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					<item><title>Mark I Models MKM720-12</title>
<link>http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MKM720-12</link>
<description>Zeppelin S, T &amp; U-class &#039;Height Climbers&#039;. Price:&amp;pound;24.58</description>
<author>sales@hannants.co.uk</author>
<guid>http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MKM720-12</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2021 10:18:01 GMT</pubDate>
</item><item><title>Italeri IT5534</title>
<link>http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/IT5534</link>
<description>USS George H.W.Bush CVN 77. Price:&amp;pound;20.83</description>
<author>sales@hannants.co.uk</author>
<guid>http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/IT5534</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2021 15:50:06 GMT</pubDate>
</item><item><title>Mark I Models MKM720-07</title>
<link>http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MKM720-07</link>
<description>Zeppelin R-class &#039;Super-Zeppelin&#039; Rigid airships (or dirigibles) were produced and relatively successfully employed in the period from the early 1900s to the end of the 1930s.
During WWI the Zeppelin company, of Imperial Germany, built nearly one hundred military airships both for their army and naval corps. The airship type and construction was characterised by particular class (A to X). During The Great War they were used as a new type of attack weapon for bombing and also for reconnaissance and naval patrol work.
The Zeppelin R-class airship was developed in 1915-16 and consisted of structural metal framework covered in HYPERLINK &quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_dope&quot; o &quot;Aircraft dope&quot; doped fabric containing cells filled with a hydrogen lifting gas. They were fitted with vertical tailfins and horizontal tailplanes with control surfaces. The crew members were carried in two suspended gondolas (cars) mounting Maybach engines and pusher propellers, while bombs were contained in internal bomb bays. Defensive gunners were stationed in the front upper part of the airship&#039;s body, in an aft gun position behind the rudders, two in gondolas and in each of the cars either side of the hull. In total, 17 R-class airships were built.





Colour schemes included in the kit:
1) 	Zeppelin LZ75 (R-class), L37, Black L37, Naval Airship Division (Marine-Luftschiff-Abteilung), Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine), Seerappen Airship Base, spring 1917
2)	Zeppelin LZ80 (R-class), L35, Black L35, Naval Airship Division (Marine-Luftschiff-Abteilung), Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine), Jüterbog Airship Base, Germany, February 1917
3)	Zeppelin LZ80 (R-class), L35, White L35, Naval Airship Division (Marine-Luftschiff-Abteilung), Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine), Jüterbog Airship Base, Germany, June 1917
4)	Zeppelin LZ85 (R-class), L45, Naval Airship Division (Marine-Luftschiff-Abteilung), Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine), Töndern Airship Base, Denmark, spring 1917

This injection-moulded kit contains 49 parts, including a useful model stand. 
A comprehensive instruction leaflet and a decal sheet are included.. Price:&amp;pound;21.66</description>
<author>sales@hannants.co.uk</author>
<guid>http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MKM720-07</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2018 11:14:59 GMT</pubDate>
</item><item><title>Mark I Models MKM720-06</title>
<link>http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MKM720-06</link>
<description>Zeppelin R-class &#039;Großkampf-Typ&#039; Rigid airships (or dirigibles) were produced and relatively successfully employed in the period from the early 1900s to the end of the 1930s.
During WWI the Zeppelin company, of Imperial Germany, built nearly one hundred military airships both for their army and naval corps. The airship type and construction was characterised by particular class (A to X). During The Great War they were used as a new type of attack weapon for bombing and also for reconnaissance and naval patrol work.
The Zeppelin R-class airship was developed in 1915-16 and consisted of structural metal framework covered in HYPERLINK &quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_dope&quot; o &quot;Aircraft dope&quot; doped fabric containing cells filled with a hydrogen lifting gas. They were fitted with vertical tailfins and horizontal tailplanes with control surfaces. The crew members were carried in two suspended gondolas (cars) mounting Maybach engines and pusher propellers, while bombs were contained in internal bomb bays. Defensive gunners were stationed in the front upper part of the airship&#039;s body, in an aft gun position behind the rudders, two in gondolas and in each of the cars either side of the hull. In total, 17 R-class airships were built.

Colour schemes included in the kit:
1) 	Zeppelin LZ83 (R-class), LZ113, Black LZ113, Airship Troop (Luftschifftruppe), Imperial German Flying Corps (Fliegertruppe des deutschen Kaiserreiches), Seddin bei Stolp Airship Base, Germany, spring 1917
2)	Zeppelin LZ87 (R-class), Naval Airship Division (Marine-Luftschiff-Abteilung), Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine), Ahlhorn Airship Base, Germany, November 1917
3)	Zeppelin LZ90 (R-class), LZ120, Black L.Z.120, Airship Troop (Luftschifftruppe), Imperial German Flying Corps (Fliegertruppe des deutschen Kaiserreiches), Seerappen Airship Base, East-Prussia, Germany, July 1917. In August 1917 handed over to Naval Airship Division (Marine-Luftschiff-Abteilung), Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine).
4)	Zeppelin LZ90 (R-class), ex-LZ120, Black &#039;Ausonia&#039;, Italian Army, Ciampino Air Base, Italy, spring 1921

This injection-moulded kit contains 49 parts, including a useful model stand. 
A comprehensive instruction leaflet and a decal sheet are included.. Price:&amp;pound;21.66</description>
<author>sales@hannants.co.uk</author>
<guid>http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MKM720-06</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2018 11:14:58 GMT</pubDate>
</item><item><title>Mark I Models MKM720-05</title>
<link>http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MKM720-05</link>
<description>Zeppelin LZ127 Graf Zeppelin (DELAG, DZR)

Rigid airships were produced and employed in the period from the early 1900s to the end of the 1930s. During WWI the Zeppelin company built nearly one hundred military airships both for army and naval service. 
Certainly the most successful zeppelin ever built was the civilian LZ127, christened Graf Zeppelinï¿½. Its construction began in 1926 and it was launched in September 1928. The LZ127 airship consisted of a structural metal framework covered in HYPERLINK &quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_dope&quot; o &quot;Aircraft dope&quot; doped fabric containing cells filled with hydrogen lifting gas. It was fitted with vertical tailfins and horizontal tailplanes with control surfaces. Forty crew members and 20 passengers were carried in a contiguous gondola built into the forward ventral portion of the airship, while five suspended gondolas (cars) mounted Maybach engines with pusher propellers.
During its nine year career, the LZ127 made the first commercial passenger flight across the Atlantic and around the world and it began regularly scheduled commercial service between Germany and South America. The airship also participated in a scientific mission over the North Pole and aroused intense public enthusiasm around the globe. The airship flew over 1.6 million kilometers on 590 flights, carrying over 34,000 passengers without a single injury.





Colour schemes included in the kit:
1) 	Zeppelin LZ127 Graf Zeppelinï¿½, D-LZ127, Black D, First Flights 1928-29ï¿½
	Operated by the German Airship Transportation Corp. (Deutsche Luftschifffahrts-Aktiengesellschaft, DELAG).
2)	Zeppelin LZ127 Graf Zeppelinï¿½, D-LZ127, Round-the-World Flight 1929ï¿½
	Operated by DELAG.
3)	Zeppelin LZ127 Graf Zeppelinï¿½, D-LZ127, Propaganda and Commercial Flights 1933-36ï¿½
	Operated by DELAG and (from March 1935) by the German Zeppelin Transport Company (Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei, DZR).
4)	Zeppelin LZ127 Graf Zeppelinï¿½, D-LZ127, Last Flights 1936-37ï¿½
	Operated by DZR.

This injection-moulded kit contains 46 parts, including a useful model stand. The kit length is 329mm (12.9in). A comprehensive instruction leaflet and a decal sheet are included.. Price:&amp;pound;25.42</description>
<author>sales@hannants.co.uk</author>
<guid>http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MKM720-05</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2017 15:10:54 GMT</pubDate>
</item><item><title>Mark I Models MKM720-04</title>
<link>http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MKM720-04</link>
<description>Zeppelin P &amp; Q-class &#039;Night Intruders&#039; (2in1). This box contains two kits, additional parts, new decals and instructions. Two short (P-class), or two long (Q-class) airship kits or one each of the airship type can be built out of this box.. Price:&amp;pound;26.33</description>
<author>sales@hannants.co.uk</author>
<guid>http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MKM720-04</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 May 2017 11:11:08 GMT</pubDate>
</item><item><title>Mark I Models MKM720-01</title>
<link>http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MKM720-01</link>
<description>Zeppelin P-class LZ38/LZ40 &#039;First Attackers&#039;
	(Imperial German Flying Corps, Imperial German Navy)


Rigid airships (or dirigibles) were produced and relatively successfully employed in the period from the early 1900s to the end of the 1930s.
During WWI the Zeppelin company, of Imperial Germany, built nearly one hundred uniquely designed military airships both for army and naval service. Their type and construction was characterised by particular class (A to X). During the early stages of The Great War they were utilised as a new and progressive type of attack weapon, reconnaisance and patrol craft, mainly over the Western Front.
The Zeppelin P-class airship consisted of a structural metal framework covered in HYPERLINK &quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_dope&quot; \o &quot;Aircraft dope&quot; doped fabric containing cells filled with a highly flammable hydrogen lifting gas. It was fitted with vertical tailfins and horizontal tailplanes with control surfaces. The crew members were carried in two suspended gondolas mounting Daimler engines and pusher propellers, while bombs were contained in internal bomb bays. A defensive front gunner was stationed in the front upper part of the airship&#039;s body.

Colour schemes included in the kit:

1) 	Zeppelin LZ38 (P-class), LZ38, Black LZ38, Airship Troop (Luftschifftruppe), Imperial German Flying Corps (Fliegertruppe des deutschen Kaiserreiches), Evere Airship Base, Belgium, May 1915

2)	Zeppelin LZ40 (P-class), L10, Black L10, Naval Airship Division (Marine-Luftschiff-Abteilung), Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine), Hage Airship Base, Germany, summer 1915

This injection-moulded kit contains 41 parts, including a useful model stand. 

A comprehensive instruction leaflet and a decal sheet are included.. Price:&amp;pound;16.42</description>
<author>sales@hannants.co.uk</author>
<guid>http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MKM720-01</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2016 09:41:24 GMT</pubDate>
</item><item><title>Mark I Models MKM720-02</title>
<link>http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MKM720-02</link>
<description>Zeppelin P-class LZ47 &#039;Spotted Cow&#039; (Imperial German Flying Corps)

Rigid airships (or dirigibles) were produced and relatively successfully employed in the period from the early 1900s to the end of the 1930s.
During WWI the Zeppelin company, of Imperial Germany, built nearly one hundred uniquely designed military airships both for army and naval service. Their type and construction was characterised by particular class (A to X). During the early stages of The Great War they were utilised as a new and progressive type of attack weapon, reconnaisance and patrol craft, mainly over the Western Front.
The Zeppelin P-class airship consisted of a structural metal framework covered in HYPERLINK &quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_dope&quot; \o &quot;Aircraft dope&quot; doped fabric containing cells filled with a highly flammable hydrogen lifting gas. It was fitted with vertical tailfins and horizontal tailplanes with control surfaces. The crew members were carried in two suspended gondolas mounting Daimler engines and pusher propellers, while bombs were contained in internal bomb bays. A defensive front gunner was stationed in the front upper part of the airship&#039;s body.

Colour schemes included in the kit:

1) 	Zeppelin LZ47 (P-class), LZ77, Black LZ77, Airship Troop (Luftschifftruppe), Imperial German Flying Corps (Fliegertruppe des deutschen Kaiserreiches), Namur Airship Base, Belgium, autumn 1915

2)	Zeppelin LZ47 (P-class), LZ77, Black LZ, Airship Troop (Luftschifftruppe), Imperial German Flying Corps (Fliegertruppe des deutschen Kaiserreiches), Namur Airship Base, Belgium, Battle of Verdun, February 1916

This injection-moulded kit contains 38 parts, including a useful model stand. 

A comprehensive instruction leaflet and a decal sheet are included.. Price:&amp;pound;16.42</description>
<author>sales@hannants.co.uk</author>
<guid>http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MKM720-02</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2016 09:41:24 GMT</pubDate>
</item><item><title>Mark I Models MKM720-03</title>
<link>http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MKM720-03</link>
<description>Zeppelin P-class LZ45/LZ58 &#039;Naval Raiders&#039; (Imperial German Navy)

Rigid airships (or dirigibles) were produced and relatively successfully employed in the period from the early 1900s to the end of the 1930s.
During WWI the Zeppelin company, of Imperial Germany, built nearly one hundred uniquely designed military airships both for army and naval service. Their type and construction was characterised by particular class (A to X). During the early stages of The Great War they were utilised as a new and progressive type of attack weapon, reconnaisance and patrol craft, mainly over the Western Front.
The Zeppelin P-class airship consisted of a structural metal framework covered in HYPERLINK &quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_dope&quot; \o &quot;Aircraft dope&quot; doped fabric containing cells filled with a highly flammable hydrogen lifting gas. It was fitted with vertical tailfins and horizontal tailplanes with control surfaces. The crew members were carried in two suspended gondolas mounting Daimler engines and pusher propellers, while bombs were contained in internal bomb bays. A defensive front gunner was stationed in the front upper part of the airship&#039;s body.

Colour schemes included in the kit:
1) 	Zeppelin LZ45 (P-class), L13, Black L13, Naval Airship Division (Marine-Luftschiff-Abteilung), Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine), Hage Airship Base, Germany, Action of 19 August 1916, summer 1916

2)	Zeppelin LZ58 (P-class), LZ58, White L25, Naval Airship Division (Marine-Luftschiff-Abteilung), Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine), Potsdam Airship Base, Germany, 1917

This injection-moulded kit contains 38 parts, including a useful model stand. 

A comprehensive instruction leaflet and a decal sheet are included.. Price:&amp;pound;16.42</description>
<author>sales@hannants.co.uk</author>
<guid>http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MKM720-03</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2016 09:41:24 GMT</pubDate>
</item><item><title>Revell RV5046</title>
<link>http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/RV5046</link>
<description>U.S.S. Enterprise nuclear carrier. Price:&amp;pound;23.33</description>
<author>sales@hannants.co.uk</author>
<guid>http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/RV5046</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
</item><item><title>Mark I Models MKM720-11</title>
<link>http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MKM720-11</link>
<description>K-type Blimp (K-19/43/125) &#039;Special Markings&#039; USUALLY £19.70. TEMPORARILY HALF PRICE!!! Non-rigid airships (or blimps) were the first types of lighter-than-air craft. Since the turn of the 20th century, they have been employed on a large scale by armed forces and also engaged commercially.
The Goodyear Aircraft Company, the foremost producer of airships in the United States, produced a series of K-class airships which became the backbone of the US Navy&#039;s airship fleet in WWII. Developed from earlier 1930s designs, the prototype ZNP-K-2 first flew in December 1938 and the production was started two years later. A total of 134 airships in four production batches had been built by the end of 1944.
The K-type airship consisted of a fabric covered envelope containing the lifting gas and two internal ballonets. It was fitted with vertical tailfins and horizontal tailplanes with control surfaces. The crew was carried in a control car (gondola), attached flush to the underside of the envelope. It was fitted with a forward firing Browning M2 machine gun while four Mk.47 depth charges could be mounted on two external carriers and in an internal bomb bay. Radar and magnetic anomaly detection (MAD) equipment was also fitted. The ship was powered by two Pratt &amp; Whitney Wasp engines, turning tractor propellers.
The K-type blimps were used for anti-submarine patrols and convoy escorts in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans as well as the Caribbean and Mediterranean Seas. Post-war, the Navy&#039;s LTA programme continued, with many ships modified with more advanced electronics, radar search systems and increased capacity envelope. In 1947, the upgraded ships were designated ZP2K and ZP3K and after 1954 they became ZSG-2 and ZSG-3, respectively. The last K-class airship retired in March 1959.

Colour schemes included in the kit:
1) 	Goodyear ZPK-19 (K-type) Blimp, BuNo 04369, Black K-19, Blimp Squadron ZP-2, Fleet Airship Wing 1 (FASW-1), US Navy, Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, U.S.A., seen during the first official celebration of Armed Forces Day at Annapolis, Maryland, on 20 May 1950
2)	Goodyear ZSG-3-43 (K-type) Blimp, BuNo 30165, Black 43, Blimp Squadron ZP-2, Fleet Airship Wing 1 (FASW-1), US Navy, Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, U.S.A., recorded during a recruiting circle trip, NAS Moffett Field, California, December 1955
3)	Goodyear ZSG-3-125 (K-type) Blimp, BuNo not received, Black K-125, Reserve Patrol Squadron ZP-951, Naval Air Reserve Training Unit (NARTU), LTA (Lighter Than Air), US Navy, Marine Corps Air Facility, Santa Ana, California, U.S.A., summer 1955.

This injection-moulded kit contains 17 parts, including a mobile mooring mast. A towing tractor (4 resin parts) is provided. For modeller&#039;s convenience a display base, made of pasteboard card, depicting a section of the military airfield is added. A comprehensive instruction leaflet and a decal sheet are included.. Price:&amp;pound;8.21</description>
<author>sales@hannants.co.uk</author>
<guid>http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MKM720-11</guid>
</item><item><title>Mark I Models MKM720-08</title>
<link>http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MKM720-08</link>
<description>HMA R33/R34 (Armstrong Whitworth R33/Beardmore R34 &#039;Transatlantic Flyer&#039; (Royal Navy, Royal Air Force, National Physical Laboratory)

Rigid airships were produced and relatively successfully employed in the period from the early 1900s to the end of the 1930s. The real technology trailblazer in this field was the Zeppelin company, of Imperial Germany, which built nearly one hundred military airships. British rigid airship designs lagged behind German developments, although a handful of ships were locally evolved and built.
Both the R33 and R34 were almost identical copies of the Zeppelin LZ76, which had been brought down intact onto the English soil in September 1916. Their structural metal frameworks were covered in HYPERLINK &quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_dope&quot; o &quot;Aircraft dope&quot; doped fabric containing cells filled with hydrogen lifting gas. They were fitted with vertical tailfins and horizontal tailplanes with control surfaces. The crew members were carried in suspended gondolas mounting Sunbeam Maori engines and pusher propellers. 
The R33 was built by Armstrong Whitworth and first flown in March 1919. By far Britain&#039;s most successful rigid, it went on to serve successfully for ten years. It was used for experiments in connection with the design of the R101 airship and also for trials launching of parasite fighters. It was known as &quot;Pulham Pig&quot;.
Her sister ship, the R34, was constructed by Beardmore and also made her first flight in March 1919. She became the first aircraft to make an east to west transatlantic flight in July 1919 and by the return flight it completed successfully the first ever two-way crossing. The crew nicknamed her &quot;Tiny&quot;.





Colour schemes included in the kit:
1) 	Armstrong Whitworth R33 (His Majesty&#039;s Airship R33), c/n R33, Black R 33, Royal Navy/Royal Air Force, Pulham Airship Experimental Station, Norfolk, March October 1919
2)	Armstrong Whitworth R33 (His Majesty&#039;s Airship R33), c/n R33, Black R 33/G-FAAG, Royal Air Force, Croydon Airport, summer 1921
3)	Armstrong Whitworth R33 (His Majesty&#039;s Airship R33), c/n R33, Black R 33/G-FAAG, civilian controlled by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), Cardington Airship Station, Bedfordshire and Pulham Airship Experimental Station, Norfolk, April 1925 November 1926
4)	Beardmore R34 (His Majesty&#039;s Airship R34), c/n R34, Black R 34, Royal Navy, East Fortune Airship Station, Scotland, performing the first double crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, July 1919

This injection-moulded kit contains 35 parts, including a useful model stand. 
A comprehensive instruction leaflet and a decal sheet are included.. Price:&amp;pound;21.66</description>
<author>sales@hannants.co.uk</author>
<guid>http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MKM720-08</guid>
</item><item><title>Mark I Models MKM720-09</title>
<link>http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MKM720-09</link>
<description>K-type Blimp (K-3/6/28) &#039;Early Production&#039; USUALLY £19.70. TEMPORARILY SAVE 1/3RD!!! Non-rigid airships (or blimps) were the first types of lighter-than-air craft. Since the turn of the 20th century, they have been employed on a large scale by armed forces and also engaged commercially.

The Goodyear Aircraft Company, the foremost producer of airships in the United States, produced a series of K-class airships which became the backbone of the US Navy&#039;s airship fleet in WWII. Developed from earlier 1930s designs, the prototype ZNP-K-2 first flew in December 1938 and the production was started two years later. A total of 134 airships in four production batches had been built by the end of 1944.

The K-type airship consisted of a fabric covered envelope containing the lifting gas and two internal ballonets. It was fitted with vertical tailfins and horizontal tailplanes with control surfaces. The crew was carried in a control car (gondola), attached flush to the underside of the envelope. It was fitted with a forward firing Browning M2 machine gun while four Mk.47 depth charges could be mounted on two external carriers and in an internal bomb bay. Radar and magnetic anomaly detection (MAD) equipment was also fitted. The ship was powered by two Pratt &amp; Whitney Wasp engines, turning tractor propellers.

The K-type blimps were used for anti-submarine patrols and convoy escorts in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans as well as the Caribbean and Mediterranean Seas. Post-war, the Navy&#039;s LTA programme continued, with many ships modified with more advanced electronics, radar search systems and increased capacity envelope. In 1947, the upgraded ships were designated ZP2K and ZP3K and after 1954 they became ZSG-2 and ZSG-3, respectively. The last K-class airship retired in March 1959.

Colour schemes included in the kit:
1) 	Goodyear ZNP-K-3 (K-type) Blimp, BuNo 7025, Blue K-3, Airship Patrol Squadron ZP-12, Airship Patrol Group 1 (APG 1), US Navy, Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, U.S.A., early 1942
2)	Goodyear ZNP-K-6 (K-type) Blimp, BuNo 7028, Blue K-6, Airship Patrol Squadron ZP-12, Airship Patrol Group 1 (APG 1), US Navy, Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, U.S.A., spring 1942 
3)	Goodyear ZNP-K-28 (K-type) Blimp, BuNo 04378, Blue K-28, Blimp Squadron ZP-24 (Blimpron 24), Fleet Airship Wing 1 (FASW 1), Fleet Airships Atlantic (FASA), US Navy, Naval Air Station Weeksville, North Carolina, U.S.A., summer 1944

This injection-moulded kit contains 17 parts, including a mobile mooring mast. A towing tractor (4 resin parts) is provided. For modeller&#039;s convenience a display base, made of pasteboard card, depicting a section of the military airfield is added. A comprehensive instruction leaflet and a decal sheet are included.. Price:&amp;pound;10.94</description>
<author>sales@hannants.co.uk</author>
<guid>http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MKM720-09</guid>
</item><item><title>Mark I Models MKM720-10</title>
<link>http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MKM720-10</link>
<description>K-type Blimp (K-74/112/134) &#039;Fleet Defender&#039; USUALLY £19.70. TEMPORARILY SAVE 1/3RD!!! Non-rigid airships (or blimps) were the first types of lighter-than-air craft. Since the turn of the 20th century, they have been employed on a large scale by armed forces and also engaged commercially.

The Goodyear Aircraft Company, the foremost producer of airships in the United States, produced a series of K-class airships which became the backbone of the US Navy&#039;s airship fleet in WWII. Developed from earlier 1930s designs, the prototype ZNP-K-2 first flew in December 1938 and the production was started two years later. A total of 134 airships in four production batches had been built by the end of 1944.

The K-type airship consisted of a fabric covered envelope containing the lifting gas and two internal ballonets. It was fitted with vertical tailfins and horizontal tailplanes with control surfaces. The crew was carried in a control car (gondola), attached flush to the underside of the envelope. It was fitted with a forward firing Browning M2 machine gun while four Mk.47 depth charges could be mounted on two external carriers and in an internal bomb bay. Radar and magnetic anomaly detection (MAD) equipment was also fitted. The ship was powered by two Pratt &amp; Whitney Wasp engines, turning tractor propellers.

The K-type blimps were used for anti-submarine patrols and convoy escorts in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans as well as the Caribbean and Mediterranean Seas. Post-war, the Navy&#039;s LTA programme continued, with many ships modified with more advanced electronics, radar search systems and increased capacity envelope. In 1947, the upgraded ships were designated ZP2K and ZP3K and after 1954 they became ZSG-2 and ZSG-3, respectively. The last K-class airship retired in March 1959.

Colour schemes included in the kit:
1) 	Goodyear ZNP-K-74 (K-type) Blimp, BuNo 30196, Blue K-74, Airship Patrol Squadron ZP-21/Blimp Squadron ZP-21 (Blimpron 21), Airship Patrol Group 2 (APG 2)/Fleet Airship Wing 2 (FASW 2), Fleet Airships Atlantic (FASA), US Navy, Naval Air Station Richmond, Det. NAS Key West, Florida, U.S.A., June/July 1943
2)	Goodyear ZNP-K-112 (K-type) Blimp, BuNo 33504, Blue K-112, Blimp Squadron ZP-14 (Blimpron 14, &quot;The Africa Squadron&quot;), Fleet Airship Wing 1 (FASW 1), Fleet Airships Atlantic (FASA), US Navy, Craw Field, Naval Air Station Port Lyautey, French Morocco, North Africa, July 1944 and Cuers-Pierrefeu Naval Air Base (Base d&#039;aéronautique navale, BAN), Var Department, France, September/October 1944
3)	Goodyear ZNP-K-134 (K-type) Blimp, BuNo not received, Blue K-134, Blimp Squadron ZP-14 (Blimpron 14, &quot;The Africa Squadron&quot;), Fleet Airship Wing 1 (FASW 1), Fleet Airships Atlantic (FASA), US Navy, Craw Field, Naval Air Station Port Lyautey, French Morocco, North Africa, summer 1944 and La Sénia airfield, Oran, Algeria, North Africa, December 1944

This injection-moulded kit contains 17 parts, including a mobile mooring mast. A towing tractor (4 resin parts) is provided. For modeller&#039;s convenience a display base, made of pasteboard card, depicting a section of the military airfield is added. A comprehensive instruction leaflet and a decal sheet are included.. Price:&amp;pound;10.94</description>
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