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Frog “Penguin” — Plastic Scale Model Kits, 1936-1950

By Peter van Lune

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Released under the World Architecture – The Most Famous Monuments label, Italeri’s Statue of Liberty provides 12 parts and a nice educational pamphlet, and is geared to younger modelers. My 8-year-old son, Nathaniel, tackled it. Most of...

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North American Aviation B-25 Mitchell medium bomber

by Mark Hembree

Effective from long range and in close quarters

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Sherman specifics

Explore the many variants of America’s World War II medium tank

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NASA's airliners

by Aaron Skinner

In the October 2010 FSM, Frank Cuden built a DC-8 in NASA service. In addition to space exploration, NASA is involved in all kinds of aerospace research. A lot of that work has included test flights aboard airliners. Here’s a list of the commercial jets used by NASA during the last 40 years. All photos courtesy of NASA.

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To the frontier of space: X-15 and mother ship

by Jeff Thomsen and Mark Hembree, NASA photos

Walker and others would take the X-15 to the edge of space several times, but his altitude record for manned winged aircraft would stand for more than 40 years.

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HH-65 Dolphin and the U.S. Navy's littoral ships

by Dennis Gerber

Learn more about building an HH-65 Dolphin in the February 2010 issue of FSM.

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Airfix 1/72 scale BAC TSR.2

Kit: No. 07004Scale: 1/72Manufacturer: Airfix, Humbrol Limited, +44-1428-701191, http://airfix.comPrice: n/aComments: Injection-molded, 100 parts, decalsPros: Finally, a kit of the TSR.2, good decals Cons: Poor fit

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