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1:48 Curtiss Mohawk IV
Merlin
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Posted: Thursday, April 28, 2011 - 12:13 PM UTC
MustHave! have upgraded the standard Hobbycraft Curtiss Hawk with new resin and etched parts and decals.

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JPTRR
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Posted: Monday, May 09, 2011 - 01:21 AM UTC
Rowan,

Well done; these really aren't second-line kits. Hardy molding with good detail. With their fairly spacious cockpit these are very easy to detail to one's taste.


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So, reading the report on mock combat trials between the aircraft and a Spitfire Mk. I comes as something a shock; a pair of experienced Spitfire pilots took turns at flying the Mohawk in a series of "dogfights" while the other flew the Spit, and found that it presented a real handful for its famous rival!


I appreciate your relating of the combat trial. I have a vintage Air Profile with an abbreviated synopsis of the handling and maneuverability aspects of the Mohawk and Spitfire... if only the Curtiss had two-speed supercharger. Consider the Hawk comprised about 10% of the French fighter force, yet accounted for some 25% of aerial kills. The Curtiss H75-C1 was the best fighter the French had aside from the Dewoitine D520; In seven aerial battles in which the Curtiss fighters were engaged with Messerschmitts, the total score was twenty-seven Bf 109Es and six Bf 110Cs destroyed for three Hawks.

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