Aces and Aircraft of World War I by Christopher Campbell Copyright 1981, Blandford Press, Great Britain This is a highly informative volume on the early days of military aviation, with 160 illustrations. Aces and Aircraft of World War I chronicles the birth of...

The Best Phantom Ejection Seats For those modelers who want a truly detailed F-4 Phantom cockpit, if you are building in 1/72 scale, most out-of-the-box cockpits are not enough. The only truly detailed Phantom driver’s “office” I’ve seen in 1/72 was in the 1980's...

Blue Moon Over Cuba: Aerial Reconnaissance during the Cuban Missile Crisis by Captain William B. Ecker USN (ret.) and Kenneth V. JackCopyright 2012 by Osprey Publishing; Oxford (United Kingdom) Blue Moon Over Cuba, based largely on the previously unpublished memoir of...

Ghosts of the Air by Martin Caidin Copyright 1997 by Barnes & Noble; New York Just in time for Halloween, this re-issued publication of true-life supernatural accounts in the aviation world will make those who don't believe in ghosts think twice. Well-documented...

Quickboost 1/48 Exhausts for Accurate Miniatures IL-2 Sturmovik Cost: $5.95 Kit No. QB48079 Comments: Realism at an affordable price Quickboost has released a set of engine exhausts for that famous flying tank hunter of the Eastern Front, the Accurate Miniatures'...

Mk 54 Depth Charges with Bomb Racks by Attack Squadron 1/72 scale Kit No. 72003 Price: $9.35 (7 Euros) Comments: Resin with photo-etched details; great for detailing 1/72 WWII anti-submarine aircraft Attack Squadron, a Polish manufacturer, has released a long-sought...

Night Hurricanes - Hawker Hurricane decals by Eagle Strike In 2002, Eagle Strike released a set of markings for night intruder Hurricanes, Set No. 48124, that provide four striking versions of the Hurricane Mk.IIc employed from 1941-42, carrying the war to the enemy...

The Other Missiles of October: Eisenhower, Kennedy and the Jupiters 1957-1963 By Philip Nash University of North Carolina Press, Copyright 1997   The Other Missiles of October highlights an often overlooked but critical component of the history of the Cuban...

Quickboost 1/72 F-4 Phantom Ejection Seats Kit No. QB72011 Cost: $5.95 Comments: Excellent, Crisp Detail for a reasonable price (Editor's Note: Although an earlier article, "Best Phantom Seats" featured a strong sampling of many of the top manufacturers of aftermarket...

Part P-51 Mk. III Detail Set Cost: $12.00 Kit No. 72-018 Comments: Excellent Detail set for those with AMS Part has produced a fine detail set for 1/72 P-51B's. Although specifically designed for the Revell-Germany Mustang Mk.III, a variant of the P-51B, with effort...

While thumbing through the December 2014 issue of Scale Aviation Modeler International, Hangar 47's webmaster discovered the unimaginable... a major Chinese company (Trumpeter/Easy Model) had copied the original hand-painted nose art featured on this site's 2007 full...

Using Aftermarket Parts Aftermarket Parts: Are they worth it? State-of-the-art modeling today involves injection molded plastic kits that, aided by computers and lasers, come from molds that are a quantum leap ahead of the kits of the 1960’s, 70’s and even ‘80’s in...