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  Vol 21, February 2022Vol 21, February 2022

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  EDITORIAL

  FEBRUARY 2022

  KITS

  HISTORY

  BRASSIN

  PHOTO-ETCHED SETS

  BIGED

  RELEASE

  BUILT

  ON APPROACH

  February 2022

  March 2022

  Sopwith F.1 Camel (Clerget) ProPACK 1/48

  Hurricane Mk.I ProPACK 1/72

  Tornado ECR Limited edition 1/48

  Spitre Story: Southern Star Limited edition 1/48

  MiG-15 ProPACK 1/72

  P-51D ProPACK 1/48

  A6M2 Zero Type 21 1/48

  Bf 109E-7 1/48

  Trenér 1/48

  Fw 190A-2 JABO 1/48

  F-4B 1/48

  P-51D 1/48

  Adlertag 1/48

  CONTENTS

  The battle of Palmdale

  Panavia Tornado ECR

  Sir Kobrle's "little Shorty"

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  Good evening, Dear Friends,

  Last year, for pretty obvious reasons, I left out

  my annual yearend report for year that had just

  then passed, but this year, I am making a return

  to that tradition. As I had mentioned in January’s

  newsletter, overall sales last year dropped by 5%

  as opposed to the year previous. This was most-

  ly reflected on the sales of model kits, which

  dropped by 13%. However, at the beginning of the

  year, the outlook was a lot more grim than that,

  given that in January, 2021, sales of model kits

  were down some 50%, and down by 19% overall.

  Over the course of the year, things steadily im-

  proved, and losses were gradually reversed. But,

  last year was not a simple year. Right from the

  spring, the supply chain issues came into play,

  and the worsening of availability of materials

  went hand in hand with their costs. The reasons

  are well known and our industry is not separate

  from the rest of the economy, so I won’t delve on

  details that you can access elsewhere. The rise in

  these costs, together with the need to replenish

  stock of plastic sprues for the manufacture of

  kits naturally led to upward pressure on expen-

  ses, and this was also complicated by the need

  to use subcontracted suppliers for our recovery.

  This was relatively expensive. Despite this, preli-

  minary stats appear to indicate that 2021 will see

  us in an overall positive territory.

  MODELS/KITS

  We replenished nearly 55 % of the destroyed

  stock of plastic sprues that on December 19,

  2021numbered nearly one million, currently gi-

  ving us 550,000. With these, we have been able

  to partially replenish our range of kits, which

  today amounts to about eighty active items and

  accounts for new kits as well as reissues. Prior

  to the fire, we had almost 180. That, with a sig-

  nificantly reduced stock of kit component items,

  we were able to achieve 87% of sales reached

  with our pre-blaze range is a major success. The

  reasons that made this possible stem from not

  only the fact that a large percentage of our range

  was made up of new releases in 2021, which na-

  turally achieve higher sales figures than stock

  older items, but also through the composition

  of these new kits utilizing new innovations in-

  troduced to our production methods. The recon-

  ceptualized Weekend kits are doing markedly

  better than their as originally conceived cheaper

  cousins. But a major role is being played by the

  new format for the Limited Edition kits, which

  has thrust these from the outskirts of the mar-

  ket spectrum to its very centre, making them the

  main attraction of our range of kits as a whole.

  The Limited Edition line has gone through its

  own reformation, and they faithfully cover some

  specific historical theme, are very enlightening

  in its connection to it, they describe historical

  events and provide a good spectrum of modeling

  subjects in terms of schemes, all coupled with

  interesting fates of not only the aircraft, but of

  those that flew them as well. All of this comes

  together to produce, and offer, an attractive pro-

  duct. That this can work extremely well, we only

  need to point to the Spitfire Mk.I, Mk.II, and Mk.V.

  Together with today’s release of Spitfire Sto-

  ry: Southern Star, we have released five kits in

  the Limited Edition line, including one covering

  American Spits, ‘Eagle’s Call’. These are further

  complemented in our range by four ProfiPACKs

  and a Weekend Edition kit. The end result is that

  by the end of 2021, 30,149 kits have been sold for

  17.5 million Czech Crowns. But all of these con-

  tain 47,898 sets of plastic sprues, or complete

  kits. The best selling of the Spitfire kits was Spit-

  fire Story: The Few, which sold 7,535 pieces, and

  as such, became our best selling single kit out

  of our range, ahead of the second place P-51D

  Chattanooga Choo Choo with 6,422 sold items. In

  third place, we have the 1:72nd scale Tornado GR.1

  Limited Edition kit “Desert Babe” with 6,295 sold.

  Worth mentioning is that in fourth place was the

  TORA TORA TORA! Zero new release with 5,706

  sold, that is a number that continued to grow

  through January. The market share from sales of

  model kits for 2021 came to 41%, making it, from

  a sales perspective, the most significant compo-

  nent of our range. In all, we sold 152,784 kits in

  all of the ranges.

  Any talk of our current breed of kit needs to

  include mention of the decals. Over the past

  three years, there has been much discussion

  surrounding these, often through negative co-

  mments. It took a fairly long time for these to

  become accepted by modelers, but even to this

  day, there are calls for a return to traditional

  decals, first and foremost to those produced by

  Cartograf. I have to say that without our new de-

  cals, the types of kit that we produce today would

  not be possible. Due to the sheer size of the

  sheets themselves, we would need to maintain

  a massively expensive stock of these sheets to

  cover demand. Thanks to our printing capability,

  we can afford the luxury of decreasing the stock

  we maintain, because the printers we have allow

  us to print sheets on an as required basis, and in

  a timely manner. This carries a massive advan-

  tage that also pushes the envelope in terms of

  creating interesting camouflage scheme options

  for every kit we develop. I have the impression

  that most reviewers are unaware of this. Re-

  views typically focus on the quality of the plastic

  in a kit, including fit and ease of assembly, and

  the marking options are usually hurriedly dis-

  missed with a description of the schemes offe-

  red. It seems that any obvious effort of coming

  up with schemes that are historically significant

  and accurate, printed to an extremely high qua-

  lity standard, and accompanied by exhaustively

  researched notes, is either ignored or not reali-

  zed by the reviewers. Should it really be taken so

  much for granted? Do you find this type of atten-

  tion to this part of the model in every kit you buy?

  Quality plastic carries a lot of weight, but in and

  of itself, does not carry a guarantee of a quality

  overall product.

  Accessory Sets PHOTOETCHED, MASK

  and BRASSIN

  Interesting numbers are also offered by a look

  at the statistics from the sale of photoetched

  brass sets. These are sets that have over the

  span of a few decades been deemed on the road

  to their demise and eventual obsolescence, and

  despite several predictions as to what products

  will bring about said demise, they have hung on

  tooth and nail and are even slowly growing. Per-

  sonally, I think that there will always be parts

  that the photoetching process will be the most

  viable for their production, especially given pre-

  -painted ones. Typically, these will run along the

  lines of seatbelts and REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT

  tags and also typically, these tend to be bestsel-

  lers. In the most popular scale of 1:48th, such

  a set, 49009, has sold an incredible 10,087 pie-

  ces, not counting the Big Ed set of which it is

  also a component. For a photoetched set, that is

  a very good number, but it’s not even the most

  impressive. The seatbelts sets, also in 1:48th

  scale, have performed even better. Ameri-

  can seatbelts (49001) after the inclusion of last

  year’s stats, sit at a total sales figure of 17,772,

  German seatbelts (49002) have sold 16,712, plus

  the bomber set a further 5,439 pieces. Seatbelt

  sets for RAF aircraft have sold 12,712 pieces, and

  Japanese aircraft seatbelts, divided into two ca-

  tegories covering the Army and Navy have sold

  a total of 13,440 sets (49004 and 49005).

  There are also some record holders amongst

  AFV sets that may be considered a surprise. The

  most sold item is that of barbed wire, which is

  a highly popular item also in the real world. The

  total number of 35638 Barbed Wire I (8m) set is

  6,641. The second best selling set is the Zimme-

  rit set for the Tiger I from Tamiya with 4,717 sold.

  Also, a bit of a surprise comes in the ship line,

  with the general sailor figure set in 1:350th sca-

  le (Cat. No.17501) coming in at 7,169 sold pieces,

  while, perhaps not so surprisingly, the set for Ta-

  miya’s Bismarck, also in 1:350th scale, comes in

  second at 4,107 pieces.

  Turning to masks, I was personally surprised at

  the results for the set covering the Airfix Beau-

  fort Mk.I in 1:72nd. Its 803 sold pieces represents

  the best selling accessory item of all production

  ranges among last year’s releases. It’s also not

  the last of the interesting numbers to be repor-

  ted. Also interesting is the high number of 723

  sold Camel seats. Although, in this case, it is ne-

  cessary to add that this is a little gem of a piece,

  looking like it came out of a fairytale workshop

  with liberal sprinklings of fairy dust. Not as sur-

  prising is the third place captured by the Space

  set for the F-4B Phantom II from Tamiya in 1:48th.

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  This came in with 707 sold pieces. Everything we

  have released for this kit has sold well, inclu-

  ding three sets of decals. The set of seatbelts

  for it was also the best selling new photoetched

  item for 2021. But what followed the Phantom II

  set, I wouldn’t have expected in my wildest dre-

  ams, that being the spray boom for the Čmelák

  in 1:72nd, selling a total of 616 units. By the way,

  the under-fuselage aerial applicator itself also

  sold well, to the tune of 581 items. While on the

  topic of Brassin items, the best selling item of all

  time is 648029 AIM-9M/L Sidewinder, that over

  the course of its existence has sold 5,094 pieces.

  That’s not a big surprise either, as the Sidewinder

  is a famous item in its own right. I was personally

  more surprised by the success of the somewhat

  related TER and MER racks. The MER set, 648227,

  sold 2,047 and its sister item, 648232 TER, sold

  1,729.

  BY COUNTRY

  In terms of the order of sales per country, there

  are only minor deviations in last year’s numbers.

  The first five spots are the same. In first place for

  the fifth year running, we have the Czech Repub-

  lic, with 21 % of world sales, followed by Great

  Britain with 15.7 %, then the USA with 15 %, fo-

  llowed by Germany at 12.3 %, and finally Poland

  at 6 %. Sixth place was achieved by Japan mo-

  ving up one spot with 5.12 % of our total sales,

  which changed ranking with France who came in

  seventh at 4.74 %. Eighth place was taken by Slo-

  vakia, 2.29 %, ninth were our friends from Down

  Under at 2.24 %, and tenth was Russia at 1.76 %.

  Eighth and ninth places were exchanged by Slo-

  vakia and Australia. The next spots are, in order,

  China, Italy, Canada, Norway and the Netherlands

  at fifteenth. Each of these latter nations account

  for just over 1 % of our sales worldwide. In most of

  the above mentioned nations, there was a decline

  in sales that was in line with the 5% drop overall.

  The exceptions are Poland, that saw a raise in

  their share of 10 % and Japan, 12 %. Dziękuję bar-

  dzoand Arigato godzai masu! We are very appre-

  ciative of the strength of the home market, of

  which I consider Slovakia to be a part of. A strong

  home market and a solid home market founda-

  tion are hallmarks of potential success for any

  company, if you ask me, and so we consider the

  support we receive from homegrown modelers

  essential. That, of course, doesn’t mean that we

  value our export clients any less. In fact, we are

  very pleased with the welcoming arms we are

  met with everywhere we go, and we can’t wait to

  be able to attend foreign shows and contests, and

  meet up with some old friends.

  The year before last we sold our goods to 69

  countries. Last year, this number dropped to

  62. We did gain Venezuela, Pakistan, Saudi Ara-

  bia, Monaco, Gibraltar, Brunei and Bahrain. I am

  a little dismayed at the fact that we have not sold

  anything to Papua New Guinea since 2013, and

  we seem to have lost New Caledonia in 2019. It

  seems that maybe our hobby is suffering a bit of

  a crisis in these localities and I hope it spreads

  no further!

  The initial placements of our partner companies

  haven’t changed last year either. Traditionally, the

  top spot is held by Hannants (Great Britain), then

  Sprue Brothers (USA) and third by Glow2B (Ger-

  many). The high rank held by the Czech market

  is reflected by the rankings of Czech firms, there

  being five in the top twenty. Sixth overall is MN

  Modelář, eleventh is Modelimex, twelfth is Spe-

  cial Hobby, thirteenth Art Scale and twentieth is

  Artur Model Centrum. And coming in 21st spot

  is Pecka Modelář. We would like to extend our

  gratitude to all our retail partners for their hard

  work through last year, and we look forward to

  a continuation of this as we get into the New Year.

  I think that’s about it for the year’s statistics. Let’s

  turn our attention to new releases for February.

  NEW KITS FOR FEBRUARY

  The Limited Edition 1:48th scale Tornado ECR

  was planned for January but had to be pushed

  to February, because we couldn’t ready the de-

  cal sheets and masks in time. Once you see

  these items for yourselves, you’ll get an idea as

  to why that happened. These buggers are huge.

  I have already mentioned it, but I will repeat that

  without these decals, this kit couldn’t have come

  to be. In the case of the Tornado, it goes beyond

  just the sheer size of the three sheets. Each app-

  roaches 11 x 16” format (Europe’s A3 paper size).

  It also comes down to the quality of the transiti-

  on between colors. On the actual aircraft, these

  were sprayed, giving an effect that simply can-

  not be duplicated with traditional silk-screening

  procedures, no matter how many cartwheels you

  do. This is in the kit because we also went ahead

  and somewhat shamelessly opted for some very

  striking anniversary schemes, so that a porti-

  on of the decal sheets are taken up by all kinds

  of items that all come together to form various

  types of big cats. That’s not the only plus of the

  sheets, though. Another good chunk of the decal

  real estate is taken up by stencil data and the in-

  strument panels, which are subtle and mesme-

  rizing in decal form. The decals are, naturally,

  of the peeling kind. The quality of our decals is

  quickly gaining in popularity, and if you are one of

  those who are becoming intrigued by this aspect

  of our decals, read up on them first to get a feel

  as to how they are handled, and then give it a try

  with some unused decals, get comfortable with

  the procedure, and then dive in for real. If you go

  into it without some experience, there’s a strong

  likelihood that you’ll be disappointed and you’ll

  ruin the decals that you want to use. And please,

  under no circumstance should you try to remove

  the carrier film prior to applying the decal on the

  model. I repeat, under NO circumstance! I guess

  the only thing left to add is that besides the ex-

  ceptional decal and mask sheets, the plastic itself

  comes from Revell, and the resin bits cover the

  seats, wheels and FLIR and ILRS sensors, and

  the kit includes photoetching, of course.

  The second Limited Edition kit, Spitfire Story:

  Southern Star, also contains a large decal she-

  et. They’re not the three 11 x 16s, but do cover the

  bottom of the box and include another sheet on

  top of that. The reason is that these sheets don’t

  contain the artwork created by artists, but rather

  the expansive service use of the Spitfire Mk.Vb

  and Mk.Vc over Second World War battlefields.

  Note that this doesn’t even cover all the air for-

  ces that used Spitfires with tropical filters. For

  example, we are saving Yugoslavia for a future

  ProfiPACK. The kit contains choices covering the

  RAF, SAAF (South Africa), USAAF and the RAAF

  serving in North Africa, Malta, Italy, Australia and

  through the Pacific islands. As with all prece-

  ding Spitfire Story kits, this is a Dual Combo item

  that contains two full sets of plastic, one for the

  Spitfire Mk.Vb and one for the Mk.Vc. There are

  ten marking options, four for the Mk.Vb and six

  for the Mk.Vc. Two of the Mk.Vb aircraft carry the

  Aboukir filter, the rest the Vokes item. Both of the

  Aboukir equipped birds have clipped wings which

  are specific to them, and differ from the standard

  clipped wings of the LF Mk.Vb. These aren’t re-

  presented in the plastic proper but are included

  as 3D print conversions. Isn’t the Spitfire a bore?

  Don’t answer that…

  In the ProfiPACK line, February sees the release

  of another Camel. This time, it’s the Clerget 9b

  engined version. That’s in 48th, and in 1:72nd, we

  have the Hurricane Mk.I, based around the Arma

  Hobby kit, as they were in the Hurristory release,

  which is now sold out. Surprisingly, this kit took

  its place among a long list of sold out Limited

  Edition releases. There are also two ProfiPACK

  re-issues, the 1:72nd scale MiG-15 that is a part of

  the concentrated effort to return the MiG-15 into

  our range, and the P-51D in 1:48th, which will be

  no doubt remembered from its first run.

  ACCESSORIES

  In the Brassin line, five of eleven new sets are

  printed, with the remainder being cast resin. Of

  the latter, I would suggest a good look at the Mi-

  -24V cockpit for the Zvezda kit. Amongst the prin-

  ted sets is another cockpit for the Z-126 Trenér.

  Both sets are nice, and I wouldn’t dare to claim

  that one technology in this case is superior to the

  other. But, when it comes to the printed landing

  flaps for the Zero, I would venture to say that at

  the very least, the installation of these will be

  easier than the installation of photoetched equi-

  valents. There are three new seat sets that are

  worth a look as well, and the ejection seats for

  later model F-4B Phantom IIs from Tamiya are

  printed.

  In the Space line, I would point out two sets of

  REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT tags in 1:32nd and

  a set of Japanese flags in 1:350th. There are two

  classic Space sets, one for the B-25H in 1:32nd

  for the HKM kit and one for the OV-10A in 48th,

  being designed for the ICM release. There are

  three LööK sets and these cover the 1:32nd scale

  Revell P-51D-15, the Meng 48th F/A-18E and the

  GWH 48th scale Su-27. The last of these also

  has an ejection seat being released for it in the

  Brassin line.

  Among photoetched sets, there are several be-

  ing offered for the Tornado ECR, not for our 1:48th

  scale release, but rather for Italeri’s 1:32nd scale

  effort. There is also a collection in the same scale

  for the HKM B-25H, and for both we also have

  masks of both concepts, classic and both inner

  and outer surface masks. Noteworthy are three

  sets for Kinetic’s F-104S in 1:48th, for the A6M2

  Zero Model 21 from Eduard, and the Hs 129B in

  1:48th for the Hasegawa kit, now being sold by the

  Polish company Hobby2000. We also have a set in

  1:35th scale for Zvezda’s T-62A, and we have a list

  of new ZOOMs, amongst which you’ll find sets co-

  vering seatbelts for the aforementioned Hs 129B

  and F-104S. Finally, I would also cast some atten-

  tion on two decal sets, one for Tamiya’s 1:32nd

  A6M2 Model 21 Zero and stencil data for the same

  company’s 1:48th F-14A.

  ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE

  This month, we have an article covering weapon

  loadouts for the Tornado ECR by Michal Fárek.

  Richard Plos, this time in an editing role, adds

  another piece to the series of articles covering

  the Trenér aircraft and the people connected to

  its history. In this case, it recounts the story of fly-

  ing a Z-526AFS coded OK

  -

  CXA, the aircraft which

  was flown in the 70´s by Jiří Kobrle, a renowned

  Czechoslovak aerobatics pilot, and a member of

  the national team. We are going to release a kit of

  the Z-526AFS as a ProfiPACK in March and you

  can get a sneak peak at the boxart of the upco-

  ming kit in the news section of this issue. Take a

  look at it, I think it is worth it! The third article, by

  Miro Barič, carries the title “The Battle of Palm-

  dale” and tells what may happen when a Hellcat

  remotely piloted drone refuses to obey radio

  commands, and illustrates how a radical appro-

  ach to the problem may lead to an even bigger

  mess than would have resulted in leaving things

  as they were... But, on the other hand, the article

  does shine some light on an almost forgotten

  aircraft.

  I wish you all, as always, a pleasant read with to-

  day’s newletter!

  Happy Modeling!

  Vladimir Sulc

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  During the WWII Grumman F6F Hellcat formed

  the backbone of the US Navy fighter force. Ho

  -

  wever, after the end of hostilities they became

  rather quickly outdated and were transferred

  to the auxiliary duties. Large number of Hell

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  cats were rebuilt to F6F-3K and F6F-5K ver-

  sions which were remotely controlled drones.

  For better visual identification they were pain

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  ted in bright colors – yellow, orange or red.

  They also collected the samples of the air after

  the nuclear weaponry tests but primarily they

  were used as the flying targets. They also did

  some combat missions during the war in Ko

  -

  rea. Between August 28 and September 2, 1952,

  six F6F-5K loaded with bombs took off from

  the deck of USS Boxer. Their targets were the

  bridges to which they were guided by escorting

  Skyraiders. The results were two direct hits and

  one near miss. This mission is considered the

  first ever deployment of guided missiles from

  an air carrier.

  The main player in our story carried the red

  paint coat and was to be used as a target du

  -

  ring the ground-to-air missile test. It took off

  for its final flight on Thursday, August 16, 1956, at

  11:34 from Point Mugu air base. It was gradually

  climbing over the Pacific ocean but when the

  operators tried to direct it to the target area the

  drone was not responding to their commands.

  Had that situation remained unchanged, nothing

  serious would have happened. Having exhaus

  -

  ted its fuel Hellcat would simply have crashed in

  the vast ocean. Instead, it performed a graceful

  left turn heading towards Southeast, right over

  Los Angeles.

  Air Force vs Navy

  The Navy did not have any available fighters

  nearby that would take care of the defected

  drone. Point Mugu operators had to swallow the

  You may have not heard about it but it was the greatest

  Cold War air combat over the United States territory. What

  is odd that all participating aircraft carried the white star

  national markings. This story could have been named

  “A Day when all went completely wrong”. But despite the

  great material losses no person was hurt so it could also

  be a fairy tale with a happy ending. The tale about an air-

  craft which refused to accept its fate.

  TEXT: MIRO BARIČ

  HISTORY

  A group of F6F-3Ks at Atlantic City Naval Air Station in 1946.

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  bitter pill and call the Air Force for help. They

  contacted the Oxnard air base which was loca

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  ted 5 miles (8 kilometers) North. Over there, the

  pilots of the 437th Fighter-Interceptor Squad

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  ron were on standby alert in case of the Soviet

  bombers attack. They were equipped with the

  latest showpiece of the military aviation, Nor

  -

  throp F-89D Scorpion. These all-weather figh-

  ters did not carry any guns. They featured wing-

  tip-mounted containers for 2.75 inches (70 mm)

  caliber unguided missiles “Mighty Mouse” in

  -

  stead. There were 52 missiles in each container

  i.e, in total the fighter carried 104 of them. Their

  launch was controlled by the onboard computer

  in conjunction with a radar and the salvos were

  supposed to destroy the Soviet bomber for

  -

  mations. That was the theory. As the duel with

  a much smaller, red-painted threat in the form

  of an out-of-control drone demonstrated the

  reality was different. In the air-to-air role these

  missiles did not meet the expectations. In the

  air-to-ground role however they proved them

  -

  selves as very successful weapon and were de-

  veloped into the Hydra 70 missiles still in use

  today.

  At that time however, the F-89D armed with

  Mighty Mouse missiles formed the backbone

  of the fighter-interceptor air force. Thirty USAF

  (United States Air Force) and seven ANG (Air

  National Guard) squadrons were equipped with

  them. Scorpions were used at the bases from

  Alaska to California and to New York. After re

  -

  ceiving the report about an out-of-control Navy

  drone, 437th FIS launched two aircraft. First

  was crewed by the pilot Lt. Hans Einstein with

  Lt. C. D. Murray as the radar operator. The se

  -

  cond Scorpion took off from Oxnard runway

  piloted by Lt. Richard Hurliman with Lt. Walter

  Hale in the back seat. The crews were looking

  forward to some action and also to show the

  Navy how the job needed to be done. Shortly it

  appeared that the Navy will not be alone in re

  -

  ceiving their large dose of shame.

  HISTORY

  A South Dakota Air National Guard Scorpion showing a fully loaded rocket containers on the wingtips.

  The aircraft that crashed near Palmdale was painted red just like this Hellcat shown here in the care of mechanics.

  An F-89D fires a salvo of rockets.

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  Three missed salvos

  The pair of fighters intercepted the freely fly

  -

  ing Hellcat at the altitude of 30,000 feet (9,100

  meters) Northeast of Los Angeles. The pilots

  waited until it flew over California's metropolis

  and when it headed towards the sparsely po

  -

  pulated areas they decided to attack. The fire

  control system Hughes E-6, composed of the

  radar AN/APG-40 and a computer was suppo

  -

  sed to launch the missiles at the right moment.

  This did not happen however despite several

  attempts. In the meantime, Hellcat turned again

  towards Los Angeles and the situation became

  really tense. The simple task of destroying the

  drone, which the airmen were looking forward

  to, turned into a drama. The pilots switched from

  the automatic launch mode to the manual one.

  F-89D had been delivered with the gun sights

  for the situation like this but the Air Force had

  them removed as redundant. Therefore, the pi

  -

  lots had to rely only on their best estimate whi-

  le aiming. They also could select the missile's

  launch time sequence. They could be fired all at

  the same time in 0.4 seconds or in 2 or 3 salvos.

  To increase their chances to hit the pilots opted

  for three salvos.

  Flying over the Castaic area the first intercep

  -

  tor fired 42 missiles without any result. It was

  followed by the second Scorpion which settled

  in the firing position and launched 42 missiles

  as well. Despite lacking the gunsight, the pilot

  aimed pretty well. Several missiles skidded off

  the Hellcat’s fuselage bottom. The direct hit cau

  -

  sing the destruction did not take place though.

  In the vicinity of Newhall city, the fighters exe

  -

  cuted the second attack. This time they fired

  32 missiles but scored no hits again. When the

  drone headed towards Palmdale the Scorpions

  conducted third attack. This time each of them

  wasted 30 missiles. Altogether they launched

  208 missiles without a single hit. Slow, pro

  -

  peller-driven drone kept happily flying and the

  USAF's most advanced fighters shamefully

  turned back to the home base.

  The fact that they completely wasted all their

  missiles was not the last failure of that day.

  Mighty Mouse missiles were set to automa

  -

  tically arm after the launch and after some

  time, when it was clear they missed the target,

  disarm again. Out of 208 missiles fired only

  15 were found disarmed and did not explode.

  The explosion of the remaining 193 projectiles

  caused a hell on the ground.

  Forest res and damaged homes

  The exploding missiles caused three large and

  several smaller forest fires. One of them burnt

  150 acres of vegetation 7 miles (11 kilometers)

  North of Castaic. One hundred firemen were

  fighting it for half a day. The large fire erupted

  in Placerita canyon near the city of Newhall.

  A missile with its propellant still burning was

  skidding on the ground leaving fires in its trail.

  The Indian Oil Co. fuel storages located in the

  canyon burnt out completely. Two men having

  a lunch in the truck got extremely lucky. When

  they finished, they moved outside into the shade

  of a tree. They did so just a moment after the

  vehicle was hit by a missile and destroyed…

  Very dangerous situation occurred at the Ber

  -

  mite Powder explosives plant also located in the

  Placerita canyon. The flames reached it within

  less than a hundred meters but ultimately more

  than 200 firefighters stopped them. This fire

  burnt down 100 acres.

  The third and the largest fire took place in So

  -

  ledad canyon West of Mt. Gleason. More than

  350 Department of Forestry firemen were fi

  -

  ghting it but could not get it under control un-

  til nightfall. They only succeeded the following

  day after deploying 500 firefighters. 350 acres

  of the forest burnt down. Altogether these three

  large and several smaller fires burnt down 1000

  acres of vegetation and putting them out took

  two days. Luckily no one was killed.

  The most damage to the populated areas was

  sustained in Palmdale, North of Los Angeles.

  One missile exploded in the front of Edna Ca

  -

  rlson house on Third Street East. A large frag-

  ment penetrated the window into the house,

  ricocheted off the room ceiling and penetrated

  through the wall into the kitchen where it ended

  up in a cabinet. The fragments from another mi

  -

  F-89D group of the 59th FIS from Goose Bay Air Force Base, Canada.

  HISTORY

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  ssile hit the garage and house on Fourth Street

  East, home of J. R. Hingle. One fragment barely

  missed certain Lilly Willigham who was visiting

  him at that time. 17 year old Larry Kempton was

  driving a family car along Palmdale Boulevard

  under the close supervision of his mother Ber

  -

  nice. One of the missiles exploded right in front

  of their car. The fragments tore the left front tire

  and made 17 holes in the cooler, hood and wind

  -

  shield. Miraculously Larry and his mother did

  not suffer any injuries.

  The damage assessment and search for the

  unexploded missiles were launched imme

  -

  diately. Captain Sewell Griggers from the Los

  Angeles Sheriff’s Office during his flight in the

  helicopter spotted two missiles stuck in the

  ground on the empty property in Palmdale. She

  -

  riff’s Office pyrotechnicians promptly detonated

  them. The USAF personnel from Oxnard air

  base were also deployed to search the stricken

  area. As a result, another 13 unexploded missi

  -

  les were found between Palmdale and Santa

  Clarita. Edwards air base pyrotechnicians were

  called in to destroy them.

  And what was the fate of the protagonist of this

  disaster? After Scorpions fired all of their mi

  -

  ssiles and turned back to their home base as

  they were running out of fuel, Hellcat flew over

  Palmdale. It was also getting short of fuel and

  therefore it started to descend with a coughing

  engine until it crashed in the desert 8 miles (13

  kilometers) East of Palmdale. It completely di

  -

  sintegrated into pieces. Right before the impact

  it broke the electrical wires running along the

  unpaved road. Three broken wires were ultima

  -

  tely the only damage it caused on the ground.

  Neither the Navy nor the USAF could have po

  -

  ssibly predicted that. There was a real threat of

  an uncontrolled drone crashing into the densely

  populated area causing loss of life. So, they did

  all possible to prevent this from happening. That

  nothing went as planned on that day was po

  -

  ssibly even good luck. During the actual combat

  the Scorpions’ failure could have had a much

  worse impact.

  The label is still readable today.

  Preserved red color of Hellcat.

  A pile of debris from the crashed Hellcat.

  HISTORY

  Hellcat crashed into the desert 8 miles (13 kilometers) East of the airport in Palmdale.

  Upon the impact its right wing hit the sand, the aircraft somersaulted and completely

  disintegrated. Its pieces can still be found there today. In December 2020 Tom Rosquin

  visited the crash site and published his photographs on social networks. We obtained his

  kind permission to publish them here. Thank you Tom!

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  TECHNICAL

  Text and ilustration: Michal Fárek

  Panavia Tornado ECR

  In the Luftwaffe service

  In 1969 a consortium Panavia Aircraft Gmbh

  was established consolidating the require-

  ments of Great Britain, Germany, Italy and

  Netherlands (in 1970 withdrew from the de-

  velopment due to its complexity) into one

  common program to develop a new combat

  aircraft. Initial plans counted on developing

  one single version which would meet all the

  requirements. This solution led to a dead end

  and ultimately the basic attack version IDS

  (Interdictor/Strike) was developed and utili-

  zed by all program participants in moderate-

  ly different variants and several further spe-

  cial versions for specific air forces. Thus, in

  the Great Britain ADV (Air Defense Variant)

  version was developed with a reworked fu-

  selage nose section to enable an interceptor

  role. It was designated by the RAF as F2 or

  F3 depending on the version and a reconnai-

  ssance variant GR1A/GR4A based on the

  essential design GR1/GR4. Another version

  is ECR (Electronic Combat/Reconnaissance)

  whose role is to suppress the enemy’s air

  defense and radio-electronic reconnaissan-

  ce. This version is flown by German Luftwa-

  ffe and in moderately modified variants by

  Italian Aeronautica Militare. Further deve-

  lopment in Germany led to the Recce versi-

  on to fulfill the reconnaissance roles. Many

  aircraft are equipped with the second set of

  controls in the rear cockpit for an instructor.

  These aircraft are used for training but retain

  their full combat capability.

  Tornado is the first European aircraft design

  equipped with fly-by-wire controls and at the

  time of development quite fashionable swept

  wing technology enabling the best flight per-

  formance within a wide range of altitudes

  and airspeeds. The P01 prototype made its

  maiden flight on August 14, 1974 in Manching,

  West Germany. The first production aircraft

  were delivered to the RAF and Luftwaffe in

  June 1979. Italian AMI followed in September

  1981. In June 1980, at RAF base Cottesmore

  the common training unit was established

  and designed Tri-National Tornado Training

  Establishment -TTTE. The Tornado program

  is frequently quoted as the most successful

  common European combat aircraft project.

  The total production almost reached 1000 ai-

  rframes, a very respectable number.

  In the second half of 1960s it became clear that the

  gradually aging combat aircraft, such as F-104G, Fiat

  G.91, BAC Lightning needed to be replaced by a new

  generation of the airplanes combining the intercep-

  ting and attacking capabilities in one design meeting

  the requirements of the several Western European

  countries at the same time.

  German Tornado ECR reg. 46+30 (cn 837/GS263/4330) and 46+29

  (cn 833/GS262/4329) during take-off in Volkel, Netherlands, during NTM

  2010 (7 October 2010).

  (photo: Petr Soukop)

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  Tornado ECR

  In the mid-1980s Germany realized it needed

  a combat aircraft capable of destroying the

  enemy’s air defense. Until these the missi-

  ons had been assigned to RF-4E and RF-

  -104G which have become obsolete for the

  role. The Luftwaffe approached the issue in

  a similar way as the American air force i.e.

  developing a specialized aircraft based on

  the already proven design. New and just in-

  troduced Tornado IDS aircraft was chosen,

  appropriately modified to conduct the ra-

  dio-electronic warfare and radio-electronic

  reconnaissance. This version was designa-

  ted ECR. First ECR prototype was a modified

  IDS aircraft P-16 (98+03). In 1986 the West

  German parliament approved the purchase

  of 35 Tornadoes ECR new off the assembly

  lines in the 7th production batch (as opposed

  to the airplanes for the Italian Aeronautica

  Militare which were rebuilt from the IDS ver-

  sion).

  The ECR basic equipment corresponded to

  Tornadoes IDS from the 6th production batch

  which already featured the digital data bus

  and had capability to deploy AGM-88 HARM

  (High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile) anti-ra-

  dar missiles . The airplane made its maiden

  flight on August 18, 1988. The first production

  aircraft 46+23 (featured in our kit sporting

  the anniversary markings) was completed

  in October 1989. The first ECR was delivered

  to the Luftwaffe in May 1990. In 1992 there

  were already 30 Tornadoes ECR in the Luft-

  waffe inventory operating in two flights. The

  remaining 5 were backup and research pur-

  poses. The last manufactured Tornado ECR,

  and the very last aircraft for Luftwaffe inven-

  tory, was the airframe carrying the fuselage

  designation 46+57 (it is also featured in out

  kit sporting one of its colorful markings).

  Afterwards only aircraft for Saudi Arabia

  continued being manufactured in Great Bri-

  tain. The first flight was formed at JaBoG

  (Jagdbombergeschwader) 38 “Friesland''

  at Jever airport in the north of Germany at

  the Dutch border and the second flight was

  established at JaBoG 32 at Lechfeld air base

  in Bavaria.

  At JaboG 38, in addition to the combat trai-

  ning the basic training and crew conversion

  to Tornado IDS and ECR were conducted.

  German Tornado ECR 46+57 landing over the runway threshold at

  Poznan-Krzesiny airport in Poland (EPKS, 18 May 2018).

  (photo: Petr Soukop)

  TECHNICAL

  Prototypes 9

  RAF 229 IDS; 173 ADV

  Luftwaffe 210 IDS; 35 ECR

  Marineflieger 112 IDS

  Aeronautica Militare 100 IDS

  (including 16 modified to ECR standard)

  Royal Saudi Air Force 96 IDS, 24 ADV

  German Panavia Tornado ECR

  reg. 46+33 (/844/GS266/4333)

  during takeoff in Fairford,

  England (9 July 2012).

  (photo: Petr Soukop)

  JaBoG 38

  German Panavia Tornado ECR reg. 46+57 (cn 906/GS290/4357) landing in heavy rain at Wittmundhafen (Wittmund ETNT, 28 Jun 2013).

  (photo: Petr Soukop)

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  TECHNICAL

  As of 1994 Tornadoes ECR were based only

  at JaBoG 32 with 321 Staffel “Lechfeld Tigers”

  and 322 Staffel “Flying Monsters”. Lechfeld

  was a home of ECRs until March 31, 2013,

  when the JaBogG 32 was disbanded as a re-

  sult of 2011 Ministry of Defense reorganizati-

  on and Tornadoes ECR were transferred to

  Schleswig air base in the north of Germany

  to TaktLwG (Taktische Luftwaffengeschwa-

  der) 51 “Immelmann”. This unit was esta-

  blished in 2013 as a result of the reorgani-

  zation by merging the reconnaissance AG

  (Aufklarungsgeschwader) 51 “Immelmann ''

  flying Tornadoes Recce and JaBoG 32 ope-

  rating ECRs.

  Technical description, roles,

  camouflage and markings

  Tornado ECR design does not differ from

  the basic IDS version. It is twin-engine, two-

  -seat, upper wing, 25 to 67 degrees swept

  wing configuration. Stabilators provide al-

  titude change at simultaneous deflection or

  roll control at the dissimilar deflection. After

  the landing rollout they can be applied as

  an aerodynamic brake. The wing features

  a complex mechanization. There are three

  sections of deployable slots on each leading

  edge. There are two-part spoilers on the

  upper wing surface working either as aero-

  dynamic brakes or helping to control the rate

  of roll and each trailing edge features four-

  -part, double slotted Fowler landing flaps.

  The cockpit is equipped with Martin Baker

  Mk.10A 0-0 ejection seats with. The power

  plants are three shaft Turbo Union RB199-

  -34R Mk.105 with maximum thrust 42.5 kN

  and 74.3 kN at after-burner setting. This en-

  gine version supplies 10% higher thrust than

  Tornado IDS engines. They are among the

  noisiest engines in the military. The exhausts

  are equipped with thrust reverses to shorten

  the landing rollout. There are seven hard po-

  ints to attach the ordnance and special equi-

  pment. Three of them are located under the

  fuselage, between main wheel wells and two

  are under each sweeping half of the wing.

  The Tornado ECR mission is radio-electronic

  reconnaissance, enemy’s radio-electronic

  equipment jamming and their destruction.

  To accomplish these tasks ECR is equipped

  with special devices and weapons. Thanks

  to its navigational equipment and radar it

  is able to penetrate the enemy’s territory

  at the low altitude, up to 150 meters and at

  high airspeed. By means of the special equi-

  pment and weapons this Tornado is capable

  of active jamming and destruction of the

  enemy’s air defense equipment from a safe

  distance, outside of their effective range.

  In the beginning of their career Tornadoes

  ECR were painted in the NORM83 standard

  camouflage scheme in two patterns, A and

  B. Altogether there were three NORM83 pa-

  tterns implemented but pattern C was dis-

  continued early after its introduction in the

  1980s. NORM83 A, B consists of three sha-

  des - RAL 6003 olive green, RAL 7021 black

  gray and FS34079 dark green. Both NORM83

  patterns differ in the color distribution. The

  specific variant basic pattern is fundamen-

  tally identical on each aircraft, or we can say

  with minimal deviation from it.

  Starting in the mid-1990s the new camouf-

  lage standard, NORM95, started to be applied.

  It also appeared in two patterns, again de-

  signated as A and B. The shades were light

  gray FS36375, medium gray FS36320 and

  blue gray FS35237. As with NORM83 the co-

  lor pattern of the applied variant is virtually

  the same on all aircraft. For the last fifteen

  TaktLwG 51

  JaBoG 32

  NORM83A

  absence of IWKA Mauser BK 27 cannons

  FLIR sensor on the starboard side of the front wheel well

  IRLS container under the fuselage behind the front wheel well

  ELS system antennas on the fixed wing leading edges

  (larger black areas in comparison to IDS)

  THE BASIC FEATURES DISTINGUISHING ECR

  Tornado 46+28 at CIAF 2006

  (photo: Michal Fárek)

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  TECHNICAL

  years Tornado ECR camouflage consists of

  blue gray FS35237. It is the same shade as

  applied on the Eurofighter Typhoon. Com-

  mon to all camouflage patterns is the rado-

  me painted black and vertical tail surface tip

  painted in gray FS36118. That can also appear

  in the camouflage color when NORM83 is

  followed.

  As far as stencils are concerned, for Tor-

  nado ECR NORM83 prescribed black color

  with multi-color warning signs. According to

  NORM95, and for the aircraft in all-gray finish

  the gray stencils, multi-color ones or mix of

  the two can be applied, check your photo-

  graphic references for a particular aircraft.

  One interesting anomaly concerning the Tor-

  nadoes ECR camouflage is their appearan-

  ce from the second half of 1995 when they

  started to be deployed within the Operation

  Deliberate Force out of the Italian air base

  Piacenza San Damiano. Based on the pho-

  tographic evidence we can almost certainly

  state that the JaBoG 32 aircraft in the first

  tour of duty were painted very light gray ove-

  rall. RAL 6003 olive green was applied to the

  tip of the vertical tail surface and canopy fra-

  me. The radome and all antenna covers were

  in standard black. There is a minimal num-

  ber of stencils on these airplanes (only red

  warning triangles on the canopy and the fu-

  selage and stencils for the emergency cano-

  py release on the ground). It’s apparent that

  the paint was applied shortly before the ope-

  ration started since the aircraft don’t show

  any signs of weathering and very little stai-

  ning from fluid leaks. In the following years

  the aircraft were repainted back to NORM95

  standard. For example, the JaBoG 32 aircraft

  deployed in 1996 clearly carried three shades

  of gray. What follows is the endless gallery of

  the attractive, colorful NATO Tiger Meet and

  various anniversary schemes.

  Special equipment and

  ordnance

  As mentioned earlier Tornadoes ECR do not

  carry any cannons, their space is occupied

  by the antennas and blocks of the radio-

  -electronic equipment. The basic system for

  SEAD (Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses)

  missions is ELS (Emitter Location System)

  whose task is to determine the type and lo-

  cation of the radar that detected the aircraft.

  The system supplies data to arm AGM-88

  HARM missiles and for their launch on the

  target. The system blocks are located under

  the pilots’ cockpit and the antennas are in-

  stalled on both sides of the fuselage in front

  of the engine intakes and in the leading

  edges of the fixed wings and covered with

  black panels.

  System’s shortcoming is that it can only

  detect the signals coming from the front

  hemisphere therefore two aircraft are

  launched for a mission flying the recipro-

  German Panavia Tornado ECR, reg. 98+79 (686/GS217/4275) during takeoff from Ingolstadt-Manching (ETSI, 13 June 2015).

  (photo: Petr Soukop)

  NORM95

  Current form of camouflage

  1995- EG 1 - Operation Deliberate Force

  Detail of an AGM-88 HARM missile suspended on a subcruise mount.

  (photo: Michal Fárek)

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  cal headings to insure system’s enhanced

  range. Another important system is IRLS

  (Infra-Red Line Scanner) which provides the

  thermo-visual, across the horizon image of

  the area being monitored. The scanner itself

  is installed in the cover located under the

  fuselage behind the front landing gear leg.

  Through a digital port

  the information from both systems can be

  displayed on the WSO (Weapon Systems

  Officer) screen in the rear cockpit over-

  lapping each other creating the complete

  image of the combat situation in the form of

  the electronic map. This information can also

  be displayed on the pilot’s monitor. There is

  a FLIR (Forward-looking Infrared) sensor

  located on the starboard of the forward

  wheel well which purpose is the visual

  terrain scanning and targets’ identification.

  The sensor can rotate 180 degrees and its

  range is approximately 20 kilometers. The

  image can be projected on the pilot’s HUD for

  better navigation at night or on the displays

  in both pilots’ cockpits. The last system is the

  data interface ODIN (Operational Data Inter-

  face) which can in real time relay the data

  from ELS and IRLS systems to other aircraft

  or ground units. IRLS container, together

  with its electronic blocks was removed from

  many Tornadoes ECR and for current re-

  connaissance missions the removable Re-

  cceLite container, made by Israeli company

  Rafael is used.

  Lutwaffe has used this container since 2009.

  The aforementioned systems are installed in

  the fuselage so now let's proceed to the sus-

  pended equipment and ordnance. Two remo-

  vable containers can be seen on Tornadoes

  ECR, the active radar jammer CERBERUS

  and passive radar and infrared jammer

  BOZ-101 or 104. The IDS version is capable

  of carrying these as well which is often the

  case.

  Jammer CERBERUS/TSPJ (Tornado Self

  Protection Jammer) is a defense system

  designed to jam the enemy’ communication

  and radar means. It can be activated by an

  operator or automatically by a radar war-

  ning receiver signal. Usually, it is attached

  under the port wing. Interesting fact is that

  it was developed with the secret contributi-

  on of the Israeli industry. When in the mid-

  -1980s this information leaked to the public it

  caused rather big political scandal.

  System BOZ-101 or BOZ-104 is a passive con-

  tainer featuring the chaff flares dispensers

  against IR or radar-guided anti-aircraft mi-

  ssiles. It is typically attached under the star-

  board wing.

  The principal Tornado ECR weapon is AGM-

  88 HARM anti-radar missile. Maximum of

  four can be carried. Typically, only two are

  attached under the fuselage but two more

  can be hoisted on the wing inner hard po-

  ints. The capability of carrying four AGM-88

  missiles was frequently utilized during the

  missions over the former Yugoslavia. Before

  the missile is launched it receives the tar-

  get coordinates from its aircraft and utilizes

  them during the initial flight stage. In the final

  stage of guidance the missile utilizes its own

  active or passive radar system.

  For its own defense the aircraft can be equi-

  pped with two AIM-9L Sidewinder missiles.

  The Luftwaffe Tornadoes can be equipped

  with 1000 liters drop tanks to increase their

  range. From the production Tornadoes ECR

  had the capability to deploy the AGM-65D

  Maverick anti-ground missiles but this load

  out has never been recorded in the course of

  the service with Luftwaffe.

  Combat deployment

  The first combat deployment of the German

  Tornadoes ECR took place in 1995. It was

  even the very first German army deployment

  since the end of WWII. The “honor” fell on

  JaBoG 32 from Lechfeld when it was from

  August 1995, within EG (EinsatzGeschwader)

  1, or Operational Wing 1, deployed with eight

  aircraft in the first tour of duty out of the Ita-

  lian air base Piazenza in the operation Deli-

  berate Force over Bosnia and Herzegovina

  territories.

  The Tornadoes mission was the reconnai-

  ssance and silencing of the enemy anti-

  -aircraft defense. The operation was exe-

  cuted under the NATO and UN command to

  protect UNPROFOR units and inhabitants of

  the UN-controlled territory. The operation

  commenced on August 30, 1995 and lasted

  until September 20, 1995. After that EG 1 was

  commissioned to support the IFOR mission

  (1995-1996), then SFOR (1996-2001) and fi-

  nally, in 2001 the operations of the German

  Tornadoes at Piacenza air base ceased. Du-

  ring this period of time, in 1999 the Tornado-

  es also participated in the operation Allied

  Force. Between March 24 and June 10 this

  operation was conducted under the NATO

  command against the former Republic of Yu-

  goslavia during the war in Kosovo.

  Again, the German Tornados flew reconnai-

  ssance, allied aircraft escort protection and

  German Tornado ECR reg. 46+36 (cn 851/GS269/4336) takes off from Rostock Laage (RLG/ETNL, 23 Aug 2014).

  (photo: Petr Soukop)

  CERBERUS IV

  BOZ-101

  AGM-88 HARM

  TECHNICAL

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  SEAD missions. During the operations

  the Tornadoes ECR from Lechfeld rota-

  ted with AG (Aufklarungsgeschwader)

  51 “Immelmann '' Recce Tornados from

  Schleswig or were deployed together.

  The largest number of the aircraft in

  a tour of duty was fourteen. During these

  operations the German Tornados flew

  almost 7300 missions over the former

  Yugoslavia. Out of this number 2559 mi-

  ssions are credited to the ECR version.

  As of December 2015, TaktLwG 51 and

  JaBoG 33 Tornadoes were deployed wi-

  thin Einsatzkontingent Counter Daesh to

  the operation Inherent Resolve flying the

  reconnaissance missions for the Allies.

  Initially the German contingent was ba-

  sed at Incirlik in Turkey from where the

  aircraft flew the sorties over Syria and

  Iraq. In 2017, after a diplomatic brawl

  between Germany and Turkey, the unit

  transferred to Jordan to Al-Azraq base

  where they re-started the operation in

  October 2017. Typically, four to six Tor-

  nadoes were deployed with the Recce

  version prevailing. At the end of March

  2020, due to political turmoil in Germany,

  the German aircraft operations ceased.

  During this operation the German Tor-

  nadoes flew 2467 missions and obtained

  114000 images of the enemy territory.

  The Future

  The German Tornadoes still have about

  9 years of service ahead, but Lutwaffe

  is already gradually seeking the repla-

  cement. In 2020 it was announced that

  after many deliberations the Tornado-

  es IDS will be replaced with F/A-18E/F

  Superhornet and ECR version with

  EA-18G Growler. The decision comes

  from the fact that Germany does not

  want to lose the nuclear bomb attack ca-

  pability and also maintain SEAD missions

  capability. Neither of this is possible with

  the new German Eurofighter Typhoon

  and to obtain the certification for this type

  of missions is not possible in the forese-

  eable future. Therefore, Germany decided

  to obtain 30 F/A-18 E/F and 15 EA-18G

  which are capable of these missions. By

  the way, the unit trained to perform the

  nuclear attacks is TaktLwG 33 flying Tor-

  nadoes IDS out of Buchel air base where

  also the nuclear bombs B61, property of

  the USA, are stored and their inventory is

  estimated at 10 to 20 pieces.

  Zdroje

  www.panavia.de

  www.bundeswehr.de

  www.321tigers.de

  www.armadninoviny.cz

  www.wikipedia.com

  Key Publishing Ltd. – Aviation Magazine - Tornado

  REVI magazine

  Combat legends – Panavia Tornado

  Michael Leek – The Panavia Tornado

  SAM AirData2 – Tornado

  Artwork:

  Fárek Michal, Nožička Zdeněk

  TECHNICAL

  German Panavia Tornado ECR registration 46+33 on landing. NTM 2011, Cambrai, France (16 May 2011). The aircraft belonged to the 321st Tiger Squadron

  from Lechfeld. The squadron was disbanded on 31 March 2013 as part of the disbandment of the entire JaboG 32.

  (photo: Petr Soukop)

  A nicely "fogged" German Tornado ECR reg. 46+45, 46+50, 46+34 and 46+22 visiting Čáslav as part of the Mini Tiger Meet (nice date 11/11/2011).

  (photo: Petr Soukop)

  A trio of German Tornado ECRs (46+57, 46+56 and 46+23) wait on the doorstep of the runway of the Poznań-Krzesiny Airport (EPKS)

  in Poland for a take-off clearance (18 May 2018).

  (photo: Petr Soukop)

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  Some years later I was experiencing something

  more intense at the time of my sailplane traning

  initiation. I was hunched in Blaník trying to hold

  the required „methodical“ position behind the

  tow plane i was connected to. The OK

  -

  CXA took

  me up for my first solo flight as well. Little did

  I know that in three years I would be sitting on

  the other side of the rope, towing other hunched

  boys and girls behind me, who were also trying

  to hold that reqired methodical position...

  At the end of my basic single-engine aircraft

  training, I was retrained on the Zlin Z 226 MS.

  It was my first tail landing gear type, and I flew

  only the minimum required to retrain on this type

  to be honest. When I got the license, I immedia-

  tely converted to the Z 526 AFS, the type which

  was nicknamed “Kraťas” in Czech, which would

  translate as “Shorty” for the shortened fuselage

  and wing of the aircraft compared to its prede-

  cessors. The “Shorty” was my second type with

  tail landing gear, but also my first single-seater

  and the first one with retractable landing gear.

  The cockpit reminded me of my brief experience

  with the 226, but at the same time the airpla-

  ne gave a completely different impression. The

  most of “magic” surrounded the switch covered

  by transparent plastic cover. My mind kept going

  back to all the stories and warnings about the

  biggest malady of the Z 326, the moment when

  the aircraft rests on the ground on its belly with

  the landing gear retracted and propeller bent...

  For the first few flights I was pressing the lan-

  ding gear switch to the position “opened” as if it

  was mechanically connected to the landing gear

  locks. I keep checking the state of the mechani-

  cal landing gear indicators on the wing, so called

  “cops”, as well as the green light in the cockpit

  many times during an approach. The sliding coc-

  kpit cover and circular rear view mirror from

  the Babette scooter evoke the aura of a fighter

  intensely to me. The massive control stick with

  rounded handgrip and radio button, the widely

  "staggered" pedals and the spartan instrumen-

  tation clearly refer to the aerobatic origins of

  this aircraft. When taxiing, the impaired forward

  vision can be improved by leaning out of the

  open cockpit into the airstream of the propeller.

  How the “Shorty” ies

  Take-off is intense. The controls are effective al-

  most from the first moment, the take-off is short

  compared to the Z-142, the climb is much better,

  the view from the cockpit is excellent. However,

  the rudder must be used quite intensely to keep

  the full coordination of the control of the aircraft.

  Just like a fighter... And then here comes a lan-

  ding! In order to allow the landing gear to retract

  into the wing by the system chosen in the Mo-

  ravan company, the landing gear legs had to be

  shortened compared to the Trenér versions with

  fixed landing gear. Combined with the absen-

  ce of flaps, this makes the three-point landing

  a really interesting affair. After retraining, I un-

  successfully attempted a smooth landing twenty

  times, until the chief of the Aero Club couldn't

  stand to watch my actions any longer and sent

  me to enjoy the flying on a navigation flight ra-

  ther than on patterns.

  My main activity while flying the OK

  -

  CXA was

  well symbolized by the V letter at the end of the

  type designation Z 526 AFS

  -

  V, i.e., towing. And

  there was a lot of it at times. Nevertheless, as

  a youngster, I never had enough of it. I would ride

  my bike across town and move half of aircraft in

  the hangar to fly just one aero lift. Doing 56 lifts

  in a day meant I could easily do 57 as well. The

  greatest pleasure, however, was the formation

  flying. The aircraft accelerated briskly, but one

  had to be careful when decelerating, which on

  the other hand was not as brisk due to the ae-

  rodynamic cleanness and weight of the aircraft.

  This was especially challenging when other

  planes in formation were Zlins 40 series. I rea-

  lly liked the air shows in Příbram, named in ho-

  nor of Martin Stáhalík. Here I experienced very

  interesting formations with “Shorty”, whether I

  completed a quad of Zlín Z 126s with it or perfor-

  med a multiple aerotow of historic gliders. That's

  why in 2005 I decorated the nose of OK

  -

  CXA with

  a shark's mouth with bare teeth, all made out with

  black electrical-insulation tape. Surprisingly, not

  all members of the aero club shared my enthusi-

  asm for such a fantastic idea and this decoration

  disappeared from the aircraft very soon...

  TRENÉR AND ME

  I remember OK-CXA as a kid, when my dad used to take me to

  the local aireld. I spent many weekends at the take-off po-

  int for the sailplanes. At that time the OK-CXA was wearing its

  classic blue and white livery, but even so it always reminded

  me of a WWII ghter. And a ghter like that is a big thing for

  a little boy! But it's also a chance to drive a tractor type 3011,

  or to stuff a puff into the exhaust of a Hercules 2 winch to see

  how far it can y when the engine starts...

  TEXT: RICHARD NOXA

  Sir Kobrle's

  "little Shorty"

  Sir Kobrle's

  "little Shorty"

  Sir Kobrle's

  "little Shorty"

  Photo: Bára Nahodilová Bártová

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  Some "funny" stories...

  Apart from a lot of beautiful experiences, the-

  re are a few that are still giving me some chills

  when I think about them. Twice my tail was lifted

  by a towed glider at low altitude, but fortunately

  there was always enough air under the plane.

  Once I was heading to Letňany from a prolonga-

  tion tour in Otrokovice and I desperately needed

  to catch an exam at the university. As it happens,

  the weather was against it. It was good in the

  Highlands, but it started to rain near Zbraslavice

  and the continuous cloud cover was pushing me

  closer and closer to the ground. Even though the

  controller at the tower in Kbely was announcing

  good weather over the radio, the cloud cover fell

  to the ground near Říčany town, so even though

  I had a great desire to fly all the way to Letňany,

  the only possible choice was to turn and find al-

  ternate destination. I managed to land at Bene-

  šov airfield, where there was no traffic at all due

  to the “raining cats and dogs” weather. The plane

  stayed there for two days, but thanks to a ran-

  dom stop of one of the local pilots I finally made

  the test that day after this lucky car pick up...

  One non-lowered landing gear leg does not

  make one feel better either, fortunately the tri-

  ed and tested method of off-on, or, better to

  say, retract-extend worked. During one landing,

  when the plane had already all three wheels

  on the ground, a massive bounce happened. So

  massive that people later said they wanted to

  turn and look elsewhere. I had no choice but to

  give it full throttle and to hope. But the engine

  reacted immediately, and after a repeated pa-

  ttern, the landing went smoothly. After shutting

  down the engine, the people told me that they

  preferred to turn around so that they would not

  be taken as witnesses to have to testify for the

  record...

  The sad ending

  I fondly recall meeting “sir” Jiří Kobrle, whose

  aerobatic career peaked with OK

  -

  CXA. He sho-

  wed up at our instrument flying lesson when

  he was returning from a verification flight with

  ;a Raven 257. I remember he was not impressed

  with the performance of its engines because, as

  he said, "those American horses are much lea-

  ner than the Czech ones". When it came to "his"

  “Shorty”, I still remember him saying to me: "One

  had to pull it quite hard. Then its wing stretched,

  and it flew nicely straight. The CXA, because it

  was a national team aircraft nobody did it and so

  its wings stayed straight, meaning it needs more

  controls now."

  This aircraft eventually ended its flying journey

  on May 8, 2012, when it crashed into trees and

  subsequently ended in a pond. My final good-

  bye was cheerless when over two freezing De-

  cember days I was removing usable parts from

  the wreckage of the plane. There weren't many.

  The body was completely destroyed, bent and

  cracked. The only part of the airframe that, so-

  mewhat surprisingly, survived the impact was

  the front Plexiglas section of the cabin.

  My flying with OK

  -

  CXA stopped at 186 hours lo-

  gged with 1205 take-offs and at least a hundred

  more landings. While I have had the opportunity

  to fly other “Shorties”, aircraft more powerful,

  more agile, older, newer, more famous, more

  colorful and so on, the OK

  -

  CXA will always be

  a heartfelt affair and a beautiful memory for me.

  The author upside down. And with smile…

  The short-lived decoration of OK

  -

  CXA…

  TRENÉR AND ME

  Photo: Richard Noxa

  Photo: Richard Noxa

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  Cat. No. 82172

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  B6313, Maj. William G. Barker, No. 139 Squadron, Villaverla, Italy, July 1918

  B3834, FL Rowan H. Daly, FL Arthur F. Brandon, Manston War Flight RNAS, Manston,

  Great Britain, July 1918

  B6299, FL Norman M. MacGregor, No. 10 Sqn RNAS, Téteghem, France, November 1917

  Barker´s B6313 is probably the most famous Camel, as it is

  the most successful fighter aircraft of Great War. He scored

  46 out of his 50 victories flying it in the period from Octo

  -

  ber 1917 to September 1918. The aircraft underwent several

  overhauls and repainting during its service, the appearance

  depicted here shows the state as it was shortly after Barker

  became CO of the No. 139 Squadron, operating new two sea

  -

  ters Bristol F.2B Fighter. Barker took his long-time companion

  with him to the new unit and added black and white stripes

  on its tail, as it was the marking of the No. 139 Sqn. It is not

  sure the nose and the vertical stabilizer were painted black.

  There is a theory about repair overpaint by different shade of

  the camouflage color, and the image of the original vertical

  stabilizer displayed in Hendon Museum, is very dark green. On

  the other hand, it is part of the aircraft from different period

  as the pointed heart painted on it has different shape and

  position. On some photos the nose and the fin look as dark as

  the black stripes. There was non-standard cutout of the left

  side of the cockpit and there were also ducts installed on the

  openings for the air supply of the carburetor.

  The Wonga Bonga inscription painted surely on the starboard

  and (probably) on the port side of the fuselage of this Ca

  -

  mel says it all about what it used to be to. “Wonga” was the

  nickname for Gotha bombers, while Bonga says it all about

  what the pilot of this aircraft wanted to do (to smash them).

  In fact, two pilots were flying anti-Gotha patrols with this Ca

  -

  mel from August to September 1917: Rowan Heywood Daly and

  Arthur Frank Brandon. Daly managed to send down in flames

  one “Wonga” on July 7, 1917, but it happened when he was

  flying Sopwith Triplane (N5382). Only Brandon scored against

  these big German bombers flying this aircraft. It happened

  on August 22, 1917, the victim was Gotha G.IV No. 663/16 of

  Unteroffizier Heinrich Schildt as a pilot. The enemy fire holed

  the No. 6 cylinder of the engine of B3834 and Brandon had to

  conduct forced landing on home airfield. The B3834 Camel

  was manufactured by the Sopwith Company in June 1917 and

  served until February 1918, when it was deleted.

  Norman Miers MacGregor entered the RNAS on February 1916

  and was assigned to HMS President. He was assigned to No.

  6 Squadron in 1917 and scored four kills there. After that he

  moved to the No. 10 Squadron. His first victory with this unit

  was also the most significant of all of his kills, as he shot

  down the first Fokker Dr.I of the Great War on September 15,

  with German ace Kurt Wolff, victor in 33 combats and co

  -

  mmander of the Jasta 11 at controls. MacGregor added two

  more victories, both when flying this Camel. He accrued 325

  operational flight hours during the war and was transferred

  to RAF´s unemployed list on January 10, 1919, at the rank of

  captain. He was later reactivated as a flight lieutenant on

  April 10, 1921, serving until June 5. His Camel B6299 sported

  the colours of the B Flight of the No. 10 (Naval) Sqn, i.e., white

  and red stripes on the nose of the aircraft and distinctive le

  -

  tter B on both sides of the fuselage. Later the aircraft served

  briefly with No. 9 (Naval) Sqn, before being transferred to the

  training depot at Chingford.

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  E1416, Capt. Arthur H. Cobby, No. 4 Sqn AFC, Serny, France, September 1918

  B3883, FSL Harold F. Stackard, No. 9 Sqn RNAS, Bray-Dunes, France, September 1917

  Camel No. E1416 was the last of Arthur Henry Cobby´s aircraft

  of this type and served him well, as he achieved eight out of

  his 29 aerial victories flying this one. One of these victims

  was observation balloon, the last of five destroyed by this

  very successful Australian fighter pilot. In fact, Cobby was

  the most successful Australian ace flying with Australian

  unit in WWI as he scored 29 victories with at least four dif

  -

  ferent Camels. He had figures of Charlie Chaplin made from

  (probably) sheet of aluminium and he used to fit them on his

  Camels from both sides of the cockpit. Apart of it the Camel

  sported standard camouflage (probably with PC10 color on

  upper sides) and markings, but had non-standard ducts

  mounted at the carburetor inlet. Acclaimed a national hero,

  Cobby joined newly formed Royal Australian Air Force in 1921

  and was gradually promoted up to the rank of Wing Com

  -

  mander. He retired and served with Citizen Air Force only (the

  RAAF reserve) but was re-activated in 1939 and held senior

  posts in the RAAF rising to the rank of Air Commodore. To the

  end of the war, he commanded Australian No. 1 Tactical Air

  Force in Southwest Pacific area with some 20 000 people rea

  -

  dy to action according to his orders. Arthur Henry Cobby died

  on November 11, 1955.

  Harold Francis Stackard achieved 15 aerial victories during

  Great War. He started his military career as a subaltern

  serving on HMS Orotava in France and Gallipoli. In October

  1916 he was transferred to the Royal Naval Air Service, and

  two months later he was promoted to Flight Sub-Lieutenant.

  Stackard stayed for the rest of the war with No. 9 (Naval)

  Squadron. He scored his first victory on May 2, 1917, flying

  the Sopwith Pup. On September 3, 1917, he recorded his first

  victory behind the controls of the Sopwith Camel. It was his

  fourth one. With the B3883 he later added six (may be seven)

  victories, so it was his most successful aircraft. FL Joe Fall

  scored another three flying it. The B3883 had no distinctive

  decorations originally. It only sported white number 2 on the

  fuselage sides. It was damaged and after repair was named

  Maude II with the name in white. Also, big fuselage ring in

  blue and white and two blue discs with white outline on the

  upper wing were added. Later the fuselage ring (and proba

  -

  bly the elevator as well) was enriched by red color and the

  Maude II was overpainted in blue with white blocking as the

  remains of the original painting. By 1918, Stackard was an

  instructor at RAF Cranwell in Lincolnshire. He served briefly

  with No. 157 Squadron before he left the service shortly after

  the war.

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  P3878, F/O Harold A. C. Bird-Wilson, No. 17 Squadron,

  RAF Debden, Great Britain, July 1940

  P3143, No. 310 (Czechoslovak) Squadron, RAF Duxford,

  Cambridgeshire, Great Britain, September 1940

  P3675, F/Lt Michael L. Robinson, No. 601 Squadron,

  RAF Tangmere, West Sussex, Great Britain,

  September 1940

  Harold Bird-Wilson, a native of Prestatyn, Wales,

  joined the RAF on November 30, 1937. After training

  he was transferred to No. 17 Squadron in August

  1938, the unit flying with Gloster Gauntlets at the

  time. The unit was rearmed with Hurricanes in June

  1939, and ten weeks later "Birdy" Bird-Wilson was

  badly injured in a flying accident. After his recove

  -

  ry, he rejoined the unit and took part with it in the

  Battle of France and subsequently in the Battle of

  Britain. He scored eight confirmed kills during that

  period. On September 24, 1940, "Birdy" was shot

  down by Adolf Galland, for whom it was his 40th

  kill. "Birdy" later became commander of the Spitfire

  equipped No. 122 Wing and later he led the Perra

  -

  nporth/Harrowbeer Wing flying Mustangs. He shot

  down a total of nine aircraft (3 solo and 6 shared)

  and also recorded three probable kills and three

  damaged. During his military career he received

  the high military awards including CBE, DSO, DFC &

  Bar and AFC & Bar. Retired on June 1, 1974, with the

  rank of Air Vice Marshal. The Hurricane P3878 spor

  -

  ted camouflage of Dark Green, Dark Earth and Sky.

  The right side of the fuselage below the cockpit was

  marked with three kills scored during the Battle of

  France in May 1940.

  The Hawker Hurricane Mk.I, serial number P3143

  was codenamed NN

  -

  D and served with No. 310

  (Czechoslovak) Squadron from July 24, 1940, until

  October 16 of the same year, when it was destro

  -

  yed by an engine fire during a training flight near

  Ely. Its pilot, Sgt Jan Chalupa, bailed out but died. It

  was the unit's most successful aircraft of the Battle

  of Britain. Pilots F/Lt Gordon Leonard Sinclair, Sgt

  Bohumil Fürst, Sgt Eduard Prchal and P/O Stanislav

  Fejfar scored a total of six confirmed kills flying it

  (two each of Bf 110 and Do 17 plus one each of Bf 109

  and He 111). P3143 wore the "A" pattern camouflage

  consisting of standard colors, i.e., Dark Green, Dark

  Earth and Sky. In its appearance from mid-Septem

  -

  ber, it sported four kill marks under the cockpit.

  During September days of the Battle of Britain,

  "Mike" Robinson shot down one Bf 109E and two

  more Bf 110s probably flying this Hurricane. At the

  time he was a Flight Commander of No. 601 Squad

  -

  ron. His Hurricane sported an unusual marking of a

  red and white-striped lightning bolt and a red, whi

  -

  te and blue spinner. The upper camouflage of the

  "B" pattern was done in standard colors. Robinson

  was appointed commander of No. 609 Squadron in

  October and took over command of Biggin Hill Wing

  from "Sailor" Malan in August 1941. In January 1942

  he took command of Tangmere Wing. Unfortunately,

  on April 10, 1942, he and his wingman, Maurice P. C.

  Choron, did not return from a combat flight. They

  fell victims to the fighters of II./JG 26. "Mike" Robin

  -

  son shot down a total of 16 aircraft, probably shot

  down five others and damaged nine.

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  V7419, S/Ldr Marmaduke Thomas St John Pattle, CO of No. 33 Squadron,

  Larissa, Greece, March–April 1941

  V7743, No. 306 (Polish) Squadron, RAF Ternhill, Shropshire,

  Great Britain, March 1941

  V7101, F/Lt George Burges, No. 69 Squadron, Luqa, Malta, May–June 1941

  Most of the historical records concerning the pi-

  lots fighting in the half-forgotten Greek battlefield

  were lost during the retreat across the Aegean

  Sea. It has therefore taken many years for histo

  -

  rians to discover the fate of the Hurricane fighter

  pilots who served under the command of South Af

  -

  rican Major Marmaduke "Pat" Pattle. Research has

  confirmed that Pattle achieved 52 kills, of which

  36 were achieved during his service with Nos. 80

  and 33 Squadron when he was flying Hurricanes.

  This secured him the number one position among

  pilots of this type. One of the aircraft Pattle flew in

  combat was the Hurricane V7419. Due to the hectic

  times on the battlefield, most Hurricanes carried

  only NW squadron codes. Pattle did not see the end

  of the war. On the evening of April 20, 1941, he took

  off as leader of fifteen-strong Hurricane formation

  when they met superior number of Luftwaffe air

  -

  craft. After the outbreak of a fierce air battle over

  the Gulf of Eleusin, Pattle, although suffering from

  fever, managed to shoot down one Bf 109 and one

  Bf 110. Shortly after he was attacked by a pair of Bf

  110s. He was last seen hurtling towards the sea in

  flames, pursued by a pair of Bf 110s which continued

  to fire. His body and the wreckage of the Hurricane

  were never found.

  The third fighter unit of the Polish Air Force in Gre

  -

  at Britain was No. 306 (Polish) Squadron, based at

  Church Fenton and established on August 28, 1940.

  It was equipped with the standard RAF fighter, the

  Hawker Hurricane. With these, the unit moved to

  Ternhill airfield in November that year, from where

  the pilots conducted mainly patrol flights to protect

  convoys. Later, No. 316 (Polish) Squadron received

  Spitfires, with which they carried out attacks on

  targets in occupied Europe. Towards the end of the

  war the Spitfires were replaced by Mustang Mk.IIIs.

  The unofficial emblem of the squadron was a white,

  gold-lined diamond with a stylized wild duck and

  bear, the emblem of the original pre-war Torun Fi

  -

  ghter Squadron of the Polish Air Force.

  One of the founding members of the Gladiator Fi

  -

  ghter Flight at Malta's Hal Far airfield was George

  Burges, who achieved seven victories in the defen

  -

  se of Malta in the cockpits of Gladiators and Hurri-

  canes. He was transferred to No. 69 Reconnaissance

  Squadron at the end of January 1941. This unit also

  received Hurricane V7101 with reduced weight. It

  received additional fuel and oil tanks instead of

  armament, and its other equipment included two

  cameras behind the pilot's seat in place of the re

  -

  moved radios. George Burges flew it regularly until

  June 6, 1941, when he left Malta and returned to

  England. Hurricane V7101 was painted blue on all

  surfaces, and the only available photograph shows

  it with the rudder bearing a camouflage field in Mi

  -

  ddle Stone and Dark Earth colors.

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  P3975, Sgt. Josef František, No. 303 (Polish) Squadron, RAF Northolt, United Kingdom,

  September–October 1940

  L2099, Sgt. Josef František, No. 303 (Polish) Squadron, RAF Northolt, United Kingdom, September 1940

  R4175, Sgt. Josef František, No. 303 (Polish) Squadron, RAF Northolt, United Kingdom, September 1940

  Czechoslovak pilot Josef František, member of No. 303 (Polish) Squadron during the Battle of Britain, achieved three Luftwaffe

  kills flying this Hurricane. The first one was a Bf 109E shot down on September 2. The very next day had repeated this success by

  victory over Bf 109E, and on September 9 he added a third kill of a Bf 109E fighter plus one He 111 bomber.

  Another Hurricane Sgt. František was flying during his time with No. 303 (Polish) Squadron was this aircraft from the early pro-

  duction batch, but with stressed-skin metal wing already fitted. Josef František flew this one on four missions, but he managed

  to score only once. It happened on September 30, 1940, when flying this Hurricane for the last time. His victim was one Bf 109E,

  another one was damaged. English commander of No. 303 (Polish) Squadron S/Ldr Ronald Gustave Kellett also flew this Hurri-

  cane several times.

  Probably the most famous František´s Hurricane was the one coded RF

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  R. The Czechoslovak fighter ace scored a total of seven

  kills flying it (on September 5 one Ju 88 and one Bf 109E, on September 6 one Bf 109E, on September 26 two He 111 and on Sep-

  tember 27 one Bf 110 and one Bf 109E). However, this Hurricane became František´s fate, as he crashed it on October 8, 1940 and

  was killed.

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  46+23, JaboG 32, Lechfeld Air Base, Germany, July 2008

  Jagdbombergeschwader 32 was established at Lechfeld in July 1958. The unit was flying F-84F Thunderstreak fighters initially

  and changed them for Starfighters during 1965. Starfighters were subsequently replaced by the Tornado IDS in 1984. These fighter-

  -bombers were supplemented in 1991 by Tornado ECRs, the electronic warfare version. To celebrate 50th anniversary of the unit's

  foundation, the Tornado ECR 46+23 code was painted according to design by designer Daniela “Delahé” Krah.

  FLIR and

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  46+44, 1./JaboG 32, Lechfeld Air Base, Germany, June 2001

  46+45, 2./JaboG 38 „Friesland“, Jever, Germany, June 1993

  1. Staffel Jagdbombergeschwader 32, named Die Tigers (The Tigers), was accepted by the NATO Tiger Association in 1994 as a

  try-out member. This association was formed in 1961 to encourage solidarity among NATO air forces. The association organizes

  every year meetings called Tiger Meet, during which joint exercises are also held. In 2001, a Tiger Meet was held in Kleine Brogel,

  Belgium, for which 1st/JaboG 32 prepared a Tornado ECR with markings 46+44 in an impressive “tiger” marking.

  Tornados ECR were the equipment of two units in German Luftwaffe, JaboG 32 and JaboG 38. The former unit was based at Lech-

  feld in Bavaria, while JaboG 38 was based in the north at Jever in Lower Saxony. This unit was established in August 1983 and was

  armed with Tornado IDS multirole aircraft. ECR Tornados formed equipment of its 2. Staffel in 1989, and they were used until 1995,

  when the ECR Tornados were handed over to JaboG 32. On August 31, 2005, JaboG 38 was disbanded.

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  46+54, TLG 51 „Immelmann“, Schleswig-Jagel Air Base, Germany, July 2017

  46+57, AG 51, Schleswig-Jagel Air Base, Germany, July 2013

  Taktisches Luftwaffengeschwader 51 was formed by renaming Aufklärungsgeschwader 51 on September 30, 2013. This unit, equi-

  pped with IDS and ECR Tornados, is based at the Schleswig-Holstein base Schleswig-Jagel. The marking of Tornado coded 46+54,

  was sprayed in standard Norm 95 three shades of grey but has been complemented with tiger stripes on the external drop tanks

  and rudder, while a drawing of a feline beast and the inscription NATO TIGERS have been added to the vertical fin. All the paintwork

  was made due to participation of the aircraft at Tiger Meet 2017 exercise in Landivisiau, France.

  Aufklärungsgeschwader 51, the predecessor of TaktLwG 51, was re-launched in January 1994. The previous AG 51, along with its

  sister AG 52 unit (both flying RF-4E reconnaissance Phantoms), was disbanded in mid-1993. The newly formed AG 51 received

  the Tornado IDS supplemented with the ECR version. The Tornado ECR in this livery was presented at the 2013 Tiger Meet held in

  Ørland, Norway, where AG 51 won the Silver Tiger Trophy.

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  Spitfire Mk.Vb trop, ER821, F/Lt Neville F. Duke, No. 92 Squadron, Bou Grara, Tunisia, January-March 1943

  Spitfire Mk.Vb trop, ER318, P/O C. R. Furtney, No. 274 Squadron, Termoli, Italy, March 1944

  Neville Frederick Duke, a native of Turnbridge, Kent, joined the RAF in June 1940. He was eighteen at the time. After training he

  was posted to No. 92 Squadron in February 1941 and achieved his first two kills with this unit. He often flew as wingman to "Sailor"

  Malan, commander of the Biggin Hill Wing. In October 1941, Duke was sent to North Africa to No. 122 Squadron, flying Tomahawks

  and Kittyhawks and he achieved a further six kills there. When he began his second operational tour, it was with No. 92 Squadron

  again. The unit also moved to the African continent together with its tropical Mk.Vb Spitfires. Within a few months Duke notched

  up 14 more victories and he took command of No. 145 Squadron in March 1944. The unit was equipped with Mk.VIII Spitfires and

  by September Duke had scored six more kills. He finished the war with 28 victories, becoming the most successful pilot in the

  Mediterranean area. On his return to Europe, he continued as chief test pilot with Hawker. In 1946, he joined the RAF's High Speed

  Flight. After demonstrating the Gloster Meteor at an air show in Prague in 1946, he was awarded the Czechoslovak War Cross for

  his war service. In 1953 he set the world speed record with Hawker Hunter, when he managed to achieve 727.63 mph (1171.01 km/h).

  No. 274 Squadron was reactivated in the second half of 1940 in Amreiya, Egypt. It started operations with mixture of Gladiators

  and Hurricanes, than, from October the same year, the unit retained only Hurricanes and joined the fighting over North Africa with

  them in December 1940. The unit received its first Spitfires in April 1943 and was fully rearmed in October. During the rearmament

  process, No. 274 Squadron moved to Cyprus, then a move to Italy followed in February 1944. Before moving to the UK, the unit took

  part in sweeps over Yugoslavia and Albania. A lightning bolt and a circular arrow emblem under the cockpit indicates affiliation to

  the unit.

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  Spitfire Mk.Vb trop, AB502, W/Cdr Ian Richard Gleed, CO of No. 244 Wing, Bou Grara, Tunisia, March-April 1943

  Spitfire Mk.Vb trop, EP689, S/Ldr Stanislaw Skalski, CO of No. 601 Squadron, Pachino, Italy, July 1943

  At the end of January 1943, Ian "Widge" Gleed took command of No. 244 Wing in North Africa, the only unit comprising Spitfire

  units - Nos. 92, 145 and 601 Squadrons RAF, No. 417 Squadron RCAF and No. 1 Squadron SAAF. Gleed was in command until April

  16, when he was shot down during an afternoon patrol over the Cap Bon area. His defeater was probably Lt. Ernst-Wilhelm Reinet,

  the ace of JG 77. After being hit, Gleed headed for the Tunisian coast with the damaged aircraft. His Spitfire AB502 was found on

  the sand dunes near the sea on the west coast of Cap Bon. However, his body was not found with the Spitfire, it was recovered

  later. It is not known whether he died from his injuries or during the crash landing. What is certain is that he was first buried at

  Tazoghran and reburied at Enfidaville Military Cemetery on April 25, 1944. All of the planes Gleed flew had a black cat painted on

  the starboard side, just below the cockpit. It was "Figaro", a character from the story of Pinocchio. The same was true of the two

  Aboukir tropical filter equipped Spitfires (ER170 and AB502) that Gleed used as commander of No. 244 Wing. Both had also Gleed's

  initials IR

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  G painted on the fuselage, rendered in Light Mediterranean Blue with white outline. During March and April 1943, Gleed

  achieved his last kills in the cockpit of AB502 – one Bf 109G and two damaged Bf 109Fs. During his wartime career Ian Gleed shot

  down a total of 16 aircraft. Seven more he downed probably and damaged four.

  Stanisław Skalski, the most successful Polish fighter pilot, was given command of No. 601 Squadron "County of London" in mid-

  -July 1943. He became only the second Pole to be given command of an RAF squadron. During his three-month leadership of the

  unit, he used several Spitfires of different versions. One of them was EP689 with blue code marking UF

  -

  X, equipped with Aboukir

  dust filter. No. 601 Squadron was one of the few to use these dust filters operationally. By the end of the war, Stanislaw Skalski had

  shot down 24 aircraft. He also shot down one aircraft probably and damaged five.

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  Spitfire Mk.Vc trop, Capt John K. Blythe, 4th FS, 52nd FG, 12th AF, North Africa, February 1943

  Spitfire Mk.Vc trop, EP813, Lt. Haskins/Lt. Curtis, 2nd FS, 52nd FG, Palermo, Sicily, 1943

  The 4th Fighter Squadron was activated at Selfridge Field, Michigan, on January 15, 1941. The unit was equipped with P-39s and P-

  -40s, used until July 1942. After a move to Northern Ireland pilots of 4th FS received British Spitfires. The unit was part of the 52nd

  Fighter Group, which was assigned to the North Africa theatre as a part of the 12th Air Force. On November 8, 1942, the invasion of

  Algeria and Morocco was launched, and the 4th FS was sent to an airfield in Algeria. The crew chief of this Spitfire, Sgt Kormos,

  arranged a Texas flag and his girlfriend's name to be painted on the nose. Note the exhaust pipes. This aircraft is fitted with the

  type that was used mostly on Mk.IX Spitfires.

  In June 1943, when the 2nd Fighter Squadron was based at La Sebala airfield in Tunis, its members named it the American Beagle

  Squadron as a joking counterpart to the more famous Eagle Squadrons. The American Beagle Squadron emblem was painted on

  several 2nd FS Spitfires and was carried on the nose of the machine flown by Lieutenants Hasins and Curtis. It should be said,

  however, that the entire 52nd FG was not lagging behind its more famous colleagues from the 8th Air Force, and its performance

  on both Spitfires and Mustangs (after being transferred to the 15th Air Force) made a significant mark in the history of American

  aviation.

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  Spitfire Mk.Vc trop, JK815, No. 2 Squadron SAAF, Gioia del Colle, Italy, October 1943

  Spitfire Mk.Vc trop, JK879, F/O A. F. Osborne, No. 249 Squadron, Qrendi, Malta, May-June 1943

  South African No 2. Squadron SAAF took delivery of its first Spitfires Mk.Vc in July 1943. As the unit was tasked with the suppor-

  ting the Allied landings in Sicily, it was one of the few squadrons to use the heaviest possible armament on its Spitfires, which

  consisted of four 20mm cannons. This firepower was extremely effective in attacking enemy ground vehicles. The South African

  Spitfires carried an additional 250lb or 500lb bomb on the fuselage rack for combat operations. A specific color feature of the No. 2

  Squadron SAAF Spitfires was the overlay of the lower camouflage Azure Blue color on top of the leading edge of the wing and the

  red wingtips as well as horizontal stabilizer tips. The rudder is decorated with the unit's crest, an antelope on a red background.

  F/O Osborne scored his only kill on April 28, 1943 when, during an early morning sweep, him and Squadron Leader J. J. Lynch

  spotted two low-flying Ju 52/3m Junkers transport aircraft off the coast of Sicily. Lynch attacked and shot down one of them,

  thus securing his place in the historical archives as the author of the 1,000th kill in the Malta defense operations. Lynch rejoined

  Osborn after his victory and together they shot down a second Ju 52/3m which crashed into the sea. Osborne was later successful

  in fighting V-1 flying bombs. He shot down six of them flying a Mustang Mk.III with No. 129 Squadron during summer of 1944. The

  Spitfires delivered to Malta sported several different types of camouflage. One of them was this scheme, with the upper and side

  surfaces sprayed in Dark Mediterranean Blue, while the lower surfaces were Azure Blue. The red cone indicated aircraft operating

  in Mediterranean theatre.

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  Spitfire Mk.Vc trop, A58-180 (JG912), No. 79 Squadron RAAF, Kiriwina, Trobriand Islands, October 1943

  A58-250 (MH586), No. 85 Squadron RAAF, Pearce, Australia, May 1945

  Australian No. 79 Squadron RAAF was formed at Laverton Base, Victoria, on April 26, 1943, and its role was to provide high-altitude

  cover for the Kittyhawks of Australian forces during the New Guinea campaign. The unit received Spitfires Mk.Vc in priority and in

  mid-May 1943 began moving to Goodenough Island, from where it undertook flights to New Guinea. This was followed by a move to

  Kiriwina Island, at that time the nearest Allied base from the Japanese-occupied important port on the island of New Britain. From

  Kiriwina, Spitfires operated over New Britain until March 1944, when No. 79 Squadron moved to Los Negros, one of the Admiralty

  Islands. Spitfire Mk.Vc serial JG912 arrived in Australia on April 13, 1943, and was assigned to No. 79 Squadron on May 7. The white

  tail surfaces were sign of aircraft operating in the New Guinea area.

  Australia's No. 85 Squadron RAAF, originally armed with home-built Boomerangs, began rearmament to Spitfires in September

  1944. Unlike other RAAF units that received Mk.VIII Spitfires, No. 85 Squadron was rearmed with Mk.Vc Spitfires. A move to RAAF

  Base Pearce in Western Australia followed on May 11, where the unit remained until its disbandment on November 29, 1945. The

  Spitfire Mk.Vc marked A58-250, operated with No. 457 Sqn RAAF from February 4, 1944 before transferring to No. 85 Squadron

  RAAF. It was used there as personal mount by B Flight Commander F/Lt Alf Glendining. For the last time the A58-250 was flown

  by W/O Gray on May 23, 1945. Pilot damaged this Spitfire on landing and while he escaped unscathed, the aircraft was written off

  and used as a source of spares.

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  29th GIAP, Dachang Air Base, Shanghai, China, spring - summer 1950

  c/n 108023, 176th IAP, Antung Air Base, Korea, April 1951

  c/n 120077, Major Alexei A. Mikoyan, the Deputy CO of 274th IAP, Kubinka Air Base, Soviet Union, early fifties

  29th GIAP (Guards Fighter Air Regiment) moved from Soviet Union to Shanghai in spring 1950. Soviet pilots helped to protect Chi-

  nese town from the Taiwanese aircraft and to present Taiwanese ships from entering the Yang-tze river delta. The Dachang was

  selected as a their homebase. The regiment was active in China from April to October 1951 and MiG jockeys downed two enemy

  aircraft in this period – F-5E Lightning recce airplane and B-24 bomber.

  The Chinese national insignia were painted on the 29th GIAP MiGs and all of them were overhanded

  to the Chinese armed forces when the Soviet unit moved back to its homeland in October 1950.

  From November 1950 to early February 1951 the 29th GIAP fought in Korean War.

  The upper part of the wings is not visible in the photos, we suppose that

  the national insignia was not painted here.

  This aircraft took part in the air battle on April 12, 1951. The photo of this aircraft with no wings and upper part of the tail was taken

  shortly after the battle. Soviet pilots managed to shoot down three B-29 bombers at the cost of five MiG-15 fighters damaged. „823“

  was one of them.

  The distinctive red nose wore the MiGs from 324th IAD (Fighter Air Division). The 176th IAP (Fighter Air Regiment) was a part of this

  division that was based in Korea from early April 1951 till the end of January 1952. The famous WW2 fighter

  ace Ivan N. Kozhedub (64 victories) was appointed the CO of the 324th IAD.

  This aircraft was flown by Maj. Alexei A. Mikoyan who was was appointed the CO of the 274th IAP in 1951. This unit was established

  in this year and former Deputy CO Mikoyan became its second CO in succesion.

  Alexei Mikoyan was a member of the elite communist family. His father Anastas I. Mikoyan was one of the top leaders of the Soviet

  communist political party. Beside other posts he was the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in mid 60ties, de jure

  the head of the Soviet Union. Alexei´s uncle Artem I. Mikoyan lead the aircraft design bureau MiG, where many famous aircraft

  were developed – MiG-15 among others. Thus Alexei flew the aircraft developed by his uncle´s team.

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  Polish Air Force, 1st PLM, Warszawa - Babice Air Base, Poland, 1951

  c/n 231767, Romanian Air Force, Deveselu Air Base, Romania, 1962

  This aircraft was flown by 1st PLM (Fighter Air Regiment) and was one of the very first five MiG-15s delivered to Polish Air Force.

  All five aircraft were manufactured in Soviet Union in 1949. They were transferred from one of the airfields near Berlin, Germany to

  the Babice (Bemowo) air base near Warszawa on July 19, 1951. Polish MiG-15s were shown to the public for the first time on August

  26, 1951 at an military parade over Warszawa – Okecie international airport. Note the wings with no walkways.

  The total of 204 MiG-15s was flown by Romanian air force. These were manufactured in Czechoslovakia and overhanded to Ro-

  mania in the period from December 1952 to September 1954. Romania became the most significant user of MiG-15s produced by

  Czechoslovak Aero Vodochody factory. This particular aircraft was a part of the batch of 34 „fifteens“ delivered to Romania on

  March 24, 1954. The national insignia in the form of the five-pointed star was used from 1949 to 1985.

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  P-51D-15, 44-15041, flown by Lt Col. John C. Meyer, 352nd FG, 8th AF, Y-29 Asch, Belgium, December 1944

  P-51D-15, 44-15459, flown by Capt. John J. Voll, CO of 308th FS, 31st FG, 15th AF, San Severo, Italy, November 1944

  P-51D-10, 44-14221, flown by Maj. Pierce W. McKennon, CO of 335th FS, 4th FG, 8th AF, Debden, United Kingdom, April 1945

  Brooklyn native John Charles Meyer finished flight training on July 26th, 1940 at the age of 21, after which he was assigned to the 33rd PS on Iceland, a unit that was

  tasked with convoy escort duties, flying the P-40. After his return to the States, he was named the CO of the newly formed 487th FS, which had undergone con-

  version training onto the P-47 and in June 1943 was transferred to United Kingdom, from where they performed escort missions for four engined heavy bombers

  over continental Europe. In April of 1944, the unit was rearmed with the Mustang, and the number of kills attributed to Major Meyer began to rise. In November 1944,

  he was named Deputy Commander of the 352nd FG, to which his own 487th FS was subordinate. Under his command, the 352nd FG was relocated to the forward

  base at Asch in Belgium. On January 1st, the Luftwaffe conducted a raid on this base, and Meyer was able to get his unit in the air to counter the raid, claiming

  a pair of Fw 190s in the process. These would be the last two kills that he would achieve during the war, because on January 4th, he suffered a major fracture of

  his left leg, the treatment of which required his return to the United States. After the war, John Mayer remained in the military, and took part in combat in Korea,

  and in Vietnam he led the Linebacker II campaign. Over the course of the Second World War, he shot down 24 enemy aircraft, and he

  added another two during the Korean War. He retired a General as the head of the Strategic Air Command.

  He passed away as the result of a heart attack on December 2nd, 1975.

  John James Voll was born on May 3rd, 1922 in Cincinnati, Ohio, and he joined the Air Corps Reserve in 1942. He began his flight trai-

  ning on March 8th, 1943, and after its completion, he was assigned to the 308th Fighter Squadron in May 1944, tasked with escorting

  four engined heavies from bases in Italy. During these missions, he was able to down 21 enemy aircraft, and in doing so, he claimed

  third spot in terms of Mustang kills and became an ace with the highest number of kills in the Mediterranean theatre. He left the

  military after the war and taught at a highschool in Goshen, which was also his Alma mater. He was recalled to the military in 1948,

  and he remained with the Air Force until his retirement on July 31st, 1974. He died on September 12th, 1987.

  Future Second World War twelve kill ace Pierce Winnigham McKennon was born on November 30th, 1919 in Clarksville, Arkansas.

  Although his ability to play the piano awarded him a scholarship at the University of Arkansas, he did not complete those studies

  and in 1941, he neterred the USAAF with the wish to be a fighter pilot. After two months, however, he was let go due to his nausea,

  but he refused to let go of his dream. He joined the RCAF, where he finished his training and was assigned to an Operational Trai-

  ning Unit in Europe. He was reintegrated into the USAAF on February 22nd, 1943 with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant, and was assigned

  to the 335th FS, armed with the P-47, which were later replaced by the phenomenal Mustang. He was not only an excellent pilot,

  but due to the piano playing skills, was also a regular invitee to social functions. His final sortie came about during a squadron-

  -wide raid on an air bases around Prague, when his aircraft was hit in the canopy, and a piece of Plexiglass

  narrowly missed his eye. After the war, he remained with the Air Force, serving as an instructor.

  He was killed on June 18th, 1947, together with a student pilot in an AT-6D near San Antonio, Texas.

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  P-51D-20, 44-72218, flown by Lt Col. John D. Landers, CO of 78th FG, Duxford, United Kingdom, March 1945

  P-51D-20, 44-63607, flown by Lt Col. Glenn T. Eagleston, CO of 353rd FS, 354th FG, 9th AF, Y-64 Ober Olm, Germany, April 1945

  P-51D-20, 44-63984, flown by Maj. James B. Tapp, CO of 78th FS, 15th FG, 7th AF, Iwojima, May 1945

  John Dave Landers was born on August 23rd, 1920 in Joshua, Texas. He joined the Army Air Force in April 1941. After undergoing

  pilot training, he was assigned to the 9th FS in Australia in January 1942, a unit that flew P-40s. In the Pacific theatre, he gained

  six kills, and in January 1943, he was called back to the States. There, he served as a flight instructor, but by his own request, he

  was reassigned to a combat unit in April 1944. That combat unit was the 38th FS based at Wormingford, which flew the P-38, re-

  -equipping with the P-51 from July 1944. After being promoted to Lt Col., he took over command duties of the 357th FG, which he

  led from October to December 1944. After some downtime in the United States, he returned to Great Britain and was named CO of

  78th FG, holding this post until the end of the Second World War. In December 1945, he left the

  military and worked in construction. He died on September 12th, 1989.

  Glenn Todd Eagleston was born on March 12th, 1921 in Farmington, Utah, and he joined the USAAF in 1940. In 1942, he underwent

  flight training, after which he was first assigned to the P-39 equipped 79th FS, and then to the 353rd FS, which was transferred

  to Boxted in the UK with their Mustangs in October 1943. Although being a constituent of the 9th Air Force, the unit flew escort

  missions for 8th AF bombers. In the spring 1944 landing preparations, the 354th FG returned to tactical support of ground forces,

  and eventually relocated to fields in liberated Europe to remain close to combat areas, and this included the 353rd FS. Squadron

  command was handed over to Capt. Eagleston in October 1944, and the unit used their Thunderbolts in support of ground forces. In

  mid-February, 1945, the unit went back to using the Mustang. After the Second World War, during which Glenn Eagleston amassed

  18.5 kills over enemy aircraft, he remained in the Service, and took part in combat over Korea, where he shot down a pair of Soviet

  MiG-15s. He retired at the end of February 1967, and died on May 7th, 1991.

  During attacks on Tokyo vicinity airfields on May 25th, 1945, 7th AF Mustang pilots fired unguided HVAR rockets for the first time.

  A quartet of thusly armed Mustangs was part of a force that included initially some 128 fighters, but only a mere 67 aircraft found

  their mark. The flight of HVAR armed Mustangs was led by Maj. James Buckley Tapp, who hit a hangar with his rockets at Matsudo

  Air Base, and then shot down a Ki-44 Tojo in combat.This would be his 7th kill, while his first four came about during the first

  escort mission of Superfortresses over Japan on April 7th, 1945. These up to eight hour missions came to be known as VLR (Very

  Long Range) missions, and Maj. Tapp became the first USAAF ace to gain all his kills during these VLR flights on April 12th, 1945.

  With a total of eight confirmed kills and two damaged, Maj. Tapp is the second ranked Mustang pilot in the Pacific area during World

  War Two. Symbols applied by the ground crew of Margaret IV on the right side of the fuselage below the cockpit further indicate

  that this Mustang flew a total of nine combat missions to May 25th, 1945, during which the pilot destroyed five enemy aircraft.

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  P-51D-20, 44-63607, flown by Lt Col. Glenn T. Eagleston, CO of 353rd FS, 354th FG, 9th AF, Y-64 Ober Olm, Germany, April 1945

  KITS 02/2022

  OVERTREES

  P-51D Mustang

  Cat. No. 82102X

  1/48

  Product Page

  Product Page

  Cat. No. 82102-LEPT1

  Recommended for P-51D

  FE1021 P-51D seatbelts STEEL (PE

  -

  Set)

  648485 P-51D exhaust stacks (Brassin)

  648486 P-51D exhaust stacks w/ fairing (Brassin)

  648487 P-51D Hamilton Standard propeller (Brassin)

  648494 P-51D wheels diamond tread (Brassin)

  648495 P-51D undercarriage legs BRONZE (Brassin)

  648503 P-51D wheels oval tread (Brassin)

  648504 P-51D wheels cross tread (Brassin)

  648505 P-51D wheels block tread (Brassin)

  648511 P-51D wheels diamond tread 2 (Brassin)

  648512 P-51D wheels rhomboid treat (Brassin)

  648513 P-51D wheels pointed cross tread (Brassin)

  648514 P-51D wheels grooved (Brassin)

  648517 P-51D gun bays (Brassin)

  648522 P-51D cockpit (Brassin)

  648555 P-51D engine (Brassin)

  648570 P-51D gun sights (Brassin)

  648571 P-51D 75gal drop tanks (Brassin)

  648572 P-51D 108gal drop tanks (Brassin)

  SIN64865 P-51D ESSENTIAL (Brassin)

  SIN64869 P-51D ADVANCED (Brassin)

  EX663 P-51D TFace (Mask)

  D48033 P-51D national insignia (Decal Set)

  D48034 P-51D stencils (Decal Set)

  Cat. No. 648555

  Cat. No. 648503 Cat. No. 648505 Cat. No.648511 Cat. No. 648513 Cat. No. 648513

  Cat. No. 648522

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  02/2022

  LööK set - Brassin pre-painted dashboard and

  STEEL seatbelts for F/A-18E in 1/48 scale.

  Easy to assemble, replaces plastic parts.

  Recommended kit: Meng

  Set contains:

  - resin: 1 part

  - decals: no

  - photo-etched details: yes, pre-painted

  - painting mask: no

  LööK set - Brassin pre-painted dashboard and

  STEEL seatbelts for P-51D-15 in 1/32 scale.

  Easy to assemble, replaces plastic parts.

  Recommended kit: Revell

  Set contains:

  - resin: 4 parts

  - decals: no

  - photo-etched details: yes, pre-painted

  - painting mask: no

  644129

  F/A-18E LööK

  1/48 Meng

  634025

  P-51D-15 LööK

  1/32 Revell

  Product Page

  Product Page

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  LööK set - Brassin pre-painted dashboard and

  STEEL seatbelts for Su-27 in 1/48 scale.

  Easy to assemble, replaces plastic parts.

  Recommended kit: Great Wall Hobby

  Set contains:

  - resin: 2 parts

  - decals: no

  - photo-etched details: yes, pre-painted

  - painting mask: no

  644138

  Su-27 LööK

  1/32 Great Wall Hobby

  Product Page

  BRASSIN 02/2022

  Brassin set - cockpit for Z-126 Trener

  in 1/48 scale. Made by direct 3D printing.

  Recommended kit: Eduard

  Set contains:

  - 3D print: 34 parts

  - decals: yes

  - photo-etched details: yes, pre-painted

  - painting mask: no

  648680

  Z-126 Trener cockpit PRINT

  1/48 Eduard

  Product Page

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  Brassin set - cockpit for Mi-24V in 1/48 scale.

  Recommended kit: Zvezda

  Set contains:

  - resin: 54 parts

  - decals: yes

  - photo-etched details:

  yes, pre-painted

  - painting mask: no

  648696

  Mi-24V cockpit

  1/48 Zvezda

  Product Page

  BRASSIN 02/2022

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  Brassin set - the ejection seat for A-4 in 1/48

  scale. Easy to assemble, replaces plastic parts.

  Recommended kit: Hasegawa

  Set contains:

  - resin: 2 parts

  - decals: yes

  - photo-etched details: yes, pre-painted

  - painting mask: no

  Brassin set - the ejection seats for F-4B in 1/48

  scale. Made by direct 3D printing. Easy to assem-

  ble, replaces plastic parts.

  Recommended kit: Tamiya

  Set contains:

  - 3D print: 8 parts

  - decals: yes

  - photo-etched details: yes, pre-painted

  - painting mask: no

  648718

  A-4 ejection seat

  1/48 Hasegawa

  648710

  F-4B ejection seat late PRINT

  1/48 Tamiya

  Product Page

  Product Page

  BRASSIN 02/2022

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  Brassin set - the undercarriage wheels for

  Bf 109G-4 in 1/48 scale. The set consists of the

  main wheels and a tail wheel. Easy to assemble,

  replaces plastic parts.

  Recommended kit: Eduard

  Set contains:

  - resin: 3 parts

  - decals: no

  - photo-etched details: no

  - painting mask: yes

  Brassin set - the undercarriage wheels for Pe-2

  in 1/48 scale. The set consists of the main wheels

  and a tail wheel. Easy to assemble, replaces plas-

  tic parts. Recommended kit: Zvezda

  Set contains:

  - resin: 3 parts

  - decals: no

  - photo-etched details: no

  - painting mask: yes

  648720

  Bf 109G-4 wheels

  1/48 Eduard

  648719

  Pe-2 wheels

  1/48 Zvezda

  Product Page

  Product Page

  BRASSIN 02/2022

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  Brassin set - the exhaust pipes for A6M2

  in 1/48 scale. Made by direct 3D printing. Easy

  to assemble, replaces plastic parts.

  Recommended kit: Eduard

  Set contains:

  - 3D print: 4 parts

  - decals: no

  - photo-etched details: no

  - painting mask: no

  Brassin set - the cannon barrels and fuselage

  guns for A6M2 in 1/48 scale. Made by direct 3D

  printing. Easy to assemble, replaces plastic parts.

  Recommended kit: Eduard

  Set contains:

  - 3D print: 4 parts

  - decals: no

  - photo-etched details: yes

  - painting mask: no

  648722

  A6M2 exhausts PRINT

  1/48 Eduard

  648723

  A6M2 cannon barrels & cockpit guns PRINT

  1/48 Eduard

  Product Page

  Product Page

  BRASSIN 02/2022

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  Brassin set - the ejection seat for Su-27 in 1/48

  scale. Recommended kit: Great Wall Hobby

  Set contains:

  - resin: 3 parts

  - decals: yes

  - photo-etched details: yes, pre-painted

  - painting mask: no

  Brassin set - the landing flaps for A6M2 in 1/48

  scale. Made by direct 3D printing. Recommended

  kit: Eduard

  Set contains:

  - 3D print: 6 parts

  - decals: no

  - photo-etched details: yes

  - painting mask: no

  648717

  Su-27 ejection seat

  1/48 Great Wall Hobby

  648724

  A6M2 landing flaps PRINT

  1/48 Eduard

  Product Page

  Product Page

  BRASSIN 02/2022

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  Collection of 4 sets for A6M2 Zero in 1/48 scale.

  Recommended kit: Eduard

  - LööK set (pre-painted Brassin dashboards & Steelbelts)

  - TFace painting mask

  - undercarriage wheels

  - the seat PRINT

  644134

  A6M2 LööKplus

  1/48 Eduard

  Product Page

  BRASSIN 02/2022

  Brassin set - British 1000lb bombs in 1/72 scale.

  The set consists of 8 bombs.

  Set contains:

  - resin: 16 parts

  - decals: yes

  - photo-etched details: yes

  - painting mask: no

  672276

  British 1000lb free fall bombs

  1/72

  Product Page

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  BRASSIN 02/2022

  Collection of 3 sets for Z-126 Trener in 1/48 scale.

  Recommended kit: Eduard

  - LööK set (pre-painted Brassin dashboards & Steelbelts)

  - TFace painting mask

  - undercarriage wheels

  644139

  Z-126 Trener LööKplus

  1/48 Eduard

  Product Page

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  Collection of 4 sets for Spitfire Mk.Vc in 1/48 scale.

  Recommended kit: Eduard

  - cockpit

  - undercarriage wheels

  - exhaust stacks

  - undercarriage legs BRONZE

  All sets included in this BIG SIN are available separately,

  but with every BIG SIN set you save up to 30%.

  SIN64879

  Spitfire Mk.Vc ESSENTIAL

  1/48 Eduard

  BRASSIN 02/2022

  Product Page

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  SPACE 02/2022

  Product Page

  Product Page

  Product Page

  3DL32003 B-25H SPACE 1/32 HKM

  3DL32004

  Remove Before Flight (white) SPACE 1/32

  3DL32005

  Remove Before Flight (black) SPACE 1/32

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  Product Page

  Product Page

  SPACE 02/2022

  3DL48058 OV-10A SPACE 1/48 ICM

  3DL53003

  IJN ensign flag WWII SPACE 1/350

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  PHOTO

  -

  ETCHED

  February 2022

  Tornado ECR

  1/32 Italeri

  32476 Tornado ECR exterior

  32476 Tornado ECR exterior32994 Tornado ECR interior

  32993 Tornado ECR

  32476 Tornado ECR exterior

  32994 Tornado ECR interior

  32995 Tornado ECR undercarriage

  33293 Tornado ECR

  33294 Tornado ECR seatbelts STEEL

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  PHOTO

  -

  ETCHED 02/2022

  32995

  Tornado ECR

  undercarriage

  33294

  Tornado ECR

  seatbelts STEEL

  32995 Tornado ECR undercarriage

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  32477 B-25H exterior

  32996 B-25H interior

  33295 B-25H

  33296 B-25H seatbelts STEEL

  B-25H

  1/32 HKM

  32477

  B-25H exterior

  33296

  B-25H seatbelts STEEL

  32996 B-25H interior

  32996 B-25H interior33295 B-25H

  PHOTO

  -

  ETCHED 02/2022

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  491244 F-104S

  491245 F-104S ASA

  491246 F-104S ASA

  -

  M

  FE1244 F-104S

  FE1245 F-104S ASA

  FE1246 F-104S ASA

  -

  M

  FE1247 F-104S seatbelts STEEL

  F-104S

  1/48 Kinetic

  491244 F-104S

  491244 F-104S

  491245 F-104S ASA

  491245 F-104S ASA

  491244 F-104S

  PHOTO

  -

  ETCHED 02/2022

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  PHOTO

  -

  ETCHED 02/2022

  T-62

  1/35 Zvezda

  36476

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  PHOTO

  -

  ETCHED 02/2022

  481077

  A6M2 Zero

  1/48 Eduard

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  PHOTO

  -

  ETCHED 02/2022

  Hs 129B

  1/48

  HOBBY 2000/HASEGAWA

  491248

  FE1248

  Hs 129B seatbelts STEEL

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  TORA TORA TORA!

  1/32 Tamiya

  Cat. No. D32018

  DECAL SETS 02/2022

  Product Page

  Lt. Cdr. Shigeru Itaya, Akagi Fighter Squadron, first attack wave

  c/n probably 2236, PO2c Akira Yamamoto,

  Kaga Fighter Squadron, first attack wave

  Lt. Masaji Suganami, Sōryū Fighter Squadron, first attack wave

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  DECAL SETS 02/2022

  PO1c Kazuo Muranaka, Hiryū Fighter Squadron,

  first attack wave

  Lt. Tadashi Kaneko, Shōkaku Fighter Squadron,

  first attack wave

  PO1c Tetsuzō Iwamoto, Zuikaku Fighter Squadron,

  patrol during the first attack wave

  PO1c Yoshikazu Nagahama, Kaga Fighter Squadron,

  second attack wave

  c/n 2266, PO1c Shigenori Nishikaichi, Hiryū Fighter Squadron,

  second attack wave

  Lt. Masao Satō, Zuikaku Fighter Squadron,

  first attack wave

  Lt. Saburō Shindō, Akagi Fighter Squadron,

  second attack wave

  c/n 3277, Lt. Fusata Iida, Sōryū Fighter Squadron,

  second attack wave

  PO1c Yukuo Hanzawa, Shōkaku Fighter Squadron,

  patrol during the second attack wave

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  DECAL SETS 02/2022

  F-14 stencils

  1/48 Tamiya

  Cat. No. D48099

  Product Page

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  53275 USS Intrepid CV-11 pt.4 1/350

  53276 USS Intrepid CV-11 pt.5 1/350

  53180 USNensignagmodernSTEEL1/350

  32474 F/A-18F exterior 1/32

  32992 F/A-18F interior 1/32

  33291 F/A-18F seatbelts STEEL 1/32

  JX282 F/A-18F 1/32

  32886 Remove Before Flight STEEL

  481074 SBD-5landingaps1/48

  491236 SBD-5 1/48

  FE1237 SBD-5 seatbelts STEEL 1/48

  EX047 SBD 1/48

  BIG5364 USS Intrepid CV-11 PART II 1/350 Trumpeter

  BIG33140 F/A-18F 1/32 Revell

  BIG49314 SBD-5 1/48 Revell

  All sets included in this BIG ED are available separately,

  but with every BIG ED set you save up to 30%.

  Product Page

  Product Page

  Product Page

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  481071 TBF-1C exterior 1/48

  481072 TBF-1Clandingaps1/48

  491232 TBF-1C interior 1/48

  EX819 TBF-1C 1/48

  FE1233 TBF-1C seatbelts STEEL 1/48

  481073 P-40Nlandingaps1/48

  491234 P-40N 1/48

  FE1235 P-40N seatbelts STEEL 1/48

  EX817 P-40N 1/48

  BIG49315 TBF-1C 1/48 Academy

  BIG49316 P-40N 1/48 Academy

  All sets included in this BIG ED are available separately,

  but with every BIG ED set you save up to 30%.

  Product Page

  Product Page

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  MASKS 02/2022

  EDUARD MASK IT FITS!

  JX285 Tornado ECR 1/32 Italeri

  JX286 Tornado ECR TFace 1/32 Italeri

  JX287 B-25H 1/32 HKM

  JX288 B-25H TFace 1/32 HKM

  EX828 Hs 129B TFace 1/48 Hobby 2000/Hasegawa

  EX829 F-104S 1/48 Kinetic

  EX830 F-104S TFace 1/48 Kinetic

  EX831 P-35 1/48 Dora Wings

  EX832 P-35 TFace 1/48 Dora Wings

  CX619 Wellington Mk.II 1/72 Airfix

  CX619

  EX828

  JX285 JX285

  JX287

  JX287

  EX829

  EX831

  EX831

  EX829

  EX830

  EX832

  EX832

  EX832

  EX830

  EX830

  JX286 JX286 JX286

  JX288

  JX288

  JX288

  EX828

  EX828

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  KITS

  82172 Sopwith F.1 Camel (Clerget) 1/48 ProfiPACK

  7099 Hurricane Mk.I 1/72 ProfiPACK

  11154 Tornado ECR 1/48 Limited edition

  11157 Spitfire Story: Souther Star Dual Combo 1/48 Limited edition

  7057 MiG-15 (Re-release) 1/72 ProfiPACK

  82102 P-51D Mustang (Re-release) 1/48 ProfiPACK

  PE

  -

  SETS

  32476 Tornado ECR exterior 1/32 Italeri

  32477 B-25H exterior 1/32 HKM

  32994 Tornado ECR interior 1/32 Italeri

  32995 Tornado ECR undercarriage 1/32 Italeri

  32996 B-25H interior 1/32 HKM

  36476 T-62 1/35 Zvezda

  481077 A6M2 Zero 1/48 Eduard

  491244 F-104S 1/48 Kinetic

  491245 F-104S ASA 1/48 Kinetic

  491246 F-104S ASA

  -

  M 1/48 Kinetic

  491248 Hs 129B 1/48 Dora Wings

  ZOOMS

  33293 Tornado ECR 1/32 Italeri

  33294 Tornado ECR seatbelts STEEL 1/32 Italeri

  33295 B-25H 1/32 HKM

  33296 B-25H seatbelts STEEL 1/32 HKM

  FE1242 MiG-21SMT Weekend 1/48 Eduard

  FE1243 Spitfire Mk.Ia Weekend 1/48 Eduard

  FE1244 F-104S 1/48 Kinetic

  FE1245 F-104S ASA 1/48 Kinetic

  FE1246 F-104S ASA

  -

  M 1/48 Kinetic

  FE1247 F-104S seatbelts STEEL 1/48 Kinetic

  FE1248 Hs 129B seatbelts STEEL 1/48 Dora Wings

  MASKS

  JX285 Tornado ECR 1/32 Italeri

  JX286 Tornado ECR TFace 1/32 Italeri

  JX287 B-25H 1/32 HKM

  JX288 B-25H TFace 1/32 HKM

  EX828 Hs 129B TFace 1/48 Hobby 2000/Hasegawa

  EX829 F-104S 1/48 Kinetic

  EX830 F-104S TFace 1/48 Kinetic

  EX831 P-35 1/48 Dora Wings

  EX832 P-35 TFace 1/48 Dora Wings

  CX619 Wellington Mk.II 1/72 Airfix

  BIGED SETS

  BIG5364 USS Intrepid CV-11 PART II 1/350 Trumpeter

  BIG33140 F/A-18F 1/32 Revell

  BIG49314 SBD-5 1/48 Revell

  BIG49315 TBF-1C 1/48 Academy

  BIG49316 P-40N 1/48 Academy

  BRASSIN

  634025 P-51D-15 LööK 1/32 Revell

  644129 F/A-18E LööK 1/48 Meng

  644138 Su-27 LööK 1/48 Great Wall Hobby

  648680 Z-126 Trener cockpit PRINT 1/48 Eduard

  648696 Mi-24V cockpit 1/48 Zvezda

  648710 F-4B ejection seat late PRINT 1/48 Tamiya

  648717 Su-27 ejection seat 1/48 Great Wall Hobby

  648718 A-4 ejection seat 1/48 Hasegawa

  648719 Pe-2 wheels 1/48 Zvezda

  648720 Bf 109G-4 wheels 1/48 Eduard

  648722 A6M2 exhausts PRINT 1/48 Eduard

  648723 A6M2 cannon barrels & cockpit guns PRINT 1/48 Eduard

  648724 A6M2 landing flaps PRINT 1/48 Eduard

  672276 British 1000lb free fall bombs 1/72

  LookPLUS

  644134 A6M2 LööKplus 1/48 Eduard

  644139 Z-126 Trener LööKplus 1/48 Eduard

  BIGSIN

  SIN64879 Spitfire Mk.Vc ESSENTIAL 1/48 Eduard

  DECAL SETS

  D32018 TORA TORA TORA! 1/32 Tamiya

  D48099 F-14 stencils 1/48 Tamiya

  SPACE

  3DL32003 B-25H SPACE 1/32 HKM

  3DL32004 Remove Before Flight (white) SPACE 1/32

  3DL32005 Remove Before Flight (black) SPACE 1/32

  3DL48058 OV-10A SPACE 1/48 ICM

  3DL53003 IJN ensign flag WWII SPACE 1/350

  February 2022

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  BUILT

  A6M2 Zero Type 21 1/48

  Cat. No. 82212

  marking option B

  built by

  Jan Novotný

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  BUILT

  648693 A6M2 wheels (Brassin)

  648694 A6M2 engine PRINT (Brassin)

  648695 A6M undercarriage legs BRONZE (Brassin)

  648698 A6M2 seat PRINT (Brassin)

  648722 A6M2 exhaust PRINT (Brassin)

  648724 A6M2 langing flaps PRINT (Brassin)

  ACCESSORIES USED:

  PO1c Saburō Sakai, Tainan Kōkūtai, Lakunai airfield, Rabaul, New Britain island, August 1942

  Saburō Sakai is best known Japanese fighter pilot, thanks to his memoirs and meetings with Allied airmen after World War II. He was born in 1916 and served

  from September 1938 with the 12th Kōkūtai in China. In October 1941, he was assigned to the newly organized Tainan Kōkūtai in Taiwan and took part in campaign

  heading South until he was wounded on August 7, 1942 off Guadalcanal. After recovering, he served as an instructor with Ōmura Kōkūtai, and later, despite bad

  eyesight, was combat deployed with Yokosuka Kōkūtai on Iwo Jima. At the end of war he served with Kōkūtai 343 (II) and Yokosuka Kōkūtai. He is listed as an ace

  with 64 victories, but Sakai himself claimed the number of his victories was lower. With the first two units he actually achieved 12 individual victories, 8 shared

  and 4 probables. The V-128 was also flown by PO2c Arita and PO1c Hiroyoshi Nishizawa, who is credited with 87 victories. The color of the stripes is chosen from

  Sakai's recollection, but there are other interpretations, such as a black or yellow stripe on the fuselage. During a fighter escort to Guadalcanal on August 7, Sakai

  shot down Wildcat "F12" from VF-5 piloted by "Pug" Southerland in an epic dogfight. Sakai was later severely wounded in the face by fire from VB-6 Dauntless near

  Tulagi Island. After nearly five hours and more than 1,000 km, he managed to land back at Rabaul.

  Sakai died in 2000 after formal dinner with members of the US Navy.

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  Bf 109E-7

  1/48

  Cat. No. 84178

  marking option A

  built by

  Patrik Pěcha

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  Bf 109E-7/B, 8./ZG 1, Belgorod, Soviet Union, June 1942

  The III. Gruppe, of which the 8. Staffel was a part, was established in January 1942 in

  Lechfeld and was equipped like the other Gruppe Zerstörergeschwader 1 with Bf 109E

  aircraft. Its first deployment followed from May 1942 on the Eastern Front. Here it flew

  first from Belgorod field airfield, followed by a move to Kutejnikovo airfield in July. In

  August there was a further change of operation, the unit was first equipped with the

  problematic Me 210s and its new area of operation was North Africa.

  Like the other ZG 1 aircraft, the Messerschmitt Bf 109Es of the 8. Staffel had a wasp pain-

  ted on the nose, which had originally been the marking of the SKG 210 unit, from which

  the I. and II. Gruppe ZG 1 were formed by renaming in January 1942.

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  BUILT

  1/48

  Cat. No. 11152

  marking option A

  built by

  Luboš Zach

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  Z-226MS, OK

  -

  KND, No. 31-09, Aero Club Chomutov, Czech Republic, 2021

  One of the oldest airworthy Treners has been serving with the Chomutov Aero Club since the early 90s. It was test-flown on November 29, 1956,

  as the Z-226B and assigned to the Liberec County Aero Club (registered on February 26, 1957) subsequently. The Aircraft than wandered around

  the "subordinate" Aero Clubs (Česká Lípa, Hodkovice and Mohelkou, Raná u Loun, Most, Chomutov...). Due to cracked main spar, it was deemed

  unairworthy in 1985 and stayed grounded until 1990, when the overhaul was started. It was also converted to the Z-226M in the process. Later on,

  in December 2001, the next overhaul changed the OK

  -

  KND to Z-226MS standard. For a period of time, OK

  -

  KND then flew forest fire monitoring

  flights for the Fire Department (thanks to this, the county also provided funds for the overhaul and conversion). Today, the "Kanada", as is the

  OK

  -

  KND nicknamed, serves for glider towing and looks as depicted in the paint scheme.

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  1/48

  Cat. No. 11152

  Custom decals used

  built by Tomáš Török

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  Product Page

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  Fw 190A-2 JABO

  1/48

  Cat. No. BFC058

  built by

  Josef Blažek

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  At the end of 1941, the Luftwaffe considered a resumption of the bombing of Great Britain and coastal transport assets. It was ordered that every

  fighter unit taking part in combat against Great Britain would include one Staffel for the purposes of the so-called 'hit and run' bombing missions.

  This role was taken up by 10.(Jabo) Staffel within JG 2. Under the command of Oblt. Frank Liesendahl, the unit sank twenty ships for a total of

  630,000 BRT of shipping in four months. Frank Liesendahl died on July 17th, 1942 during an attack against the transport vessel Brixham. He was

  posthumously elevated to the rank of Hauptmann and held the Knight's Cross.

  Liesendahl's aircraft carried the standard day camouflage scheme of Luftwaffe fighters consisting of RLM 74/75/76. The fox leaping over a ship

  was the insignia of 10.(Jabo) Staffel. The rudder of his aircraft carried the symbols of destroyed and damaged vessels.

  48971 Fw 190A-2 (PE

  -

  Set)

  48972 Fw 190A-2 landing flaps (PE

  -

  Set)

  648152 Fw 190 wheels early (Brassin)

  648162 SC 500 German bombs (Brassin)

  648366 Fw 190A propeller (Brassin)

  648373 Fw 190A Pitot tubes early (Brassin)

  648381 Fw 190A exhaust stacks (Brassin)

  648379 Fw 190A-2 undercarriage legs BRONZE (Brassin)

  ACCESSORIES USED:

  W. Nr. 120439, Oblt. Frank Liesendahl, CO of 10.(Jabo)/JG 2, Caen-Carpiquet, France, Summer 1942

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  built by Matthias Becker

  1/48

  Tamiya

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  F-4B exhaust nozzles PRINT (Cat. No. 648690)

  F-4B ejection seats late

  (Cat. No. 648139)

  F-4B wheels (Cat. No. 648682)

  ACCESSORIES USED:

  F-4B TFace (Cat. No. EX803)

  F-4B stencils (Cat. No. D48094)

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  P-51DP-51D

  1/48

  built by Angelo Lodetti

  Eduard

  648487 P-51D Hamilton Standard propeller (Brassin)

  648511 P-51D P-51D wheels diamond tread 2 (Brassin)

  648522 P-51D cockpit (Brassin)

  648555 P-51D engine (Brassin)

  ACCESSORIES USED:

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  POSTAVENO

  1/48

  Cat. No. 11145

  built by

  Jan Baranec

  marking option I

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  Hans-Joachim Jabs was highest scoring Bf 110 ace in Battle of Britain

  achieving 12 victories in addition to 7 scored earlier during Battle of

  France. His preferred combat method was hit and run attack from abo-

  ve. Camouflage of his Bf 110 consist of RLM 70, 71 and 65. Sharkmouth

  (Haifischmaul) was marking of II./ZG 76 since pre-war period when this

  unit was using Bf 109D. Commander of 6./ZG 76 for period of more than

  one year was Legion Condor veteran Hptm. Heinz Nacke (12 victories,

  awarded with Knight Cross). He was injured in combat with RAF figh-

  ters on August 30th and Jabs was placed as temporary commander of

  6. Staffel followed by permanent appointment in October 1940. During

  same month Jabs was also decorated with Knight Cross. In late 1941

  his Staffel was trained for night fighter operations and was renamed

  as 9./NJG 3. He later led also 11./NJG 1 and IV./NJG 1. In March 1944

  he became Kommodore of whole Nachtjagdgeschwader 1

  and received Oak Leaves in addition to Knight Cross.

  Jabs scored 50 victories in 510 missions.

  644076 Bf 110C LööK (Brassin)

  648052 Bf 110 C/D main undercarriage wheels (Brassin)

  648085 MG 15 gun (2 pcs) (Brassin)

  648602 Bf 110C/D radio equipment (Brassin)

  648607 Bf 110C/D/E exhaust stacks (Brassin)

  ACCESSORIES USED:

  Bf 110C, WNr. 3285, flown by Oblt. Hans-Joachim Jabs, CO of 6./ZG 76, Le Mans, France, September 1940

  POSTAVENO

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  BIG33141 P-51D 1/32 Revell

  BIG49317 OV-10A 1/48 ICM

  BIG49318 F-14A late 1/48 Tamiya

  BIG72168 C-130J-30 PART I 1/72 Zvezda

  BIG72169 C-130J-30 PART II 1/72 Zvezda

  644140 F-104S LööK 1/48 Kinetic

  644141 F-104 ASA LööK 1/48 Kinetic

  644142 F-104 ASA/M LööK 1/48 Kinetic

  644143 Z-526AFS LööK 1/48 Eduard

  648692 A6M2 Zero Model 21 cockpit PRINT 1/48 Eduard

  648716 F-4B refueling probe PRINT 1/48 Tamiya

  648728 F-4B airbrakes PRINT 1/48 Tamiya

  648729 Z-326/526 wheels 1/48 Eduard

  648730 Mi-24D conversion set PRINT 1/48 Zvezda

  648731 A6M2 Zero Model 21 folding wingtips PRINT 1/48 Eduard

  648732 F-4B tail hook PRINT 1/48 Tamiya

  648733 Z-526AFS cockpit PRINT 1/48 Eduard

  648734 CH-47A wheels 1/48 Hobby Boss

  648735 OV-10 wheels 1/48 ICM

  672278 British 1000lb retarded bombs w_960 fuse 1/72

  634026 P-51D-15 LööKplus 1/32 Revell

  644144 Su-27 LööKplus 1/48 Great Wall Hobby

  644145 F/A-18E LööKplus 1/48 Meng

  SIN64880 OV-10A Air to Ground 1/48 ICM

  SIN64881 F-14A late AtA/AtG 1/48 Tamiya

  BIG ED (March)

  BRASSIN (March)

  LöökPlus (March)

  BIGSIN (March)

  BIG49317

  BIG33141

  BIG72169

  ON APPROACHON APPROACH

  MARCH 2022

  644140 F-104S LööK 1/48 Kinetic

  BRASSIN

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  644141 F-104 ASA LööK 1/48 Kinetic

  644142 F-104 ASA/M LööK 1/48 Kinetic

  MARCH 2022

  ON APPROACHON APPROACH

  BRASSIN

  PRELIMINARY

  PRELIMINARY

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  644143 Z-526AFS LööK 1/48 Eduard

  648692 A6M2 Zero Model 21 cockpit PRINT 1/48 Eduard

  BRASSIN

  MARCH 2022

  ON APPROACHON APPROACH

  PRELIMINARY

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  648716 F-4B refueling probe PRINT 1/48 Tamiya

  648728 F-4B airbrakes PRINT 1/48 Tamiya

  BRASSIN

  MARCH 2022

  ON APPROACHON APPROACH

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  648729 Z-326/526 wheels 1/48 Eduard

  648730 Mi-24D conversion set PRINT 1/48 Zvezda

  BRASSIN

  MARCH 2022

  ON APPROACHON APPROACH

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  648732 F-4B tail hook PRINT 1/48 Tamiya

  648731 A6M2 Zero Model 21 folding wingtips PRINT 1/48 Eduard

  BRASSIN

  MARCH 2022

  ON APPROACHON APPROACH

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  648733 Z-526AFS cockpit PRINT 1/48 Eduard

  648734 CH-47A wheels 1/48 Hobby Boss

  BRASSIN

  MARCH 2022

  ON APPROACHON APPROACH

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  648735 OV-10 wheels 1/48 ICM

  BRASSIN

  MARCH 2022

  ON APPROACHON APPROACH

  672278 British 1000lb retarded bombs w_960 fuse 1/72

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  634026 P-51D-15 LööKplus 1/32 Revell

  Collection of 4 sets for P-51D-15 in 1/32 scale.

  Recommended kit: Revell

  - LööK set (pre-painted Brassin dashboards & Steelbelts)

  - TFace painting mask

  - undercarriage wheels

  - exhaust stacks

  BRASSIN

  MARCH 2022

  ON APPROACHON APPROACH

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  644144 Su-27 LööKplus 1/48 Great Wall Hobby

  Collection of 4 sets for Su-27 in 1/48 scale.

  Recommended kit: Great Wall Hobby

  - LööK set (pre-painted Brassin dashboards & Steelbelts)

  - TFace painting mask

  - undercarriage wheels

  - ejection seat

  BRASSIN

  MARCH 2022

  ON APPROACHON APPROACH

  MASK NO PREVIEW

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  644145 F/A-18E LööKplus 1/48 Meng

  Collection of 4 sets for F/A-18E in 1/48 scale.

  Recommended kit: Meng

  - LööK set (pre-painted Brassin dashboards & Steelbelts)

  - TFace painting mask

  - undercarriage wheels

  - ejection seat

  BRASSIN

  MARCH 2022

  ON APPROACHON APPROACH

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  SIN64880 OV-10A Air to Ground 1/48 ICM

  Collection of 4 sets for OV-1A in 1/48 scale. The armament for

  air-to-ground missions. Recommended kit: ICM

  - LAU-10/A ZUNI rocket launchers

  - Mk.77 bombs

  - Mk.81 bombs

  - Mk.82 bombs

  All sets included in this BIG SIN are available separately,

  but with every BIG SIN set you save up to 30%.

  BRASSIN

  MARCH 2022

  ON APPROACHON APPROACH

  Mk.82 bombs

  Mk.81 bombs

  Mk.77 bombs

  LAU-10/A ZUNI

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  SIN64881 F-14A late AtA/AtG 1/48 Tamiya

  Collection of 6 sets for F-14A in 1/48 scale. The armament

  for air-to-air and air-to-ground missions. Recommended kit: Tamiya

  - AIM-9L/M missiles

  - AIM-54C Phoenix missiles

  - AN/AAQ-14 LANTIRN pod

  - AIM-7M Sparrow missiles

  - GBU-12 bomb

  - Mk.82 bombs

  All sets included in this BIG SIN are available separately,

  but with every BIG SIN set you save up to 30%.

  BRASSIN

  MARCH 2022

  ON APPROACHON APPROACH

  AIM-9M/L Sidewinder

  Mk.82 bombs

  AIM-7M Sparrow

  AIM-54C Phoenix

  AN/AAQ-14 LANTIRN pod

  GBU-12 bomb

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  PE

  -

  SETS

  36477 Panzer II Ausf.F 1/35 Academy

  481078 Mi-24D cargo interior 1/48 Trumpeter

  491249 Su-27 1/48 Great Wall Hobby

  491251 SR-71A 1/48 Revell

  491253 F/A-18F 1/48 Meng

  491255 Mi-24D 1/48 Trumpeter

  72719 Wellington Mk.II bomb bay 1/72 Airfix

  72720 Wellington Mk.II landing flaps 1/72 Airfix

  73764 F-4D 1/72 Fine Molds

  73765 P-51B/C 1/72 Arma Hobby

  73766 Wellington Mk.II 1/72 Airfix

  ZOOMS

  FE1249 Su-27 1/48 Great Wall Hobby

  FE1250 Su-27 seatbelts STEEL 1/48 Great Wall Hobby

  FE1251 SR-71A 1/48 Revell

  FE1252 SR-71A seatbelts STEEL 1/48 Revell

  FE1253 F/A-18F 1/48 Meng

  FE1254 F/A-18F seatbelts STEEL 1/48 Meng

  FE1255 Mi-24D 1/48 Trumpeter

  FE1257 Mi-24D seatbelts STEEL 1/48 Trumpeter

  SS764 F-4D 1/72 Fine Molds

  SS766 Wellington Mk.II 1/72 Airfix

  MASKS

  EX833 Z-526AFS Akrobat TFace 1/48 Eduard

  EX834 Vampire F.3 1/48 Airfix

  EX835 Vampire F.3 TFace 1/48 Airfix

  EX836 SR-71A 1/48 Revell

  EX837 SR-71A TFace 1/48 Revell

  EX838 Su-27 1/48 Great Wall Hobby

  EX839 Su-27 TFace 1/48 Great Wall Hobby

  EX840 F/A-18F 1/48 Meng

  EX841 F/A-18F TFace 1/48 Meng

  EX842 Mi-24D 1/48 Trumpeter

  EX843 Mi-24D TFace 1/48 Trumpeter

  CX620 P-51B/C 1/72 Arma Hobby

  CX621 F-4D 1/72 Fine Molds

  CX622 Fw 190D-9 1/72 IBG

  DECAL SETS

  D48100 A6M2 national insignia 1/48 Eduard

  D48101 Spitfire Mk.V national insignia 1/48 Eduard

  SPACE

  3DL48059 SR-71A SPACE 1/48 Revell

  3DL48060 Z-526AFS Akrobat 1/48 Eduard

  3DL53004 Royal Navy ensign flags 1/350

  3DL53005 Royal Navy ensign flags (cruiser/destroyers) 1/350

  PE

  -

  Sets, Masks, Decal sets and SPACE

  MARCH 2022

  ON APPROACHON APPROACH

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  ON APPROACHON APPROACHON APPROACHON APPROACH

  Z-526AFS Akrobat

  Cat. No. 82184

  1/48

  KITS

  MARCH 2022

  ON APPROACHON APPROACH

  SP

  -

  CSU, s/n 1226, Piotr Haberland, Żelazny Aerobatic Group,

  Zielona Góra airfield, Poland, mid 2007

  I

  -

  IOIO, s/n 1330, Silvio Bellei, Sassuolo airfield, Italy, 1994

  OK

  -

  CXA, v. č. 1218, Jiří Kobrle, Jičín Aero Club,

  Czechoslovakia, 1975

  OK

  -

  CXC, s/n 1220, Olomouc Aero Club, Czech Republic, 2011

  OK

  -

  ERE, s/n 1307, Točná Aero Club, Slaný airfield,

  Czech Republic, 2014

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  KOREA

  Dual Combo

  STAVEBNICE

  ČERVENEC 2021

  ON APPROACHON APPROACHON APPROACHON APPROACH

  MARCH 2022

  KITS

  ON APPROACHON APPROACH

  Cat. No. 11161

  F-51D-30, 45-11705, Lt. Robert H. Dewald, 35th FBS,

  8th FBG, Seoul City AB (K-16), Korea,

  December 1950

  F-51D-25, 44-73073, Lt. Daniel E. Parr, 12th FBS,

  18th FBG, Pusan East AB (K-9),

  Korea, summer 1951

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  ČERVENEC 2021

  ON APPROACHON APPROACHON APPROACHON APPROACH

  MARCH 2022

  KITS

  ON APPROACHON APPROACH

  KOREA Dual Combo

  F-51D-30, 44-74597, Maj. Murrit H. Davis,

  CO of 39th FIS, 18th FBG, Seoul City AB (K-16),

  Korea, August 1951

  F-51D-30, 44-74651, Col. William H. Clark,

  CO of 18th FBG, Hoengsong AB (K-46),

  Korea, July 1952

  RF-51D-25, 44-84840, Lt. Frank M. Ward,

  45th TRS, 67th TRG, Taegu AB (K-2),

  Korea, July 1951

  RF-51K-10, 44-12237, Lt. Watts/Lt. Taylor,

  45th TRS, 67th TRG, Kimpo AB (K-14),

  Korea, 1952

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  ČERVENEC 2021

  ON APPROACHON APPROACHON APPROACHON APPROACH

  MARCH 2022

  KITS

  ON APPROACHON APPROACH

  KOREA Dual Combo

  RF-51D-25, 44-84837, Lt. Grover J. Isbell,

  45th TRS, 67th TRG, Kimpo AB (K-14),

  Korea, 1952

  F-51D-30, 44-74629, Col. Dean E. Hess, ROKAF,

  Seoul City AB (K-16), Korea, October 1950

  F-51D-25, A68-809 (45-11474),

  W/Cdr Louis T. Spence,

  CO of No. 77 Squadron RAAF, Iwakuni,

  Japan, August 1950

  P-51D-30, 44-74863, No. 2 „Flying Cheetahs“ Squadron SAAF,

  Chinhae AB (K-10), Korea, 1952

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  USS Arizona

  Cat. No. LN01

  1/350

  MARCH 2022

  KITS

  ON APPROACHON APPROACH

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  ON APPROACHON APPROACHON APPROACHON APPROACH

  USS Arizona

  MARCH 2022

  KITS

  ON APPROACHON APPROACH

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  ON APPROACHON APPROACHON APPROACHON APPROACH

  1/72

  KITS

  MARCH 2022

  ON APPROACHON APPROACH

  MiG-15

  Cat. No. 7459

  MiG-15, No. 141303, 3 Fighter Air Regiment,

  Brno-Tuřany, ca. 1958

  EP-01, LtCol. Jozef Kúkel, 1 Fighter Air Division,

  Hradec Králové, Ruzyně, September 4, 1955

  MiG-15, s/n 231611, Romanian Air Force,

  Late 1950s

  MiG-15, 0615334, Maj. V. I. Kolyadin, 28 GIAP,

  151 GIAD, 64 IAK, Mukden, China,

  December 1950

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  ON APPROACHON APPROACHON APPROACHON APPROACH

  1/48

  KITS

  MARCH 2022

  ON APPROACHON APPROACH

  Spitfire Mk.IXc

  Cat. No. 84183

  MJ291, F/O Otto Smik, No. 310 (Czechoslovak) Squadron,

  RAF Appledram, West Sussex, United Kingdom,

  June 1944

  MJ628, W/Cdr Daniel A. R. G. le Roy du Vivier,

  CO of No. 324 Wing, Italy, May 1944

  MH883, F/Lt George F. Beurling, No. 412 Squadron RCAF,

  RAF Biggin Hill, United Kingdom, December 1943 – April 1944

  Maj. Garth B. Jared, CO of 309th FS, 31st FG, 12th AF,

  Pomigliano/Castel Volturno base, Italy, 1943/1944

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  The first Tuesday of February, or the last

  of January, has for us meant for many ye-

  ars assembling a collection of built models

  and accessories, boxes of new releases,

  a coffee maker, promotional items, our

  Sunday bests and ourselves to put them

  on, and many other items, and taking it all

  to Hall Number Seven of the Mecca that is

  the Nuremberg Exhibition Center. This is

  a paradise of toys and model making, which

  cannot be imagined by those who have not

  see it with their own eyes, and that became

  our home for almost a week, a week filled

  with negotiations with dealers and distribu-

  tors, other manufacturers and model jour-

  nalists. In recent years, a press conference

  covering upcoming news hosted by Eduard

  for the given year has become a part of this

  event.

  This is what a description of the move to

  Nuremberg looks like every year. Every

  year, until, that is, last year….and alas, also

  this year. Last year, the International Toy

  Fair – Spielwarenmesse was cancelled due

  to the on-going coronavirus pandemic and

  moved to the summer. That this idea was

  not met with a lot of enthusiasm was of lit-

  tle surprise and doesn’t need much empha-

  sizing. And so, even the planned summer

  event was cancelled with no replacement

  announced.

  After a one-year hiatus, we were really lo-

  oking forward to this year‘s fair, especially

  to the meetings with many of our partners

  from all over the world, with whom we have

  this opportunity to catch up at Nuremberg

  on a regular basis. However, as the win-

  ter weeks progressed, many of them be-

  gan to withdraw their participation, and in

  this context we also carefully considered

  whether participation made sense for us

  in the absence of many of those we actua-

  lly go there to see. However, the idea of an

  unusual situation and the

  opportunities it brought us in the end was

  attractive to us and we did not withdraw

  our participation. This was despite justi-

  fied doubts about the ultimate significance

  of the effort required to attend. Any doubts

  were immediately answered by the virus in

  its new form. At the beginning of January,

  the organizers canceled the event. After the

  cancellation of last year at this time, we fi-

  gured that surely, the worldwide situation

  would definitely be resolved by now, and

  this year‘s fair would no doubt take place.

  Evidently, there is little point in guessing

  when you don’t have the right information,

  or a functional crystal ball.

  Among the preparations that we still had to

  undertake when we still thought we were

  coming was the concept of the appearan-

  ce of our stand, i.e., a roofless cubicle with

  an area of 54 sq. meters. You may be aware

  that for several years now, the exterior and

  especially the interior of Eduard‘s stand

  has been transformed along thematic lines,

  which have always aroused great interest

  among visitors. Over time, topics such as

  the RCF airport from the First World War,

  a concrete Czechoslovak Army structure

  with a MiG-21, a USAAF fighter unit officer’s

  club with a P-51D somewhere in England

  and a pilot’s shack of a Czechoslovak fighter

  squadron of the RAF all were themes that

  were covered.

  The new Zero and the Czechoslovak Trener

  aircraft offered us theme possibilities for

  this year. I honestly admit that I would have

  great difficulty with the idea of a Japanese

  Air Force theme. In enhancing our theme

  inspired stand and its atmosphere, we use

  a number of period artifacts, and even

  with an aviation museum at my disposal, I

  still have nothing from which to draw Ja-

  panese items. I was pleased to garner the

  support of the boss on the idea of a the-

  me built around the Trener instead, i.e. an

  environment based on a Czech Aeroclub.

  In its preparation, I enjoyed the prospect of

  spending the week in the oasis that is the

  Nuremberg Toy Fair, despite the goings on

  in the outside world, and the ‘feel’ that wou-

  ld be evoked by the the scent of dried grass,

  engine oil and a drop of high-octane gaso-

  line, all accents that would make my little

  corner of an aeroclub hangar complete. But,

  as it happens, the Lord giveth, and the Lord

  taketh away. In the end, everything turned

  out differently. Instead of a report from this

  year‘s edition of the Eduard stand, we are

  relegated to offering you at least some pho-

  tos from the topics of previous years.

  After the unfortunate cancellation of this

  year’s event, the organizers have opted to

  go to a virtual format, and have invited us to

  participate. This is not an optimal solution

  for Eduard. For us, the main attraction of

  the event was the physical getting together,

  and will eagerly anticipate the next time we

  can do that. Let’s hope this is the last year

  it doesn’t happen.

  How We Missed Nuremberg...Again

  Jan Zdiarský

  2019

  2019

  2019

  2020

  2019

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  ČERVENEC 2021

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  Bf 109G-14/U4, W. Nr. 512382, flown by Lt. H. Schlick,

  4./ JG 77, Schönwalde, Germany, November 1944

  Bf109G-14, flown by Oblt. R. Schlegel, CO of 10./ JG 4,

  Jüterbog – Damm, Germany, March 1945

  Bf 109G-14/U4, flown by Hptm. E. Hartmann, 4./ JG 52,

  Csór, Hungary, October 1944

  Bf 109G-14, W. Nr. 464534, EJG 2, Pilsen,

  Czechoslovakia, May 1945

  Bf 109G-14, W. Nr. 464380, flown by Magg. M. Bellagambi, CO of 5a Squadriglia,

  2o Gruppo Caccia, Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana, Osoppo, Italy, March 1945

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  The first Tuesday of February, or the last

  of January, has for us meant for many ye-

  ars assembling a collection of built models

  and accessories, boxes of new releases,

  a coffee maker, promotional items, our

  Sunday bests and ourselves to put them

  on, and many other items, and taking it all

  to Hall Number Seven of the Mecca that is

  the Nuremberg Exhibition Center. This is

  a paradise of toys and model making, which

  cannot be imagined by those who have not

  see it with their own eyes, and that became

  our home for almost a week, a week filled

  with negotiations with dealers and distribu-

  tors, other manufacturers and model jour-

  nalists. In recent years, a press conference

  covering upcoming news hosted by Eduard

  for the given year has become a part of this

  event.

  This is what a description of the move to

  Nuremberg looks like every year. Every

  year, until, that is, last year….and alas, also

  this year. Last year, the International Toy

  Fair – Spielwarenmesse was cancelled due

  to the on-going coronavirus pandemic and

  moved to the summer. That this idea was

  not met with a lot of enthusiasm was of lit-

  tle surprise and doesn’t need much empha-

  sizing. And so, even the planned summer

  event was cancelled with no replacement

  announced.

  After a one-year hiatus, we were really lo-

  oking forward to this year‘s fair, especially

  to the meetings with many of our partners

  from all over the world, with whom we have

  this opportunity to catch up at Nuremberg

  on a regular basis. However, as the win-

  ter weeks progressed, many of them be-

  gan to withdraw their participation, and in

  this context we also carefully considered

  whether participation made sense for us

  in the absence of many of those we actua-

  lly go there to see. However, the idea of an

  unusual situation and the

  opportunities it brought us in the end was

  attractive to us and we did not withdraw

  our participation. This was despite justi-

  fied doubts about the ultimate significance

  of the effort required to attend. Any doubts

  were immediately answered by the virus in

  its new form. At the beginning of January,

  the organizers canceled the event. After the

  cancellation of last year at this time, we fi-

  gured that surely, the worldwide situation

  would definitely be resolved by now, and

  this year‘s fair would no doubt take place.

  Evidently, there is little point in guessing

  when you don’t have the right information,

  or a functional crystal ball.

  Among the preparations that we still had to

  undertake when we still thought we were

  coming was the concept of the appearan-

  ce of our stand, i.e., a roofless cubicle with

  an area of 54 sq. meters. You may be aware

  that for several years now, the exterior and

  especially the interior of Eduard‘s stand

  has been transformed along thematic lines,

  which have always aroused great interest

  among visitors. Over time, topics such as

  the RCF airport from the First World War,

  a concrete Czechoslovak Army structure

  with a MiG-21, a USAAF fighter unit officer’s

  club with a P-51D somewhere in England

  and a pilot’s shack of a Czechoslovak fighter

  squadron of the RAF all were themes that

  were covered.

  The new Zero and the Czechoslovak Trener

  aircraft offered us theme possibilities for

  this year. I honestly admit that I would have

  great difficulty with the idea of a Japanese

  Air Force theme. In enhancing our theme

  inspired stand and its atmosphere, we use

  a number of period artifacts, and even

  with an aviation museum at my disposal, I

  still have nothing from which to draw Ja-

  panese items. I was pleased to garner the

  support of the boss on the idea of a the-

  me built around the Trener instead, i.e. an

  environment based on a Czech Aeroclub.

  In its preparation, I enjoyed the prospect of

  spending the week in the oasis that is the

  Nuremberg Toy Fair, despite the goings on

  in the outside world, and the ‘feel’ that wou-

  ld be evoked by the the scent of dried grass,

  engine oil and a drop of high-octane gaso-

  line, all accents that would make my little

  corner of an aeroclub hangar complete. But,

  as it happens, the Lord giveth, and the Lord

  taketh away. In the end, everything turned

  out differently. Instead of a report from this

  year‘s edition of the Eduard stand, we are

  relegated to offering you at least some pho-

  tos from the topics of previous years.

  After the unfortunate cancellation of this

  year’s event, the organizers have opted to

  go to a virtual format, and have invited us to

  participate. This is not an optimal solution

  for Eduard. For us, the main attraction of

  the event was the physical getting together,

  and will eagerly anticipate the next time we

  can do that. Let’s hope this is the last year

  it doesn’t happen.

  How We Missed Nuremberg...Again

  Jan Zdiarský

  2019

  2019

  2019

  2020

  2019

  eduard

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