Loire 210 `Prototype` (Plastic model) - HobbySearch Military Model Store

This item is limited to 3 per household.

-This is a new 1/72 scale full resin kit from the Hungarian SBS model.
-Loire 210 is a French surface fighter that Loire began to develop as a water fighter that can be injected from the ship's catapult around 1933 and first flew in March 1935.
-The structure of the fuselage followed the previously developed Gull-wing high-wing monoplane Loire 46, but the main wing was changed to a newly designed foldable low wing for storage in the ship.
-Catapult launch test results were good, and after a review by the Navy, 20 aircraft were ordered in March 1937.
-Operation began in August 1939, but after just three months, five aircraft were lost due to an accident caused by a structural defect in the main wing. It was.

-Kit comes with etched parts, white metal parts, transparent film for instrument panel and 2 types of decals.
-The full resin kit of the SBS model is a kit that was born from the viewpoint of the modeler by the manufacturer, in which the parts with delicate details that are difficult to reproduce by injection are put together as much as possible to make the number of parts as compact as possible.

[Specifications]
-Total length: 9.51m
-Wing width: 11.79m
-Overall height: 3.8m
-Engine: Hispano Suiza 9Vbs air-cooled star engine (720 horsepower)
-Maximum speed: 315 km / h
-Armed: 7.5mm Darnu machine guns

Item Size/Weight : 19.4 x 11 x 3.7 cm / 130g