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USAF Convair XC-99 Heavy Transport Aircraft
The Convair XC-99 was a pioneering American heavy transport aircraft developed from the B-36 Peacemaker strategic bomber. It first flew in 1947 and served with the U.S. Air Force from 1950 to 1957. At the time, it was the largest land-based transport aircraft in the world, capable of carrying up to 400 fully equipped troops or 45 tons of cargo.
The XC-99 set several aviation rec...
Bell P-400 Airacobra
1. P-400 of 67th FS/347th FG, Guadlacanal autumn 1942
2. P-400 of 35th FG, New Guinea, 1942
3. P-400, 19GIAP, USSR 1943, pilot Captain Pavel Kutakhov
4. P-400, Laverton, Australia, RAAF, 1943
5. P-400 of 80th/8th FG, Milne Bay, New Guinea, January 1943
6. P-400 of 36th FS/8th FG, June 1943, Port Moresby, New Guinea
The Bell P-39 Airacobra was one of the principal American fighter aircr...
Colour Conundrum Compendium #5
By Paul Lucas
The publication of this fifth 'Colour Conundrum Compendium' in November 2025 marks not only ten years since the first of these 'Colour Conundrum' articles appeared in the December 2015 issue of Scale Aircraft Modelling, but also thirty Years since I first began to research the topic of the Camouflage and Markings of British military aircraft from primary source materials for m...