Airfix A0536 North American F-51D Mustang Scale 148 Model Kit As arguably the finest fighter aircraft of WWII the Mustang went on to be selected as the USAF primary piston engined fighter after the war with all other types relegated to secondary roles or withdrawn from service ...

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Construction & painting required Paints glues & brushes not included In Royal Air Force service the capable North American B-25CD Mitchell tactical medium bomber was designated the Mitchell II with the RAF being the only force to operate the type of raids into occupied Europe from bases in Britain In the weeks following the D-Day landings RAF Mitchells were sent to operate from advanced airfields in France to provide support for advancing Allied ground units ...

The North American P51 Mustang is viewed as one of the iconic American fighters of the Second World War Designed to an RAF



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As its history was very much connected to British requirements it is no surprise that the Mustang was used extensively by the Royal Air Force during WWII from the early Allison powered Mustang I to the Dallas produced Packard Merlin powered IVa The final victory for a WWII RAF Mustang belonged to Norwegian ace Werner Christie who was flying his personal machine KH790 Following the conclusion of a successful bomber escort mission over Germany Christie led his Mustangs in search of Luftwaffe fighters Flying above Finow airfield he noticed a flight of Fw 190s & immediately dived to attack His first burst of fire caught the wing of an unsuspecting Focke Wulf blowing half of the wing off & sending the fighter spiralling into the ground This would be Christie&8217;s eleventh & final victory of the war Regarded as one of the most successful aircraft of all time & something of an American classic the Mustang actually came into production following a British requirement for additional fighters Rather than licence build the Curtiss P-40 fighters the British were looking for North American Aviation promised a totally new aircraft which would be superior to the P-40 A proud boast from this relatively new manufacturer but could they pull it off? In record time they built a prototype aircraft which showed great promise & the British immediately placed a large order Originally powered by the American Allison V-1710 engine the Mustang I was faster than the Spitfire & possessed greater range but at higher altitudes the performance significantly dropped off In an attempt to rectify this deficiency the Mustang was married with the successful & combat proven Rolls-Royce Merlin engine & the rest is history &8211; the Merlin powered Mustang was a superb fighting aeroplane Dimensions 221 x 75 x 221 Scale 172 Limited Edition Yes Limited Edition Size 1300 Wingspan 155mm Age Suitability 14 ...

Without doubt one of the finest fighter aircraft in the history of flight the North American Mustang owed much to British ingenuity in bringing out its many exceptional qualities Originally designed in response to a British request for a capable single engined fighter the Mustang was transformed as a fighting aircraft by replacing the original Allison V-12 engine with the ubiquitous Rolls-Royce Merlin powerplant Its performance was further enhanced when an ingenious British light weight drop tank was developed to further extend its range & allow it to escort USAAF bombers all the way to their targets deep into Germany Manufactured from laminated & glued craft paper these single use drop tanks were far lighter than their costly metal counterparts but provided enough additional fuel for up to eight hours flying time Now the USAAF formations would attempt to coax German fighters into the air so that supporting Mustangs could begin the final destruction of the Luftwaffe but not before they had jettisoned their under-wing paper fuel tanks Dimensions 22 x 75 x 22 Scale 172 Limited Edition Size 1100 Wingspan 155mm Age Suitability 14 ...

The North American P51 Mustang is viewed as one of the iconic American fighters of the Second World War Designed to an RAF



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A thoroughbred fighting aeroplane the P-51D Mustang was produced in greater numbers than any other variant & introduced a number of improvements over earlier models With a new wing design teardrop canopy & lower rear fuselage the P-51D was the mount of many USAAF aces & became the primary US fighter in the European Theatre following its introduction in mid 1944 ...

The red & yellow checked noses of the USAAF 357th Fighter Group became a familiar sight in the skies above enemy occupied Europe in the ?nal months of WWII & served both to reassure US Bomber crews that their &8216; Little Friends&8217; were in attendance & to warn attacking Luftwaffe ?ghters that they were facing an elite ?ghting unit The 357th were the ?rst Eighth Air Force Fighter Group to receive the new North American P-51 Mustang towards the end of 1943 & immediately began their conversion training at Raydon air?eld in East Anglia Transferring to nearby Leiston the unit became operational in February 1944 & were famously christened &8216; The Yoxford Boys&8217; by British traitor & German propagandist Lord Haw-Haw who greeted the arrival of these newly trained pilots with a forewarning of death & devastation at the hands of the Luftwaffe &8211; how wrong he was The Mustangs of the Yoxford Boys took a withering toll of Axis aircraft in the coming months becoming the most successful P-51 air-to-air combat Unit in the Eighth Air Force by the end of WWII Dimensions 22 x 76 x 22 Scale 172 Limited Edition Yes Limited Edition Size 1000 Wingspan 155mm Age Suitability 14 ...

A unique Haynes Manual providing fascinating technical insight into the development & use of rocket planes focusing on the iconic X-15 which carried out much of the development work for the Apollo & Space Shuttle space programmes As of July 2015 the X-15 still holds the world record for the highest speed ever attained by a manned aircraft at 4520mph (Mach 672)! The X-15 was flown by a band of elite test pilots including the first man to walk on the Moon Neil Armstrong The X-15 made 199 flights between 1959 & 1968 several of which were above the line considered to be the arbitrary altitude where space begins The engaging text extensively illustrated with period photographs & technical illustrations explains how the vehicle worked what it pioneered for future applications in more conventional aircraft & manned spacecraft developed by NASA from 1958 & what it was like to fly ...