Airfix 172 Blackburn Buccaneer S.2C New Tool

1:72 Blackburn Buccaneer S.2C (New Tool)

The mighty Blackburn Buccaneer was one of the most capable low-level strike aircraft of the Cold War period, originally entering Royal Navy service in 1962 to counter the significant threat of a massive Soviet Naval expansion programme. Rather than face the crippling cost of building new ships of their own to meet this threat, British thinking at the time was to use their new strike jet to destroy the Soviet ships with a combination of conventional and nuclear weapons. Capable of extremely high speeds at low level, the Buccaneer proved to be the ideal aircraft to keep the Warsaw Pact countries on their toes, even though the performance of the first Buccaneers to enter service was affected by a lack of power from their two de Havilland Gyron Junior engines. Operating from the decks of Britains relatively small aircraft carriers, the Buccaneer had to be tough and its rugged, no nonsense design approach was underlined rather effectively by the aircrafts manufacture and flight testing procedure.

 

Tech Specs:

Item Length – Without Packaging (cm): 26.8

Item Height – Without Packaging (cm): 6.88

Item Width – Without Packaging (cm): 18.6

How many pieces will be found in the box opened by the customer?: 141

Item Scale: 1:72

License line: BAE SYSTEMS is a registered trade mark of BAE Systems plc.

Contents (what’s in the box) sets: Sprues & decals

Finish: Plastic

Number of Scheme options: 2

Skill Level: 3

Flying Hours: 3

Wingspan (mm): 186

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