Looking at the new for 2017 Corgi Catalogue the undoubted standout is the new 1/48 scale tooling of the English Electric Lightning!!! This may well open the door to more new 1/48 molds of British jet aircraft.
Other jets include 1/72 scale Tornado F.3 and Typhoon FGR.4 of RAF No.29 Squadron, 1435 Flight, RAF Mount Pleasant, Defence of the Falkland Islands.
There is also a significant and diverse WWII component in the form of fighters, bombers and even jet powered nightfighter. Two models are of particular interest to me, the Curtiss Tomahawk IIB, AK402, flown by P/O Neville Duke of RAF No.122 Squadron and Messerschmitt Me 262B-1a/U1, W.Nr 110635 ‘Red 10’, Oberleutnant Kurt Welter, 10/NJG 11.
There is also Hawker Hurricane Mk.I, P3576 (GN-A) flown by Flight Lieutenant James Brindley Nicolson (VC) of RAF No.249 Squadron, a North American P-51D Mustang, 44-14733/CS-L ‘Daddy’s Girl’ piloted by Capt. Ray Wetmore of the 370th Fighter Squadron, 359th Fighter Group and a Messerschmitt Bf 109E-4, W.Nr. 3579 ‘White 14’, Fahnrich Hans Joachim Marseille, 1.(J)/LG.2, Calais-Marck airfield.
There are 3 WWII bombers, Heinkel He.III H-6, 1H+BB, 1./KG26, Bardufoss Airfield, Norway, 5th July 1942 – Attack on Artic convoy PQ 17, Vickers Wellington 1C, R1162 / AA-Y ‘Y for Yorker’, No.75 (New Zealand) Squadron, RAF Feltwell, Norfolk, 1941 ‘Soda Syphon Bomber’ unusual for Bomber Command in having nose art and 3rd Doolittle Raider from Corgi, North American B25 Mitchell, 40-2249, "Hari Kari-er".
The is also Douglas C-47 Dakota, ZA947, ‘KWICHERBICHEN’, The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, RAF Coningsby, 2015. The aircraft is presented in the colours of ZA947 which flew numerous flights in support of the D-Day landings, Operation Market Garden and the Rhine crossing.
There is one 1/48 scale WWI fighter, SPAD XIII, S2445, Major Francesco Baracca, 91st Squadriglia, Italian Air Force, April 1918.
Lastly there are two helicopters which should also have appeal for many, Westland Sea King HC.4, ZA290/VC, No.846 Naval Air Squadron, Fleet Air Arm, Falklands Conflict, 1982 dropped an SAS team in Argentina and Westland Wessex HC.2, XV721/H ‘Heart’, RAF No.72 Squadron, ‘Westland Wessex HC.2 35 Years of Active Service’, 1964 – 1999, RAF Aldergrove, Northern Ireland.
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