Tag: air ambulance

• Polikarpov U-2 – Part Four – St. Ivan’s Ambulance Service

  

  In the service of Soviet humanity… This is the second air ambulance I have constructed, and by far the most ambitious one. It was born of necessity and nurtured on the makeshift – just as well there was a solid foundation of simple airframe to support it. The use of air ambulance transport by definition…

  Dick Stein

  May 16, 2022

  1:72 scale, History, Light plane, Model Airplane, Russian models, Scale Models, Soviet aircraft

  air ambulance, Soviet, WW2

• Polikarpov U-2 – Part Two – Small Steppes

  

  Well, they would be with a model from Ukraine, wouldn’t they… Boom Boom. The odd little slippers are not for feet – they are the over-wing gondolas that were apparently fitted to the Polikarpov U-2 to evacuate wounded Soviet soldiers. The instruction sheet shows a U-2 in winter camouflage with ski landing gear and these…

  Dick Stein

  May 15, 2022

  1:72 scale, Model Airplane, Scale Models, Soviet aircraft, subassembly, Ukrainian models

  air ambulance, engines, Polikarpov

• Polikarpov U-2 – Part One – Washing Machine Charley

  

  I’ll explain that later. In the meantime I need to start work on the ICM model of the Polikarpov U-2. This is not the U-2 that was shot down with Francis Gary Powers in it. Very similar but a different engine… In any case, the ICM kit was quite inexpensive in a hobby shop where…

  Dick Stein

  May 14, 2022

  1:72 scale, Box Art, Model Airplane, Soviet aircraft, Ukrainian models

  air ambulance, biplane, Polikarpov

• Handley Page Jetstream – Part Four – Beinbruch Air Ambulance

  

  If you look carefully you can find a use for everything. This was the principle behind the acquisition of the Handley Page Jetstream aircraft that were to have been a part of the USAF transport fleet. Eventually rejected by the US Air Force due to delays and engine problems, the medical turbo props were sold…

  Dick Stein

  January 20, 2022

  1:72 scale, airliner, British aircraft, Civil aircraft, Colour Schemes, History, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  air ambulance, Beinbruch, Handley Page, Okotoks

• Handley Page Jetstream – Part Two – Saturday Build

  

  I have three divisions of kits; Tuesday Mens Shed builds, home Little Workshop builds, and Saturday Historic Modelling Friends builds. I keep them as separate as painting requirements permit so that my pleasure in building them comes undiluted. The HP Jetstream is the Saturday Historic Modelling Friends kit. I enjoy an invitation once a fortnight…

  Dick Stein

  January 17, 2022

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Civil aircraft, design, Model Airplane, Scale Models, subassembly

  air ambulance, Airfix, Club build