Paul Barton looks at Hasegawa''s limited edition release of their 1/48 Hurricane IIc. This boxing allows the builder to portray The Last of the Many as it appeared during its short career as a racer.

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The Kings Cup Air Race is a handicap event, the whole point being that any entrant stands a chance of coming first. The slower aircraft start first and the faster aircraft later, the time interval calculated by the handicapper. The faster aircraft have to catch up and overtake the slower aircraft to win. If the handicapper has done their sums right all the aircraft should reach the finish line at about the same time.

As an update to my review from last year, there is a 14 page article on G-AMAU "the last of the many" in
issue no.5 of The Aviation Historian, well worth a read if you like a more in depth aviation magazine.

paul