Category: Israeli aircraft
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Israeli Phantom – Part Four – Kurnas
I get two spellings for this name in google searches, but as a website run by the IAF uses one “s”, I figure I’ll go with that. They’d know. The aircraft is just about to go out on the display concrete at Schmattarim but experts will note that the intakes are empty and there is…
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Israeli Phantom – Part Three – Library Day
The IAF Phantom was ready for decals within 5 days of starting it – fruit of the new serial building program. The secret of successful decals is the gloss surface upon which they rest, of course, and I have learned that by a long series of neglectful errors. And as with many modellers, I’ve gone…
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Israeli Phantom – Part Two – The Curate’s Egg Revisited
One does not look a gift Phantom in the intakes. However, one sometimes observes that the makers of the kits may over-reach themselves. They break up a design into mouldable parts but fail to tell their mould-makers to talk to each other at the time. There are a number of interesting points of difference in…
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Israeli Phantom – Part One – A Kind Gift
My fortune is high – a good friend, learning of my ambition to add more modern aircraft to my Israeli desert museum, has donated a fresh Hasegawa kit. It is an E model dedicated to the USAF, but not all that far from Israeli practice, and certainly convertible for my purposes. The real desert museum…
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The Scale Statue Of Ozymandias
I am very grateful to the committee for giving me one of the model airplanes built by a former club member. It is a beauty, and shows the sort of skill he had. I would willingly trade it in for him back in the club, but funerals put an end to a lot of things.…
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Gloster Meteor F.8 – Part Two – IAF
And wasn’t that a clever idea, Great Britain? Selling Gloster Meteors to the Israelis and De Havilland Vampires to the Egyptians? Bit of export cash in the old exchequer, What? And a good leg in either bed, no matter who won, eh? Pip,Pip…! Looks like GB supplied Meteors to Egypt and Syria as well. Jordan…
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Gloster Meteor F.8 – Part One – Third One Out Of The Stable
Fate has dealt me three Gloster Meteor kits; a Cyberhobby F.3, an old Airfix III ( ? ) , and a new Airfix F.8. I have played the first two as best as could be – the first as an RAF plane in the 1945 conflict, the second as a corroded gate guard on a…
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Mirage III CJ – Part Five – The Cavalry
That was the phrase used to describe the Mirage IIIC in a recent YouTube story about the Yom Kippur war. Apparently two Israeli F4 Phantoms were engaging a vastly greater number of MiGs that were trying to destroy a desert airfield. The Mirages were touted as the cavalry coming to save the Phantoms, but I…
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Mirage III CJ – Part Four – Who’s Hiding?
And from whom? Where are they lurking? Is it all just nonsense these days? I have no idea – I presume the various air forces have worked out how to hide in the air with grey paint and rubber knobs on every sharp point of an aircraft. The business of greying out national insignia to…
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Mirage III CJ – Part One – The Very Thing
I set myself the task of building Israeli aircraft for a desert museum airfield – this kit was sitting on the shelves of a specialist dealer when I went to look for decals. How could I resist? It shows a horrible modification of a beautiful aircraft on the box top…but the sides promise the original…
