Fairey Battle the missing RAF fighter/bomber

[major_setback]

Roy Cross Airfix box art:

[IvanK]

major_setback ... got anymore of those glorious old Airfix box art images lurking anywhere ?

[major_setback]

Originally Posted by IvanK

major_setback ... got anymore of those glorious old Airfix box art images lurking anywhere ?

Yes, I have quite a few of them. I'll post them a a later date, when I get time to upload them. Here are a couple I already uploaded to Photobucket:

[IvanK]

Brilliant stuff thank you.

[He111]

Great pictures! Reminds me when I was a kid! nothing like a great image to sell something!

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[Plt Off JRB Meaker]

Yeah me too,I loved seeing these as a kid,we did'nt have computers back then in the seventies when I grew up,but we did have Airfix,and pics like these really made you want to go and buy that kit,superb.

[Voyager]

I think a lot of people would be very disappointed with flying the Fairey Battle. It is basically a bigger, slower Hurricane, with less bomb load, and two guns. It was not a fighter/bomber; it only had a single forward firing .303, and one in the tail, and its top speed was 250 mph. It looks cool, but you are a sitting duck.

If you really feel compelled to fly it, your best bet is to downloaded for MS Flight sim or X-Planes, and buzz around in it. It really is not a fun plane to fly more than once. The only value I could see for it would be as a nonflyable for the very early stages of the war.

The Sunderland would be a more fun plane to fly. It was highly successful as a sub-hunter, and had some wild, successful, dogfights with German heavy fighters, that could be made into showcase missions.

[mazex]

Originally Posted by major_setback

Roy Cross Airfix box art:

He he - remember building that kit in the late 70:ies or maybe early 80:ies Light blue plastic if I remember it correctly

EDIT - and I built the Airfix Mossie and Spit you posted too. Bought the Mossie at the Hendon museum shop... Fond memories from days past since long And while the memories are flowing I think that the Airfix Spit was my first ever plastic model... Must have been in 1978 or 1979. Right that image I used to try drawing myself as my first drawing of and aircraft in 3D - got lot of respect from the kids at school for not doing a 2D profile like all the others...

[Tavingon]

I just want to fly around in it, to try and recreate that famous bridge attack in france

[Tavingon]