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Handley Page Night Bombers 0/100, 0/400 & V/1500 Author: W.A. Harrison
By William Harrison
The Handley Page 0/100, 0/400 and V/1500 were the first true heavy bombers of the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force during the First World War, giving Britain the long-range striking power needed for strategic bombing deep into Germany. Designed initially with a 114ft wingspan (later 100ft), folding wings, armour protection an...
Hawker-Siddeley 748 & Andover in Military Service. Author Adrian Balch 56 pages
Making its first flight on 24 June 1960 the prototype AVRO 748, G-APZV, became a very successful rugged replacement for the many DC-3 Dakotas flying around the world. In production, it became the second most successful British turboprop transport aircraft and was only superseded in numbers produced by those of the Vickers Viscount.
A total o...
Focke-Wulf Fw-189A 'Owls over the Eastern Front' In 1937, the RLM (Reichsluftfahrtministerium) issued specifications for a new Luftwaffe reconnaissance aircraft. The companies Blohm Voss with their asymmetric BV 141, Arado with the single-engine Ar 198 and Focke Wulf with the Fw 189 project participated in the competition. The winner was the Focke Wulf.
Like the BV 141, the Fw 189 stood out with an unusual technical solution....
RE-RELEASED!!! Dassault_Mirage IIIC 'Armee de l'Air' The Mirage IIIC was the first jet produced in Western Europe to break the double speed of the sound in the level flight. The type was the very first of te whole family of Mirage fighters IIIC, IIIE and 5 some of which keep flying even until these days. The Mirage IIICJ was the epitome of the Israeli air supremacy in the wars with the neighbouring Arab countries during the Wa...
Pfalz E.I Pfalz Flugzeugwerke GmbH was established in Speyer in the then Kingdom of Bavaria in 1913 by Alfred Eversbusch, his brother Ernst and several other investors. The first types to be produced by the new company were licence-built Otto biplanes, but production rights for Morane-Saulnier monoplanes were bought before the Great War, namely the Type L parasol-wing two-seat monoplane and Type H mid wing single seater. The l...
Bucker Bu-181B / Sk 25 Bestmann. The Bucker Bu 181 Bestmann was chosen in 1939 as the standard Luftwaffe trainer aircraft. It saw service as a trainer throughout the war and at its end the type also saw combat use as a light bomber or tank-busting aircraft. Due to this and also to Swedish license and post-war Czechoslovak and Egyptian production, the type achieved considerable expansion and fame. Most Buckers flew well into th...
Sd.Kfz.250/1 Ausf.B (Neue Ausfuhrung). The Sd.Kfz.250 was developed to the Wehrmacht requirements to increase the numbers of German half track vehicle units. To speed up the development, the chassis of already existing non-armoured Demag D7 (Sd.Kfz.10) vehicle was used for which the Bussing company designed a new armoured hexagon-shaped hull, consisting of armoured plates joined at rather significant angles. The first prototyp...
Military Illustrated Modeller (issue 122) November 2021 (AFV Edition) WAS £6.75. BEING CLEARED!! SAVE 1/3RD!!!
'All Roads Lead to Rome - A rebellious Stuart crew might have met their match...'
4 NEWS
Military modelling news
8 DAREDEVIL IN WARSAW
A scene from the 1944 Warsaw Uprising featuring captured
Hetzer "Chwat"
16 APPROACH WITH CAUTION
A wrecked Sd.Kfz.251 Ausf.D is inspected by a US GI
18 THE POINT OF NO RET...
Building the Republic P-47D Thunderbolt. The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt
Big, powerful, and truly a juggernaut of an aircraft, resulting in its appropriate nickname 'Jug', the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt was one of the really great warplanes of its generation. Alongside the superlative North-American P-51 Mustang and the twin-engined Lockheed P-38 Lightning, it was one of the three principal fighter types which the US Army Air Fo...
Building The Harrier. Model Aircraft Extra #5
Building the Harrier
The iconic Hawker-Siddeley Harrier was the first of the so-
called Harrier 'Jump Jet' series. It was developed in the 1960s as the first operational close-support and reconnaissance fighter aircraft with vertical/short take-off and landing (V/STOL) capabilities, and the only truly successful V/STOL design of the many that arose in that era, and at its heart ...
Building the Messerchmitt Bf-109. The iconic Messerschmitt Bf-109 was the backbone of the Luftwaffe's fighter force during World War II. The aircraft first saw operational service in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War and was still in service at the dawn of the jet age at the end of the War in 1945. The Bf-109 is the most produced fighter aircraft in history, with a total of 33,984 airframes produced from 1936 up to April 1945....
Vought F4U-1A/2 Corsair (2 in 1) USUALLY £44.99. NOW BEING CLEARED!! SAVE 1/3RD!!! The Chance Vought F4U Corsair was an American fighter aircraft that saw service primarily in World War II and the Korean War. Demand for the aircraft soon overwhelmed Vought's manufacturing capability, resulting in production by Goodyear: Goodyear-built Corsairs were designated FG. From the first prototype delivery to the U.S. Navy in 1940, to f...
Combat Colours No.9 - Nicholas Millman Mitsubishi Zero - Type 0 Carrier Fighter (A6M) 'Zeke' in World War Two. No.9 in the series charts the colour schemes and markings worn by this iconic Japanese naval fighter which saw service throughout the whole of the Pacific War from 1940 in China, to the final defence of the homeland in 1945. Structured chronologically by variant, it covers the development from the A6M1 to A6M7/8, incl...