines and pure just aircraft and generally also fit into the range between small aircraft and larger ones. If you’re looking for speed and altitude you need pure jet aircraft and if you’re…

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…