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AH-64 Apache Helicopter by Corgi Showcase Series Toys Item Number: CS90623

As the most famous fighter pilot in the history of military aviation, the name Manfred von Richthofen is familiar to many people and despite the Great War claiming his life more than 100 years ago, the exploits of the Bloody Red Baron continue to be a source of fascination to this day. Originally joining the Luftstreitkr�fte as an aerial observer, his fighting ambitions would lead von Richthofen to be selected for fighter training, where he would later become a legend of the air, being...

Apollo 11 Command Module - 50th Anniversary Responsible for carrying all three astronauts and the Lunar Module into lunar orbit the Apollo Command module played a vital role in the Apollo 11 landings. The Command Module was 11m high and 3.9m wide, and having taken off from Kenedy Space Center Florida on July 16th delivered it�s passengers to their destination in just four days. On their return to Earth the three astronauts had to spend 21 days in quarantine to ensure they hadn�t contracted...

Apollo 11 Lunar Landing Module - 50th Anniversary Known as LM the Lunar Excursion Model LEM Eagle and even Haystack in internal and external communications during early mission planning. The Lunar Module landed on the Moon's surface at 20:47 UTC Coor,dinated Universal Time on the 20th July 1969 with the crew stepping onto the surface around six hours later on the 21st. The module stood at 7.04m high and was 9.4m wide. The LM was incapable of flying through the Earth�s atmosphere and was...

Avro Lancaster by Corgi Showcase Series Toys Item Number: CS90619

Avro Vulcan by Corgi Showcase Series Toys Item Number: CS90617

As one of the most capable twin engined aircraft of WWII, the Bristol Beaufighter was originally developed as a heavy fighter variant of the company�s Beaufort bomber, already in service with the Royal Air Force. The first examples were pressed into service as nightfighters and whilst the aircraft proved to be a significant improvement over existing types, there was more to come from the mighty beau. As the aircraft received successive upgrades to make it more powerful and capable of carrying...

Hawker Hurricane by Corgi Showcase Series Toys Item Number: CS90620

P-51D Mustang by Corgi Showcase Series Toys Item Number: CS90627

If the intrepid pioneers of flight inspired the world with their determination to achieve manned, powered flight in the years before the First World War, then a similar fascination was surely held for the men engaged in the US Space Programme during the 1960s and 1970s. Millions of people would be glued to their televisions as mighty rockets blasted men into space, with everyone holding their breath until the astronauts safely returned a few days later and the sight of their protective space...

Although history has dictated that the aerial combat prowess of Manfred von Richthofen ensured he became one of the world�s most famous aviation personalities, the same cannot be said of the leading Allied �Ace of Aces� from the Great War, who has remained largely anonymous to all but the most committed of enthusiasts. Rene Fonck originally shunned the opportunity to become a pilot, preferring instead to share the trenches with his countrymen, as they fought against the Germans. The horrors of...

Supermarine Spitfire XIV RM740 - RAF No.322 Dutch Squadron Deanland - August 1944. The aviation pedigree of the Supermarine Spitfire is second to none. Produced in greater numbers than any other British aircraft the Spitfire was in constant productio,n throughout the Second World War with the basic airframe capable of readily accepting upgrades and improvements which maintained the aircraft�s position as one of the most capable single engined fighting aeroplanes of WWII. The combination of the...

Tornado GR-4 by Corgi Showcase Series Toys Item Number: CS90624

If the Douglas C-47 Skytrain is considered the most famous multi engined aircraft of D-Day aerial operations, then the single engined equivalent must be the fearsome Hawker Typhoon. Agile and extremely heavily armed, the Typhoon was to see plenty of action during the summer of 1944, either attacking strategic targets in the weeks prior to invasion, such as German radar sites or providing invaluable close air support to ground units breaking out from the landing beachheads. With forward air...

Vickers VC-10 RAF by Corgi Showcase Series Toys Item Number: CS90626

The Westland Wessex HC.2 was a licence built turbine powered development of the classic American Sikorski S-58 Helicopter, one of the world�s first truly capable helicopters and one which finally established these aircraft as amongst the most useful for both military and civilian applications. XR500 was one of a batch or 4 HC.2 helicopters delivered in advance of the type�s acceptance into RAF service and was used by the Wessex Intensive Flying Trials Unit at RAF Odiham, in preparation for its...

Westland Seaking Raf Search & Rescue by Corgi Showcase Series Toys Item Number: CS90625