Model Aircraft 2013 12, Modelarstwo
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Vol 12 Iss 12 December 2013 £4.25
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White Metal & Resin Aircraft Parts Since 1990
18001 SBD-3/4 Dauntless Landing
Gear (Mer)
(replacement for 1/18 Merit)
32077 F-104 Starfighter Landing
Gear (Has)
(replacement for 1/32 Hasegawa)
32078 Messerschmitt Bf 109
Landing Gear (Rev)
(replacement for 1/32 Revell – 2013 mold)
48241 Alpha Jet Landing Gear (Kin)
(replacement for 1/48 Kinetic)
72073 Hawker Typhoon Landing
Gear (2 sets) (AX)
(replacement for 1/72 Airfix)
72074 F-101B Voodoo Landing
Gear (Rev)
(replacement for 1/72 Revell)
In the news: WWII Flying Fortress finds a new home
An interesting perspective of
the massive new 1/32 HK
Models B-17 sent to us by
Tom Cleaver, aviation author
and noted model builder. The
SAC metal gear supplies more
than enough strength to
support this recent addition
to the Planes Of Fame Air
Museum in Chino, California.
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December 2013
Never in a Month of Sundays
Weʼre never happy, are we? Give us a lovely new kit in
1/72 and we complain that itʼs not in 1/48. Release a Mk IX
and we wish it was a Vb. Give us a new-tool Blackburn Skua
in 1/32 and weʼll complain that it has the wrong markings
with it – we will… honest!
Unless, of course, you want to tool up an injection
moulded Blackburn Blackburn in 1/48. Hopefully some-
one will have had a word with Meng at Telford
about this pressing matter. Perhaps I
should have gotten up a petition. We
will have to wait
and see…
W
e have an absolutely cracking
issue this month, with some
real hands-on model-
ling of the type I
like the best – enthusi-
asts pursuing a thread
and making a model
because something has
inspired them. Regular
readers of SAMI will be
no strangers to Dick
Clark and his eclectic
builds, and I am particu-
larly grateful to him for his Dogfight over Goodwin
Sands piece, as it is the kind of article that really makes
me just want to go and built a kit just like the one I’ve
just been reading about. That Do 17 is a cracker! Oh for
a new tool in 1/48…
Gary Hatcher
Editor
Model Aircraft
British Spooks
By Peter Scott
F-4 Phantoms Plans and Profiles
Pages 39-46
McDonnell Douglas Phantom FG.1
XV597 of the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment
(A&AEE), based at RAF Boscombe Down, Wiltshire, in 1991.
In this Issue
Airwars Air Arms
The Hellenic Air Force
By Andy Evans
04
Three Shades of
Frog
The T-2 in Warpaint!
By Andy McCabe
18
Top Cat
Building the Big Lynx
By John Bisset
22
IPMS UK Column
What do I get?
By Chris Ayre
Kit News
48
66
68
Accessory News
70
Events
Workbench
British Hellcat
By Trevor Pask
72
Dogfight over
Goodwin Sands
A Triptych in 1/72
By Dick Clark
Easy Build
Buffalo
HobbyBossʼs F2A
By Bruce Leyland-Jones
Hellenic
Hurricanes
Hawkerʼs Finest in Greek Service
By Kyriakos ʻKirkʼ Paloulian
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32
34
78
Books
80
82
Shop & Web Guide
And Finally
Off the Scales!
Antonovʼs An-124 Ruslan
By Ken Duffey
50
Red Dog’s
Replica
A new approach to Modelling
By Colin Pickett
56
Firefly Forward
Fairey Firefly walkaround
– Yeoviltonʼs TT.4
By Gary Hatcher
62
Cover Artwork by John Fox
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Airwars – Hellenic Air Force
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The Hellenic
Air Force
Airwars Air Arms
By Andy Evans
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against the Bulgarians. The Greek and the Ottoman
missions flown during the same day were the first
military aviation combat missions in a conventional
war. In 1930, the Greek Aviation Ministry was
founded, establishing the Air Force as the third
branch of the Armed Forces, and eventually the
Hellenic Army Air Service and Hellenic Naval Air
Service were amalgamated to form the Hellenic Air
Force.
operated under RAF command, these being the
13th Light Bomber Squadron flying Avro Ansons,
Bristol Blenheims, and Martin Baltimores, and the
335th and 336th Fighter Squadrons flying Hawker
Hurricane I and IIs and Supermarine Spitfire Vs.
The Middle East HAF Squadrons undertook a
variety of missions, such as convoy patrols, anti-
submarine search, offensive patrols,
reconnaissance, attacks and the interception of
enemy aircraft. In summer 1943 the Greek
Squadrons also took part in actions against the
German forces on Crete.
n 1911, the Greek Government appointed
French specialists to form the Hellenic
Aviation Service. Six Greek officers were sent
to France for training, while four ‘Farman’
type aircraft were ordered. All of the six
graduated from the Farman school in Étampes
near Paris, but only four served subsequently in
aviation. The first military flight was made on
May 13, 1912 by Lieutenant Dimitrios Kamberos
and in June he flew ‘Daedalus, another Farman
aircraft that that had been converted to a
seaplane, setting a new world average speed
record of 68mph and with it the foundations of
Greek Naval Aviation. During September of the
same year, the Greek Army also fielded its first
squadron - the ‘Aviators Company.
World War II and Civil War
During the Second World War, although being
severely outnumbered and having only a small
number of aircraft, the HAF managed to resist the
Italian Invasion of 1940 successfully, and during the
conflict the Hellenic Air Force shot down sixty-four
enemy aircraft (confirmed) and claimed a further
twenty-four. However, in April 1941 Germany
invaded Greece to assist her Italian allies and the
Luftwaffe destroyed almost the entire Hellenic Air
Force, although some aircraft managed to escape to
the Middle East, where Hellenic aviation was rebuilt
under the Air Force Ministry based in Cairo. Three
Hellenic squadrons were brought together and
The Balkan Wars and After
On October 5, 1912, Kamberos flew the first Greek
combat mission, a recce flight over Thessaly on the
first day of the Balkan Wars, and during the same
day a similar mission was flown by German
mercenaries in Ottoman service in the Thrace front
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Post War
After Greece's liberation in 1944, the HAF returned
home and were re-equipped with Spitfire Mk IX and
Mk XVI fighters (see MA November 2013) and
Curtiss Helldiver bombers, and subsequently played
a decisive role in the Greek Civil War which lasted
until 1949. In November 1950, Greece sent seven
C-47 Dakotas of the 13th Transport Aircraft
Squadron to South Korea to assist the United
Nations where they operated until May 1955. Greek
pilots flew thousands of war missions, including air
evacuations, personnel transport, intelligence
gathering and supply flights.
In 1952 Greece joined NATO and the Air Force
was rebuilt and reorganised according to NATO
standards with US assistance, and aircraft, including
jets, were introduced.
The Jet Age
The first jet fighter to be flown by the HAF was the
F-84G Thunderjet, but was quickly replaced by the
Canadair Sabre II with around 100 examples being
supplied during 1954 and 1955 after upgrading in
the UK following service with the RCAF. Lockheed
T-33s were delivered to training units and some RT-
33s were used for reconnaissance missions. The
HAF also flew the RF-84 reconnaissance version of
the Thunderjet and this aircraft remained in service
An RF-84F seen in July 1977 at Larissa air base
Greece operate the Mirage 2000-5,
as seen here in 2009
A Canadair Sabre photographed in 1955
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