Scale Aviation Modeller International — November 2017

American

Fury

SWORD

I

t was good to catch up

with Sword at Eday

and we will bring you a

build of their new FJ-2 Fury,

just as soon as we can.

Delfin delight

EDUARD

W

ell, the Eday entry kit

was indeed a new tool

1/144 scale MiG15 UTI

and very nice it looks too, so no

doubt we will see future boxings of

this rather sweet little kit. In 1/48

scale Eduard is giving us a little

treat by re-boxing in the ProfiPack

line the AMK Aero L-29 Delfin with

some Eduard extras, including

decals, masks and photo etch.

This will be released in December,

but a little bird tells us, it should

make its debut at Plastic Winter in

Bratislava at the end of November.

For November the popular 1/48

scale Avia B534 III series is being

re-released in the Weekend line.

Also in 1/48 scale, the Fw190D-9

is being re-released as a ProfiPack

kit. Lastly, in 1/48 scale, Eduard

is re-releasing in the Limited

Edition line a Pe-2, this kit will

feature 5 markings options, all

of which are Soviet. If you wish

to do a Czech version of the Pe-2,

Eduard are producing a decal sheet

which will be available separately,

through the Eduard e-shop.

November sees only one 1/72 scale

release and that is the Spitfire

Mk.IXe in a ProfiPack Edition.

We mentioned last

month that Eduard was

releasing for October a

1/72 scale the GBU-43/B MOAB,

well this is being joined in

November with a 1/48 scale

version! Also for November

release is a Brassin cockpit for

the Revell 1/32 scale Spitfire

Mk.IX, which looks very nice.

As well as the kits,

there are lots of photo-etch

and Brassin sets to tempt as

well http://www.Eduard.com

Tigercat Acquired!

HPH

T

he new 1/32 scale F7F

Tigercat managed to

sneak home in the Editors

suitcase, the smile on his face as

he opened the box was a picture.

See the first look section of this

issue to see how the kit stacks up.

There is a lot of resin in the box!

What next from HpH? Well, the

1/32 scale SM79 is progressing,

but I am still hoping that there

long announced 1/32 scale Avia

BH-11 and Me-323 Gigant will

make an appearance at Telford.

B

y today’s exacting military standards, the

success of the Panavia Tornado is quite

achievement, and one that made its tri-national

programme one of the greatest feats of international

military and political co-operation of the 20th century.

Rather than being the proverbial ‘camel’ (otherwise

known as a horse put together by a committee), the

Tornado has proved itself to be a true thorough-bred,

able to deliver ‘as advertised’ in all weathers. The

latter has been the cornerstone of the Tornado’s

performance, when at its peak, it was one the NATO

that could function by night, by day, in fog, in rain

or snow, and mount realistic offensive operations.

Tornado was conferred with an excellent radar,

powerful engines, the ability to carry a large war-

load at both low-level and medium altitudes, had a

superb short field ability, which offered a compromise between traditional

runways and STOL performance. Many historians would doubtless say

that the famous De Havilland Mosquito was the original Multi-Role Combat

Aircraft, but the arrival of the jet age brought a plethora of

new aircraft into the skies. Many designers clung to the

‘traditional’ one-aircraft-one mission thinking, and therefore

air forces found themselves with numerous specialised

fighters, bombers and reconnaissance aircraft. As budgets

became tighter, many promising projects began to be

discarded through financial or political pressures, and

several countries began to see the sense in committing to

bi-national or tri-national military projects, or alternatively

were persuaded to ‘buy American’. In Europe, the growing

Soviet threat post-War, led Britain, Germany and Italy to

agree to produce a single aircraft type, that could fly a wide

variety of combat missions, and yet still be tailored to meet

the needs of the individual user nations. So was born the

‘MRCA’ - later Tornado - and a management company,

Panavia Aviation, was created to oversee the project, which

was for a swing-wing, low- level ‘bomb truck’, capable of defence suppression,

stand-off laser designation, anti-shipping and reconnaissance tasks, with further

consideration for a dedicated interceptor variant. The programme was a triumph

of co-operation, which incredibly faced few hitches and produced perhaps the

greatest aircraft of its type. Proven in battle from the deserts of Iraq to the skies

of Europe, as well as in keeping the peace, the Panavia Tornado has a singular

history, and up-date programs has kept it flying onto the 21st Century. Now in

the last years of its service life, was perhaps a good time to look back on what

is, and remains a very fine aircraft, and this new Datafile from SAM Publications

brings the Tornado story to life!

TORNADO

THE PANAVIA

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By Andy Evans

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