Valom VAL72172

RE-RELEASED!!! Douglas DC-3/C-47 or Vickers Viking Utility Steps plus a set of C-47 portable steps (The portable steps were normally carried in the aircraft). (This is a 3D-printed resin model. It is suitable for use with the Airfix kits of the C-47 Dakota, DC-3 or C-47, the Italeri kits of the Douglas C-47 Dakota Skytrain, DC-3 or C-47, or the Valom kits of the Vickers Viking Mk.1A, or the Vickers Viking C Mk.2. These AIM - Ground Equipment Decals sheets are intended for use with this model: Air Anglia decal sheet, Air Rhodesia-64 decal sheet, Central African Airways decal sheet, Derby Airways decal sheet, or the QANTAS decal sheet.)

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Vickers Viking, Valetta & Varsity In Military Service. By Adrian M. Balch £19.00 56 pages The Vickers VC.1 Viking was a British twin-engine short-range airliner derived from the Vickers Wellington bomber and built by Vickers-Armstrongs Limited at Brooklands near Weybridge in Surrey. After the Second World War, the Viking was an important airliner with British airlines, pending the development of turboprop aircraft like the Viscount. The Valetta was a military derivative of the Viking developed in transport and training variants for the Royal Air Force, while the Varsity was a versatile twin piston-engined aircraft developed from the Viking and Valetta but with a tricycle undercarriage and ventral pannier for bomb-aimer training, among other changes. It was brought into RAF service in 1951 for crew training as a replacement for the Wellington T.10. This Warpaint relates the history of all three types, focussing on the military operators, as per the series title. It is profusely illustrated by 125 top quality photographs, nearly all in colour, from the author's extensive photograph archive and supported by excellent colour profiles and plans by Sam Pearson.

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