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Roden 1/48 pienoismalli, rakennussarja. At the beginning of WWI two-seater airplanes were built in accordance with the "orthodox" layout, in which the pilot had a position in the rear seat, and a gunner-observer sat in the front. Only after the appearance of the famous Sopwith 1½ Strutter did t..

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Roden 1/144 pienoismalli, rakennussarja. In Great Britain at the end of the 1940's, a new kind of aviation business became popular the speedy delivery of travellers by air from the island to the continent together with their automobiles. To fulfill this need, some aviation companies used the Br..

Roden 1/48 pienoismalli, rakennussarja. Käytetty Suomessa! At the end of the 1920's, when the United States was ailing from the Great Depression, the numerous air shows were a rare pastime for many people who were disillusioned with their future and wanted distraction from the gray life ar..

Roden 1/144 pienoismalli, rakennussarja. In the mid-1930s, in the wake of the rapid growth in passenger air travel, the Boeing Aircraft Company, while busy with the design of a modern four-engine bomber, worked simultaneously on the creation of a new four-engine aircraft, purposed for civil avi..

Roden 1/144 pienoismalli, rakennussarja. The Boeing 707 was a four engine narrow-body American airliner. It was powered by four Pratt and Whitney JT3C or JT4A engines.The prototype flew in 1954. The first production Boeing 707 took to the air on December 20, 1957. It was in production from 1957..

Roden 1/144 pienoismalli, rakennussarja. The E-3 Sentry is an American early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft manufactured by Boeing, commonly known as the AWACS (Airborne Early Warning and Control System). Developed by Boeing from the Boeing 707 passenger aircraft, it provides all-weat..

Roden 1/72 pienoismalli, rakennussarja. In 1939 Germany was rapidly preparing for global hostilities. The plans of the German command supposed an instantaneous capture of quite large areas of other countries, and therefore special attention was paid to the question of the greatest possible moto..

Roden 1/144 pienoismalli, rakennussarja. The Bristol Britannia was a medium/long range British Airliner designed and built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company at Filton in the United Kingdom.Originally conceived in 1946 the first flight of the Britannia took place in August 1950 it was the star of..

Roden 1/144 pienoismalli, rakennussarja. In early 1941, almost a year before the United States entered World War II, the Army Air Corps invited leading aircraft companies to participate in a competition to produce a transcontinental heavy bomber that could reach targets at a very great distance..

Roden 1/144 pienoismalli, rakennussarja. At the end of the 1940s, in the United States of America, when it evidently became clear about the inevitable boom of air travel both for long distances and internal communications, arosed the question about the replacement of the renowned representative..

Roden 1/144 pienoismalli, rakennussarja. During the WWII period air transport proved its significance, as an important constituent of rapid and mobile movement of troops and vehicles to distant locations. In the post-war years, with the increase of tension in the world political situation and w..

Roden 1/144 pienoismalli, rakennussarja. In 1952, procurement of a new type for the Military Air Transport Service was announced in the United States under the SS402L Logistics Carrier Support Program. According to its requirements, the aircraft would have to lift more than 45 tons, including o..

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Roden 1/144 pienoismalli, rakennussarja. In 1934 American Airlines approached the Douglas company - manufacturer of the DC-2 aircraft, which it had operated successfully for some time - with a proposal to improve the machine to make it capable of nighttime transcontinental flights. Such flights..

Roden 1/144 pienoismalli, rakennussarja. After the entry of the United States into WWII a significant number of civilian aircraft was mobilized for the army. The Douglas Aircraft Corporation, which not long since had created one of the most famous machines of the Twentieth Century, the DC-3 Dak..

Roden 1/144 pienoismalli, rakennussarja. The end of WWII and the transition of the international community to normal daily life gave dramatic impetus to the development of tourism and international travel, and air transportation was bound to play an important role in it. If a trip in an aircraf..

Roden 1/48 pienoismalli, rakennussarja. In 1959 the Swiss firm Pilatus developed a simple multi-purpose aircraft, with the formal name of PC-6 Porter. The early machines were piston engined and built in a short series; and two years later appeared the more modern PC-6 Turbo Porter, powered by t..

Roden 1/48 pienoismalli, rakennussarja. In the autumn of 1917 Germany's Idflieg (the aviation inspection section) quickly fixed a date for a Fighter Competition, with the aim of replacing fighter Aerodromes. After the appearance of the Sopwith Camel and the SPAD XIII, all German scout planes be..

Roden 1/35 pienoismalli, rakennussarja. In 1928, the American automobile corporation Ford began its expansion into the European market, and one of their most promising partners was Germany, which at that time had already largely overcome the economic decline caused by the consequences of t..