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 Styrofoam Flying Model Airplane RAF Lancaster Wingspan - 17 inches Body - 12 inches The Styrofoam plane includes four plastic 1.5 inch propellers which should spin when the plane is flown. This is a flying models of the famous British RAF Lancaster of World War 2 heavy bomber. Styrofoam Flying Model Airplane B-17 USAF Flying Fortress Wingspan - 17 inches Body - 12 inches The Styrofoam plane includes four plastic 1.5 inch propellers which should spin when the plane is flown. This is a flying models of the famous American Flying Fortress of World War 2 heavy bombers. B-17 Flying Fortress Short History of the airplane The first prototype of the flying fortress flew in 1935. The expensive price tag deterred the US Army Generals from ordering any at this time. By 1938 the first two went into service and on the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor production was increased dramatically to meet the war need. By 1945 almost 13,000 B-17 had been built and they served in every theatre of the war, primarily in the European campaigns against the Germans. The Germans had to work on new defensive methods against these versital heavy bombers, as a formation of B-17s made a formidle foe to attack. Early on, some of the defenses were pretty effective and loss rates of 25% were common. When the fighter escort P51 was developed the bombers became much more effective. At wars end, the B-17 was obsolete and most were melted down for scrap. A few still survive, some still flying. Specifications (B-17G) General characteristics Crew: 10 Pilot, Co-Pilot , Navigator/Nose gunner , Bombadier/Nose gunner, Flight enginer/Dorsal gunner, Radio operator/Gunner , 2 Waist gunners, Belly Gunner, Rear gunner. Length: 74 ft 9 in (22.7 m) Wingspan: 103 ft 10 in (31.6 m) Height: 19 ft 1 in (5.8 m) Wing area: 1,420 ft² (131.9 m²) Airfoil: NACA 0018 / NACA 0010 Empty weight: 36,135 lb (16,390 kg) Loaded weight: 54,000 lb (24,495 kg) Max takeoff weight: 72,000 lb (32,660 kg) Powerplant: 4× Wright R-1820-97 "Cyclone" turbosupercharged radial engines, 1,200 hp (900 kW) each Performance Maximum speed: 287 mph (462 km/h) Cruise speed: 150 mph (240 km/h) Range: 1,850 mi (2,980 km) Service ceiling: 35,600 ft (10,850 m) Rate of climb: 900 ft/min (4.6 m/s) Wing loading: 38.0 lb/ft² (185.7 kg/m²) Power/mass: 0.089 hp/lb (150 W/kg) Armament Guns: 13× Browning M-2 0.50 calibre (12.7 mm) machine guns (with optional extra nose armament fitted in glazed nose) Bombs: 8,000 lb (3629 kg) on short-range missions (less than 400 mile radius), 4,500 lb (2,041 kg) on long-range missions (800 mile radius). Figures represent maxima for B-17's as employed by US Air Forces in Europe, WW2. The Lancaster Heavy Bomber was first designed as the Avro Manchester. Design flaws in this aircraft caused it to be re-designed and re-appeared as the Lancaster in 1941. From 1942 - 1945 the Lancaster heavy bombers flew a total of 156,000 missions and dropped over 600,000 tons of ordinance. The communications and radar installed on the Lancaster was fairly well advanced by World War 2 standards. It was radio direction finding capable and had both Morse code and voice radio communications systems. It had groundward looking radar, rear looking radar, and could detect night flying attacking aircraft. Most were destroyed after the war, but there are approximately 17 remaining Lancaster heavy bombers in existance now. Specifications (Lancaster) General characteristics Crew: 7, pilot, flight engineer, navigator, bomb aimer, wireless operator, mid-upper and rear gunners Length: 69 ft 5 in (21.18 m) Wingspan: 102 ft (31.09 m) Height: 19 ft 7 in (5.97 m) Wing area: 1,300 ft² (120.8 m²) Empty weight: 36 828 lb (16,705 kg) Loaded weight: 63,000 lb (28,636 kg) Max takeoff weight: lb (kg) Powerplant: 4× Rolls-Royce Merlin XX piston engines, 1,280 hp (954 kW) each Performance Maximum speed: 280 mph at 15,000 ft (448 km/h at 5,600 m) Range: 2,700 miles with minimal bomb load (4,320 km) Service ceiling: 23,500 ft (8,160 m) Rate of climb: ft/min (m/min) Wing loading: lb/ft² (kg/m²) Power/mass: hp/lb (kW/kg) Armament 8x 0.303 in (7.7 mm) Browning machine guns in three turrets Up to 22,000 lb (10,000 kg) of bombs, typical load 14,000 lb (6,350 kg)  To Check Availability and Purchase Products Featured Here Visit Our Ebay Store Plum Creek Toy and Hobby |