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eduardeduardSEPTEMBER 2022CONTENTSEDITORIALKITSBRASSINPHOTO-ETCHED SETSBIG EDBUILTON APROACH–October 2022TAIL END CHARLIEHISTORYBOXART STORYAvia S-199 ERLA canopy ProfiPACK 1/72Fw 190A-3 light fighter ProfiPACK 1/48The Ultimate Tempest Limited 1/72Bf 110E Weekend edition 1/72Spitfire F Mk.IX ProfiPACK 1/72F4F-3 Wildcat ProfiPACK 1/48SPITFIRE STORY: Per Aspera ad Astra 1/48F4F-3 Wildcat 1/48GRUMMAN F4F-3 Wildcat - second partMission: Impossible Ukrainian styleBlue outline, white outline...Sample from book „THE ULTIMATE TEMPEST“First bloodFourth of July over the NetherlandsSharks over CreteFor a free France4824285872828892110Published by Eduard-Model Accessories, spol. s.r.o.Mírová 170, Obrnice 435 21support@eduard.com www.eduard.comPage 4
Dear fellow modelers,After a two-year hiatus, forced by the pan-demic and lockdowns that came with it, thisyear the E-day is returning to the calendarof the top scale modeling events. It willtake place on October 1 in the new exibiti-on hall at the Milovice Tank Training Area.The doors will already open on Friday af-ternoon, same as in the previous event in2019. Besides the possibility of the advanceshopping at the vendors booths the Frida-y’s prelude will also offer the opportunityto meet some interesting guests. First onewill be Jiří Šilhánek, the founder and ownerof Special Hobby company who will sharewith us the insider’s view of our industry.Those of you who attended Jiri’s show in2019 know that they will experience ano-ther suggestive narrative and incrediblestories. Another guest on Friday eveningwill be Jaroslav Velc, well known aviationartist and another legend of the industrywho will present his book “In the Clouds”.This book contains all his artwork appliedas the boxart for the plastic scale mo-dels and its presentation and sales will belaunched during the main program on Sa-turday. Since we anticipate that the majori-ty of attendants of the Friday’s chat with theauthor will want to purchase the book andhave it signed by him we will arrange thesales on Friday. The book will be offered atspecial price of 1,700 Kč, discounted fromthe regular retail price of 2,200 Kč. The thi-rd Friday’s guest will be Milan Mikulecký.On Saturday he will fly over the MiloviceTank Training Areain Zlin Z-326MTrenerMaster registered OK-OTP and carrying themilitary fuselage number 0612 and at leastpart of the chat with him will be focusedon this particular airplane. Its livery willbe included in our Trener Master LIMITEDEdition kit which sales will be launched atE-day. Milan is not only a pilot. He is alsogetting quite a recognition as a military andpolitical analyst commenting on the Ukrai-nian conflict, besides other topics. I will notconceal that I am one of his followers andthat it was one of the reasons why I invitedhim to E-day. I am sure that interview withhim will be anything but boring.On Saturday the program will be alignedwith our traditions. Besides launchingMr.Velc’s book and the morning presenta-tion of the new Eduard projects two “HotSpot“ debates (a.k.a. „boiling kettles“) willtake place. The first one will be modera-ted by myself and will follow up on our newitems‘ presentation, Eduard’s evolution du-ring the past three years, about our plans,projects, innovations and the future in ge-neral. The second “Hot Spot” will be mode-rated by Freddy Riedel from Special Hobbyand will be focused on their plans, projectsand company’s future. Further on the sche-dule there will be various workshops eitherorganized by our company or other exhi-biting companies, like already mentionedJaroslav Velc’s book kick off held togetherwith its co-author Ondřej Neff. This will befollowed by authors signing the book. Weare also preparing the flight demonstra-tion. This year it will be all about Treners,mainly because our „Trener Master“ LIMI-TED Edition is one of our top new releasesannounced at E-day.In the light of the recent tragic Hurrica-ne crash in Cheb unfortunatelly I have tosay that the plans for the air display hasnot been fully set yet and the cancellati-on is still possible. Should that happen wehave arranged for the similarly attractive“ground option” which will be the part of ourSaturday’s schedule. At the end of the daythe traditional announcement of the mode-EDITORIALBoth subjects of this photo will be at this year's E-day. One in person, the other as a kit.JAROSLAV VELCV OBLACÍCHIlustrač ní tvorba a box artRozhovor vedl Ondř ej NeffJaroslav Velc byl průkopníkem letec-kého výtvarnictví u nás a patří v tom-to oboru ke světové špičce. Jeho ilus-trace na obalech stavebnic modelůznají nadšenci letectví po celém světě.Mnohé z jeho ilustrací se mezi nimi stalykultovními a dodnes je tento výtvarníkpro většinu autorů leteckých ilustracívelkým vzorem.Jeho kresby letadel se vyznačují maxi-mální věrností, dokáže dodat strojůmtrojrozměrnost, dynamiku pohybu a vy-tvořit dokonalou iluzi prostoru.Ve své době vytvářel boxarty nejenpro české výrobce leteckých mode-lů (Kovozávody Prostějov, Směr, OEZLetohrad, …), ale i pro řadu zahranič-ních výrobců (Monogram, Matchbox,Revell). Kromě toho přispíval do časopi-sů ABC mladých techniků a přírodověd-ců, Letectví a kosmonautika a dalších.Jeho méně známou celoživotní zálibouje entomologie. I na toto téma nama-loval řadu krásných ilustrací, vlastní roz-sáhlou sbírku motýlů a brouků a dispo-nuje obdivuhodnými znalostmi z tohotooboru.Kniha zahrnuje tvorbu Jaroslava Velceod počátků až k datu 31. července 2022.Při jejím sestavování jsme kladli důrazna použití originálů. Reprodukce z tiskuuvádíme pouze u krabic na stavebnicea u několika časopiseckých a knižníchobálek (viz např. obálky ABC). Obrazo-vá část je rozdělena do tří oddílů.První oddíl Obrazy na obaly stavebnic(Box art) je řazen dle výrobců. Vedleoriginálu uvádíme i vlastní box art, tedykrabici na plastikový model, na níž bylobraz použit. Je zajímavé porovnat ori-ginál s gra kou box artu včetně různýchořezů i změny barevnosti, aby motiv nakrabici co nejlépe vynikl.Druhý oddíl Volná tvorba obsahujechronologicky veškerou Velcovu tvorbuobrazů mimo obchodní zakázky.Třetí oddíl Knižní a časopisecká tvorbapak v chronologickém přehledu pre-zentuje dle výběru autora a redakcevšechny druhy tvorby, kterým se Jaro-slav Velc během let věnoval, ať už jdeo realizaci obálek, vystřihovánek, tech-nicky zaměřených monogra í, obtisků,ilustračních kreseb pro populárně na-učnou literaturu aj.www.albatrosmedia.czCZ 2 199 Kč / SK 87,90 €JAROSLAV VELCV OBLACÍCHJaroslav Velc patří ke světové špičce v oblasti leteckých obrazů a box artu –ilustrací na obaly plastikových modelů letadel. Jeho tvorbu obdivují celé generaceleteckých modelářů, ale i čtenáři časopisu ABC. Obsáhlá monogra e prezentujetéměř kompletní Velcovu tvorbu, ale najdete v ní ještě mnohem víc.Z rozhovoru s publicistou Ondřejem Neffem se dozvíte řadu perliček z Velcova životaa díky zasvěceným doslovům ho poznáte i očima jeho kolegů.JEDINEČNÁ MONOGRAFIE MALÍŘE, KTERÝ VÝZNAMNĚ OVLIVNILSVĚT PLASTIKOVÉHO MODELÁŘSTVÍObrazy Jaroslava Velce jsou mimořádně působivé. Jeho barevná škála je vynikající, malíř velmidobře ví, jak důležité je na obraze využití světla a stínu. Pozadí zjevně pečlivě vybírá tak, aby ladilos letadlem. Detaily jsou skvělé a jsem rád, že malíř i v pozdějším věku pokračuje v tvorbě kvalitníchobrazů. Kéž tak pokračuje i nadále!– Keith Woodcock, jeden z nejlepších současných anglických malířůautomobilového sportu a letecké technikyJaroslav udržuje vynikající rovnováhu mezi obrazem letadla (s dechberoucí přesností a smyslem prodetail) a střídmým, ale autentickým pozadím. Ve skutečnosti jsou to pro mě právě pozadí, která jehopráci staví na tak vysokou úroveň. Výběr barev doplňuje téma, a zvláště si všímám jeho pečlivéhomalování letadel v pozadí; ze zkušenosti vím, jak je obtížné je přesvědčivě ztvárnit, ale jemu se topokaždé podaří.– Chris Thomas, britský autor knih o letectví a specialista na stroje Typhoon/TempestA101F0F0001845_Velc - prebal.indd 1A101F0F0001845_Velc - prebal.indd 1 16.8.2022 14:08:1116.8.2022 14:08:11INFO Eduard4September 2022Page 5
ling contest winners will be made includingthe “Best of Show” winner for whom weprepared a newly designed award.The modelers who will exhibit their workwill have the separate access to the buil-ding. Them as well as the vendors will beable to park their cars on the newly builtparking space close to the hall. The visitorswill be able to use the original parking lot,same as during our Mustang airshow in2019. There will be shuttle service betweenthe parking lot and the exhibition hall, orthe visitors can just simply walk over. Forvisitors arriving by train in the morning wewill arrange a bus shuttle from Lysá nadLabem train station and the Tank TrainingArea and back to train station in the after-noon. The catering is important part of thewhole event and this year the Tank TrainingArea itself will be mostly in charge. Threerefreshment stalls are being planned plusa larger, restaurant-style catering. Alrea-dy traditional cafeteria “Air Café” from Brnowill be present indoors.An integral part of every scale models exhi-bition and competition are the vendors andmanufacturers booths selling kits, acce-ssories, paint, tools and other equipment.I cannot speak for other manufacturersand vendors, but I can reveal the new itemsyou will find at our tables. Despite the factwe did not manage to finish 1/48 Mi-24Vkit which we were planning and preparingspecifically for this year‘s E-day our offerof the new releases will be attractive re-gardless. In the lieu of absent Hind the topproduct targeting domestic market wil be1/48 scale TRENER MASTER in the LIMITEDseries. Zlin Z-326/C-305, the first Trenerversion featuring the retractable landinggear will be offered in ten color schemes.This aircraft was developed according tothe Czechoslovak Air Force requirementsfor the basic pilot training and even thoughonly ten of them ultimately flew in theCzechoslovak AF it was extensively ex-ported and its versions Z-326, Z-326M andZ-326MF are still flying in many countriesaround the world. Long lasting successfullflying career of the popular “threehundre-dandfives“ around the World is reflectedin the choice of kit markings out of whichyou can build the French, British, Spanish,Swiss, German and even Icelandic aircraft.Four schemes are dedicated to the Czechaircraft, two of them in the military camouf-lage and markings. One is the authenticmilitary aircraft painted in aluminum dopeoverall and carrying the fuselage number0572. Later it was swapped for Z-22 fromBelgium. The second aircraft registredOK-OTP has been restored to the authenticappearance of the military version C-305with code 0612. That is the airplane MilanMikulecký will fly over the Tank TrainingAreaon Saturday. The remaining two Czechairplanes are Z-326M OK-OTA based inProstějov and Z-326M OK-OTF with whichI have an emotional relationship since I hada privilege to take a ride in it in 2019. I haveto admit that it was one of my nicest fly-ing experiences ever. We flew over Most asan escort to Lockheed Electra and it wasjust fabulous. This is the very first issueof Z-326 version and the kit will be sold inDUAL COMBO edition, it is with two comple-te sets of plastic parts.There is another first issue being releasedin October as a Limited Edition, 1/48 scaleDUAL COMBO named MIDWAY. It is in facta Wildcat in versions F4F-3 and F4F-4. Thekit is a world premiere, specifically of theF4F-4 version which the modeling commu-nity is eagerly awaiting due to its combatrecord in the Battle of Midway. It is kind ofdouble premiere so to speak. The kit provi-des decals for ten aircraft from the periodstarting 1940 until June 1942 and half of themarkings feature F4F-3 type. There is oneaircraft in the colorful pre-war scheme,other two are from the Wake Atoll defen-se period, escort of the Doolittle bombersupon their launch for the raid on Tokyo,another one is from the time of Battle of theCoral Sea and the last F4F-3, in this casethe only F4F-3A version in this selection,is from the time of the raid on Marshall andGilbert Archipelagos. The remaining fiveaircraft are F4F-4 versions coming altoge-ther from the initial production blocks (socalled Early version). They appear as theyfought in the Battle of Midway as well asin the preceding engagements. Two of themarkings are even presented in two vari-ations. The choice of camouflage and mar-kings is very diverse because during thisperiod the changes of orders were maderather frequently. The introduction in thekit instruction sheet was writted by a well--known aviation historian Tom Cleaver andeven though I am aware the majority of mo-delers do not read it this text is highly reco-mmended. It is nicely written Wildcat storywithin the context of a challenging period oftime. Same is true about the texts accom-panying the color instructions.www.eduard.comA6M3 ZeroA6M3 Zero Type 321/48A6M3 Zero1/48Scale Plastic Model KitA6M3 ZeroScale Plastic Model Kit1/48Eduard - Model AccessoriesMírová 170435 21 ObrniceCzech Republicwww.eduard.com1/4882213item© Eduard-Model Accessories, s.r.o. 202254,95A6M3 Zero Type 32scalePLASTIKOVÁ STAVEBNICEPRO POKROČILÉ MODELÁŘEplastové díly pro stavbu jednoho modeluobtisky pro 5 markingůfotoleptané díly a vyřezávané maskyVYROBENO V ČESKÉ REPUBLICESběratelská položka pro dospělé modelářeSCALE PLASTIC MODEL KITFOR ADVANCED MODELLERSplastic parts for one scale modeldecals for 5 marking optionsphoto etched parts & die cut masksMADE IN CZECH REPUBLICCollectible item for adult collectors only82213itemscalescale82213itemType 32Type 3282213item1 48Ldg. Sea. Kenji Yanagiya, Kōkūtai 204, Rabaulbase, New Britain, April 1943Type 32c/n 3018, Tainan Kōkūtai,Buna airfield, New Guinea,August 1942PO1c Kyoshi Itō, 3. Kōkūtai, Koepang airfield,Timor Island, September 1942Zuikaku Fighter Squadron,aircraft carrier Zuikaku,October 1942CPO Takeo Tanimizu, Tainan Kōkūtai (II),Tainan airbase, Taiwan, September 1944Jiří Šilhánek, owner of Special Hobby, one of the stars of the Friday evening meeting at E-day 2022.INFO Eduard5September 2022Page 6
The list of Eduard’s new products being re-leased at E-day is not over. There is a Zero,Hamp in fact because the Americans con-sidered the A6M3 Model 32 a new type ofaircraft and therefore gave it an individualcode name. A6M3 Zero kit will be sold as1/48 scale Profipack edition. Decals will fe-ature five aircraft representing the varietyof camouflage and markings of this Zeroversion during the various stages of itscombat career. Indeed, its career was verycolorful when it comes to both the aircraftmissions they flew and coloration theysported. The markings have been producedagain in cooperation with the renowned re-searchers incorporating several new factsunearthed recently.The list of kits being prepared for E-dayinclude 1/48 scale Fw 190A-8 in WEEKENDedition featuring four unusual schemes:Lt. Luck‘s aircraft from Il/JG 1 during thefighting over Germany in the spring of 1944,Uffz. Pape‘s aircraft from JGr. 10 featuringthe snake artwork on the side of the fuse-lage, Uffz. Birk‘s aircraft from III./JG 5 fromNorway in the spring of 1945 and the perso-nal aircraft of Major Kennel, commander ofthe II./SG 2 fighter-bomber unit. The last ofthe five new releases is the reissue of the1/72 scale Mig-21PFM in Profipack edition.The decal sheet will offer markings for fiveairplanes, two Czechoslovak, one Egyp-tian, one Vietnamese and one from GermanBundesluftwaffe from the period of Germa-ny unification. Besides the model kits therewill be a plethora of the aftermarket itemspresented at E-day, obviously for the newupcoming kits in the first place. Amongthem there will be a wheel well for Wildcator the tailwheel for Zero model 32 with thecomplete installation enabling a modelerto show this detail on the opened fuselagetail cone. There will be Brassin and PE setsincluding the nozzles for Meng F/A-18E/F,sets for 1/48 scale Tamiya P-38J Lightningincluding the rivets from Eddie the Riveterseries, new Look and Space sets and alsothe set for 1/72 scale Fore Hobby GermanSchnellboot. There will be a “ton” of theseaccessories, but they will be covered in theOctober INFO to be released shortly beforeE-day, on Thursday, September 29.September new releases-model kits1/48 scale Tempest Mk.II in The Ultima-te Tempest boxing will be reissued in theLIMITED series. The kit includes the pho-to book by Chris Thomas covering theTempest Mk.II service in RAF, in the RoyalIndian Air Force (RIAF) and the Royal Pa-kistani Air Force (RPAF) complemented bythe decal sheet for ten aircraft both in pro-duction version without a tropical filter andwith a tropical filter and the cockpit watertank. You can find the excerpt from the bookin today’s INFO. In ProfiPACK edition we willrelease the 1/48 scale Fw 190A-3 kit fea-turing the reduced armament of two wingcannons and decals for two aircraft fromFrance, one of which is Josef Priller’s per-sonal mount, another one Holland basedJG 1 aircraft, Norway based JG 5 aircraftretrieved from the sea many decades afterthe war and the JG 51 aircraft from the Eas-tern Front sporting green camouflage.The time has arrived to reissue our Bf 110line of kits. It took a long time but all goodcomes to those who wait. In the Weekendedition we are reissuing Bf 110E with fourmarkings, one from the Mediterraneantheatre, one from the Norther Europe andtwo aircraft are from the Eastern Front.At the same time two other items are be-ing returned to our catalog: 2132 Adlertagin the LIMITED series and Profipack 7081Bf 110C/D.1/72 scale kits dominate our line of newreleases, rather unusual occurrence. Besi-des Bf 110E in Profipack series we will re-lease Avia S-199 with the older type of ca-nopy (Erla haube). It contains six markings,three Israeli and two Czechoslovak. Thesetwo model kits are complemented by 1/72scale Spitfire F.Mk. IX reissue in the Profi-pack series. The decals feature the aircraftof S/Ldr. Bernard Duperier from No. 340Squadron RAF and S/Ldr. Stanislaw Skal-ski from Polish Cobat Team in North Afri-ca, then No. 611 Squadron RAF aircraft anda USAAF 52nd FG Spitfire flown by Lt. Leo-nard V. Helton from the fighting in Tunisia.BRASSINThe majority of our October new releasesin Brassin series is again 3D printed.Among them are sets for our 1/48 sca-le F4F-3 Wildcat, for example the cockpitfor the early F4F-3 with telescopic gunsi-ght, standalone seat and a dinghy (inclu-ding the opened storage on the fuselagespine). The dinghy is offered both storedand inflated and includes the paddles. Forour 1/48 scale A6M2 Zero we offer the tailwheel set. At the first glance it may seemunnecessary even strange. On the secondthought you will realize it is not about thetail wheel itself but its complete interiordesign including the rear fuselage tail conecover. Using this set you can build the mo-del either with the uncovered tail cone andexpose the tail wheel installation or build itwith covers on. We are also releasing theset of wing weapons wells for our Zero kit.We believe we are the first manufacturerwho created these wing weapons wells forboth Zero models 21 and 11. The referencesare extremely difficult to come by and wewould not have succeeded without the in-valuable help of researchers from Japan,Europe and North America.The sets for the new 1/48 Tamiya P-38Jkit are in high demand as well. In Octoberwe will release three sets for this model.Besides 3D printed items for this importantkit, we will also release dedicated PE sets,bronze landing gear legs, Space set anda decal sheet in the Eduard Decals seriesfor the aircraft from PTO. We will continuewith the preparation of the further sets anddecals. For the 1/72 scale Arma Hobby kitof the Nakajima Ki-84 Frank Japanese fi-ghter we are releasing the seat, landinggear wheels and engine exhausts. And wewill work on more accessories for this kitin the upcoming months. Currently offeredis the set for our 1/48 scale Sopwith Camelkit (Bentley engine) where the majority ofthe parts are 3D printed.Space and LöökIn the Space series we offer the sets forP-38J (1/48, Tamiya), F4F-3 early (1/48,Eduard), Yak-9T (1/32, ICM), Spitfire FMk.XVIII (1/48, Airfix) and F-86F-40 (1/48,Airfix). In the Look series which purpose isan easy replacement of the kit parts, we areoffering two sets for F4F-3 Wildcat (1/48,Eduard) and one set for EA-18G by Meng(1/48). In the larger sets from LooKplus wesell the products for Su-25 (1/48, Zvezda)and for both AH-1H and AH-1J (1/48, Tamiya).Photoetched sets and masksThe new items in our PE product sectionare dedicated to some really nice modelAlfred Riedel, CEO of Special Hobby, will present the company's production and plans in presentation at E-day 2022on Saturday afternoon.INFO Eduard6September 2022Page 7
kits, for example the aforementioned 1/48scale Tamiya P-38J Lightning. The othersare Spitfire Mk.XVIII and F-86-F-40 Sabre,both produced by Airfix in 1/48 scale. TheUkrainian company ICM issued the brandnew 1/32 scale kit of Yak-9T. For it we offerthe classic set of accessories: steel seatbelts, Zoom set, the extensive PE set andthe classic PE landing flaps set. The Russi-an company Zvezda has released 1/48 sca-le Yak-9, specifically its long-range versionYak-9D. Besides two supplementary setsand steel seat belts from Steelbelts edi-tion we will also offer the mask sets bothin standard and two-sided TFace versions.Fairly rare are 1/35 scale airplane kits byBorder Models company which has re-leased two kits so far while others are inpreparation. We are currently launching thesale of Messerschmitt Bf 109G-6 sets andin October we will follow up with a set forJu-87 Stuka. I got to admit that I don’t havemuch faith in the sales success of thesekits. There had been several attempts inintroducing them to the market in the pastand I don’t recall that any of them was su-ccessful. It may be different this time andwe may witness the market breakthrough.More likely not, but you never can tell, canyou?I would like to point out that in Septemberwe are adding to our new items portfoliothe unusually large number of sets for thearmor kits. There will be two sets for newJagdtiger by Hobby Boss in 1/35 scale. Onecontains the general parts and the otherone the mud guards. Another new 1/35 sca-le model by Hobby Boss is Coyote TSV de-rived from Jackal vehicle deployed in com-bat in Afghanistan. Previously we releasedsets for Jackal 1 and 2. The last Septembernew PE release in 1/35 scale is the set forthe kit of the Soviet T-70B tank by Zvezda.The aforementioned new releases do notrepresent the complete list of all new acce-ssories sets. I hope you pay close attentionto this information and do not read the his-toric articles only. Well, I am an optimist,I guess? Nevertheless, I am aware that werelease a lot of sets in a growing number ofvarious series. If you cannot get oriented inthem do not despair. In the upcoming Infoissues, we plan to publish the descriptionof each set, for what and whom it is inten-ded and its other benefits. And if you arestill uncertain after that feel free to ask. Wewill gladly give you a piece of advice. AndE-day is the right place to be where you cansee samples of our production and our de-signers and product managers will answerany question you may have.Historic articlesThey are, of course more interesting toread, I agree. So, I will not hold you any lon-ger just quickly mention what you can readtoday. There is the second part of F4F-3Wildcat story by Tom Cleaver and also ano-ther part of S-199 article by Michal Ovčá-čík. Also the sixth part of the series „TheAir War over Ukraine“ by Miro Baric is here.This story covers the evacuation flights ofthe Ukrainian helicopters to Mariupol du-ring its heroic defense. We are also addinga sample of the book by Christopher Tho-mas, which is part of our LIMITED editionkit of Mk.II Tempest. And to keep you rea-ding there is a Boxart story, slowly makingtradition. One of our readers wrote to merecently saying they are the great articlesfor a breakfast, even better as bedtimestories. They are short and he manages tofinish reading them before he falls asle-ep. One at a time of course so today’s cropshould last a week.Plastic Modeling Championshipof the Czech RepublicI have one more topic to discuss so pleasestick around and do not move on the histo-ric articles yet. Next Saturday, September19 the traditional Plastic Modeling Champi-onship will take place in the Prague‘s hotelOlympic. Eduard is one of the sponsors andalso a media partner of the event. It meanswe will write about the event in the upco-ming Info issues. So far, we have not beena media partner of any similar event, soI am proud to join hands with the eventorganizers, Plastic Modelling Section ofthe Czech Republic Association of ModelBuilders. Besides, the main award of theChampionship is the “Ear Cup” donated byour company. I will be the one to presentthis award and I am looking forward to it.And before that I will give the presentationof our new items, plans, innovations, futureand so on. Similar presentation I will givethree weeks later at E-day.And now, let’s move on to those historic ar-ticles.Let’s have a kit!Vladimir SulcZ-326M, OK-OTP will fly over the Milovice Saturday afternoon. Its pilot, Milan Mikulecký, will be oneof the participants in the Friday evening discussion.INFO Eduard7September 2022Page 8
GRUMMAN F4F-3 WILDCAT PART TWOBy: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver„Butch“ O‘HareSaves USS LexingtonEdward H. „Butch“ O‘Hare graduated fromthe U.S. Naval Academy in 1937. After twoyears of sea duty aboard the U.S.S. NewMexico, he was sent to Pensacola in 1939,becoming a Naval Aviator in May, 1940.He was assigned to VF-3, which was thenaboard Saratoga, where Lt John Thach,Executive Officer of VF -3, took O‘Hareas his wingman. Thach emphasized gu-nnery training (as did every USN FighterSquadron XO unlike their Army Air Corpscompatriots). At the fleet gunnery com-petition in November 1940, eight of 16 VF-3pilots qualified for the covered „GunneryE“, and O‘Hare won the fleet trophy forbest gunnery.On February 20, 1942, Lexington approa-ched New Ireland from the north to strikeRabaul, recently taken by the Japanese.The task force was 400 miles out whenradar spotted a bogey 35 miles away.Squadron CO Thach led the first divisi-on to intercept, with Squadron XO Lt CdrDon Lovelace’s four orbited the task force.Vectored in and out of clouds and squalllines, Thach finally found an H6K “Mavis”in a rain squall. Thach made a starboardoverhead pass as his wingman closedwith a portside high overhead pass. Undertheir combined fire the „Mavis“ spun intothe ocean. A second was shot down 50minutes later; it was clear the task for-ce had been discovered. Lexington wasabout to find out if a carrier task forcecould stand up to a determined land ba-sed bombing attack.At 1630 hours, 17 G4M1s of the 4th Kōkūtaiclosed on the fleet in two formations: onenine-plane formation from starboard, oneeight-plane formation from port. The ninewere 25 miles distant when radar spottedthem. Their timing could not have beenworse, with Lovelace‘s division ready toland just after Lt Noel Gaylor’s relief CAPwas launched. The bombers overflew theships and turned to attack from astern.Lovelace‘s division broke off from landingand attacked, disrupting their bomb run.Gaylor‘s division lost two Wildcats to thebombers’ then-unknown 20mm tail stin-gers. Thach was launched with six F4Fs,including O’Hare, who was ordered to or-bit the ship with his wingman Lt.(jg) Ma-Lt. Cdr. John Thach (near airplane) and Lt.Edward “Butch” O’Hare of VF-3 in their F4F-3Wildcats.HISTORYrion Dufilho. Sixteen of VF-3‘s 18 Wildcatswere now committed to the battle.At 1700 hours, Lexington’s radar pickedup the second formation, only 12 milesout on the disengaged side of the taskforce, completely unopposed. O‘Hare andDufilho were ordered to intercept andclimbed as fast as the relatively-sluggishF4F-3 could. They were 1,500 feet abovethe attacking eight bombers only nine mi-les out when they rolled into a starboardhigh side pass as the G4Ms descended ina fast shallow dive toward Lexington.As O‘Hare lined up his first target, Dufilhodove away with jammed guns. The FleetGunnery Competition Champion wasabout to enter the only contest that coun-ted. Tracers streaked past as he closedto 100 yards and opened fire, hitting thestarboard engine of the last plane withsuch concentrated fire it literally jumpedout of its mountings. As the first bomberspun toward the ocean below, O‘Hare hita second with another concentrated burstthat sent it down on fire. As he pulled out,he fired at the last bomber on the far sideof the formation and sent it down with itsport engine on fire. Winging over into a se-cond pass, he hit a fourth bomber.Thach later reported that he sawthree bombers falling in flamesat the same time when his secti-on joined the fight. O‘Hare madea third high side pass, diving throu-gh flak bursts from Lexington‘s AAto blow up the formation leader ashis guns rattled empty. The foursurviving bombers dropped theirbombs within 100 yards of Lexing-ton‘s stern just before Thach inter-vened and shot down two.The value of the Navy‘s empha-sis on gunnery training for fighterpilots had been fully demonstra-ted. When O‘Hare climbed out ofhis cockpit after landing, his firstrequest was for a glass of water;he downed four before leaving theflight deck. Against the loss of twoF4Fs and one pilot, VF-3 had dow-ned 15 of 17 attackers, includingtwo that ditched on the way home.It was later determined O‘Hare onlyshot down four, though a fifth wasone of the two that ditched, valida-ting his claim. He had used only 60rounds for each plane destroyed.Lt.Cdr. John S. Thach, CO of VF-3 (second from r) with pilots of VF-3 aboard USS Lexington (CV-2) in February 1942.Noel Gaylor’s 8 victories defending Lexington at theRabaul strike in February and his combats duringthe Battle of the Coral Sea in May made him the lea-ding US Navy ace of the time.INFO Eduard8September 2022Page 9
rion Dufilho. Sixteen of VF-3‘s 18 Wildcatswere now committed to the battle.At 1700 hours, Lexington’s radar pickedup the second formation, only 12 milesout on the disengaged side of the taskforce, completely unopposed. O‘Hare andDufilho were ordered to intercept andclimbed as fast as the relatively-sluggishF4F-3 could. They were 1,500 feet abovethe attacking eight bombers only nine mi-les out when they rolled into a starboardhigh side pass as the G4Ms descended ina fast shallow dive toward Lexington.As O‘Hare lined up his first target, Dufilhodove away with jammed guns. The FleetGunnery Competition Champion wasabout to enter the only contest that coun-ted. Tracers streaked past as he closedto 100 yards and opened fire, hitting thestarboard engine of the last plane withsuch concentrated fire it literally jumpedout of its mountings. As the first bomberspun toward the ocean below, O‘Hare hita second with another concentrated burstthat sent it down on fire. As he pulled out,he fired at the last bomber on the far sideof the formation and sent it down with itsport engine on fire. Winging over into a se-cond pass, he hit a fourth bomber.Thach later reported that he sawthree bombers falling in flamesat the same time when his secti-on joined the fight. O‘Hare madea third high side pass, diving throu-gh flak bursts from Lexington‘s AAto blow up the formation leader ashis guns rattled empty. The foursurviving bombers dropped theirbombs within 100 yards of Lexing-ton‘s stern just before Thach inter-vened and shot down two.The value of the Navy‘s empha-sis on gunnery training for fighterpilots had been fully demonstra-ted. When O‘Hare climbed out ofhis cockpit after landing, his firstrequest was for a glass of water;he downed four before leaving theflight deck. Against the loss of twoF4Fs and one pilot, VF-3 had dow-ned 15 of 17 attackers, includingtwo that ditched on the way home.It was later determined O‘Hare onlyshot down four, though a fifth wasone of the two that ditched, valida-ting his claim. He had used only 60rounds for each plane destroyed.Lt.Cdr. John S. Thach, CO of VF-3 (second from r) with pilots of VF-3 aboard USS Lexington (CV-2) in February 1942.Noel Gaylor’s 8 victories defending Lexington at theRabaul strike in February and his combats duringthe Battle of the Coral Sea in May made him the lea-ding US Navy ace of the time.HISTORYINFO Eduard9September 2022Page 10
Having saved Lexington, Edward H. „Bu-tch“ O‘Hare became the first Naval Avi-ator of the Second World War awardedthe Medal of Honor, the only one of eightWildcat pilots to win this honor who wascarrier-based.Remsey’s Lambsies at theBattle of the Coral SeaLexington’s VF-2, the famous “FlyingChiefs,” had been replaced aboard the ca-rrier by VF-3 when Saratoga was torpe-doed. When Sara arrived at the BremertonNaval Yard for repairs, the highly-experi-enced Chief NAPs departed; several werecommissioned, and others went to diffe-rent fighter squadrons. Fighting-Two wasreconstituted under command of Lt CdrPaul Ramsey with a few experienced pi-lots among the “nuggets” fresh out of flightschool. F4F-3 Wildcats replaced the F2A--3s that had proven themselves unsuitedfor carrier operations. The squadron, now“Ramsey’s Lambsies,” returned to PearlHarbor in early April, in time to reconnectwith Lexington when she returned fromher South Pacific deployment.On April 13, 1942, the British interceptedand deciphered a message from the Im-perial Navy General Staff informing ove-rall theater commander Admiral Inouethat the Carrier Striking Force comman-ded by Vice Admiral Takeo Takagi with thePearl Harbor veterans Zuikaku and hersister Shōkaku had been assigned to co-ver the Port Moresby invasion.Ramsey’s Lambsies returned to Lexing-ton on April 15. Since the squadron lackedpilots with combat experience, experien-ced pilots from VF-3 had been transferredon April 12. Lt Albert O. Vorse became se-cond division leader, with Ensign EdwardL. Sellstrom as his wingman and Lieute-nant(jg) Robert J. Morgan as element leadwith Ensign John H. Lacket as wingman.Lt (jg) Marion H. Dufilho, O’Hare’s wing-man in the epic battle off Rabaul, tookover third division with Ensign Newton H.Mason as his wingman. Lt Noel A.M. Gay-lor, who had scored three victories in thebattle off Rabaul, took fourth division withLt(jg) Howard F. Clark as element leadand Ensign Richard H. Rowell as wingman.Ensigns Willard E. “Bill” Eder and Leon W.Haynes joined fifth division.Task Force 11 sortied from Pearl Harborthe evening of April 15, headed for theCoral Sea to join Admiral Fletcher’s York-town-based Task Force 17. During the voy-age south, “Ramsey’s Lambsies” trainedhard. The VF-3 veterans knew how to usethe new “Thach Weave” maneuver develo-ped by their former commander and thesquadron worked hard to learn the mane-uver. Essentially, the “Thach Weave” utili-zed the basic formation of a section of twoairplanes; when attacked, they would turntoward each other, placing each Wildcatin position to meet head-on a Zero thathad commenced its attack from the rear,which threw off the opponent while givingeither Wildcat the chance to shoot it down.By the time they got to the Coral Sea, eve-ryone knew the maneuver.The morning of May 1, Task Forces 17and 11 rendezvoused 300 nautical milesnorthwest of New Caledonia. The next daywas spent with Admiral Fletcher’s com-pulsive refueling. On May 3, word camethe Japanese had arrived at Tulagi in theSolomon Islands to establish a seaplanebase. Yorktown was 100 miles south atdawn on May 4; she launched 60 aircraftin three consecutive strikes against Tula-gi, where they sank the destroyer Kiku-zuki and three minesweepers, damagedfour other ships, and destroyed four H6Ks.The strikes cost Air Group Five one TBD-1and two F4F-3s; their crews became thefirst Americans to arrive on Guadalcanal,where they were rescued by Australiancoastwatchers.Admiral Takagi’s Carrier Striking For-ce was fueling 350 miles north of Tulagiwhen they learned the Americans hadattacked Tulagi. Knowing at least oneenemy carrier was in the Coral Sea, theyheaded southeast while remaining northof the Solomons.Task Forces 11 and 17 joined at 0816 hourson May 5, 320 miles south of Guadalcanal.A few minutes later, four Yorktown VF-42Wildcats found a Yokohama Kōkūtai H6Kand shot it down 11 miles from Lexington.While the Mavis failed to before it wentdown, its failure to return alerted the Ja-panese that American carriers were inthe Coral Sea.Later that day, Admiral Fletcher lear-ned intelligence had determined the Ja-panese planned to land at Port Moresbyon May 10; their carriers would coverthe invasion convoy. Ever concernedabout fuel, Fletcher notified AdmiralFitch that once fueling was comple-ted on May 6 the fleet would head to-ward the Louisiades, with expectation ofa fleet action on May 7.Throughout May 5, both fleets sent outscouts that failed to discover the enemy,since each was just out of range of theother. At 1000 hours on May 6, an H6Kfrom Tulagi sighted the American carriers.When Admiral Takagi received the report,his fleet was 300 miles north of the repor-ted American position, maximum rangefor a strike. His belief that battle wasimminent was confirmed when AdmiralGotō‘s Moresby invasion fleet was spo-tted and attacked by B-17s several timesduring the day, but without success. WhenAdmiral Fletcher received the report thatlocated “at least one carrier” (Shōhō) 489miles northwest of Task Force 17, he toowas convinced action was imminent.Throughout May 6, the CAP protectingLexington and Yorktown chased and fou-nd Japanese search planes. Four Wildcatsof VF-42 led by Lt Cdr Jimmy Flatley, andfour VF-2 Wildcats led by Lt Noel Gaylorwere sent after one shadower. Flatleyfound the H6K and reported the discoveryto Yorktown, which requested its position.He replied, “Wait a minute and I’ll showyou,” and promptly shot down the Mavis,which blew up with pieces falling throughthe clouds, narrowly missing Gaylor, whoradioed, “That almost hit me!” to whichLt Cdr Paul Ramsey, CO of VF-3 “Ramsey’sLambsies” at the Battle of the Coral Sea, May1942.Flatley replied, “That’ll teach you not to flyunderneath me.”Neither side was aware that at 2000hours, they passed within 70 miles ofeach other.The morning of May 7 dawned with Lexin-gton and Yorktown steaming under thelow clouds of a warm tropical front. At0615 hours, Yorktown launched ten SBDsto search the Louisiades. At 0655 Zuika-ku and Shôkaku, 300 miles east of TaskForce 17, launched 12 B5N2s to search forthe enemy. They flew east of Task Force 17and failed to sight the enemy in the poorweather.At 0815 hours, VS-5‘s Ensign John L. Niel-sen sighted the Invasion Screening Force;minutes later he spotted Shōhō. AdmiralFletcher ordered both carriers to launchall aircraft. The 93 planes were on theirway by 1013 hours: Lexington’s 40 planesincluded ten VF-2 Wildcats led by PaulRamsey, who placed four F4Fs led byLt Fred Borries as close escort to the 28SBDs from VB-2 and VS-2, two othersas high cover for Air Group Commander,Cdr William B. Ault, while Ramsey’s fourcovered the 12 TBDs at low altitude. UnlikeYorktown’s strike which organized them-selves enroute, Lexington’s air groupformed up into an organized unit beforeheading out.Shōhō was spotted at 1040 hours; Lexin-gton’s strike deployed to attack. Six A6M2Zeros and two A5M4 Type 96 Claude fi-ghters were airborne as fleet CAP; therest of Shōhō’s air group was preparingto strike the Americans At 1045 hours,Cdr Ault deployed his dive and torpedobombers for a classic coordinated attack.The Dauntlesses hit Shōhō with six 1,000-lb bombs; five minutes later the ship wasa flaming wreck. When the TBDs boredin, the two A5M4s swooped on them, butPaul Baker’s two F4Fs went after them.Maintaining speed and refusing to engagethe nimble A5Ms in dogfights, Baker clai-med both. Apparently, he only damagedthem since two A5Ms were also claimedby VF-42, one by Jimmy Flatley.Air Group Five arrived shortly after AirGroup Two and attacked Shōhō shortlyafter 1100 hours, scoring hits with 11 more1,000-lb bombs and two torpedoes. Tornapart, Shōhō slipped beneath the wavesat 1135 hours, the first aircraft carrier lostin a carrier-vs-carrier battle.Shôkaku launched eight B5N2s at 1515hours to sweep west 200 miles. Shortlybefore 1615 hours, they reached the end oftheir search legs and turned back withoutspotting anything in the thick overcast.With the opportunity for a daylight attacknarrowing, 12 D3A1s and 15 B5N2s werelaunched from Zuikaku at 1615 hours.At 1747 hours they were spotted on Lexin-gton’s radar. Paul Ramsey’s four F4F-3sturned toward the enemy while both ca-rriers launched 18 more Wildcats. Mi-nutes later, Ramsey spotted nine B3N2s.Ramsey and his wingman took one sideof the formation while Lt(jg) Paul Bakerand his wingman took the other. Ram-sey hit the first B5N2 from 700 yards andit exploded. He then hit a second from 300yards that burned all the way until it disa-ppeared in the dark sea below. Baker shotdown a third B5N while his wingman hita fourth that finally caught fir. Baker chasea fifth and disappeared into the dark sky;a moment later, an explosion lit the sky.Ramsey reported that Baker must havecollided with his second victim. “Ramsey’sLambsies” had completely broken upthe Japanese attack, shooting down fiveof the deadly B5N torpedo bombers whi-le the surviving attackers jettisoned theirordnance and turned for home as the sunset on the horizon at 1830 hours; they hadthe misfortune to run into two divisionsfrom VF-42, which promptly shot downtwo more B5Ns and a D3A1.Noel Gayler’s division returned to Lexin-gton and briefly came under Americanfire as they entered the landing pattern.Gayler recalled, “They had a whole bunchof .50 caliber machine guns independent-ly operated on the catwalk. Somebodystarted shooting and in those days the firediscipline was not very good, so everyonestarted shooting.The LSO realized what was happening be-cause he knew who he had in the landingpattern. He turned around and hit the ne-arest guy across the face with his signalflags and knocked him away from his gun.Gradually the word went up the line andthey realized who we were. Christ, I hadmy wheels down and my flaps down whenthey opened up!”A6M2 Zeros of Shôkaku fighter squadron ready for takeoff at the Battle of the Coral Sea, 7-8 May 1942.HISTORYINFO Eduard10September 2022Page 11
Flatley replied, “That’ll teach you not to flyunderneath me.”Neither side was aware that at 2000hours, they passed within 70 miles ofeach other.The morning of May 7 dawned with Lexin-gton and Yorktown steaming under thelow clouds of a warm tropical front. At0615 hours, Yorktown launched ten SBDsto search the Louisiades. At 0655 Zuika-ku and Shôkaku, 300 miles east of TaskForce 17, launched 12 B5N2s to search forthe enemy. They flew east of Task Force 17and failed to sight the enemy in the poorweather.At 0815 hours, VS-5‘s Ensign John L. Niel-sen sighted the Invasion Screening Force;minutes later he spotted Shōhō. AdmiralFletcher ordered both carriers to launchall aircraft. The 93 planes were on theirway by 1013 hours: Lexington’s 40 planesincluded ten VF-2 Wildcats led by PaulRamsey, who placed four F4Fs led byLt Fred Borries as close escort to the 28SBDs from VB-2 and VS-2, two othersas high cover for Air Group Commander,Cdr William B. Ault, while Ramsey’s fourcovered the 12 TBDs at low altitude. UnlikeYorktown’s strike which organized them-selves enroute, Lexington’s air groupformed up into an organized unit beforeheading out.Shōhō was spotted at 1040 hours; Lexin-gton’s strike deployed to attack. Six A6M2Zeros and two A5M4 Type 96 Claude fi-ghters were airborne as fleet CAP; therest of Shōhō’s air group was preparingto strike the Americans At 1045 hours,Cdr Ault deployed his dive and torpedobombers for a classic coordinated attack.The Dauntlesses hit Shōhō with six 1,000-lb bombs; five minutes later the ship wasa flaming wreck. When the TBDs boredin, the two A5M4s swooped on them, butPaul Baker’s two F4Fs went after them.Maintaining speed and refusing to engagethe nimble A5Ms in dogfights, Baker clai-med both. Apparently, he only damagedthem since two A5Ms were also claimedby VF-42, one by Jimmy Flatley.Air Group Five arrived shortly after AirGroup Two and attacked Shōhō shortlyafter 1100 hours, scoring hits with 11 more1,000-lb bombs and two torpedoes. Tornapart, Shōhō slipped beneath the wavesat 1135 hours, the first aircraft carrier lostin a carrier-vs-carrier battle.Shôkaku launched eight B5N2s at 1515hours to sweep west 200 miles. Shortlybefore 1615 hours, they reached the end oftheir search legs and turned back withoutspotting anything in the thick overcast.With the opportunity for a daylight attacknarrowing, 12 D3A1s and 15 B5N2s werelaunched from Zuikaku at 1615 hours.At 1747 hours they were spotted on Lexin-gton’s radar. Paul Ramsey’s four F4F-3sturned toward the enemy while both ca-rriers launched 18 more Wildcats. Mi-nutes later, Ramsey spotted nine B3N2s.Ramsey and his wingman took one sideof the formation while Lt(jg) Paul Bakerand his wingman took the other. Ram-sey hit the first B5N2 from 700 yards andit exploded. He then hit a second from 300yards that burned all the way until it disa-ppeared in the dark sea below. Baker shotdown a third B5N while his wingman hita fourth that finally caught fir. Baker chasea fifth and disappeared into the dark sky;a moment later, an explosion lit the sky.Ramsey reported that Baker must havecollided with his second victim. “Ramsey’sLambsies” had completely broken upthe Japanese attack, shooting down fiveof the deadly B5N torpedo bombers whi-le the surviving attackers jettisoned theirordnance and turned for home as the sunset on the horizon at 1830 hours; they hadthe misfortune to run into two divisionsfrom VF-42, which promptly shot downtwo more B5Ns and a D3A1.Noel Gayler’s division returned to Lexin-gton and briefly came under Americanfire as they entered the landing pattern.Gayler recalled, “They had a whole bunchof .50 caliber machine guns independent-ly operated on the catwalk. Somebodystarted shooting and in those days the firediscipline was not very good, so everyonestarted shooting.The LSO realized what was happening be-cause he knew who he had in the landingpattern. He turned around and hit the ne-arest guy across the face with his signalflags and knocked him away from his gun.Gradually the word went up the line andthey realized who we were. Christ, I hadmy wheels down and my flaps down whenthey opened up!”A6M2 Zeros of Shôkaku fighter squadron ready for takeoff at the Battle of the Coral Sea, 7-8 May 1942.HISTORYINFO Eduard11September 2022Page 12
to reduce the distance their aircraft wou-ld have to return.Shôkaku and Zuikaku were four milesapart, with Zuikaku hidden beneath a rainsquall when the Yorktown strike arrivedat 1032 hours; they were hampered bythe poor weather and the 16 Zero fightersof the Japanese CAP. VF-42 shot downtwo Zeros while losing two Dauntlesses,though the Yorktown SBDs hit Shôkakuwith two 1,000-lb bombs that caused ma-jor damage to the flight and hangar decks.Lexington’s strike arrived and hour late,the formations broken up by the toweringcumulus clouds they had been forced tofly through preventing them from makinga coordinated attack. Vorse’s three Wild-cats had been forced to abort. Noel Gay-ler’s division was flying low with the tor-pedo bombers when four Zeros attacked,exploding Gayler’s wingman on the firstpass. Gayler was immediately involvedwith a Zero. He later recalled, “I think theguy I tangled with was a much better pilotthan I. He got on my tail pretty promptly,and he was a very good shot. His wing-men went by on both sides. As soon asI saw them, I took the stick with bothhands and pushed into a dive but the-re wasn’t enough altitude to gain speed.The opposing fleets were now 100 milesapart. During the night, the warm frontalzone with low-hanging clouds that hidthe American carriers so well the firstday moved north and at dawn, the frontcovered the Japanese fleet; visibility wasbetween 2-15 miles in heavy cloud.Lexington and Yorktown launched 18Dauntlesses at 0635 hours to search forthe enemy. At 0820 hours, Lt(jg) JosephG. Smith looked down through a hole inthe thick clouds and spotted Shôkaku andZuikaku. Two minutes later, Shôkaku’s LtKenzo Kanno looked down from the coc-kpit of his B5N2 and sighted the Americancarriers. The opposing forces were 210miles apart. Both now raced to launchtheir strikes.Shôkaku and Zuikaku launched a com-bined strike of 18 A6M2s, 33 D3As and18 B5N2s led by Shôkaku Air Groupcommander Lt Cdr Kakuichi Takahashiat 0915 hours. At the same time, York-town launched six F4F-3s, 15 SBDs andnine TBDs, followed ten minutes later byLexington’s seven F4F-3s; Noel Gayler’sfour escorting 12 TBDs, and Lt Albert O.Vorse’s three Wildcats escorting 15 SBDs.All four carriers increased speed as theyheaded directly for each other’s locationI came around on another Jap and madea big hairy climbing turn, taking a longshot at him, and fell out for lack of air-speed just as I saw him starting to burn.It was just such an incredibly confusing,mixed-up situation, poor visibility and pe-ople yelling on the radio.” Gayler managedto flame a Zero that flew in front of him.However, the other two of his divisionwere lost in the melee.One Lexington SBD hit Shôkaku witha third bomb, causing more damage, whi-le two SBDs unsuccessfully attacked Zui-kaku. Had the rest of the Lexington for-ce managed to stay together in the badweather, it is likely they would have sunkShôkaku.At almost the same time the Americansattacked the Japanese fleet, Lexington’sradar detected the inbound enemy strike68 miles away and vectored nine Wildcatsto intercept. Paul Ramsey’s three-planedivision was at 10,000 feet when wing-man Ensign Ed Sellstrom spotted the 63aircraft. Due to the heavy losses sufferedthe previous night, the Japanese couldnot execute a full attack on both carri-ers. Zuikaku’s air group commander sent14 B5Ns to attack Lexington and four toattack Yorktown. Ensign Sellstrom divedUSS Lexington.after them and found them fast enoughthat it was hard to catch up. He caught therear vic of three and flamed the last B5Nfive miles from the ships. He was thencaught by the Zero escort and later repor-ted he managed to damage two before heescaped in a dive.The American defenders mistakenly ex-pected the B5Ns would attack like theTBD - low and slow.The six VF-42 Wild-cats were too low at 1,000 feet and cou-ld only watch the B5Ns swarm overheadat speeds over 200 mph, dropping theirdeadly Type 91 torpedoes at an altitudeof 1,500 feet. The four attacking Yorktownall missed but the other 14 successfullyemployed a “hammer and anvil” attackon Lexington. At 1120 hours, she was hitby two torpedoes; the first hit buckledthe port aviation gasoline stowage tankswhile the second ruptured the port wa-ter main. As the attackers flew away, fourwere shot down by Lexington’s gunners.The 33 D3As circled to attack fromupwind. Nineteen Shôkaku D3As linedup on Lexington while Zuikaku’s 14 attac-ked Yorktown. Four VF-2 Wildcats led byFred Borries attacked the Zuikaku forcebut were swarmed by escorting Zerosand had to dive away to save themselves.Two VF-42 Wildcats above Yorktown da-maged two D3As in their dives, while di-srupting the aim of the others.Lexington was damaged by two hits andseveral near misses. Yorktown was hitin the center of her flight deck at 1127hours by a single bomb that penetratedfour decks before exploding. The explosi-on caused severe structural damage andkilled or wounded 66 men. Twelve nearmisses damaged her below the waterli-ne. Two D3As were shot down by a VF-42Wildcat during the attack.As the bombers attempted to escape,they ran into Vorse’s division that hadjust returned from aborting the strike. BillEder recalled, “My wingman and I headedfor two Jap planes, but lost them in theclouds. Then we became separated andI turned and saw this fighter below me.He turned up toward me as I headed downtoward him and we met head-on. I wasfiring four .50 calibers on a down slantand he was firing on an up slant. I cou-ld see his 20mm stuff was falling short,though his 7.7.s were doing better. Thenmy .50s began hitting him. Almost imme-diately he sort of snap-rolled, then spira-led downward, uncontrolled. My emotionwas ‘scored,’ and I’m glad my .50 cali-bers were more adequate than his guns.”The fight saw three SBDs, three Wildcats,three B5Ns, one D3A, and Eder’s Zero lost.Shôkaku’s torpedo leader Lt Kanno andstrike leader Lt Cdr Takahashi were bothshot down and killed.The American and Japanese strike for-mations ran across each on their returnflights. VF-42 Wildcats shot down a B5Nand two D3As, while Noel Gayler becamethe leading Navy ace of the time with eightvictories when he shot down two D3As.Lexington’s fires were out by 1233 hoursand the carrier was still able to operatedespite the torpedo hits. Noel Gayler didnot notice any damage as he approachedfor landing. “She was making 25 knotsand operating airplanes. She looked okayfrom the air. It was only after I landed,when I noticed nobody paid any attentionto me, contrary to before, that I lookedaround and noticed some of the faceswere looking sort of strange. Then I sawflecks of fire-fighting foam all over thedeck and knew she had been hit.”Vorse’s division also landed aboard.Gayler tried to organize another strikeagainst Zuikaku while Lexington still see-med able to function but there was no wayIJN light carrier Shōhō on fire after attack by USS Lexington on 7 May 1942. Shoho was the first aircraft carrier lost to enemy aircraft.HISTORYINFO Eduard12September 2022Page 13
after them and found them fast enoughthat it was hard to catch up. He caught therear vic of three and flamed the last B5Nfive miles from the ships. He was thencaught by the Zero escort and later repor-ted he managed to damage two before heescaped in a dive.The American defenders mistakenly ex-pected the B5Ns would attack like theTBD - low and slow.The six VF-42 Wild-cats were too low at 1,000 feet and cou-ld only watch the B5Ns swarm overheadat speeds over 200 mph, dropping theirdeadly Type 91 torpedoes at an altitudeof 1,500 feet. The four attacking Yorktownall missed but the other 14 successfullyemployed a “hammer and anvil” attackon Lexington. At 1120 hours, she was hitby two torpedoes; the first hit buckledthe port aviation gasoline stowage tankswhile the second ruptured the port wa-ter main. As the attackers flew away, fourwere shot down by Lexington’s gunners.The 33 D3As circled to attack fromupwind. Nineteen Shôkaku D3As linedup on Lexington while Zuikaku’s 14 attac-ked Yorktown. Four VF-2 Wildcats led byFred Borries attacked the Zuikaku forcebut were swarmed by escorting Zerosand had to dive away to save themselves.Two VF-42 Wildcats above Yorktown da-maged two D3As in their dives, while di-srupting the aim of the others.Lexington was damaged by two hits andseveral near misses. Yorktown was hitin the center of her flight deck at 1127hours by a single bomb that penetratedfour decks before exploding. The explosi-on caused severe structural damage andkilled or wounded 66 men. Twelve nearmisses damaged her below the waterli-ne. Two D3As were shot down by a VF-42Wildcat during the attack.As the bombers attempted to escape,they ran into Vorse’s division that hadjust returned from aborting the strike. BillEder recalled, “My wingman and I headedfor two Jap planes, but lost them in theclouds. Then we became separated andI turned and saw this fighter below me.He turned up toward me as I headed downtoward him and we met head-on. I wasfiring four .50 calibers on a down slantand he was firing on an up slant. I cou-ld see his 20mm stuff was falling short,though his 7.7.s were doing better. Thenmy .50s began hitting him. Almost imme-diately he sort of snap-rolled, then spira-led downward, uncontrolled. My emotionwas ‘scored,’ and I’m glad my .50 cali-bers were more adequate than his guns.”The fight saw three SBDs, three Wildcats,three B5Ns, one D3A, and Eder’s Zero lost.Shôkaku’s torpedo leader Lt Kanno andstrike leader Lt Cdr Takahashi were bothshot down and killed.The American and Japanese strike for-mations ran across each on their returnflights. VF-42 Wildcats shot down a B5Nand two D3As, while Noel Gayler becamethe leading Navy ace of the time with eightvictories when he shot down two D3As.Lexington’s fires were out by 1233 hoursand the carrier was still able to operatedespite the torpedo hits. Noel Gayler didnot notice any damage as he approachedfor landing. “She was making 25 knotsand operating airplanes. She looked okayfrom the air. It was only after I landed,when I noticed nobody paid any attentionto me, contrary to before, that I lookedaround and noticed some of the faceswere looking sort of strange. Then I sawflecks of fire-fighting foam all over thedeck and knew she had been hit.”Vorse’s division also landed aboard.Gayler tried to organize another strikeagainst Zuikaku while Lexington still see-med able to function but there was no wayIJN light carrier Shōhō on fire after attack by USS Lexington on 7 May 1942. Shoho was the first aircraft carrier lost to enemy aircraft.HISTORYINFO Eduard13September 2022Page 14
to fuel the planes. Bill Eder remembered,“We were to refuel, rearm and relaunch.However, before that was accomplishedthe below-decks fires reached the han-gar deck.”At 1430 hours, Admiral Hara informed Ad-miral Takagi that there were only 24 Ze-ros, eight D3As and four B5Ns operatio-nal aboard Zuikaku. At 1500 hours, Takaginotified Admiral Inoue his force had sunktwo American carriers, a “Yorktown-c-lass” and a „Saratoga-class,“ but he couldnot continue to provide air cover for theinvasion due to heavy aircraft losses. Ad-miral Inoue recalled the invasion convoyto Rabaul.Zuikaku and her escorts turned towardsRabaul while Shôkaku headed for majorrepair in Japan.Sparks from unattended electric motorsignited gasoline fumes near Lexington’scentral control station at 1247 hours; theresulting explosion killed 25 men, star-ting a large fire. A severe fire began afteranother large explosion occurred at 1442hours. At 1525 hours there was a thirdexplosion. Damage control reported thefires were uncontrollable at 1538 hours.The order to abandon ship was given at1707 hours. Noel Gayler recalled “We weredriven to the extreme stern by the fire. Theship’s service ice cream plant was in theextreme port stern quarter. Some clownpassed the word that there was free icecream and sailors who were abandoningship lined up for it. Of course they pukedit up afterwards as soon as they had beenswimming in salt water awhile.There was no panic, no worry about beingpicked up. The water was warm and thedestroyers moved in with cargo nets.”Gayler was picked up by a destroyer after90 minutes in the water.Bill Eder remembered, “After the abandonship order was given, I waited my turn anddescended a knotted line to the warm wa-ter. I found an inflated life raft with threeolder chief petty officers aboard. Since Ihad a life jacket, I stayed alongside in thewater. Pretty soon the destroyer Deweycame along and picked us up. They threwus a line and I, being the young ‘un, heldit for the chiefs to climb. When it was myturn I was too exhausted to climb and asailor had to come down and put a linearound me so they could winch me up.”At 1915 hours with the sun setting overthe Coral Sea, the destroyer Phelps (DD-360) fired five torpedoes into the burningLexington and she sank in 2,400 fathomsat 1952 hours, taking 216 of the 2,951-mancrew and 36 aircraft down with her.When Yorktown returned to Pearl Harbor,VF-42‘s F4F-3 Wildcats were replacedby F4F-4s with folding wings. The pilotsdid not consider the new Wildcat an im-provement. To save weight after wing fol-ding was installed, the ammunition loadremained the same - now distributedbetween six guns rather than four andreducing firing time by 20 seconds, a li-fetime in combat. The F4F-3 had held theline against a superior enemy in difficultsituations and demonstrated its fightingheart.USS Lexington (CV-2) on fire after avgas explosion, 8 May 1942.Adapted from Thomas McKelvey Cleaver’sbest-selling “I Will Run Wild: The Pacific Warfrom Pearl Harbor to Midway,” from Osprey Pu-blishing.Credit all photos: USN OfficialHISTORYINFO Eduard14September 2022Page 15
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HISTORYThe first of total seven evacuation flights tookplace on March 21. The last mission took placeon either April 5 or 7, depending on the source.It was stated previously that the last flight toMariupol took place a month later, sometimein the beginning of May. This is hardly probablethough. In the beginning of April the Ukrainiantroops still controlled the large areas of thecity. By the middle of the month however theyhad to retreat into two large industrial com-plexes – steelworks Ilyich and Azovstal. In thesecond half of April the Ukrainian soldiers onlystood defense in the second factory. It’s virtu-ally impossible that a flight to Azovstal undersuch circumstances would have escaped theattackers‘ attention and did not draw their ar-tillery fire.The missions were flown under the utmostsecrecy and the participants were allowed tospeak to media only after the very last defen-ders of Mariupol surrendered in the secondhalf of May. Even though the world’s audien-ce learned about many of these heroic deedsthe precise details about the places and times,where from and when the evacuation flightstook place remained widely unknow up untilnow.One of the most detailed and therefore mostvaluable testimonies came from the memberof the Ukrainian defense intelligence, code na-med Flint, who not only participated in the firstmission but also had taken part in its prepara-tion from the beginning. The plan was a brainchild of General Major Kyryl Budanov, chief ofthe defense intelligence. The first flight wassupposed to sortie before March 21 but had tobe postponed three times due to the variousreasons. One of them was the intelligence in-formation about the Russian AA defense alongthe route to Mariupol which changed constant-ly. The Russians may have „sensed something“since the concentration of the enemy’s air for-ce over the besieged city suddently increased.Another reason was the effort to keep the mi-ssion top secret. The flight was being preparedat Dnipro airbase and a lot of people took partin it – technicians, refuelling personnel, mili-tary police... There was clearly an increasedtraffic of people and had the enemy had his„eyes“ nearby they could not have missed thatthe operation was getting ready. Thereforeeven before the actual mission, in the orderto camouflage the events the desinformationoperation was implemented. „A soldier calledhis wife and told her he will be home soonbecause the upper command cancelled theplanned operation. And I had the conversationwith some one and told him the operation wascancelled“ stated Flint for the on-line magazi-ne The War Zone. After these information werereleased the participants in the first flight re-turned to the airport, loaded the helicoptersand departed in a fake direction to conceal theactual course. The third problem to overcomebefore the mission was to find the pilots wi-lling to fly it. Several pilots who were appro-ached turned down the offer. „They thought itwas impossible“ said Flint. Finally they foundthe first pilot who was willing to fly to Mari-upol – due to the personal reasons. „His wifewas a military nurse in Azovstal. She cared forthe seriously wounded soldiers. The main mi-ssion objective was to evacuate these gravelywounded soldiers and herself from that facto-ry“ stated Flint.In civilian clothing and unarmedBefore the flight all dressed into civilian clo-thing and removed all military identifications.In case of a crash that would help them crossthe front line back to the Ukrainian territoryunnoticed. They also removed all the arma-ment and equipment from the helicopters inorder to reduce weight as much as possible.They made room for the cargo of the anti-tankmissiles NLAW and Javelin, AA rockets Stingerand satellite communication systems Starlink.Text: Miro BaričThe Azovstal steelworks were shelled for several months.Loading a wounded man into a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter at a pre-war exercise.Mission:ImpossibleUkrainianstyleThe port city of Mariupol in the south of Ukraine was a target of she-lling on February 24, the first day of the Russian aggression. The citywas surrounded by the Russian troops on March 2nd. More than twomonths of street fighting followed. The Ukrainian soldiers in the citywere not completely isolated though. To supply them, and evacuatethe wounded the Ukrainian AF completed seven secret missions whe-re the helicopter pilots flew more than 100 km over the enemy-heldterritory at night and only several meters above the ground.INFO Eduard16September 2022Page 17
HISTORYBesides the arms and ammunition the foodand medicine were carried on the flights toMariupol. They took off at 3:30 in the morning.Flint was facing „Sophie’s choice“ where to sitin the helicopter. He could sit next to the fueltank and if the helicopter was hit he would beinstantly killed. Or he could sit on the ammuni-tion boxes and in case of crash he would breakall his limbs as a minimum. „We realized thiscan be a one way flight and were prepared notto return“, said Flint. At the same time theyrealized that the besieged Ukrainian soldiersdesperately needed their help and once theywere airborne the worries dissipated.First the Mi-8 helicopters landed right near thefront line, at the field base where they refu-elled. Then they rushed throught the night at220 kph and 5 meters above the ground. Thepilots had to escape the enemy radar. On theother hand they had to dribble among treesand electrical poles. The moment of surpriseworked though and the helicopters safely re-ached Mariupol.The pilots landed in Azovstal steelworks areawhich is 11 square kilometers. There wasa 24 km long network of the concrete shel-ters and tunnels underneath, this was the bestprotected place in the whole Mariupol. Therewas a field hospital underground from whichthe helicopters were to evacuate the gravelywounded soldiers. The pilots had to seek thelanding area which was the least littered bydebris and craters. Then the factory defendersemerged from the underground, off loaded thesupplies and loaded 16 wounded soldiers whowere brought on trucks. It all took approxima-tely 15-20 minutes and all that time the heli-copters were running their engines ready totake off immediately if the danger presenteditself. When the wounded were on board thedefenders had to camouflage the helicopters‘departure. They commenced a wild gunfire atthe Russian positions to distract the enemy-‘s attention. During this shoot out the helico-pters disappeared unnoticed flying close to theground.Without being fired at on the return flight theyagain landed near the front line to refuel andat 7:30 am landed at Dnipro. The whole missi-on lasted four hours. „These are the exeptio-nal emotions when you are handing over thewounded to the doctors‘ hands and you rea-lized you achieved something absolutely im-possible. You feel happiness and pride of yourpeople“ described Flint his emotional state af-ter the landing.Further missions were more and more di-fficult to fly. During the second flight the Ru-ssians were shooting at the helicopter, its pilothowever managed to successfully land at therefueling spot. That place kept changing aswell as the helicopters‘ flight routes. Someti-mes they flew over the land, another time theyflew over the sea and returned to the land ha-ving made a wide turn. Flint recalled how du-ring one mission the Ukrainian helicopter flewvery close to the water surface between twopatrolling Russian ships. Due to the lack of pi-Supply and evacuation flights to Mariupol were really low-level flights.Ukrainian Mi-8MSB-V helicopters in a shot before the war.During one mission to Mariupol, Mi-8 helicopters were also accompanied by one Mi-24 attack helicopter as fire support.INFO Eduard17September 2022Page 18
HISTORYlots trained to fly at night some missions wereflown partially during the daylight. The naturaland man made obstacles they avoided underdifferent circumstances were now used asa concealment from the Russian troops equi-pped with the portable missiles.Seven missionsThe facts about the missions were sum-marized by General Major Kyrylo Budanov.As we mentioned earlier, sever missions intotal were flown. Pairs of Mi-8 participated insix missions. One mission was flown by fourMi-8 escorted by a Mi-24 which would providethe covering fire if needed. All supplies weresuccessfully delivered however on the returnevacuation flights two Mi-8 were shot down.It happened during the fifth and seventh mi-ssions. On the last mission a rescue Mi-8 wasdispatched to help the downed aircraft. TheRussians however antifcipated this and ma-naged to shot down this helicopter as well.Besides the whole crew four memebers of theUkrainian Special Forces were killed.Alltogether 16 Mi-8 and one Mi-24 took part inthe flights to Mariupol. Out of those two aircraftwere shot down and one rescue helicopterwas lost as well. Besides the supplies thesehelicopters transported into the besieged city72 members of the Azov regiment who vo-lunteered to help their comrades. The formerunit‘s commander, Andrii Bileckyi shared somedetails. One of the soldiers transported therewas a Mariupol native code named Kelt. Sadly,he was killed in action on the second day. „Hedied however as he would have wished to. Hetold to many of his friends that he wanted todie at home. He was killed in the street whe-re the house he was born and brought up instood. He died right in the heart of his littlehomeland.“ said Bileckyi. He also stated thaton one of the last flights five civilian medicalvolunteer personnel from Dnipro participated.There were an anesthesiologist, two surgeonsand a nurse. „I hope one day I will be able topublish their names. They are the real heros tome.“ added Bileckyi.Hits and lossesStep by step the Russians learned what wasgoing on and tightened the front line aroundMariupol. Testimonies of the pilots who tookpart in the fifth and seventh missions that suf-fered losses, appeared in the Ukrainian media.„We felt the highest level of stress while wal-king towards our helicopter ready to take off.Once we were airborne we all knew we hada job to do and focused to do it as best as wecould“ said a pilot who did not wish that hisname was revealed. According to the testimo-ny of one of his passengers he flew the fifthmission in the end of March. „When we arrivedin Mariupol we were in the state of euphoria“described the pilot. But it was not okay. Onthe return flight they covered only six kilome-ters in three minutes when they were hit by aportable ground-to-air missile which put oneengine out of order. Regardless they managedto stay airborne. Their comrades flying behindthem in another helicopter were not so lucky.After they were hit they crashed with no sur-vivors.Each pilot was issued a written statement say-ing it was solely his decision where and underwhat conditions he lands. „After we were hit bya rocket our adrenalin lever rose so we onlydid what we were supposed to do. We had 20wounded people on board. Had we landed inthe field how would we have evacuated them?It would have been necessary to dispatch ano-ther helicopted and that was not an option.So we continued to our refuelling spot“ saida pilot. On board he also had 22 years old cor-poral Vladislav Zahorodny who had been hitinto pelvis during the Mariupol fighting andhis nervers got damaged. During the previousevacuations his was passed three times for anairlift. This was his first helicopter flight ever.A week later Zahorodnyi met his fellow Cher-nihiv native who was also evacuated from Ma-riupol, possibly on the very last flight. He usedthe codename Buffalo. During the fighting helost his leg and suffered some other injuries.His evacuation details match the 51 years oldpilot’s recollections. He only revealed his firstname, Oleksandr.He flew just one mission but considered it themost difficult flight of his 30-years long flyingcareer.“We could have refused to fly but mycrew did not do it. We knew that there are pe-ople who need our help“ said Oleksandr. Theycarried two tons of supplies from Dnipro andon the return flight evacuated the wounded.Soldier Buffalo almost did not make it. He waslying in the corner of the truck a was too weakto draw attention to himself.He was already giving up the idea of beingflown to safety when some one yelled“ „Youleft a soldier behind!“ The put him on the topof the other wounded as there was no roomleft. They were shot at after the take off andthey were told later that the pilot evaded themissile launched from the ship. Looking outthrough the small window Buffalo noticed thatthey were flying below the treetops. The flightdescription matches Oleksandr’s testimony.While they were offloanding and loading thehelicopter we remained in our seats. Therewere explosions around us and the chopperwas shaking. It was really scary. It took only20 minutes but to me it felt like two hours“, herecalled the moments spent on the ground. Af-ter the take off he headed over the sea. „I noti-ced the Russian ship and realized they can hitus. But my body reacted faster than the brainregistered the danger. There were explosionsnearby. The blast waves were shaking us asa toy“ he described. His evasive maneovres gotthe helicopte our of the dangerous zone. Thenhe rushed at 220 kph close to the ground jum-ping over the electrical lines. After 80 minutesthey arrived in Dnipro. There he was told thatthe evacuees want to speak with him. He ex-pected them to curse him out for a bumpy ridebut when he opened the door they thanked himunanimously.Sadly even during this flight the second helico-pter was lost. Its pilot’s last report stated theposition seven kilometers from the front linewith the remaing 250 liters of fuel.“That wasthree times less than our remaining fuel soI assume they had been hit and damaged. Tho-se were the last words I heard from my fri-end“, added Oleksandr. After the last mission itbecame too dangerous to continue flying themand they had to be stopped. These seven braveflights however managed to be recorded in thehistory of the air warfare.Conditions in Azovstal were documented by a member of the Azov Regiment with the codename Orest.T-80 tanks belonging to the 36th Marine Brigade aban-doned in Mariupol.INFO Eduard18September 2022Page 19
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Even before receiving the final single coloroverall finish the completed S-199 left theassembly lines of Avia in Cakovice and Aeroin Vysocany with the surfaces treated witha dope or primer according to the materialused in the construction (duralumin, fabric).We can only speculate about the actual co-lor. It could have been RLM 02 grey from thestocks left behind by the Germans or someother available greyish paint. Let’s be awareof the fact that the „hundredninetynines“were not manufactured from the scratch butjust modified or refurbished various versionsof the Bf 109 fighter airframes and their com-ponents produced during the wartime.Therewere „Gustavs“ of the variants 6, 10 and 14 aswell as K-4 airframes gathered in Czecho-slovakia from a variety of sources, be it fromthe Luftwaffe airports located on the formerProtectorate territory or as a war bounty re-ceived as a gift from the Red Army or purcha-sed from Bulgaria.The gaps between the metal skin panelswere puttied (refer to the pictures in the pre-vious issue of INFO Eduard) followed by thesprayed coat of the single paint color. Initia-lly it was a light grey-green shade (factorydrawings dated October 1947 identify this co-lor as grey) and once availability improved,replaced by new, darker green color. Theaircraft that were repaired or overhauled atthe aviation repair shops or underwent theadditional modifications at the manufactu-rer were ofter sprayed with various darkershades of green but there were cases ofrefurbished aircrafted painted in light coloror airframes painted partially in light grey--green as well as dark green color. The mostcolorful S-199s were those after the partialrepair of the worn finish (panel gaps) on thefuselage and wings as well. The good exam-ple is „black“ EX-11 (serial number 260), „whi-te“ GY-37 (serial number 40) or „training“UF-56 (serial number 331). Real eye-catchingappearance is demonstrated by S-199.253(black codes EZ-9) featuring unpainted pa-nels (probably replacement parts) on thenose, cowling and at the base of the verticalstabilizer.The ailerons, elevators and the rudder i.e.,fabric covered components, were treatedwith a dope, installed on the airframe and onlythen sprayed together with the other aircraftText: Michal OvčáčíkPhotographs: collections of the author, Jaroslav Bartáček,Bohumír Kudlička, Miroslav Irra, Jaroslav Matoulkaand The Aviation Research Group via Pavel KrejciBlue outline, white outline...Part 2Colors of theCzechoslovakAir Force S-199HISTORYIn the part one of the Czechoslovak S-199 colors analysis thecomplicated situation with the suitable paints used by Czecho-slovak post-war aviation industry was described and the colordifferences among the supplied aircraft were summarized.INFO Eduard20September 2022Page 21
surfaces as a whole assembly. The horizontaland vertical stabilizers on the aircraft fromthe initial series were all wood design andbefore the final coating they were sprayedwith a dope or a darker (dark green?) color.On the newly constructed airframes and gra-dually converted older aircraft (since 1950)these componets were made out of duralu-min and therefore showed their natural colorbefore the application of the final coating.The national insignia application on S-199(as well as its predecessor S-99) were pro-mulgated by the order MNO-VL č. j. 157 Taj.let. 1946 from January 1946 on the matter of“Aircraft Markings” which besides prescri-bing the units‘ codes also established theappearance of the Czechoslovak Air Forceand National Security Aviation national in-signia. There were two orders governing themilitary S-199: the first is dated January 9,1946, marked by Avia company’s number MeS101 and prescribed the position of the circu-lar national insignia in the usual six locationson the upper and bottom wings and both si-des of the vertical tail surface. The circulardesign was to have three equal segments,blue one always facing forward, red on thewing always towards the fuselage and fa-cing downwards on the vertical tail surface.For the “aircraft sprayed in the dark shade”the insignia diameter was to be 930 mm onthe wings including 15 mm thick outline (i.e.the actual insignia’s diameter was 900 mm),distance from the wingtip edge 1600 mm, in-signia center 680 mm from the leading edgeon the wing upper surfaces and 560 mm onthe wing lower surfaces. The vertical tail sur-face insignia was to be of 600 mm diameterincluding 15 mm thick outline (i.e., the diame-ter of the actual insignia was 570 mm). Note:another color shade covered by this orderwas aluminum overall with blue insignia out-line for CS-199 trainers.The second order (Avia drawing nr.109-Le62217, national insignia and stencils on C-210aircraft) dates from October 1947 and refersonly to the “aircraft sprayed with grey color”with the white outlined national insignia. Thewing insignia were to have 900 mm diameterincluding 10 mm thick outline (i.e., the actu-al insignia diameter was 880 mm), insigniadistance from the edge of the wingtip was1500 mm, insignia center was 615 mm fromthe wing’s leading edge on the upper sur-faces and 550 mm on the lower surfaces. Theinsignia on the vertical tail surface was tohave 550 mm diameter including 10 mm thickoutline (i.e. the insignia’s actual diameterwas 530 mm). The majority of S-199s weremarked according to the aforementioned or-ders as far as the white outline is concerned(“a stripe” in the period terminology) ho-wever, as always the exceptions existed andtherefore the photographs document bothlight and dark painted aircraft sporting blueoutlined national insignia. It could have beena result of the older order from 1946 as wellas frequently applied rule of thumb „darkoutline (i.e., blue) on the light basis.Once we described the S-199 camouflage andmarkings we have to mention the non-stan-dard white strips found on both upper andlower wing surfaces close to the wingtipsedge. These are captured by the number ofphotographs but mostly appeared on the se-lect airframes which may have led to the mi-staken conclusion that it was a part of sometactical marking. The explanation is fairlysimple – there were (so far) unpainted stripsof fabric covering the gap after the replace-ment/installation of the wingtips which werein short time, in accordance with the aircraftmaintenance program, painted with camouf-lage color, mostly of slightly different shadethan the rest of the wing. To conclude thispart, it is necessary to state that this articledoes not claim the ultimate historic accuracyespecially as far as the aforementioned colorshades is concerned. Considering the lack ofthe authentic documentation (lost due to theroutine shredding or just plain sloppiness)or still to be unearthed relevant archive ma-terials and orders this analysis needs to beaccepted as the best authors‘ presentation ofthe work of several dedicated researchers.HISTORYAvia S-199.253, “black” EZ-9 from the 3rd flight of the 5th Fighter Squadron in Plana at Ceske Budejovice as mentioned in this article, demonstrating the attractivecamouflage. This emergency landing resulting in the damaged wing and the bottom of the fuselage was performed by WO Jiljí Horak. Notice the unpainted metal skinpanels on the nose, cowling and replacement fuselage-vertical tail fairing. The aircraft also features the very thin outline on the vertical tail surfaces national insignia.Of interest are also the protective fabric covers on the fuselage and wing machine guns.Avia S-299.155, “black” MR-4 from the 2nd flight of the 8th Fighter Squadron in Brno-Cernovice camouflaged in thelight grey-green color. This crash ocurred on March 24, 1949 while the aircraft was piloted by Lt. Frantisek Krist. Theimage of the lower wing half nicely shows the location of the national insignia with the thin blue outline, further the“baby bulge” of the ammunition belt links collector of the model 17/7.9N wing machine gun and the starboard liquidcooler with deployed discharge flap. The gun barrels are again protected by the linen covers.INFO Eduard21September 2022Page 22
HISTORYAn example of the dark green painted aircraft (S-199.180) featuring the white UF-21 fuselage codes and non-standard blue outline of the national insignias. This aircraft was writtenoff after the crash of pilot student Bohuslav Solta from the 4th Aviation School in Prostejov-Stichovice on May 30, 1953.Crop of the well-known photograph of theapron with S-199 and C-2 aircraft from the18th Fighter Squadron in Pardubice, spring1954. The dark painted aircraft in the mid-dle is EX-58 belonging to the 3rd sectionof the 3rd flight (initially this was a photoreconnaissance aircraft). In this photogra-ph we can compare the light gray-greenfinish of the older aircraft with the newer(or overhauled) aircraft sprayed with darkgreen color. In both cases the fuselagecodes are white and the national insigniafeature a blue outline.S-199.458 (manufactured by Aero) flown by Lt. Zdenek Štefl grounded after the mid-air collision with another „onehundredninetynine“ in the area of Letkov village on July 15, 1952. Theaircraft belonged to the 2nd Flight of the 51st Fighter Squadron in Pilsen. The scarlet code B-0235 indicates the previous owner, the National Security Aviation (disbanded on Decem-ber 23, 1950). The Czechoslovak insignia with the standard 15mm white outline are painted in accordance with the 2nd Order of the National Markings Application dated October 1947.INFO Eduard22September 2022Page 23
HISTORYThe fragmentof the originalAvia drawingsnr.MeS 101 datedJanuary 1946which prescribedthe location anddimensions of thewing circular na-tional markings.It was specific forS-99 aircraft butlater applicable toS-199 as well.Image of theSkoda-KaubaSK 257 wingfragment fromVHU collection:light gray-greenpaint applied onthe aileron fabriccovering that mayhave influencedthe Czechoslovakaviation industryafter the war. Wecannot excludethis paint (ofwhich somestocks could haveremained) and itsshade as potentialapplication on theCzechoslovak ai-rplanes, includingS-199.The fabric strips application on the wingtips: in the detailed picture of S-199.185 coded IF-01 the fabric covering strip on the rib nr.13 location is not applied yet (or it was removed) whilein the picture from Pilsen taken in winter (the codes SO were allocated to the 4th Fighter Squadron, namely its 3rd Flight) it is already over painted and shows a bit darker shade.INFO Eduard23September 2022Page 24
On the morning of May 15, 1948, citizensof the newly proclaimed state of Israelawoke to a new beginning. The hope of2,000 years has materialized into a ho-meland for the Jewish people. The esta-blishment of a Jewish state in parts ofPalestine, at this time still under Britishmandate, had been approved by the UnitedNations half a year earlier. Nonetheless,the recognition of a new Jewish state wasnot accepted by the local Arab populati-on, nor by the Arab countries surroundingIsrael – Egypt in the south, Jordan to theeast and Syria and Lebanon in the north.Leading the effort to annihilate the Jewishstate was the Royal Egyptian Army andAir Force. At daybreak of Israel’s first dayof independence, Royal Egyptian Air ForceSpitfires bombed Tel-Aviv and the civilianairport at its outskirts. Operating out of theSinai base at El Arish, makeshift Dakotabombers and additional Spitfires conduc-ted a daily routine of bombing civilian cen-ters with impunity.Israelis had yet no fighter aircraft to stopthem, but on April 23, 1948, the IAF had se-cured the purchase of 25 CzechoslovakianS-199 fighter planes. On May 6, 1948, tenlocal and foreign pilots, who volunteeredto fly combat missions for Israel, weresent to Czechoslovakia for conversionto S-199. Twelve days into their training,news came from Israel that Egyptians hadbombed Tel-Aviv central bus station, ki-lling dozens of civilians. On the morningof May 20, Modi Alon, Ezer Weizman andfive Czechoslovakian mechanics squee-zed into a C-46 Commando along the firstdisassembled “Messer” and loads ofammunition to land in Israel 11 hours later.On May 29, 1948, Israel had four “Messers”airworthy and ready for action, but alt-hough two more were delivered in the me-antime, only one was airworthy on June3. At the dusk of that day, pedestrians ofTel-Aviv witnessed an overflight of a pairof Egyptian Dakota makeshift bombersescorted by a pair of Spitfires. This wasto be another bombing run on the largestpopulation center of Israel. This time, theEgyptian’s daily bombing routine that hadbegun on the morning of May 15, 1948, wasto be challenged for the first time. Pales-tinian Jew Modi Alon took to the air in theonly fighter plane Israel had, the S-199 co-ded D-106. Modi came in from the sea withthe sun at his back, so the Egyptian Spitfirepilots did not spot him as he used his air-craft to slash at the two bombers, downingone after the other in the skies of Tel-Aviv.Alon’s experience at flying the “Messer”was only a handful of flights at the timeof the kills but his fighter pilot experien-ce amounted to hundreds of hours as anactive pilot with the Royal Air Force to-wards the end of World War II. Alon be-gan gathering operational experience inJune 1945 with the No. 112 Squadron, flyingMustangs Mk.III (P-51B), Mk.IV (P-51D) andMk.IVA (P-51K) adorned with shark mouth.The Royal Air Force No. 112 Squadron wasstationed in Cervia, Italy and was disban-ded at Treviso on December 30, 1946. Priorto it, in September 1945, Alon was transfe-rred to the No. 213 squadron at the RamatDavid airbase in British mandated Palesti-ne, flying Mk.IVA (P-51K) Mustang. The No.213 Squadron transitioned from the Mus-tangs to the late mark Spitfires and be-tween November 1945 and April 1946 Alonwas redeployed with the unit to Italy. Soonafter this transfer, he quit the RAF to takeup architectural studies at the Technionuniversity in Haifa. During his studies, Alonwas summoned by the IDF command alongwith other native Israelis who flew for theRAF, to take up flight duty with the Palma-ch’s air component, flying civilian-markedlight aircraft.On October 15, 1948, the IDF initiated opera-tion “Ten Plagues” to dislodge the Egyptianarmy entrenched along the Ashdod-Heb-ron road leading to Jerusalem. Returningfrom a combat mission in “Messer D-114”Alon experienced mechanical difficultyover Herzliya air strip and in his attemptsto correct it while airborne, he lost controlof the aircraft which ended in a fatal crash,killing the hero of the new state of Israel.BOXART STORY #70152Text: Yoav EfratiIllustration: Adam ToobyFirst bloodINFO Eduard24September 2022Page 25
#82141BOXART STORYThe boxart of Eduard’s September releasedepicts the fight of Uffz Johannes Rathenowwith the British Boston formation on July 4,1942, over the Netherlands. This was the firstvictory of IV./JG 1, which later became I./JG 1,re-equipped with Heinkel He 162 jets at theend of the war. However, the German unit didnot come unscathed out of the engagement.The crews of No. 226 Squadron RAF, armedwith Bostons III, were joined in the spring of1942 by some personnel of the American 15thBS of the 27th BG. The Yanks were to learnlow-altitude bombing tactics from their Bri-tish counterparts. The first joint mission wasscheduled for the morning of July 4, 1942.Twelve aircraft were prepared for the raid onthe airfields in the Netherlands, including sixwith American crews. Their targets were DeKooy, Haamstede, Valkenburg and Bergen--op-Zoom. The latter airfield, where IV./JG1 was based, was attacked by P/O CharlesM. Henning, F/Lt. Robert A. Yates-Earl andAmerican 2/Lt. William G. Lynn Jr.Bostons have hit hangars and dispersals ofIV./JG 1 few minutes after 8 am. Their bombsseverely damaged a Bf 109F “White 11” of10./JG 1, killing one mechanic and injuringtwo others. However, the aircraft piloted by2/Lt. Lynn crashed within the airfield, appa-rently after being hit by flak. The flak also hitHenning's machine, but he managed to drophis load and continued flying.Just after the bombs were dropped, Ya-tes-Earl spotted a Bf 109 in front of him.He scored hits from his front guns, follo-wed by gunfire at point-blank range by hisrear gunner, Sgt. Leaver. The stricken Bf 109F-4/Z (WNr. 7423) marked “White 9” crashedinto one of the airfield buildings and its pilot,Uffz. Erwin Grütz of 10./JG 1, was killed.The pair of Bostons were pursued by a planewhich was leaving a black smoke trail. TheBritish thought it was the same one they hadhit over the airfield, but it was a different air-craft. Behind the controls of this plane wasUffz. Johannes Rathenow of 10./JG 1 and theengine of his machine was apparently ru-nning in short-term power boost mode. Hemanaged to catch up with the Bostons overthe sea and concentrated his fire on thedamaged aircraft manned by 20-year-oldP/O Henning. The British machine burst intoflames, disintegrated, and the navigator, P/OPercy J. Voyzey as well as the radio opera-tor/gunner, Sgt. Herbert T. Willig, were killedalong with their pilot.A victorious Rathenow is depicted in a seriesof photographs with the Fw 190 “White 12”,which show him in high spirits after this firstvictory, including a jump from the edge ofthe cockpit to the ground. The images havebeen described as such in several publicati-ons. The problem is that the war correspon-dent made them in late July 1942. On July 4Rathenow was still flying a Bf 109. It mayhave been his personal Bf 109F “white 4” withthe Susi inscription under the cockpit.In March 1942, the Luftwaffe established theIV./JG 1 for a second time. Most of the ori-ginal IV Gruppe had been incorporated intoJG 5 in northern Europe shortly before. Thenew IV./JG 1 was formed largely from seve-ral operational training units. From the endof April, it was gradually moved from Ger-many to various bases in the Netherlands.It was armed with a varied mix of diffe-rent versions of the Bf 109E and F fighters.At the end of June, it was assigned seven-teen Fw 190A-2s and fifteen Fw 190A-3s.However, these were in Germany with Über-nahmekommando Rotenburg in MönchenGladbach, at which IV./JG 1 was graduallyrearmed with the Fw 190s from mid-July1942. The transformation was accompa-nied by a number of problems with mal-functioning BMW engines. When parts ofIV./JG 1 with Fw 190s began to move to Dee-len in the Netherlands at the end of July, thelast Bf 109E’s were still to be seen alongsidethe new Focke-Wulfs. For the rest of 1942,IV./JG 1 over the Netherlands and Germa-ny mostly encountered reconnaissanceMosquitos, but occasionally got into combatwith Spitfires, Bostons or Wellington bom-bers.Johannes Rathenow later scored a numberof successes in combat against Americanfour-engined bombers. He was killed onNovember 3, 1943, in fight with Boeing B-17sand their escorting P-38 fighters of the 55thFG over Germany. His aircraft exploded af-ter shots fired probably by Lightning pilotsMajor Milton Joel and 2/Lt. Willard L. Kreft.Text: Jan BobekIllustration: Kateřina BoreckáFourth of July over the NetherlandsINFO Eduard25September 2022Page 26
The Bf 110 was the fighter plane with thebest victory/loss ratio in the Battle ofBritain. This aircraft also performed wellin attacks on ground targets. It continuedin both roles as I. and II./ZG 26 took part inthe attack on Yugoslavia and Greece. Thefighting over Greece culminated on April20, 1941, with an aerial battle over Athens inwhich the most successful Western Alliedfighter pilot, South African Pat Pattle, waskilled by a Bf 110. He had more than 50 vic-tories to his credit.Due to the impending invasion of Crete,I. and II./ZG 26 were tasked with attackingthe island's defences and vessels in itsvicinity. They were reinforced by II./ZG 76,which moved to Argos airfield. Due to thepaintings of shark mouths on the noses oftheir aircraft, they were known as the Hai-fischgruppe. Its commander was Maj. ErichGroth and one of his Staffelkapitäne wasHans-Joachim Jabs, the most successfulBf 110 fighter pilot of the Battle of Britain.He later became a successful night fighterwith 50 victories. He was awarded Knight'sCross with Oak Leaf for his combat efforts.The defences of Crete were very strong andAllied airmen as well as gunners on landand in ships inflicted heavy losses to theattackers. The first appearance of Bf 110sover Crete was probably on May 11, whenfive aircraft from II./ZG 76 strafed He-raklion airfield. The Bofors gunners ope-ned fire, but due to late warning only oneGladiator from No. 112 Squadron RAF tookoff. Its pilot claimed a probable kill. Threedays later, however, the Germans suffereda noticeable loss. A dozen aircraft fromII./ZG 26 flew to Heraklion, where theycame under fire from the Bofors gunners,and were also attacked by two Gladiatorsfrom 1430 Flight. New Zealander P/O Je-rry Westenra managed to hit a low-flyingBf 110 which crashed into the sea off thecoast. Bofors gunners also claimed thisvictory. None of the crew survived. The pi-lot of the aircraft was Oblt. Sophus Baagoeof 5./ZG 26, a 14 victory ace. He was one ofthe pilots who may have killed Pat Pattlethree weeks earlier over Athens. AnotherBf 110 crash landed near the airfield afterhits from Bofors and its crew was captu-red.On the day of the invasion of Crete, May 20,1941, 4./ZG 26 lost its commander Oblt. Re-inhold Heubel. In the afternoon, the Bf 110sof II./ZG 26 were to destroy the remainingBofors positions at Heraklion. However,valiant Bofors gunners shot down twoBf 110s, killing Heubel, and capturing theother crew.The Bf 110s were also targeting vessels,as illustrated by Antonis Karydis in theillustration, portraying the aircraft ofHans-Joachim Jabs of II./ZG 76, whichachieved excellent results during the figh-ting at Crete. Even a small vessel could bea dangerous target. On May 21, 1941, nearSuda Bay, the Kommandeur of I./ZG 26,Hptm. Wilhelm Makrocki, who was a Kni-ght's Cross recipient and an ace with ninekills, attacked the small coastal patrolvessel Syvern. During the first attack, hekilled one sailor by gunfire and woundedall the others. He continued to attack withhis Bf 110 and men on the Syvern bravelyfired small arms. During the sixth attack,one ammunition box on board exploded,debris hit the Bf 110, which in turn struckthe mast and crashed into the sea. Not onlydid Makrocki died, but also his gunner, warcorrespondent Hptm. Heinrich Eisgruber,who served in the 3. Bayerisches Infante-rie-Regiment during the First World War.Syvern eventually reached the coast.While on patrol on May 31, about 25 kmnorth of Kissamos Bay the Kapitän of2./ZG 26, Hptm. Karl Heindorf, tried to getinto firing position behind a Maryland bom-ber. But he was hit from behind by Lt. JimWilliams of No. 24 Sqn. SAAF in anotherMaryland and was shot down in flames intothe sea.During the two weeks of fighting for Crete,the Germans lost more than twenty Bf 110sand most of their crews. A considerab-le number of Bf 110s were damaged. Thepilots in the cockpits of the Bf 110s suffe-red from poor air and sea rescue service.Many of them ditched in the sea but wereleft without help. ZG 26 lost six comman-ding or staff officers in this short period,which was comparable with the intensityof losses in the Battle of Britain.BOXART STORY #7464Text: Jan BobekIllustration: Antonis KarydisSharks over CreteINFO Eduard26September 2022Page 27
#70122BOXART STORYIn June 1942, the RAF introduced the Spitfi-re Mk.IX. In October 1942 the French No. 340Squadron (Ilede-France)(Ile-de-France),commanded by Cdt. Bernard Dupérier ob-tained them as well. Dupérier chose BS392aircraft as his personal mount, thus bearingthe code letters GW-S as his previous Mk.VSpitfire BM324, his new Mk.IX showed alsothe Donald Duck motif , accompanied by thenecessary squadron commander's flag, andbelow the windshield the Cross of Lorraine,emblem of the Free French squadrons . Cdt.Dupérier flew the new Spitfire BS392 onlybriefly , from October 25 to November 9,1942, he made six operational sorties withit. However, he shot down two Fw 190s in itscockpit on November 2, 1942, during Operati-on Rodeo 107. With his previous three kills itmade Dupérier an ace.The Spitfire BS392 was subsequently usedby various units and its fate was sealedon September 9, 1944, when a member ofNo. 310 (Czechoslovak) Squadron, Sgt. Voj-tech Škreka-Badouin, overshot the entirerunway on landing and crashed. BS392 hadto be written off.Bernard Dupérier was born in Paris on June13, 1907. He studied engineering at the Éco-le technique aéronautique et Constructionautomobile. After graduation, he enlisted inthe air force in 1927 and obtained his militarypilot's license on May 25, 1928. In November1928, he was commissioned a sergeant andwas assigned to the 37th Aviation Regimentin Morocco, where he flew against Arab di-ssidents. He left the service in July 1930 andwent into the Reserve. He continued his stu-dies and became an aeronautical and auto-motive engineer.At the end of August 1939, he was mo-bilized as a Reserve Lieutenant of the4e Escadrille/32e Escadre de Bombardmentand in December 1940 he was sent to the USAas a representative of the Vichy Air Force. Hejoined the Free French Air Force (FAFL) onJanuary 15, 1941, in New York and on arrivalin England was promoted to the rank of Cap-tain on March 8, 1941. He was originally as-signed to FAFL Headquarters but was trans-ferred to No. 55 Operational Training Unit onApril 8, 1941 and moved to No. 242 SquadronRAF on May 27, 1941. He achieved his first vic-tory on July 6, 1941, by shooting down a Bf 109.He was subsequently transferred to No. 615Squadron, then on October 30, 1941, he joinedNo. 340 Squadron as commander of B Flight,named “Versailles”. In May 1942 he was givencommand of the entire No. 340 Squadron,which he led until November 1942. In earlyDecember he was again transferred to FAFLHeadquarters.In May 1943 Dupérier was assigned as su-pernumerary commander to No. 341 Squad-ron (Alsace) at Biggin Hill Base. After thedeath of Squadron Leader Rene Mouchotte,he assumed command of the squadron onAugust 30. He destroyed two more Fw 190sin aerial combat and was appointed com-mander of Biggin Hill Wing on September 25.He thus became one of the few Frenchmento be appointed to the rank of RAF Wing Co-mmander. On December 1, 1943, he becamecommander of the newly established FrenchNo. 145 Wing, which he commanded untilFebruary 1944. In February 1944 he was as-signed to the administrative section of theheadquarters, then in May he was assignedto the staff of General König, commander ofthe French forces in England.Bernard Dupérier (it was in fact a war mo-niker, his real name was Léon Sternberg deArmella) flew a total of 337 operational hoursand completed 211 missions. He achieved se-ven aerial victories, one probable victory andalso four aircraft damaged. He also destroy-ed or damaged 20 ships.He became a Reserve Colonel in 1946 andwent on to serve as a corporate directorin the United States and France. He wasstill active in the airline industry, becominga consultant with Boeing and a director ofAir France. In 1958 he entered politics andfounded the association “Appel au général deGaulle”, which played a major role in the Ge-neral’s return to power. Dupérier was elec-ted MP for the sixth constituency of Paris inthe 1962 parliamentary elections. He wrotetwo books about his wartime experiences.The best known is La Vielle Equipe. LéonSternberg de Armella aka Bernard Dupérierdied on June 8, 1995 in Paris. He was buriedin Barbas, Meurthe-et-Moselle.Text: Michal KrechowskiIllustration: Vincenzo AulettaFor a free FranceINFO Eduard27September 2022Page 28
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S-199, D-106, Modi Alon, 101 Squadron (tayeset), Cheyl ha-avir, Aqir, Israel, June 1948S-199.302, rtm. Josef Filus, Squadron 1, Fighter Air Regiment 7, Brno-Černovice, Czechoslovakia, August 1949S-199.??, Stíhací výcvikové středisko, Planá u Českých Budějovic, Československo, květen 1948The aircraft with the fuselage code D-106 was delive-red to Israel on May 30, 1948, during Operation Balak’sFlight No. 16. As all the S-199s of the first batch it wasequipped with an oil cooler under the nose. On June 1,it joined the fighting and just two days later Modi Alonachieved the first two air-to-air kills for the S-199fighter and, by extension, the newly establishedIsraeli Air Force. Alon’s victims were two EgyptianC-47s makeshift bombers of the Royal Egyptian AirForce’s No. 3 Squadron. On the fateful day of the kills,“Messer” coded D-106 was the only airworthy fighteravailable to Israel, as the other three S-199s delive-red up to that time were either destroyed, damaged,or in various stages of assembly. The following day,No. 101 squadron pilot Dov Ben Zvi damaged D-106 ontakeoff, leaving the squadron without any airworthyfighter. To counter REAF air raids, No. 101 squadronrelocated to an improvised dirt airstrip set up in thetown of Herzliya. Repaired “Mule” D-106 was madeairworthy again, but not for long. On takeoff, whileflown from the Herzliya airstrip, one of the wheelshit a patch of mud, causing the airplane to flip over.Gideon Lichtman survived the crash, but D-106 wasscrapped.This “Mule” was manufactured in the Aero factory andwas assigned to the Fighter Air Regiment 7 on August4, 1948. There it served with first squadron and got thecode IV-3. On August 1, 1949, this “Mule” was damaged inthe landing accident. Pilot, rtm. (Master Sergeant) JosefFilus was lightly wounded and the airframe was sent forrepairs to the factory. After the repair the aircraft wasassigned to the Air Military Academy in Hradec Králo-vé and was damaged again – this time during take-offaccident at the Malacky airfield on March 31, 1951. Ano-ther damage happened on November 20, 1950, and it wasstill not the last one. During the take-off at the Zvolenairbase, where it served with the Training Air Regiment5, the trainee svob. (Private 1st Class) Antonín Keprcrashed it for the fourth time. It is interesting the S-199of this production number is stated as one of the Mulessent to Israel, but numerous records about its service inCzechoslovak Air Force are contrary to it.The Fighter Training Center was set up on Februa-ry 1, 1947, in order to provide new pilots with fightertraining after they gained their basic and advancedpiloting skills in the Aviation Training School. It waslocated at the Planá, the airfield near to České Budě-jovice. The personnel and aircraft of the Fighter AirRegiment 5 formed new Fighter Training Center withAviation Regiment 4 and Training Squadron No. 2 alsocontributing. After the proper training of instructors,the first batch of student-pilots started their trainingon September 1, 1947. Very important course startedin May 1948. As a part of the DI operation (DI standsin Czech for Restricted, Israel) several Israeli pilots,mostly foreign volunteers, undergone conversiontraining on the S-199 to fly them for Israeli Air For-ce. They used several different aircraft, and the onecoded JV-9 was one of them. The serial number ofthis aircraft is not known, there are several numberswhich would fit in time and location and are not as-signed to any known code. We have chosen number73 from them as one of probable. The marking wasstandard, and the aircraft probably lacked the bluehighlighting of all the air inlets.KITS 09/2022INFO Eduard29September 2022Page 30
S-199, D-108, 101 Squadron (tayeset), Cheyl ha-avir, Qastina, Israel, September 1948S-199.66, A-798, ak. Ladislav Strnad, Air Military Academy, Hradec Králové,Czechoslovakia, June 1950S-199, 1907, 101 Squadron (tayeset), Cheyl ha-avir, Israel, December 1948Messer D-108 was one of the first batch of ten Me-ssers brought by Israel and arrived on board of BalakNo. 19 flight on May 31, 1948. It was taken to the ac-tion for the very first time on June 5 and was one ofthe S-199s which survived the war. It was scrappedafter October 15, 1950. During its wartime career,it suffered damage during the landing accident onAugust 21, 1948, with Mitchell Flint behind the contro-ls. Originally the D-123 sported smaller insignia andthe early-style serial. These were repainted at Qasti-na and the aircraft sported also some visible repairswith darker green color. Whole the lower nose panelof the cooling system was repainted with this color,only area around the stencil stayed in the originalcolor. The exact hue of the repair green is not known,but it was surely not the fresher paint of the originalone, as Israel was not provided with original colorsby Czechoslovakia.This aircraft was assigned to the Air Regiment 7 onAugust 4, 1948. On May 10, 1950, it was sent to theLVA (Air Military Academy), where it was damagedduring take-off from the Pardubice airfield. A goodquality photo of crashed aircraft exists and showsvery interesting coloring, as the rear fuselage andengine cowls are clearly different shade of lightercolor compared to the original green. There mightbe several theories about this aircraft’s colors. Webelieve there were probably some minor repairsneeded on the rear fuselage (or just overpainting oforiginal user´s code?) and as the LVA ran out of stan-dard green color the tan color intended for C-104swas used. As there was also a need to change theengine cowl at some point, the one from dark greenaircraft was used and overpainted in the same co-lor as the rear fuselage to keep the aircraft in somecolor “order”. But the new coat chipped around themachine gun barrels and the darker green surfacedthere. Also, the right slat is clearly of darker greencolor. The question mark hangs over the nationalinsignia on upper wing surfaces. On the photo itseems like they were not painted there, but it mig-ht well be due to the over exposition of the surfaceunder the direct sun only. Their absence would notmake any sense… Interesting is also obvious absenceof most of the stencils. The front of the fuselage andwings are quite worn out, while both green and reartan part of fuselage looks like new. The engine cowlsports some chipping and repairs in contrast.Last of the Messers to arrive to Israel was very short--lived. The aircraft should have been coded D-124under original code system but as it arrived late, itprobably never got it and was designated directly as1907 according to the new system. The flight BalakNo. 65, which had this plane on board, was scheduledto arrive to Israel on July 18, but was forced to land inItaly at the Rome airport and the C-47 was impoun-ded there until November 26. After being assembledSyd Cohen ferried the 1907 from Aquir to Qastina onDecember 5. First sortie of this Messer was plannedfor December 15, but Wayne Peake flipped it duringtakeoff. The rear fuselage nearly ripped in two piecesand the aircraft was written off.KITS 09/2022INFO Eduard30September 2022Page 31
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WNr. 437, Uffz. Johannes Rathenow, 10./JG 1, Woensdrecht, the Netherland, July 1942WNr. 2080, 10.(Jabo)/JG 2, Beaumont-le-Roger, France, spring 1942WNr. 0552, Hptm. Josef Priller, CO of III./JG 26, Wevelgem, Belgium, late August 1942On July 4, 1942, in this Fw 190A-3 Uffz. Rathenowscored his first air victory over the enemy aircraft,the victim was a Boston Mk.III from No. 226 SquadronRAF. The British bomber crashed into the sea twentykilometers west of the Dutch village of Callanstsoog.During WWII Johannes „Boulette“ Rathenow scoredin total seven kills, besides the British Boston allthe others were American B-17s. He met his fate onNovember 3, 1943 when he took off with 1./JG 1 fora mission against the American bombers and theirescorting P-38 fighters who were headed for a raidon Wilhelmshaven. After he was hit over Bad Zwis-chenahn Rathenow’s Fw 190A-6 exploded.In the end of 1941 Luftwaffe was considering torestart its bombing of the Great Britain as well as thecoastal shipping. It was established that each fighterunit deployed against Great Britain will commissionone Staffel to the „hit and run“ bombing attacks.10.(Jabo) Staffel of the JG 2 flew in this role. Led byOblt. Frank Liesendahl, in four months the unit sank20 ships representing 630 000 BRT displacement.Blue 6 flying with 10.(Jabo)/JG 2 sported the standardLuftwaffe day fighters‘ camouflage of RLM 74/75/76.The units insignia was a fox biting the ship. On Au-gust 26, 1942 this Focke Wulf, at that time attached to10.(Jabo)/JG 26 as black 13, was shot down by the AAfire of a Canadian unit at Eastbourne. The pilot, Ofw.Werner Kassa was killed.Josef ”Pips“ Priller was born on July 27, 1915 in In-golstadt, Bavaria. In 1935, he joined Wehrmacht, andas soon as one year later, in October 1936, he startedto attend the fighter pilot training. He managed hisfirst shot down as a commander of 6. Staffel JG 51when he downed a Spitfire above Dunkerque on May28, 1940. In November 1940, he was appointed a com-mander of the 1./ JG 26. On December 6, 1941, he beca-me commander of III./ JG 26, from January 11,1943 helead the whole Jagdgeschwader 26. His total numberof shot downs kept growing. On December 20, 1941,his successes were rewarded - Priller was decoratedwith Knights Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leavesand Swords. On January 28, 1945, he was appointeda post of an Inspekteur der Jagdflieger Ost, where heremained till the end of WWII. Priller’s total score ofshot downs was 101 enemy aircraft. All of the shotdowns happened in the Western Front. After war hemarried Johanna Riegele, the proprietor of a breweryand became general manager of Riegele brewery inAugsburg, Germany. He died of heart attack on May20, 1961. The aircraft flown by Josef Priller in late su-mmer 1942, in the standard camouflage scheme forLuftwaffe fighters, had a yellow rudder and bottomportion of the engine cowl. It also carried the mar-king for the CO of the III. Gruppe. The tail carried 77kill markings, his tally to August 29, 1942.KITS 09/2022INFO Eduard33September 2022Page 34
WNr. 130539, Hptm. Heinz Krafft, CO of I./JG 51, Vyazma, Soviet Union, Autumn 1942WNr. 125425, Fw. Kurt Kundrus, 12./JG 5, Herdla, Norway, December 1943Heinz Kraft was born on August 13, 1914 in Bílina, Aus-tria-Hungary (nowadays Czech Republic). After thebirth of Czechoslovakia his parents emigrated withhim to Germany where in 1935 he joined Wehrmachtand the following year was accepted to Luftwaffe.In 1939 he flew with 3./JG 51. During the Westerncampaign he scored four kills. On November 11, 1940he was ordered to command 3. Staffel which he ledduring the attack of the Soviet Union. On March 18,1942 he was decorated with the Knights Cross havingscored 48 kills and on June 1, 1942 he was promotedto command the whole I. Gruppe. After the conversi-on training to Fw 190 his I./JG 51 returned back to theEastern Front in Leningrad area. On December 10, 1942he scored his last kill, number 78. Four days later hewas shot down by the AA fire of a soviet unit south ofthe village of Beliy at Rzhev and was killed during theemergency landing. Fw 190A-3 in which Heinz „Gaudi“Krafft was killed featured a non-standard camouflagein two shades of dark green. It remains unclear whatkind of paint they were exactly. One of the possibilitiesis the combination of RLM 70 and RLM 71. The yellowwingtips on the lower surfaces and the fuselage bandunder the fuselage cross identify the aircraft assignedto the Eastern Front. The engine cowling sports the JG51 insignia and the I./JG 51 marking is painted underthe windshield.This aircraft was built as an Fw 190A-2. During itsservice life, it had a BMW-801D-2 engine installed,which was a change that introduced the A-3 model.On December 15, 1943, Kundrus set the aircraft downgently into the sea after taking off from Herdla and su-ffering engine failure. After some 63 years, the aircraftwas raised and has been in the collection of a museumin Herdia since 2007. The aircraft was camouflaged inRLM 74/75/76 and carried yellow eastern Front reco-gnition markings on the bottom wingtips and rudder.The engine cowl sports the IV./JG 5 unit marking whilethe 12./JG 5 badge appears below the windscreen.KITS 09/2022INFO Eduard34September 2022Page 35
OVERTREESOVERLEPT#82141XFw 190A-3 w/ 2guns wings1/48Product pageProduct pageRecommended:for Fw 190A-3 light fighter 1/4848956 Fw 190A-3 (PE-Set)48980 Fw 190A-3 landing flaps (PE-Set)FE863 Fw 190A seatbelts STEEL (PE-Set)644016 Fw 190A-3 LööK (Brassin)648356 Fw 190A wingroot gun bays (Brassin)648364 Fw 190A-3 engine (Brassin)648366 Fw 190A propeller (Brassin)648371 Fw 190A control surfaces early (Brassin)648381 Fw 190A exhaust stacks (Brassin)648778 Luftwaffe rudder pedals PRINT (Brassin)3DL48046 Fw 190A-3 SPACE (3D Decal Set)D48041 Fw 190A-3 national insignia (Decal Set)EX587 Fw 190A TFace (Mask)#82141-LEPTFw 190A-3 light fighter1/48Cat. No. 648364Cat. No. 644016KITS 09/2022INFO Eduard35September 2022Page 36
The Ultimate Tempest1/48Limited edition kit of British fighter aircraft Tempest Mk.II in 1/48 scale.Focused on machine from the Royal Air Force, Pakistan Air Forceand Indian Air Force.plastic parts:Eduardmarking options: 10decals: EduardPE parts: yes, pre-paintedpainting mask: yesextra: a pictorial book about service Tempest Mk.IIsin RAF, Royal Indian Air Force and Royal PakistanAir Force written by Chris Thomas.Product page#11164KITS 09/2022INFO Eduard36September 2022Page 37
MW835, W/Cdr Charles H. Dyson, CO of Southern Sector, RAF Middle Wallop, Hampshire,Great Britain, 1946MW800, S/Ldr Frank W. M. Jensen, CO of No. 54 Squadron, RAF Chilbolton, Hampshire,Great Britain, June 1946PR527, RDF, Chakeri, India, January 1947After W/Cdr Roland Beamont the new Southern Sectorcommander became Charles „Deadstick“ Dyson whohad his leader’s MW835 repainted with his inititials„C-D“ and add to the marking the unusually gaudy redand yellow lightning on the both sides of the fuselage.The lightning was partially deleted and only the rednose with red chevrons on the sides remained. Blackand white propeller spinner was probably the rema-inder of the original scheme. From the period photo-graph we can determine that the MW835 landing gearcovers on both sides were either replaced or repaintedas the corresponding part of the wing codes on the lo-wer wing surfaces is missing.During the Victory Flight Parade, which took place onJune 8, 1946 over London, No. 54 Squadron was led byS/Ldr Frank Jensen in his personal Tempest MW800carrying fuselage code letters HF-V. No. 54 Squadronwas one of two units that flew Tempest Mk.II withinthe Fighter Command therefore they were located onthe Great Britain‘s territory. The aircraft carried thestandard camouflage in Ocean Grey and Dark Greencolors on the upper surfaces and Medium Sea Greyon the lower surfaces. The band on the rear fuse-lage and code letters were painted Sky. The Jensen’saircraft carried the squadron commander pennantunder the windshield. The photograph confirms thatthe left landing gear covers was probably a replace-ment from another Tempest.The first Tempests that arrived in India in the end ofJune 1945 were PR256 and PR527. They sported theDay Fighter Scheme with at that time applicable com-bat identification of the fighters operating in ACSEAarea – the white propeller spinner as well as whiteserial number and stripes on the wings, horizontaland vertical tail surfaces. The smaller and modifiednational insignia were painted in the combination ofdark and light blue color. From January 1947 the air-craft flew at the research and development aviationChakeri. Eight months later it was handed over tothe Royal Indian Air Force (RIAF) which operated it inthis markings except of the national markings whichwere replaced with the pre-war RAF insignia.KITS 09/2022INFO Eduard37September 2022Page 38
PR736, S/Ldr Dennis C. Usher, CO of No. 16 Squadron, BAFO, Fassberg, Germany,1946–1948PR788, S/Ldr R. N. G. Allen, No. 33 Squadron, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, February 1948PR674, W/Cdr Frank R. Carrey, No. 135 Wing, BAFO, RAF Fassberg,Německo, srpen 1948 – únor 1949No. 16 Squadron was established on February 10,1915 at Saint Omer base in France and afterwards itwas disbanded and re-activated several times. AfterWWII on October 20, 1945 it was disbanded as a partof the RAF downsizing so as to be re-established onSeptember 19, 1945 as a new No. 16 Squadron basedon No. 268 Squadron. The unit operated at Celle basein Germany as a tactical reconnaissance unit untilanother disbandement on March 31, 1946. Howeveron the next day, as a part of the reorganization, itwas re-stablished again by re-numbering No. 56Squadron at Fassberg base in Germany. It was newlyequipped with Tempests Mk.V which on June 7, 1946replaced Tempests Mk.II. Sixteenth Squadron opera-ted at Fassberg base as a part of No. 135 Wing BAFOin the fighter-bomber role until it was disbanded onemore time on June 1, 1957. Tempest PR736 was flownby the unit’s commander, S/Ldr. Dennis Charles Usherand his aircraft carried the squadron commanderpennant under the windshield. No. 16 Squadron in-signia was painted on the engine cowling.After WWII No. 33 Squadron first operated in Germa-ny from where it was in the beginning of June 1949dispatched on board of HMS Ocean to the Far Eastwhere it operated until 1970. Until 1960 it flew combatsorties against the communist guerilla forces in Ma-laysia. It was also the last RAF operational unit flyingTempests Mk.II. The last missions were flown on June6, 1951, after that the unit started to re-equip withDe Havilland Hornet F.3. In the end of February 1948,S/Ldr R. N. G. Allen led the formation of four Tempestsfrom No.33 Squadron to the RAF base Thorney Islandwhere they stayed a week to perform demonstrati-ons for the School of Ground and Air Warfare in OldSarum. For that occasion S/Ldr Allen’s aircraft PR788coded 5R-A received a shading to it’s coding. The le-tter A was repeated under the nose on black outlinedwhite circle. Under the standard conditions the letterwould be black but on this commander’s aircraft theupper half of the letter A was painted red, same asthe propeller spinner of the A flight, while the bottomhalf was blue, same as the flight B propeller spinner.Tempest Mk. II PR674 with black codes FR-C wasa personal aircraft of the No. 135 Wing commander,W/Cdr Frank Reginald Carrey. Before that it was flownby W/Cdr J. W. E. Holmes. Frank Carrey enlisted in theRAF in September 1927 and in 1935 he was acceptedinto pilot training. In September 1936 he was orderedto No. 43 Squadron flying the Fury biplanes. Carreywas selected for the flight’s aerobatic team and per-formed at many air shows. In the beginning of 1939No. 43 Squadron was re-equipped with Hurricanesand after the outbreak of war Carrey scored his firstthree shared kills. On May 10 he was ordered to No.3 Squadron with which he took part in the Battle ofFrance and Battle of Britain. In the end of 1941, asa No. 135 Sqaudron commander, he was dispatchedto Rangoon in the Far East and in February 1942 heassumed command of the No. 267 Wing. In the end of1943 he stopped flying combat and worked in India atthe Air Fighting Training Unit. In November 1944 hewas promoted and left for Egypt to No. 73 OTU. In June1945 he returned to Europe and was put in commandof the No. 135 Wing in Germany. He held this positionuntil the beginning of 1949. In 1958 he relocated toAustralia where he worked as an aviation advisor.On June 2, 1960 he retired and returned to Great Bri-tain. On December 6, 2004 he passed away at the ageof 92. During WWII Frank Carrey shot down 25 enemyaircraft individually and another three in cooperati-on. He also recoreded four unconfirmed kills, threeprobables and eight aircraft damaged. He becameone of the most successful Hurricane pilots.KITS 09/2022INFO Eduard38September 2022Page 39
A139 (ex PR809), No. 14 Squadron, Royal Pakistan Air Force, Pakistan, 1949HA547, No. 7 Squadron, Royal Indian Air Force, India, 1949HA426, No. 7 Squadron, Royal Indian Air Force, Jammu, India, December 1948On November 1, 1948 in Peshavar the No. 14 Squad-ron of the Royal Pakistan Air Force was established.Only four days later the first encounter of RIAF andRPAF aircraft took place when two RIAF Tempestesattacked the Pakistani Dakota. On January 15, 1949the No. 14 Squadron was disbanded due to the factthat during December the unit had lost two Tempestsand without replacement aircraft the situation beca-me critical. The supplies of new Tempests commen-ced in March 1949 and the aircraft were immediatelyallocated to the combat units. They received the se-rials from A128 to A151 and were easily recognizablethanks to their desert camouflage scheme. The reco-gnition stripes were not applied. As the material andpersonal situation improved on December 15, 1949 theNo. 14 Squadron was again re-activated under the le-adership of Julian Kazimierz Żuromski. On March 24,1950 the unit has been relocated to Miranshah for itsfirst combat deployment against Faqir of Ipi uprising.The first from 89 Tempests that underwent the over-haul and were delivered to RIAF, was HA547. Origina-lly it was PR874 airframe which in February 1946 wasdelivered directly to the storage and after more thantwo years was sold from No. 20 MU (MaintenanceUnit) back to Hawker in order to satisfy the aircraftdeliveries for India and Pakistan. All Tempests werefinished in Aluminum. Initially these aircraft carriedthe „Chakra“ style national insignia which were soonreplaced by the new orange-white-green cockades.These were introduced in 1950.Even though HA426 from No. 7 Squadron still sportsthe original RAF Day Fighter Scheme it already ca-rries the new orange-white-green RIAF cockades.There is a winged battle axe, No. 7 Squadron insignia,painted below the canopy. White wingtips as well aswhite propeller spinner and rear fuselage band wereapplied to RIAF Tempests to distinguish them fromRPAF aircraft carrying the same camouflage.KITS 09/2022INFO Eduard39September 2022Page 40
481064 Tempest Mk.II landing flaps (PE-Set)FE1208 Tempest Mk.II seatbelts STEEL (PE-Set)644104 Tempest Mk.II LööK (Brassin)644115 Tempest Mk.II LööKplus (Brassin)648636 Tempest Mk.II wheels (Brassin)648637 Tempest Mk.II undercarriage legs BRONZE (Brassin)648638 Tempest Mk.II gun bays (Brassin)648639 Tempest Mk.II cockpit (Brassin)648641 RP-3 60lb rockets for Tempest Mk.II (Brassin)648654 Tempest Mk.II exhaust stacks (Brassin)648686 Tempest Mk.II landing flaps PRINT (Brassin)SIN64875 Tempest Mk.II ESSENTIAL (Brassin)3DL48030 Tempest Mk.II SPACE (3D Decal Set)D48086 Tempest Mk.II stencils (Decal Set)D48087 Tempest Mk.II roundels (Decal Set)EX796 Tempest Mk.II TFace (Mask)PR836, F/Lt Michael P. O. Blake, No. 3 Squadron, Royal Indian Air Force, Kolar, India, 1946–1947The first RIAF unit equipped with Tempests Mk. II wasNo. 3 Squadron which commenced the operations atKolar airport in September 1946. In the same manneras with the other Indian squadrons the Tempests didnot carry any fuselage codes except the individualletters. PR836 coded Q served with No. 3 squadronfrom October 1946 to May 14, 1947 when it was hea-vily damaged during the accident in Risalpur. Afterthe landing the undercarriage broke off and S/LdrM. L. Mishra was wounded. PR836 was often flownby F/Lt Michael Patrick Owen „Micky“ Blake who onOctober 27, 1946 had an honor to be the first Indian tofly a Tempest. His favorite PR836 with fuselage codeQ was decorated with „Percy Prune“ comics charac-ter. Only part of the character, reaching the fuselagepanel demarcation under the windshield is visible inthe period photograph, however it is possible that itwas painted all the way to fuselage to wing joint.OVERTREESOVERLEPT#82124X Tempest Mk.II1/48#11164-LEPTThe Ultimate Tempest1/48Product pageProduct pageRecommended:for The Ultimate Tempest 1/48KITS 09/2022INFO Eduard40September 2022Page 41
51As noted earlier, RIAF squadrons had commenced equi-pping with Tempests in September 1946 – nearly a yearbefore the country achieved independence. When ‘Par-tition’ was formally enacted on 15 August 1947, all theRAF’s Tempests (and other various types) in India weretransferred to the two newly independent countries,the bulk (124) going to the RIAF and the remainder (35)to the RPAF. The RIAF Tempests included those alreadyserving in RIAF units, namely Nos 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, and 10Squadrons. Nos 1 and 9 Squadrons, recently converted toTempests from Spitres, were among the assets selectedfor transfer to the RPAF although Indian personnel in tho-se units were evacuated to their homeland.No 2 Squadron, also recently converted from Spitres,was short-lived as a Tempest unit, disbanding at the endof 1947, leaving the RIAF with ve operational Tempestsquadrons.No 3 Squadron eventually converted to Vampires in De-cember 1952No 4 Squadron had taken over No 30 Squadron RAF’sTempests in July 1947 and would be the last Squadron toy Tempests operationally, not trading them for Vampiresuntil April 1954.No 7 Squadron left its original Tempests at Risalpur forthe RPAF but, re-equipped with replacement aircraft,continued to operate until the end of 1949.No 8 Squadron, the second to y Tempests, continuedto operate them until Nov 1951 when they were replacedby Vampires.No 10 Squadron received its rst Tempests in May 1947and were the second to last to operate the type, begin-ning conversion to Vampires in December 1953.In October 1947 an invasion into disputed Indian terri-tory (in Jammu and Kashmir) by tribal insurgents fromPakistan, took place, inevitably developing into warbetween to two new nations. The RIAF Tempests wereheavily employed supporting ground troops in the gh-ting which continued throughout 1948. Bombs, RP andcannon were used to great eect. No air combat tookplace other than the interception of a RPAF Dakota whichwas damaged as it was driven away. The war reacheda stalemate situation towards the end of 1948 and theUnited Nations brokered a ceasere that was imposedon 31 January 1949.Meanwhile, attrition had forced the RIAF to look for re-inforcements for its Tempest force and surplus RAF Tem-pests were purchased. These aircraft had mostly been instore since their delivery but in May 1948 113 were soldback to their manufacturer, Hawker Aircraft at Langley,where they were completely refurbished and brought upto the latest standard. India acquired 89 of these Tem-pests, allocating serial numbers HA547 to HA635; theyTitle photo: The rst RIAF unit to equip with the Tempest was No 3 Squadron which began conversion at Kolarin September 1946. PR836 Q was reported with that squadron the following month and served with them until it wasbadly damaged in an accident at Risalpur on 14 May 1947, when the undercarriage collapsed and Sqn Ldr M.L. Mishrawas injured. In common with the other RIAF Tempest squadrons, no unit codes were carried, just individual letters.IndiaSAMPLE FROM BOOK „THE ULTIMATE TEMPEST“ BY CHRISTOPHER THOMASINFO Eduard41September 2022Page 42
52were all nished in the new RAF scheme – ‘Aluminium’paint. Initially marked with Chakra roundels they weresoon being delivered wearing the new Saron/white/green roundels adopted by the RIAF in November 1948.Tempests transferred from RAF stocks initially retainedthe RAF camouage. When identity markings were intro-duced (see photos) they were applied in white on camou-aged aircraft and black on Aluminium-painted machines.The stock of Tempests was further increased in Julyand August 1951 when 20 more former RAF Tempest werepurchased. These were not refurbished machines butwere mainly ex-BAFO Tempests that had been in storefor a couple of years. The last Tempests were withdrawnfrom frontline units by 1954 but continued in second-lineuse until 1956; eventually many Tempests were utilisedas aireld decoys. Six of the latter were rescued in 1979and form the basis for on-going restoration projects.Two of No 7 Squadron’s Tempests, PR616 G andPR723 K, at Palam around the time of Indepen-dence but still wearing RAF camouage and na-tional markings.Seen running up prior to ight at No 322 MU, Chakeri (shortly before handover to the RIAF in October 1947), PR668E of No 10 Squadron was one of the rst to receive the new DFS. Sprayed directly over the original nish the Alumi-nium paint soon wore away to reveal the camouage beneath.SAMPLE FROM BOOK „THE ULTIMATE TEMPEST“ BY CHRISTOPHER THOMASINFO Eduard42September 2022Page 43
53The rst of 89 ex-RAF Tempests refurbished for the RIAF was HA547, seen here at Langley shortly before deliveryearly in 1949. The rst six came from the PR-series but the remaining 83 were earlier MW-serialled aircraft whichhad to be brought up to the same standard as the PR-series. HA547 was formerly PR874 which had been deliveredstraight into storage in February 1946 and after more than two years at No 20 MU had been sold back to Hawker tofull the orders from India and Pakistan. Initially the Tempests for India wore a newly designed RIAF roundel, basedon the ‘Ashoka Chakra’ symbol, apparently incorrectly painted in the same national colours as the n ash (green/white/saron); it should have been dark blue.In November 1948 a change in policy introduced the simpler saron/white/green roundel, as seen here on HA635(previously MW388) – the last aircraft of Hawker order, seen here at Deversoir (Egypt) en route to India. This viewalso clearly shows the head-rest support which was standard on the refurbished aircraft and was also retro-ttedto RAF Tempests.SAMPLE FROM BOOK „THE ULTIMATE TEMPEST“ BY CHRISTOPHER THOMASINFO Eduard43September 2022Page 44
54Although still wearing its original RAF DFS, HA426 L of No 7 Squadron has the new green/white/saron RIAFroundels. It also displays the unit’s winged battle-axe badge and was own on operations from Jammu in 1948.The front view clearly shows the white wing tip markings that, along with the white spinner, had been applied toRIAF camouaged Tempests to help dierentiate them from the similarly camouaged RPAF aircraft.prol HA426HA426, No. 7 Squadron, Royal IndianAir Force, Jammu, December 1948SAMPLE FROM BOOK „THE ULTIMATE TEMPEST“ BY CHRISTOPHER THOMASINFO Eduard44September 2022Page 45
55Two of the Hawker-refurbished Tempests, HA621 H (formerly MW828) and HA622 K (MW741), display the black iden-tity markings introduced in December 1948 to help dierentiate RIAF ghters from RPAF Tempests and (later) Furies.These Tempests were from the Advanced Flying School at Hakimpet.By 1961 many of the surviving IAF Tempests had been gathered at Chakeri. Many of these would survive well in the1970s, scattered round IAF airbases as decoys. HA559 was formerly MW847, one of the Hawker-refurbished purchases.HA598, No. 7 Sqn,Royal Indian Air Force, 1947SAMPLE FROM BOOK „THE ULTIMATE TEMPEST“ BY CHRISTOPHER THOMASINFO Eduard45September 2022Page 46
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WNr. 3866, Oblt. Hans-Joachim Jabs/Oblt. Erich Weissflog, CO of 6./JG 76, Argos, Greece, April-June 1941WNr. 4114, Lt. Felix-Maria Brandis/Fw. Albert Harnack, 1.(Z)/JG 77, Rovaniemi, Finland, September 1941WNr. 4397, Oblt. Eduard Tratt/Uffz. Friedrich Gillert, CO of 4./ZG 26, Dugino, Soviet Union, February 1942In the end of 1941, the II. Gruppe ZG 76 including Oblt.Hans-Joachim Jabs, commander of 6./ZG 76, transfe-rred from Germany to Balkans in order to support theinvasion of Crete. The Battle of Crete started on May 20,1941 and lasted until June 1, 1941. During this period thecrew of Oblt. Hans-Joachim Jabs and Oblt. Erich Weiss-flog flew Bf 110E WNr. 3866 coded M8+IP. The lower partof the aircraft nose sported the shark mouth while theweapons upper cover was painted white. The propellerspinner tips and letter “I” were painted yellow, whichwas the color of 6. Staffel. Yellow paint on the frontof the engine nacelles, rudders and the fuselage tailwere the Balkans campaign markings. Jabs‘ 6. Staffelwas typically tasked with ground targets and Alliedshipping attacks on Crete. The dogfights were rare.In the beginning of 1941, Felix-Marian Brandis servedwith JG 77 and was assigned to Bf 110 Zerstörerkettewhich flew the coastal reconnaissance missions outof the Kirkenes base in Norway. After the invasionof the Soviet Union the unit was enforced and rede-signed to 1.(Z)/JG 77. It was deployed in the northernsector of the front based on Rovaniemi in Finland andLeutnant Felix-Maria Brandis assumed its command.The target of the crews was the port of Murmansk. OnSeptember 1, 1941, returning from the combat missi-on over the Soviet Union, two Bf 110E got lost in badweather and landed in Tärendö, Sweden. These crewswere Lt. Felix-Maria Brandis and radio operator Fw.Albert Harnack with Bf 110E WNr. 4114, LN+FR and Uffz.Rudolf Reitz and radio operator Gefr. Guntram Weiglin the Bf 110E WNr. 4113, LN+KR. On September 7, 1941,all airmen were returned from Sweden and couldcontinue their service in Luftwaffe. In the end of Sep-tember both aircraft were returned to Germans aswell. Lt. Brandis was killed on February 2, 1942, afteran emergency landing in Bf 110E, WNr. 2546, LN+AR onthe frozen lake Pjaosero. His radio operator Fw. Her-bert Baus was thrown out of the cockpit and sufferedthe head wounds to which he later succumbed.After the attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941, Oblt.Tratt flew with SKG 210 on the central sector of thefront. His unit focused on attacking the ground targetswhile the dogfights took place quite often. Until theend of 1941, Oblt. Eduard Tratt scored in total nine killsof the Soviet aircraft and in January 1942 assumedcommand of the 4./JG 26. On February 18, 1942, thecrew of Oblt. Eduard Tratt and radio operator Uffz.Friedrich Gillert flying Bf 110E WNr. 4397, 3U+EM overRzhev was hit by the AA fire and wounded. The aircraftcarried ZG 26 insignia on the both sides of the nose andthe II./ZG 26 insignia, the yellow clog on the outer sidesof the engine nacelles. It also sports the Eastern Frontmarkings, the yellow band on the fuselage and yellowwingtips on the lower surfaces. There are 18 kill marks(Abschussmarken) painted on the vertical stabilizerwith white number 4397 above them. Oblt. Eduard Trattwas killed on February 22, 1944, on the Western Front.KITS 09/2022INFO Eduard48September 2022Page 49
Lt. Herbert Kutscha/Fw. Martin Heinz, 5./ZG 1, Soviet Union, 1942In the beginning of the war, Lt. Herbert Kutscha flewwith II./JG 77 but soon was ordered to 5./ZG 1 equi-pped with Bf 110. During the French campaign he shotdown several enemy aircraft including the Bf 109 ofthe neutral Switzerland’s air force. On the EasternFront where his II./ZG 1 was redesigned to II./SKG 210,Kutscha enjoyed great successes as a fighter-bom-ber pilot. His II. Gruppe SKG 210 led by Hptm. Rolf Kad-rack specialized in the high-speed low level attackswhich led to the unit’s designation the Fast BombingSquadron (SKG–Schnellkamptgeschwader). Havingscored 22 kills Lt. Herbert Kutscha was awarded theKnight’s Cross.Recommended:for Bf 110E 1/72672005 DB 601A/N for Bf 110C/D/E (Brassin)672013 Bf 110G wheels (Brassin)672115 SC 50 German WWII bombs (Brassin)672292 Luftwaffe rudder pedals PRINT (Brassin)D72001 Bf 110E (Decal set)Cat. No. 672005Cat. No. 672013Cat. No. 672115Cat. No. 672292KITS 09/2022INFO Eduard49September 2022Page 50
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BS392, S/Ldr. Bernard Dupérier, CO of No. 340 Squadron, RAF Biggin Hill, United Kingdom, autumn 1942EN315, S/Ldr. Stanisław Skalski, Polish Combat Team, Northern Africa, spring 1943Bernard Dupérier, the CO of No. 340 Sqdn., instructedground personnel to paint the Donald Duck artworkon several of his aircraft. Besides this Spitfire, theartwork was applied to his Douglas DB-7 and Spit-fire Mk.Vb, BM324. The CO´s aircraft is marked witha pennant brushed on the fuselage and the LorraineCross was used by Free French squadrons. Dupérier,an ace credited with seven victories, took commandof No. 340 Sqdn, on April 10, 1942. That day, previousCO Phillipe de Scitivaux, was downed and capturedby the enemy. Dupérier flew this Spitfire only rarelyin the period from October 25 to November 7, 1942.Later on he became the CO of No. 341 Sqdn., and afterthe war was active in politics and supported Generalde Gaulle. Spitfire BS392 was used by various units,its fate being sealed on September 9, 1944. A mem-ber of No. 310 Sqdn., Sgt. Vojtěch Škreka – Baudoinoverran the runway during a landing maneuver andBS392 had to be written off.This aircraft was one of ten Spitfires flown by Po-lish pilots in the north African sky. The independentunit was called the Polish Combat Team. StanisławSkalski, the famous fighter pilot with eighteen killsto his credit, acted as Squadron Leader for the Team.He was one of the pilots who flew this Spitfire. Sixswastikas on the fuselage probably symbolize thevictories achieved by various pilots while flying theaircraft. The desert camouflage scheme consists ofMid Stone and Dark Earth uppersides and Azure BlueundersidesKITS 09/2022INFO Eduard51September 2022Page 52
EN133, No. 611 Squadron, RAF Biggin Hill, United Kingdom, early 1943EN354, Lt. Leonard V. Helton, 52nd FG, 4th FS, La Sebala Airfield, Tunisia, June 1943This Spitfire flew for the first time on November 16,1942 and its first and only known affiliation is withNo. 611 Squadron RAF. Among squadron memberswho were entrusted with this aircraft was FranzFerdinand Colloredo Mansfeld, a member of Austriannobility and a US citizen (three confirmed kills andfour probables). EN133 was destroyed on March 14,1943 during an attack on Abbeville airfield in France(Operation Ramrod 188), when Spitfires clashed withFw 190s from JG 26. The pilot of EN133 – W/Cdr. JamesH. Slater, the CO of No. 453 Sqdn RAAF – was killedin action.The US Army Air Force was one of the Spitfire Mk.IXoperators in the Mediterranean Theatre of Ope-rations. The 52nd Fighter Group flew Spitfires tillMarch/April 1944 when it was re-equipped with theP-51 Mustang. The Group came to northern Africa asa part of the invading Allied forces during Opera-tion Torch that was launched on November 8, 1942.The British camouflage is topped up with US natio-nal insignia. At least one British roundel was left onthe left wing underside. The former markings wereovepainted with fresh colors that seem to be darkerthan the rest of the camouflage. The new code letterswere added then. The yellow outline of the nationalinsignia was applied during Operation Torch to dis-tinguish US aircraft and frequently seen in the Medi-terranean during the following months.KITS 09/2022INFO Eduard52September 2022Page 53
OVERTREESOVERLEPT#70122XSpitfire Mk.IXc early version1/72#70122-LEPTSpitfire Mk.IXc early version1/72Product pageProduct pageRecommended:for Spitfire F Mk.IX 1/7272623 Spitfire Mk.IX landing flaps (PE-Set)72624 Spitfire Mk.IX (PE-Set)72641 Spitfire F Mk.IX (PE-Set)SS597 Spitfire Mk.IX seatbelts STEEL (PE-Set)SS651 Spitfire Mk.IX radiator grilles (PE-Set)BIG72117 SPITFIRE Mk.IX (PE-Set)672110 Spitfire exhaust stacks - fishtail (Brassin)672111 Spitfire exhaust stacks - rounded (Brassin)672112 Spitfire Mk.IX cockpit (Brassin)672121 Spitfire 500lb bomb set (Brassin)672123 Spitfire Mk.IX top cowl early (Brassin)672126 Spitfire Mk.IX engine (Brassin)672134 Spitfire Mk.IX legs BRONZE (Brassin)672150 Spitfire Mk.IXc gun bays (Brassin)672173 Spitfire Mk. VIII / IX / XVI radiator fairings (Brassin)D72008 Spitfire Mk.IX stencils (Decal Set)D72010 Spitfire - British WWII roundels late (Decal Set)CX454 Spitfire Mk.IX (Mask)Cat. No. 672112Cat. No. 672126KITS 09/2022INFO Eduard53September 2022Page 54
F4F-3 Wildcat1/48Re-release#82201Product pageKITS 09/2022ProfiPACK edition kit of US carrier based fighter F4F-3 Wildcatin 1/48 scale. Kit presents aircraft from United States Navyand Marine Corps.plastic parts: Eduardmarking options: 6decals: EduardPE parts: yes, pre-paintedpainting mask: yesresin parts: noINFO Eduard54September 2022Page 55
KITS 09/2022BuNo. 1850, Lt. Charles Shields, VF-41, USS Ranger (CV-4), December 1940VMF-111, Army-Navy maneuvers, Louisiana, United States, November 1941Lt. Edward H. O´Hare, VF-3, USS Lexington (CV-2), Hawaiian Islands, April 1942The first production block of the Wildcat resulted in49 aircraft and was delivered in a prewar scheme,meaning that the fuselage and lower wing surfaceswere sprayed in aluminum, and the upper wing sur-faces were yellow. Wing markings were carried inall four positions, and on the fuselage they were ei-ther applied near the front or on the engine cowling.The color of the tail surfaces designated the aircraft’shome carrier. In this case, the carrier in question isthe USS Ranger (CV-4), which was the first to receiveWildcats, followed by the USS Wasp (CV-7). The bandson the fuselage and wings, including the engine cowlring, indicated which unit section the aircraft wasflown by, and in the case of white, this would havebeen Section No. 2. Photographs of this aircraft showit prior to being delivered to the unit, and withoutweapons or its telescopic gunsight. The first nineteenaircraft within this production block had the enginecowl split into upper and lower halves.December 30, 1940, saw the implementation ofa new camouflage scheme that was to replace thebetween-the-wars scheme. It required all aircraftflying off ships to be given an overall coat of FS36440 Light Gray. It was in this scheme that MarineCorps Wildcats from VMF-111 took part in large scalemilitary exercises, and also sported red crosses onboth upper and lower surfaces of the wings, as wellas on both sides of the fuselage. These crosses wereused to designate combat units during these mane-uvres.Edward Henry O’Hare was born on March 13, 1914 inSt. Louis, Missouri, and after concluding his stint atthe US Naval Academy in 1937, he was assigned tothe battleship USS New Mexico (BB-40) as an Ensign.He initiated his pilot training in June 1939, which hesuccessfully concluded in May 1940. This was fo-llowed by assignment to VF-3, operating off of theUSS Saratoga (CV-3). In February 1942, the US Navywanted to attack the base at Rabaul on the islandof New Britain. The carrier Lexington led Task Force11, and VF-3 flew off of her. The ship was discove-red on her approach to the target, and the Japane-se sent two Betty units to intercept. The second ofthese units was only countered by ‘Butch‘ O’Hare andhis wingman. O’Hare shot down three of the Bettysand seriously damaged another two, leading to thedisruption of the attack force. The discovery of theattacking fleet caused the abandonment of the tar-get being Rabaul, and other targets were attacked...The Wildcat flown by O’Hare became a major point ofinterest on his return to the Hawaiian islands, andmany photographs were taken of it. The plane’s lowersurfaces were painted FS 36440 Light Gray, and upp-er and side surfaces were in FS 35189 Blue Gray. Thenational markings on the fuselage and in four positi-ons on the wings were complemented by thirteen redand white stripes on the rudder. Edward O’Hare didnot see the end of the war, having likely been shotdown flying a Hellcat during night combat on Novem-ber 26, 1943. His body was never found in the water,despite some witnesses claiming to have spotteda parachute. O’Hare settled in Chicago before the war,and in 1949 the city named its airport after him.INFO Eduard55September 2022Page 56
KITS 09/2022BuNo. 4019, Capt. Henry T. Elrod, VMF-211, Wake Island, December 1941BuNo. 2531, Lt. Elbert S. McCuskey, VF-42, USS Yorktown (CV-5), May 1942BuNo. 4006 (4008), Capt. John F. Carey, VMF-221, Midway Island, June 1942The first Japanese attempt to occupy Wake Island wasmade December 11, 1941. After the first initial bombard-ments, VMF-211 possessed only four airworthy Wildcats.One of the pilots that played a role in deflecting theattack was Captain Henry Talmadge Elrod that earlierhad shot down a pair of G3M Nells, and during a raidon the invading Japanese flotilla he hit the destroyerKisaragi with a 45kg bomb, causing the ship to explodeshortly thereafter. According to some sources, he hita depth charge storage area, the detonation of whichsent the destroyer to the bottom with all 157 men aboard.Incoming aircraft and fire from 5-inch coastal batteriespersuaded the Japanese to withdraw. A second attemptwas made by the Japanese on December 23, 1941, ata time when there wasn’t a single airworthy Wildcat onthe island. For that reason, Capt. Elrod took part in theground fighting, and led a Marine unit until he fell, forwhich he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.Wildcat coded 211-F-11, on which he had gained his vic-tories, was painted FS 36440 Light Gray underneath andFS 35189 on the upper and side surfaces. The nationalmarkings were in only the two positions on the wings,and the fuselage markings were complemented bya small marking at the rear.Elbert Scott McCuskey was born February 8, 1915 in LittleRock, Arkansas, and after attending universities in Alabamaand Arkansas, he signed up for naval aviation training onMay 28, 1938. After successfully undergoing pilot training, hewas assigned to VS-41 on the USS Ranger as an Ensign inOctober 1939. In July 1941, he was reassigned to VF-42 on theUSS Yorktown, on which he would serve until July 1942. Then,until June 1943, he trained young Naval Aviators in the artof flying, floowing this up with a return to operational flyingas a unit commander, first with VF-6, and then, from March1944, with VF-8. Both of these units were flying the Hellcatby then. During his combat career in the Second World War,he gained 13.5 kills. He remained loyal to the Navy after thewar, not retiring until July 1965. He died of a heart attack onJune 15, 1997. With this Wildcat, he shot down a Zero in theBattle of the Coral Sea. The aircraft was camouflaged in thesame way as the Wildcat flown by Lt. Edward O’Hare, andeven the markings were similar, with one difference beingthe application of large American markings on the fuselageand wings. An interesting facet to this aircraft was the origi-nal markings on the wings being visible under the new ones.During the pivotal Battle of Midway, which swung thefortunes of the war in the Pacific to the Americansfrom the Japanese, aircraft did not fly exclusivelyfrom aircraft carriers. Some flew off of Miday Islanditself. One of the units to do so was VMF-221, whichdid so with their Wildcats and Buffalos. Wildcat coded22 was flown by John Francis Carey, who managedto shoot down a B5N Kate while intercepting theincoming Japanese force. His Wildcat was, however,damaged by an escorting Zero. Carey himself waswounded in the foot, but managed to put down atMidway safely. He returned to duty and survived thewar, and remained faithful to the USMC after war’send. He took part in the wars in Korea and Vietnam,and finally went into a well deserved retirement onJune 30th, 1965 with the rank of Colonel. He passedaway on December 12, 2004. The Wildcat with whichCapt. Carey achieved the aforementioned kill, wascamouflaged with Blue Gray and Light Gray, andthe national markings, in accordance with an orderdated May 15, 1942, had their red components remo-ved. Similarly, the red and white stripes on the ruderwere overpainted with the appropriate camouflagecolour.INFO Eduard56September 2022Page 57
OVERTREESOVERLEPT#82201X F4F-3/3A Wildcat1/48#82201-LEPTF4F-3 Wildcat LEPT1/48Product pageProduct pageKITS 09/2022Recommended:for F4F-3 Wildcat 1/48481086 F4F-3 landing flaps (PE-Set)FE1290 F4F seatbelts STEEL (PE-Set)648766 F4F-3 exhausts PRINT (Brassin)648767 F4F-3 wheels early (Brassin)648768 F4F-3 wheels late (Brassin)648769 F4F gun barrels PRINT (Brassin)648777 F4F-3 cockpit w/ reflector gun sight PRINT (Brassin)3DL48076 F4F-3 late SPACE (3D Decal Set)EX878 F4F-3 TFace (Mask)Cat. No. 648777Cat. No. 3DL48076Cat. No. 648769INFO Eduard57September 2022Page 58
BRASSINLööK set - Brassin pre-painted dashboardand STEEL seatbelts for F4F-3 in 1/48 scale.Easy to assemble, replaces plastic parts.Recommended kit: EduardSet contains:- resin: 1 part- 3D print: 1 part- decals: no- photo-etched details: yes, pre-painted- painting mask: noLööK set - Brassin pre-painted dashboardand STEEL seatbelts for EA-18G in 1/48 scale.Easy to assemble, replaces plastic parts.Recommended kit: MengSet contains:- resin: 3 parts- decals: no- photo-etched details: yes, pre-painted- painting mask: no644171F4F-3 early LööK1/48 Eduard644173EA-18G LööK1/48 MengProduct pageProduct pageINFO Eduard58September 2022Page 59
Collection of 4 sets for Su-25 in 1/48 scale.Recommended kit: Zvezda- LööK set (pre-painted Brassin dashboards & Steelbelts)- TFace painting mask- undercarriage wheels- ejection seatCollection of 3 sets for A-1H in 1/48 scale.Recommended kit: Tamiya- LööK set (pre-painted Brassin dashboards & Steelbelts)- TFace painting mask- undercarriage wheels644175Su-25 LööKplus1/48 Zvezda644176A-1H LööKplus1/48 TamiyaProduct pageProduct pageBRASSIN 02/2022BRASSININFO Eduard59September 2022Page 60
BRASSINCollection of 3 sets for A-1J in 1/48 scale.Recommended kit: Tamiya- LööK set (pre-painted Brassin dashboards & Steelbelts)- TFace painting mask- undercarriage wheelsBrassin set - the life raft for F4F-3 in 1/48 scale.The set consists of the raft and an open space for storingthe raft. Made by direct 3D printing.Recommended kit: EduardSet contains:- 3D parts: 10 parts- decals: no- photo-etched details: yes- painting mask: no644177A-1J LööKplus1/48 Tamiya648770F4F-3 life raft PRINT1/48 EduardProduct pageProduct pageINFO Eduard60September 2022Page 61
BRASSIN 02/2022BRASSINBrassin set - the cockpit for F4F-3 in 1/48 scale.Made by direct 3D printing. Easy to assemble, replacesplastic parts. Recommended kit: EduardSet contains:- 3D print: 13 parts- decals: yes- photo-etched details: yes, pre-painted- painting mask: no648765F4F-3 cockpit w/ telescopic gun sight PRINT1/48 EduardProduct pageINFO Eduard61September 2022Page 62
BRASSINBrassin set - the wing gun bays for A6M2in 1/48 scale. The set consists of the baysfor both wings. Made by direct 3D printing.Recommended kit: EduardSet contains:- 3D parts: 16 parts- decals: no- photo-etched details: yes- painting mask: no.648771A6M2 gun bays PRINT1/48 Eduard648772A6M2 tailwheel PRINT1/48 EduardProduct pageProduct pageBrassin set - the tailwheel for A6M2 in 1/48 scale.The set consists of the tailwheel and separate tailcone.Made by direct 3D printing. Recommended kit: EduardSet contains:- 3D parts: 4 parts- decals: no- photo-etched details: no- painting mask: yesINFO Eduard62September 2022Page 63
BRASSIN 02/2022BRASSINBrassin set - the ejection seats for F/A-18Fin 1/48 scale. The set consists of two seats.Recommended kit: MengSet contains:- resin: 6 parts- decals: yes- photo-etched details: yes, pre-painted- painting mask: noBrassin set - the undercarriage wheels for F/A-18Fin 1/48 scale. The set consists of the main wheelsand nose wheels. Easy to assemble, replaces plasticparts. Recommended kit: MengSet contains:- resin: 6 parts- decals: no- photo-etched details: no- painting mask: yes648775F/A-18F ejection seats1/48 Meng648776F/A-18F wheels1/48 MengProduct pageProduct pageINFO Eduard63September 2022Page 64
BRASSINBrassin set - the seat for F4F in 1/48 scale.Made by direct 3D printing. Easy to assemble,replaces plastic parts. Recommended kit: EduardSet contains:- 3D print: 1 part- decals: no- photo-etched details: no- painting mask: noBrassin set - the undercarriage wheels forP-38J in 1/48 scale. The set consists of the mainwheels and nose wheel. Easy to assemble,replaces plastic parts. Recommended kit: TamiyaSet contains:- resin: 7 parts- decals: no- photo-etched details: yes- painting mask: yes648781F4F seat early PRINT1/48 Eduard648782P-38J wheels1/48 TamiyaProduct pageProduct pageINFO Eduard64September 2022Page 65
BRASSIN 02/2022BRASSINBrassin set - landing flaps for P-38J in 1/48 scale.The set consists of the deployed flaps for both wings.Made by direct 3D printing. Recommended kit: TamiyaSet contains:- 3D print: 12 parts- decals: no- photo-etched details: yes- painting mask: noBrassin set - undercarriage legs for P-38Jin 1/48 scale. The legs are made of bronze.Recommended kit: TamiyaSet contains:- resin: 1 part- decals: no- photo-etched details: no- painting mask: no- bronze: 3 parts648783P-38J landing flaps PRINT1/48 Tamiya648784P-38J undercarriage legs BRONZE1/48 TamiyaProduct pageProduct pageINFO Eduard65September 2022Page 66
BRASSINBrassin set - bollards for USN vesselsin 1/350 scale. The set consists of 16 bollards.Made by direct 3D printing.Set contains:- 3D print: 16 parts- decals: no- photo-etched details: no- painting mask: noBrassin set - the seat for Ki-84 in 1/72 scale.Made by direct 3D printing. Easy to assemble,replaces plastic parts.Recommended kit: Arma HobbySet contains:- 3D print: 1 part- decals: no- photo-etched details: yes, pre-painted- painting mask: no653010WWII USN battleship bollards PRINT1/350672295Ki-84 seat PRINT1/72 Arma HobbyProduct pageProduct pageINFO Eduard66September 2022Page 67
Brassin set - the exhausts for Ki-84in 1/72 scale. Made by direct 3D printing.Easy to assemble, replaces plastic parts.Recommended kit: Arma HobbySet contains:- 3D print: 2 parts- decals: no- photo-etched details: no- painting mask: no672297Ki-84 exhaust PRINT1/72 Arma HobbyProduct pageBRASSIN 02/2022BRASSINBrassin set - the undercarriage wheels for Ki-84in 1/72 scale. The set consists of the main wheels.Made by direct 3D printing. Easy to assemble,replaces plastic parts. Recommended kit: Arma HobbySet contains:- 3D print: 2 parts- decals: no- photo-etched details: no- painting mask: yes672296Ki-84 wheels PRINT1/72 Arma HobbyProduct pageINFO Eduard67September 2022Page 68
BRASSINSIN64890Sopwith Camel Bentley engine1/48 EduardProduct pageCollection of 6 sets for Sopwith Camel in 1/48 scale.Recommended kit: Eduard- Bentley engine PRINT- wheels- seat PRINT- Vickers Mk.I gun- Rotherham air pumps PRINT- 20lb bomb carrier PRINTAll sets included in this BIG SIN are available separately,but with every BIG SIN set you save up to 30 %.Vickers Mk.I gunwheels20lb bomb carrier PRINTseat PRINTRotherham airpumps PRINTBentley engine PRINTINFO Eduard68September 2022Page 69
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BIG EDAll sets included in this BIG ED are available separately,but with every BIG ED set you save up to 30%.BIG49336 OH-13 1/48 ItaleriBIG49337Su-25 1/48 Zvezda491275 OH-13 1/48FE1276 OH-13 seatbelts STEEL 1/48EX860 OH-13 1/48491277 Su-25 1/48FE1278 Su-25 seatbelts STEEL 1/48EX858 Su-25 1/48Product pageProduct pageINFO Eduard82September 2022Page 83
BIG49339 D3A Val 1/48 Hasegawa491281 D3A1 Val 1/48FE1282 D3A1 Val seatbelts STEEL 1/48EX135 D3A Val 1/48Product pageAll sets included in this BIG ED are available separately,but with every BIG ED set you save up to 30%.BRASSIN 02/2022BRASSIN 02/2022BIG EDBIG49338 AH-1G 1/48 Special Hobby491279 AH-1G 1/48FE1280 AH-1G seatbellts STEEL 1/48EX862 AH-1G 1/48Product pageINFO Eduard83September 2022Page 84
MASKSIT FITS!JX291 Bf 109G-61/35 Border ModelJX292 Bf 109G-6 TFace1/35 Border ModelJX293 Yak-9T1/32 ICMJX294 Yak-9T TFace1/32 ICMEX883 P-38J1/48 TamiyaEX884 P-38J TFace1/48 TamiyaEX885 Spitfire F Mk.XVIII1/48 AirfixEX886 Spitfire F Mk.XVIII TFace1/48 AirfixEX887 F-86F-401/48 AirfixEX888 F-86F-40 TFace1/48 AirfixEX889 Yak-9D1/48 ZvezdaEX890 Yak-9D TFace1/48 ZvezdaEX891 F3F-21/48 AcademyEX892 F3F-2 TFace1/48 AcademyCX626 Ki-841/72 Arma HobbyCX630 Tu-2T1/72 ICMJX291 Bf 109G-6JX293 Yak-9TEX883 P-38J EX883 P-38JJX293 Yak-9TJX291 Bf 109G-6JX292 Bf 109G-6JX294 Yak-9TEX884 P-38JEX884 P-38J EX884 P-38JEX884 P-38JJX294 Yak-9TJX294 Yak-9TJX294 Yak-9TJX292 Bf 109G-6 JX292 Bf 109G-6JX292 Bf 109G-6CX626 Ki-84INFO Eduard84September 2022Page 85
MASKSEX887 F-86F-40 EX887 F-86F-40 EX887 F-86F-40EX888 F-86F-40EX888 F-86F-40EX888 F-86F-40EX888 F-86F-40EX888 F-86F-40 EX888 F-86F-40EX889 Yak-9DEX891 F3F-2EX891 F3F-2 EX891 F3F-2EX889 Yak-9DEX889 Yak-9DEX890 Yak-9DEX892 F3F-2EX892 F3F-2 EX892 F3F-2CX630 Tu-2TCX630 Tu-2T CX630 Tu-2TEX892 F3F-2 EX892 F3F-2EX890 Yak-9DEX890 Yak-9DINFO Eduard85September 2022Page 86
RELEASESSEPTEMBER 2022KITSPE-SETSZOOMSMASKS70152 Avia S-199 ERLA canopy 1/72 ProfiPack82141 Fw 190A-3 light fighter 1/48 ProfiPack11164 The Ultimate Tempest 1/48 Limited7464 Bf 110E 1/72 Weekend70122 Spitfire F Mk.IX Re-release 1/72 ProfiPack82201 F4F-3 Wildcat Re-release 1/48 ProfiPack32478 Yak-9T landing flaps 1/32 ICM32998 Yak-9T 1/32 ICM32999 Bf 109G-6 1/35 Border Model36486 Jagdtiger 1/35 Hobby Boss36487 Jagdtiger fenders 1/35 Hobby Boss36488 T-70B 1/35 Zvezda36489 Coyote TSV 1/35 Hobby Boss481087 Spitfire F Mk.XVIII landing flaps 1/48 Airfix491294 P-38J 1/48 Tamiya491296 Spitfire F Mk.XVIII 1/48 Airfix491298 F-86F-40 1/48 Airfix491300 Yak-9D 1/48 Zvezda33299 Yak-9T 1/32 ICM33300 Yak-9T seatbelts STEEL 1/32 ICM33331 Bf 109G-6 1/35 Border Model33332 Bf 109G-6 seatbelts STEEL 1/35 Border ModelFE1294 P-38J 1/48 TamiyaFE1295 P-38J seatbelts STEEL 1/48 TamiyaFE1296 Spitfire F Mk.XVIII 1/48 AirfixFE1297 Spitfire F Mk.XVIII seatbelts STEEL 1/48 AirfixFE1298 F-86F-40 1/48 AirfixFE1299 F-86F-40 seatbelts 1/48 AirfixFE1300 Yak-9D 1/48 ZvezdaFE1301 Yak-9D seatbelts STEEL 1/48 ZvezdaJX291 Bf 109G-6 1/35 Border ModelJX292 Bf 109G-6 TFace 1/35 Border ModelJX293 Yak-9T 1/32 ICMJX294 Yak-9T TFace 1/32 ICMEX883 P-38J 1/48 TamiyaEX884 P-38J TFace 1/48 TamiyaEX885 Spitfire F Mk.XVIII 1/48 AirfixEX886 Spitfire F Mk.XVIII TFace 1/48 AirfixEX887 F-86F-40 1/48 AirfixEX888 F-86F-40 TFace 1/48 AirfixEX889 Yak-9D 1/48 ZvezdaEX890 Yak-9D TFace 1/48 ZvezdaEX891 F3F-2 1/48 AcademyEX892 F3F-2 TFace 1/48 AcademyCX626 Ki-84 1/72 Arma HobbyCX630 Tu-2T 1/72 ICMINFO Eduard86September 2022Page 87
RELEASEBIG-EDBIG-EDBIG EDBRASSINLöökPLUSBIG SINSPACEBIG49336 OH-13 1/48 ItaleriBIG49337 Su-25 1/48 ZvezdaBIG49338 AH-1G 1/48 Special HobbyBIG49339 D3A Val 1/48 Hasegawa644171 F4F-3 early LööK 1/48 Eduard644173 EA-18G LööK 1/48 Meng648765 F4F-3cockpit w/ telescopic gun sight PRINT 1/48 Eduard648770 F4F-3 life raft PRINT 1/48 Eduard648771 A6M2 gun bays PRINT 1/48 Eduard648772 A6M2 tailwheel PRINT 1/48 Eduard648775 F/A-18F ejection seats 1/48 Meng648776 F/A-18F wheels 1/48 Meng648781 F4F seat early PRINT 1/48 Eduard648782 P-38J wheels 1/48 Tamiya648783 P-38J landing flaps PRINT 1/48 Tamiya648784 P-38J undercarriage legs BRONZE 1/48 Tamiya653010 WWII USN battleship bollards PRINT 1/350672295 Ki-84 seat PRINT 1/72 Arma Hobby672296 Ki-84 wheels PRINT 1/72 Arma Hobby672297 Ki-84 exhaust PRINT 1/72 Arma Hobby644175 Su-25 LööKplus 1/48 Zvezda644176 A-1H LööKplus 1/48 Tamiya644177 A-1J LööKplus 1/48 TamiyaSIN64890 Sopwith Camel Bentley engine 1/48 Eduard3DL32008 Yak-9T SPACE 1/32 ICM3DL48080 F4F-3 early SPACE 1/48 Eduard3DL48081 P-38J SPACE 1/48 Tamiya3DL48082 Spitfire F Mk.XVIII SPACE 1/48 Airfix3DL48083 F-86F-40 SPACE 1/48 AirfixSEPTEMBER 2022INFO Eduard87September 2022Page 88
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POSTAVENOJK891, No. 335 (Greek) Squadron, Hassani, Greece, February 1945No. 335 (Greek) Squadron was a Greek fightersquadron deployed in the Mediterranean, Bal-kans and over Aegean Sea from 1941 till the endof WWII. While the Allied armies advanced to theWest No. 335 (Greek) Squadron remained in theEast and flew reconnaissance missions off the co-ast of Libya. In the fall of 1944 the squadron wasre-equipped with Spitfires and in September wastransferred to the bases in Italy. The Spitfires wereflown in the offensive attack missions over Alba-nia and Yugoslavia. In November 1944 the unit wastransferred to the homeland and from September1945 was based at Hassani. The squadron flew re-connaissance missions over Crete and remainingGerman bases in the Aegean Sea. In September1945 the unit was transferred to Thessaloniki innorth-eastern Greece and remained there until itsdispersal on July 31, 1946. Spitfire JK891 flew withNo. 335 (Greek) Squadron from November 16, 1944till February 27, 1945 when it was destroyed in anemergency landing. This Spitfire carried the type"A" British camouflage with non-standard, rever-sed color pattern. The British national insignia onthe fuselage were repainted with Greek ones. Thestandard British type C1 roundels on the wingswere retained.POSTAVENOINFO Eduard89September 2022Page 90
481086 F4F-3 landingflaps (PE-Set)648770 F4F-3life raft PRINTPOSTAVENOINFO Eduard90September 2022Page 91
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ON APPROACHOCTOBER2022644164F4F-4 LööK1/48 Eduard644174F/A-18F LööK1/48 Meng644178P-38J LööK1/48 Meng632182Yak-9T exhaust stacks PRINT1/48 ICMBIG5366 USS Constellation CV-64 PART I 1/350 TrumpeterBIG49344 A-1H 1/48 TamiyaBIG49345 Su-27K 1/48 MinibaseBIG49346 Go 242B 1/48 ICM632182 Yak-9T exhaust stacks PRINT 1/32 ICM644164 F4F-4 LööK 1/48 Eduard644174 F/A-18F LööK 1/48 Meng644178 P-38J LööK 1/48 Tamiya648756 F4F 42gal ventral drop tank PRINT 1/48 Eduard648786 A6M3 seat PRINT 1/48 Eduard648787 A6M3 tailwheel PRINT 1/48 Eduard648788 A6M3 cannon barrels & cockpit guns PRINT 1/48 Eduard648789 P-38J gun barrels PRINT 1/48 Tamiya648790 P-38J nose gun bay PRINT 1/48 Tamiya648791 P-38J superchargers PRINT 1/48 Tamiya648795 F4F-3 wheel bay PRINT 1/48 Eduard648797 F/A-18E,F exhaust nozzles PRINT 1/48 Tamiya653009 OS2U-3 Kingfisher PRINT 1/350672298 FM-2 exhaust PRINT 1/72 Arma Hobby672299 F4F wheels late PRINT 1/72 Arma Hobby672300 F4F wheels late w/rims PRINT 1/72 Arma Hobby672301 Hurricane Mk.I exhaust stacks 1/72 Arma Hobby672302 Hurricane Mk.I wheels 1/72 Arma Hobby644179 EA-18G LööKplus 1/48 Meng644180 F4F-3 late LööKplus 1/48 EduardSIN64891 Sopwith Camel Le Rhone engine 1/48 EduardSIN64892 F/A-18E/F armament 1/48BIG ED (October)BRASSIN (October)LöökPlus (October)BIGSIN (October)LööK set - Brassin pre-painted dashboardand STEEL seatbelts for F4F-4 in 1/48 scale.Easy to assemble, replaces plastic parts.Recommended kit: EduardSet contains:- resin: 1 part- 3D print: 1 part- decals: no- photo-etched details:yes, pre-painted- painting mask: noLööK set - Brassin pre-painted dashboardand STEEL seatbelts for F/A-18F in 1/48 scale.Easy to assemble, replaces plastic parts.Recommended kit: MengSet contains:- resin: 3 parts- decals: no- photo-etched details:yes, pre-painted- painting mask: noLööK set - Brassin pre-painted dashboardand STEEL seatbelts forP-38J in 1/48 scale.Easy to assemble, replaces plastic parts.Recommended kit: TamiyaSet contains:- resin: 1 part- decals: no- photo-etched details:yes, pre-painted- painting mask: noBrassin set - the exhaust stacks for Yak-9T in 1/32scale. Made by direct 3D printing. Easy to assemble,replaces plastic parts. Recommended kit: ICMSet contains:- 3D print: 2 parts- decals: no- photo-etched details: no- painting mask: noINFO Eduard92September 2022Page 93
648756F4F 42gal ventral drop tank PRINT1/48 EduardON APPROACHBrassin set - 42gal ventral drop tank for F4F in 1/48 scale.Made by direct 3D printing. Easy to assemble, replacesplastic parts. Recommended kit: EduardSet contains:- 3D print: 2 parts- decals: no- photo-etched details: no- painting mask: no648786A6M3 seat PRINT1/48 Eduard648787A6M3 tailwheel PRINT1/48 EduardBrassin set - the seat for A6M3 in 1/48 scale.Made by direct 3D printing. Easy to assemble,replaces plastic parts. Recommended kit: EduardSet contains:- 3D print: 1 part- decals: no- photo-etched details: yes, pre-painted- painting mask: noBrassin set - the tailwheel for A6M3in 1/48 scale. The set consists of the tailwheeland separate tailcone. Made by direct 3D printing.Recommended kit: EduardSet contains:- 3D parts: 4 parts- decals: no- photo-etched details: no- painting mask: yesINFO Eduard93September 2022Page 94
ON APPROACHOCTOBER 2022648788A6M3 cannon barrels & cockpit guns PRINT1/48 Eduard648789P-38J gun barrels PRINT1/48 Tamiya648790P-38J nose gun bay PRINT1/48 TamiyaBrassin set - the cokpit machine guns and wings gunbarrels for A6M3 in 1/48 scale. Suitable for A6M3 Model 32, 22 and 22a.Made by direct 3D printing. Recommended kit: EduardSet contains:- 3D parts: 6 parts- decals: no- photo-etched details: yes- painting mask: noBrassin set - the gun barrels for P-38J in 1/48 scale.Three variants of the barrel of the far left machinegun are included. Made by direct 3D printing.Easy to assemble, replaces plastic parts.Recommended kit: TamiyaSet contains:- 3D print: 5 parts- decals: no- photo-etched details: no- painting mask: noBrassin set - the nose gun bay for P-38Jin 1/48 scale. The cowlings are included.Made by direct 3D printing.Recommended kit: TamiyaSet contains:- 3D print: 30 parts- decals: yes- photo-etched details: yes- painting mask: noINFO Eduard94September 2022Page 95
ON APPROACHOCTOBER 2022648791P-38J superchargers PRINT1/48 Tamiya648795F4F-3 wheel bay PRINT1/48 Eduard648797F/A-18E,F exhaust nozzles PRINT1/48 TamiyaBrassin set - the superchargers for P-38Jin 1/48 scale. Made by direct 3D printing.Easy to assemble, replaces plastic parts.Recommended kit: TamiyaSet contains:- 3D print: 2 parts- decals: no- photo-etched details: no- painting mask: noBrassin set - the wheel bay for F4F-3in 1/48 scale. Made by direct 3D printing.Recommended kit: EduardSet contains:- 3D print: 13 parts- decals: no- photo-etched details: no- painting mask: noBrassin set - exhaust nozzles for F/A-18Eor F in 1/48 scale. Made by direct 3D printing.Recommended kit: MengSet contains:- 3D print: 6 parts- decals: no- photo-etched details: no- painting mask: noINFO Eduard95September 2022Page 96
ON APPROACH653009OS2U-3 Kingfisher PRINT1/350677298FM-2 exhaust PRINT1/72 Arma Hobby672299F4F wheels late PRINT1/72 Arma HobbyBrassin set - OS2U-3 Kingfisher a/c for USN vesselsin 1/350 scale. The set consists of 2 a/c.Made by direct 3D printing.Set contains:- 3D print: 2 parts- decals: yes- photo-etched details: yes- painting mask: noBrassin set - the exhausts for FM-2 in 1/72 scale.Made by direct 3D printing. Easy to assemble,replaces plastic parts.Recommended kit: Arma HobbySet contains:- 3D print: 1 part- decals: no- photo-etched details: no- painting mask: noBrassin set - the undercarriage wheels for F4Fin 1/72 scale. The set consists of the main wheels.Made by direct 3D printing. Easy to assemble,replaces plastic parts. Recommended kit: Arma HobbySet contains:- 3D print: 2 parts- decals: no- photo-etched details: no- painting mask: yesOCTOBER 2022INFO Eduard96September 2022Page 97
ON APPROACH672300F4F wheels late w/rims PRINT1/72 Arma Hobby672301Hurricane Mk.I exhaust stacks1/72 Arma Hobby672301Hurricane Mk.I wheels1/72 Arma HobbyBrassin set - the undercarriage wheels for F4Fin 1/72 scale. The set consists of the main wheels.Made by direct 3D printing. Easy to assemble,replaces plastic parts. Recommended kit: Arma HobbySet contains:- 3D print: 2 parts- decals: no- photo-etched details: no- painting mask: yesBrassin set - the exhausts for Hurricane Mk.Iin 1/72 scale. Easy to assemble, replaces plasticparts. Recommended kit: Arma HobbySet contains:- resin: 2 parts- decals: no- photo-etched details: no- painting mask: noBrassin set - the undercarriage wheelsfor Hurricane Mk.I in 1/72 scale. The setconsists of the main wheels and a tailwheel.Easy to assemble, replaces plastic parts.Recommended kit: Arma HobbySet contains:- resin: 3 parts- decals: no- photo-etched details: no- painting mask: yesOCTOBER 2022INFO Eduard97September 2022Page 98
ON APPROACH644179EA-18G LööKplus1/48 MengCollection of 4 sets for EA-18G in 1/48 scale.Recommended kit: Meng- LööK set (pre-painted Brassin dashboards & Steelbelts)- TFace painting mask- ejection seats- undercarriage wheelsOCTOBER 2022INFO Eduard98September 2022Page 99
BRASSIN 02/2022BRASSIN 02/2022ON APPROACH644180F4F-3 late LööKplus1/48 EduardCollection of 4 sets for F4F-3 in 1/48 scale.Recommended kit: Eduard- LööK set (pre-painted Brassin dashboards & Steelbelts)- TFace painting mask- exhausts- undercarriage wheelsOCTOBER 2022INFO Eduard99September 2022Page 100
ON APPROACHSIN64891Sopwith Camel Le Rhone engine1/48 EduardCollection of 6 sets for Sopwith Camel in 1/48 scale.Recommended kit: Eduard- Le Rhone engine PRINT- wheels- seat PRINT- Vickers Mk.I gun- Rotherham air pumps PRINT- 20lb bomb carrier PRINTAll sets included in this BIG SIN are available separately,but with every BIG SIN set you save up to 30 %.OCTOBER 2022INFO Eduard100September 2022Page 101
SIN64892F/A-18E/F armament1/48Collection of 6 sets for F/A-18E/F in 1/48 scale.- AIM-9M/L- AIM-120C AMRAAM- GBU-24- AGM-65- GBU-16- AIM-9XAll sets included in this BIG SIN are available separately,but with every BIG SIN set you save up to 30 %.BRASSIN 02/2022BRASSIN 02/2022ON APPROACHOCTOBER 2022INFO Eduard101September 2022Page 102
PE-SETS53286 Schnellboot S-38 1/350 Fore Hobby321000 Ju 87G-1/2 1/35 Border Model36490 BT-2 1/35 Hobby Boss481088 Mi-35M exterior 1/48 Zvezda481089 Mi-35M cargo interior 1/48 Zvezda481090 Spitfire Mk.XII landing flaps 1/48 Airfix481091 A6M3 Zero landing flaps 1/48 Eduard481092 A6M3 Zero 1/48 Eduard491302 Spitfire Mk.XII 1/48 Airfix491304 F3F-2 1/48 Academy491306 P-47N 1/48 Academy491308 Mi-35M interior 1/48 Zvezda491310 Su-30SM 1/48 Great Wall Hobby73779 A-4M 1/72 Hobby BossZOOMS33333 Ju 87G-1/2 1/35 Border Model33334 Ju 87G-1/2 seatbelts STEEL 1/35 Border ModelFE1302 Spitfire Mk.XII 1/48 AirfixFE1303 Spitfire Mk.XII seatbelts STEEL 1/48 AirfixFE1304 F3F-2 1/48 AcademyFE1305 F3F-2 seatbelts STEEL 1/48 AcademyFE1306 P-47N 1/48 AcademyFE1307 P-47N seatbelts STEEL 1/48 AcademyFE1308 Mi-35M 1/48 ZvezdaFE1309 Mi-35M seatbelts STEEL 1/48 ZvezdaFE1310 Su-30SM 1/48 Great Wall HobbyFE1311 Su-30SM seatbelts STEEL 1/48 Great Wall HobbySS779 A-4M 1/72 Hobby BossMASKSJX295 Ju 87G-1/2 1/35 Border ModelJX296 Ju 87G-1/2 TFace 1/35 Border ModelEX893 P-47N 1/48 AcademyEX894 P-47N TFace 1/48 AcademyEX895 Mi-35M 1/48 ZvezdaEX896 Mi-35M TFace 1/48 ZvezdaEX897 Spitfire Mk.XII 1/48 AirfixEX898 Spitfire Mk.XII TFace 1/48 AirfixEX899 A6M3 Zero TFace 1/48 EduardCX631 I-16 Type 5 1/72 Clear PropCX632 A-4M 1/72 Hobby BossSPACE3DL48084 Yak-9D SPACE 1/48 Zvezda3DL48085 Me 262A SPACE 1/48 Tamiya3DL48086 Spitfire Mk.XII SPACE 1/48 Airfix3DL48087 P-47N SPACE 1/48 Academy3DL48088 A6M3 SPACE 1/48 EduardDECALSD48103 P-38J Pacific Lighting 1/48 TamiyaD48106 Ju 87 stencils 1/48 Hasegawa/Airfix/ItaleriEDDIE THE RIVETERER48003 P-38J raised rivets & surface details 1/48 TamiyaON APPROACHOCTOBER 2022INFO Eduard102September 2022Page 103
BRASSIN 02/2022BRASSIN 02/2022ON APPROACHA6M3 Zero Type 32 #82213 1/48Ldg. Sea. Kenji Yanagiya, Kōkūtai 204,Rabaul base, New Britain, April 1943PO1c Kyoshi Itō, 3. Kōkūtai, Koepang airfield,Timor Island, September 1942CPO Takeo Tanimizu, Tainan Kōkūtai (II), Tainan airbase,Taiwan, September 1944c/n 3018, Tainan Kōkūtai, Buna airfield,New Guinea, August 1942Zuikaku Fighter Squadron, aircraft carrier Zuikaku,October 1942OCTOBER 2022INFO Eduard103September 2022Page 104
ON APPROACHMIDWAY 1/48#11166DUAL COMBOF4F-3, BuNo. 1865, VF-72, USS Wasp (CV-7),December 1940F4F-3, BuNo. 4022, Capt. Herbert Casper Freuler,VMF-211, Wake Island, December 1941F4F-3A, BuNo. 3920, Lt. James Seton Gray, VF-6,USS Enterprise (CV-6), February 1942OCTOBER 2022INFO Eduard104September 2022Page 105
ON APPROACHF4F-3, Lt. Frank Bernard Quady, VF-6,USS Enterprise (CV-6), April 1942F4F-4, BuNo. 5171., Lt. Cdr. John Smith Thach,VF-3, USS Yorktown (CV-5), May/June 1942F4F-3, BuNo. 3986, Lt. Albert Ogden Vorse,VF-2, USS Lexington (CV-2), May 1942F4F-4, VF-8, USS Hornet (CV-8),May/June 1942F4F-4, Ens. Ralph McMaster Rich, VF-6,USS Enterprise (CV-6), April/June 1942BuNo. 5244, Lt. William Nicholas Leonard, VF-3,USS Yorktown (CV-5), June 1942F4F-4, Lt. Walter Albert Haas, VF-8,USS Hornet (CV-8), June 1942OCTOBER 2022INFO Eduard105September 2022Page 106
ON APPROACHZ-326M, No. 612, private owner, Točná airfield,Czech Republic, 2022Z-326, No. 908, private owner, Reykjavik,Iceland, 2020Z-326MF, No. 925, private owner, Yverdon,Switzerland, 2018Z-326, No. 933, Burdigala Flying Group, Bordeaux-Léognan-Saucats Aérodrome,France, 2016Z-326 Trenér Master 1/48#11167DUAL COMBOOCTOBER 2022INFO Eduard106September 2022Page 107
C-306, No. 572, Czechoslovak People's Army,Czechoslovakia, 1970Z-326, No. 915, private owner, Chichester airfield,Great Britain, 2021Z-326, No. 876, private owner, Germany, 2018Z-326MF, No. 861, Fundació Parc Aeronàutic deCatalunya, Spain, 2005Z-326M, No. 604, Aeroklub Josefa FrantiškaProstějov, Prostějov airfield, Czech Republic,2010Z-326MF, No. 931, private owner, Slaný airfield,Czech Republic, 2022ON APPROACHOCTOBER 2022INFO Eduard107September 2022Page 108
Fw 190A-8 1/48#84116ON APPROACHWNr. 170050, Lt. Heinz-Günther Lück, 1./JG 1,Bad Lippspringe, Germany, April 1944WNr. 732217, Uffz. Heinz Birk, 12./JG 5,Herdla, Norway, February 1945WNr. 733700, Uffz. Günther Pape, 3./JGr. 10,Jüteborg, Germany, November 1944WNr. 171189, Maj. Karl Kennel, CO of II./SG 2,Kitzingen, Germany, May 1945OCTOBER 2022INFO Eduard108September 2022Page 109
Re-releaseJagdfliegergeschwader 1, základna Holzdorf / Drewitz,Německo, 1990–1991921. stíhací pluk, základna Noi Bai,Vietnamská demokratická republika, 196811. stíhací letecký pluk, Československé letectvo,Žatec, Česká a Slovenská federativní republika, jaro 1990Egyptské vojenské letectvo, základna Inšas,Egyptská arabská republika, začátek 80. let11. stíhací letecký pluk, Československé letectvo,Žatec, Česká a Slovenská federativní republika,březen 1991MiG-21PFM1/72#70144ON APPROACHOCTOBER 2022INFO Eduard109September 2022Page 110
When I put together a Tail End Charlie ar-ticle a few months back with the themecentred around a unique case involvingan airworthy Hawker Hurricane operatedover the Czech Republic, one I had the in-credible luck of meeting in the air, I hadno idea I would be returning to the matterso soon. Little did I know that this gem,forever connected with Czechoslovakfighter pilots serving in the RAF, wouldagain come to mind as a Tail End Charlietheme. Unfortunately, the circumstancesbehind the thought’s revival are vastly di-fferent now. I won’t go into an analysis ofthe tragedy that occured on August 14th,2022 during an airshow in Cheb, CzechRepublic, nor will I add my name to thelist of people who don’t quite realize thatthey have nothing to add on the matter butwill make their opinions abundantly clearwith those little guarantees of expertiseall over the internet forums. I just wantto take this opportunity to reminisceabout an aircraft that as Eduard, wehad the honor of getting up closeand personal with during our Inti-mate Walkaround in Plzen just a yearago. I also want to reflect within thepages of our newsletter on the me-mory of the pilot, Petr Pačes, who didnot survive in the wreck of the ‘Czech‘Hurricane. As opposed to the othertwo pilots of this aircraft, Radim Voj-ta and Jiri Horak, I did not know Mr.Pačes personally. I do know, fromothers who knew him, that he wasa great friend and an excellent pilotwho will be dearly missed. So plea-se, pause and give a thought to thoseseveral months when the Czech skieswere home to a Czech Hurricane, andto the hopes and disappointment ofthe people who had dreams and livesconnected to this airplane. Those ofOne More Time...Jan ZdiarskýOn the Pilsen Walkaround 2021 an unusualoportunity was offered to me and my boys – toclean up the Hurricane from oil sprayed overthe fuselage and wings underside during therecent flight. How often you can have such anopportunity?Eduard Walkaround 2021 (photo M. Pruskavec)INFO Eduard110September 2022Page 111
you that can, think back fondly on the occassionsthat you were able to watch Petr Pačes either atthe controls of the Hurricane or another aircraft,to see him at various airshow events, and at theairfields of Czech aeroclubs.P.S. The Hawker Hurricane Mk.IV in the markingsof the famous aircraft flown by Karel Kuttelwas-cher, belonged to the collection of aircraft at Toč-né. It was also closely associated to the airfieldat Line, where many of you had the opportunity toadmire this aircraft at the above mentioned Walka-round in 2021, which we put together with ClassicTrainers in their hangar at Plzen-Line. The airportholds significance for current and future aviation,but is undergoing an existential crisis, defined bythe megalomaniacal plan by Volkswagen to shutit down and replace it with a plant to build batte-ries for electric cars. This plan has its supporterswithin political and lobby groups, but thankfullyalso has its opponents from the airport itself, itsusers, and from local municipalities, professionalsand special interest circles. Should you feel incli-ned to help support the preservation of the airport,please sign the petition that strives to achieve thisend. That THE AIR IS OUR OCEAN can only be trueas long as we are able to find in ourselves to ne-ver forget the airmen and the aircraft they flew co-nnected with our collective histories, including theTočenské Hurricane and Petr Pačes. This, in thisspecific case, applies to the places where Czechaviation can live, grow and thrive from its admi-rable roots and past accomplishments and sew theseeds for future ones.www.petice.com/zastaveni_vystavby_gigafaktory_na_le-titi_lin_za_zachovani_lzsEduard Walkaround 2021 (photo M. Pruskavec)Petr Pačes (+ 14.8. 2022), pilot of MiG-21, L-410, Boeing 737, Harvard, Hawker Hurricane,...INFO Eduard111September 2022
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