Post by nm on Sept 30, 2010 18:06:10 GMT 1
One of Airfix's releases for 2010 is a 1/72 Hawker Hurricane:
www.airfix.com/airfix-products/new-models-for-2010/aircraft/a02082a-hawker-hurricane-mk1-a02082a/?searchguid=&resultspage=&sortorder=
Look at the two aircraft on the left of the box (not in the main picture): the lower one is in Irish colours.
70 years ago a RAF Hurricane crashlanded in Ireland, ran out of fuel after shooting down a Heinkel I'm told, and it then served with the Irish Air Corps. This model is not it (this is 105, that was 93), but one from a later batch bought in 1941.
The earlier one retained the RAF colour scheme.
(All this information comes from my nephew.)
nm
www.airfix.com/airfix-products/new-models-for-2010/aircraft/a02082a-hawker-hurricane-mk1-a02082a/?searchguid=&resultspage=&sortorder=
Look at the two aircraft on the left of the box (not in the main picture): the lower one is in Irish colours.
70 years ago a RAF Hurricane crashlanded in Ireland, ran out of fuel after shooting down a Heinkel I'm told, and it then served with the Irish Air Corps. This model is not it (this is 105, that was 93), but one from a later batch bought in 1941.
The earlier one retained the RAF colour scheme.
(All this information comes from my nephew.)
nm
