S U M M E R 2 0 1 2 Order Toll Free: TABLE OF CONTENTS Dear Fellow Aviation Lover, On the back, you’ll even find Red, White & New & Noteworthy............................................3 Blue favorites just in time for the 4thof July! So Avast! Have ye seen? There be Corsairs here! don’t delay; page through this edition of Historic PRE-WWI / WWI And there be much more, too! In this edition Aviation, make your selections, and place your of Historic Aviation, not only will you find order today! Early Aviation/ World War I..............................4 Hobby Master’s first Corsair and first F-16 Thanks, (page 38), you’ll also find: Allies & Central Powers....................................5 Germany...........................................................6 • The first giant, 1/32 scale kit of the B-25J Mitchell (page 12) WORLD WAR II • New DVDs on the B-17, the U.S. Army’s “Birddogs,” and others • Nearly a dozen new titles in the ever-popular Between the Wars............................................7 Greg Herrick Images of Americaseries on air bases and air- The Home Front...............................................8 fields (pages 45 and 52) P.S. If you aren’t sure of Playboy’s USAAF..............................................................9 • Die cast model airliners at 50% savings connection to aviation, don’t miss U.S. Bombers............................................10-13 (order form) page 49. You’re going Fighters......................................................14-19 • Awide variety of new t-shirts for summer fun to love it! Liason/Battle of Britain..................................20 • And much more! Royal Air Force/Soviet..................................21 Italy.................................................................22 F4U-1A Luftwaffe....................................................22-25 Corsair Die Cast Model Pearl Harbor / Wake Island............................26 New Tooling! The newest member of Hobby Japan..............................................................27 Master’s line of 1/48 scale, War in the Pacific...........................................28 die cast World War II war- U.S. Navy Fighters.........................................29 birds has arrived, and it’s ready to sail into your collection today! Military Areplica of a Vought F4U Corsair, a U.S. Navy and Marine Corps carrier- capable fighter that entered service in U.S. Navy in the 1950s..................................30 late 1942, this newly-tooled model has: U.S. Air Force in Korea...................................31 On the Cover: • Engraved panel and hatch lines and The Homecoming simulated fabric texturing on its wing The Middle East /Cuba..................................32 John Shaw. Entering San and tail surfaces Strategic Air Command...................................33 Francisco Bay, returning veterans • Awell-equipped cockpit with instru- Century Series Jets........................................34 of World War II’s Pacific Theater ments, a control stick, a pilot figure, Historic Vietnam Era....................................................35 witness the joy of the nation they Aviation and a sliding canopy U.S. Navy.......................................................36 saved as “Black Sheep” Corsairs exclu- • Adetailed Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp radial fly an aerial salute above. Signed sive! engine front with a rotating propeller (whose three blades Attack Planes & Bombers..............................37 by the artist and multiple veterans These are so accurately reproduced they even include miniature Modern Fighters.............................................38 of the Pacific War, this numbered 4“e"nx d5 "o fr eWpororlddu Wctiaorn IsI ”o pf hicooton-ic Hamilton Standard logos) print measures 31"x19". Stealth / Reconnaissance...............................39 graphs are perfect for framing • The prototype’s famous inverted gull-wings, which can Main Edition – Signed by with your print. Purchase either be repositioned for display in either the flying or folded X-Planes, Rockets & Area 51.........................40 two Pacific War edition of The Homecomingand configurations (when you can see replicas of internal Space..............................................................41 veterans................#72624C$195 we’ll send them to you free! structural components) Transports.......................................................42 Victory Edition – Signed by eight Pacific War veterans, • Super-fine details such as machine gun ports, simulated Helicopters......................................................43 including two Black Sheep pilots......................#72625C$295 navigation lights, and a pitot tube • Aremovable, fuselage-mounted fuel tank Trainers / Disasters........................................44 F4U Corsair • Optional-position landing gear Training / Bases.............................................45 Shirt • The markings of “White 29,” the aircraft flown by the U.S. Marines / Air Force.................................46 Shiver U.S.Navy’s most successful Corsair pilot, Branches of Service / Blue Angels.................47 me tim- 16-victory ace Lt(jg).Ira Kepford, who achieved Nose Art..........................................................48 bers! his victories in only five months of Pacific Theater Featuring combat while flying with the famed VF-17 Pin-Ups......................................................48-49 “White “Jolly Rogers.” Pop Culture.....................................................49 29” – the F4U • Adisplay stand • And more! 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