Showing posts with label sea vixen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sea vixen. Show all posts

Friday, March 14, 2014

1/144 Sea Vixen FAW.2 - Miniwings


1/144 Sea Vixen FAW.2 - Miniwings
Another great kit from Miniwings - As used by the Fleet Air Air of the British Royal Navy.
Britian's first all weather, all metal supersonic carrier based fighter, supersonic designed in the late 50s and introduced in the early 60s.

The kit follows the successful Miniwings formula , with great quality casting and a good spread of parts.
Interesting points for this release are the supply of both vac-form and resin canopy options, and new pro-decals from JBR (no alps here!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Sea_Vixen
http://www.seavixen.org/
http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/seavixen/

Available:
http://www.kits-shop.com/

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Friday, September 27, 2013

1/144 DH Sea Vixen FAW.2 (Preview) - Miniwings


1/144 DH Sea Vixen FAW.2 (Preview) - Miniwings
Not that I am biased, but it's good to see a great british aircraft from the 1950-60s.

The aircraft was designated the DH.110 by de Havilland; a twin-engined all-weather fighter, development of which started in 1946 following discussions with the Admiralty of its requirements for jet all-weather fighters.[1] De Havilland's design shared the twin-boom layout of the de Havilland Vampire, had an all-metal structure and featured swept wings. It was to be powered by two Rolls-Royce Avon engines, each capable of 7,500 lbf (33 kN) of thrust, which would allow the aircraft to be supersonic in a shallow dive.[1] The DH 110 was the first British two seat combat aircraft to achieve supersonic speed.[2] Armament was to be four 30 mm ADEN cannons. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Sea_Vixen

I would be great to see a Venom or Vampire too...

See miniwings for more info: http://www.miniwing.cz/