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Hobby Master 1/48 Air Power Series HA8714 BF 109E-3 model Stab/JG 26, Walter Horten, France, spring 1940 The first German mass produced 109 fighter was the Bf-109E that has been mistakenly referred to as the Me-109. The Bf is the designator for the Bayerische Flugzeugwerke (BFW) (Bavarian Aircraft Works) that produced the original aircraft. In 1938 Messerschmitt took over BFW but throughout WWII German handbooks and documents referred to the aircraft as the Bf-109. By the end of 1939 the...

Hobby Master 1/72 Air Power SeriesHA5806F-117A Nighthawk "Operation Allied Force"82-803, 8th FS "Black Sheep", Kosovo War, 1999In the 1970's Soviet air defense systems improved and the U.S. realized they had to develop aircraft to counter this. Lockheed Skunk Works was tasked with the job and two aircraft were built under the code name "Have Blue" that proved stealth aircraft could be produced. As a result the F-117 Nighthawk was developed and first flew in 1981 with the first production F-117...

Hobby Master 1/72 Air Power Series HA5213 Grumman F-14A Tomcat "Miss Molly" VF-111 "Sundowners", USS Carl Vinson 1989 model comes with 6 x AIM-54 : 2 x AIM-9 The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is a twin-engine, variable sweep wings capable of supersonic flight. The aircraft is crewed by a Pilot and a Radar Intercept Officer who share the tasks of navigation, target acquisition, ECM and weapons usage. The Tomcat was operated by the United States Navy and the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force only. The...

Hobby Master 1/72 Air Power Series HA4611 Lockheed Martin F-35B VMFA-121, USMC, Iwakuni 2018The Lockheed F-35 is an advanced stealth fifth generation fighter combining speed and superb agility. There are three variants; F-35A, B and C. The F-35A CTOL (Conventional Take Off and Landing) and has four internal weapons stations in two weapons bays plus three optional external weapons stations. The F-35B STOVL (Short Take Off Vertical Landing) variant while the F-35C is a CV (Carrier Variant). The...

Hobby Master 1/72 Air Power Series HA19015 McDonnell Douglas F-4J Phantom II 157299, VF-103 "Sluggers", USS Saratoga, 1971 The final variant of the McDonnell Douglas Phantom II was the F-4J; an improved version of the F-4B and was produced for the USMC and USN. There were approximately 520 airframe built with the first operational flight taking place in 1966. The F-4J was provided with stronger landing gear and modifications to the inner wings and tail. The F-4J also received the new J79-GE-10...

Hobby Master 1/48 Air Power SeriesHA8220F4U-2 Corsair "Midnite Cocktail"VMF(N)-532, USMC, Saipan, July 1944Vought was commissioned to develop a night fighter variant of the F4U-1 and working with other companies managed to come up with the necessary radar needed for night operations. A total of 32 F4U-1s were converted to the new F4U-2 Night Fighter at the Naval Aircraft factory while 2 were completed on Kwajalein Atoll. As for the number of Japanese aircraft destroyed by these night fighters,...

Hobby Master 1/72 Air Power Series HA5509 P-40N "Black Magic" HU-E, 78 Sqn., RAAF, Morotai, early 1945 The Curtiss P-40 Warhawk first flew in 1938 as a modification of the Curtiss P-36 Hawk. Warhawk was the official U.S. designation while the name Tomahawk was used by the British Commonwealth and Soviet forces for the P-40B and C and Kittyhawk for P-40Ds and later variants. The P-40 was first used by British squadrons in North Africa and the Middle East in 1941. The P-40 lacked a two-speed...