B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber

These Model Airplanes are finely handcrafted, and hand painted by our artists - to scale and museum quality. This model is 10" in Length and 18" Width. The is an American heavy bomber with low observable stealth technology designed to penetrate dense anti-aircraft defenses and deploy both conventional and nuclear weapons.

The B-2 Military Aircraft is a low-observable, strategic, long-range, heavy bomber capable of penetrating sophisticated and dense air-defence shields. It is capable of all-altitude attack missions up to 50,000ft, with a range of more than 6,000nm unrefuelled and over 10,000nm with one refuelling, giving it the ability to fly to any point in the world within hours.

A new transportable hangar system has been developed which allows the B-2 to be deployed to forward locations overseas.The hangars are 126ft long, 250ft wide and 55ft high. The first of these hangars has been erected on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.

SR-71 Blackbird Model

These Model Airplane are 18 inches in length and finely handcrafted, and hand painted by our artists – to scale and museum quality. The Lockheed SR-71 is an advanced, long range, Mach 3+ strategic reconnaissance developed from the Lockheed A-12 and YF-12A  Military Aircraft by the Lockheed Skunk Works as a Black Project. The SR-71 was unofficially named the Blackbird

Although its many contributions to national security will never be fully revealed to the public, the SR-71 holds many world aviation records for speed and altitude.

 

In January 1990 the Air Force officially retired its fleet of SR-71s from service. On March 6, 1990, aircraft number 17972, the same Military Aircraft that had set the 1974 records, was delivered to the Smithsonian Institution for permanent display at Dulles International Airport. Enroute, flying at "normal" operating speeds, this SR-71 set four more world records including a Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., flight time of 64 minutes, 2 seconds, averaging 2,144 mph (3,452 kph). That was the last SR-71 mission flown by an Air Force crew until the spring of 1995, when the crew retraining program began. Between 1990 and 1995, NASA crews at the Dryden Flight Research Facility at Edwards AFB flew two SR-71s for training and scientific flights, and kept a third in storage. Those Blackbirds had been loaned to NASA by the Air Force when the military flying ceased. The Skunk Works received funding to refurbish two Blackbirds to operational capability — they were delivered to the U.S. Air Force in 1995.

CONCORDe First Flight

These Model Airplane are finely handcrafted, and hand painted by our artists - to scale and museum quality. 18 inches in length with custom models available. The Concorde is an aviation supersonic icon.

The Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde aircraft is a turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner, a supersonic transport (SST), which flew from 1969 to 2003. It was a product of an Anglo-French government treaty, combining the manufacturing efforts of Aérospatiale and the British Aircraft Corporation. Concorde entered service with Air France and British Airways in 1976.

AV-8B Harrier I and II

These Model Airplane are 16 inches in length and finely handcrafted, and hand painted by our artists - to scale and museum quality.   The Harrier today is one of the truly unique and most widely known of military aircraft. It is unique as the only fixed wing V/STOL aircraft in the free world. It also is unusual in the international nature of its development, which brought the design from the first British P.1127 prototype to the AV-8B Harrier II of today. 

 

When the Harrier II was first flown in the fall of 1981, 21 years had elapsed since the original Hawker P.1127 first hovered in untethered flight. This basic design, only one of many promising concepts of the time, has weathered its growing up period and reached maturity in the AV-8B.

Another key element in the Harrier concept is the method for controlling the Model Aircraft. When operated as a conventional airplane, the usual ailerons, rudder, and horizontal tail are used to generate aerodynamic control moments about the roll, yaw, and pitch axes, respectively. In hovering flight and at low forward speeds, however, the aerodynamic controls are ineffective, and reaction jets are used to provide the necessary control moments.

At intermediate speeds, both reaction jets and aerodynamic controls are used. Pitch jets are located at the nose and tail of the fuselage, a roll jet is at each wingtip, and a yaw jet is located behind the tail. The reaction jets utilize compressed air from the high-pressure engine compressor and respond in a proportional fashion to conventional movements of the control stick and rudder pedals. The control jets come into operation automatically when the thrust-vectoring nozzles are rotated to any angle in excess of 20°. Control of the thrust-vectoring nozzles is exercised by a lever in the cockpit located alongside the throttle.

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CONCORDE - Life in the cabin @ Mach 2 & 60,000 feet 12 miles high

A glimpse into activities aboard a Concorde during an around the world tour.

This Model Aircraft flies at twice the speed of sound (Mach 2), which is around 1350 mph (depending on the temperature of the surrounding air). Take-off and landing speeds are considerably higher than for traditional subsonic aircraft.

The range of the aircraft, with 100 passengers and 9 crew, under the correct conditions is about 4,500 miles. The maximum height Concorde can fly to is 60,000 ft (over 11 miles high). With some restrictions on load, the aircraft easily flies the 4250 mile trip to Barbados.

The outside temperature on the tip of Concorde's nose can reach 127 degrees Celcius (260 degrees Fahrenheit) due to the friction of the air at high speed.

Emirates A380 Birmingham

Emirates Airbus A380 inaugural visit to Birmingham Airport.

The Emirates A380 is scheduled to start daily services between Dubai and Manchester Airport from 1 September 2010. Manchester Airport will become the first regional airport anywhere in the world to serve the A380.

A320 Airplane Models

The Airbus A320 family is a family of short- to medium-range, narrow body, commercial passenger jet airliners manufactured by Airbus. The family includes the A318, A319, A320 and A321 Airplane Models, as well as the ACJ business jet.

The first member of the A320 family – the A320 – was launched in March 1984, first flew on 22 February 1987, and was first delivered in 1988. The family was soon extended to include the A321 (first delivered 1994), the A319 (1996), and the A318 (2003). The A320 family pioneered the use of digital fly-by-wire flight control systems in commercial aircraft. Although there has been a continuous improvement process since introduction, currently the A320 Enhanced programme includes greater improvements.

As of 31 October 2010, a total of 4453 Airbus A320 family Aircraft Models have been delivered, of which 4370 are in active service. In addition, another 2292 aircraft are on firm order. According to Airbus, it ranked as the world's fastest-selling jet airliner family according to records from 2005 to 2007, and as the best-selling single generation aircraft programme.

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