War has a tendency to create leaps in technology. Word War II is a perfect example.Up until that point most aircraft with two or three wings were used mostly by sharecroppers, thrill seekers and a few select government contract workers.
When the war hit Germany, Japan and The Untied States developed state-of-the art combat aircraft. One such fighter plane was the P-51 Mustang III.
At the dawn of World War II America was woefully far behind as it pertained to its war machine.
It artillery was dated, it’s aircraft primitive as compared to the Axis powers, its Navy consisted of too many old battleships and even its infantry weapons and transports were mostly leftovers from World War I.
With the attack on Pearl Harbor and the threat of Nazi Germany America was forced to upgrade its military hardware including its aircraft.
The Corgi aircraft miniature duplicates comes in in a square display box with a clear plastic panel in front. The box can stand or hang from a hook. It has a side flap secured with tape.
The plane and its stand (in two parts) slide out in their form-fitting cocoon with a slip on top.
The pieces fit snuggly so be care removing the aircraft.
The stand’s base is a clear circular structure and the stand arm is silver and attaches both to the base and underneath the aircraft giving the aircraft the appearance it is flying.
The aircraft itself is a single prop with four blades in black.
It is a single passenger craft with only room for the pilot.
It has a two-piece windshield with one section covering the majority of the cockpit and the lower three small panels with reinforcement in the front.
The Mustang is painted green with three white strips and two black strips on each wing and with three white strips and two black strips on the rear of the plane just before the rear wings, with have one white strip each.
Blue circles with red center circles in their middles decorate each wing (upper and lower) both sides of the rear of the plane and a red, white and blue symbol on the side of the rear-stabilizing wing.
A white tip on the front, several number and letter decals, twin exhaust strips on each side of the engine compartment, a single black antenna behind the cockpit, twin closed wheel wells and an airflow section below the plane make up the balance of the aircraft.
Both interior and exterior details are historically accurate right down to the seams and wing flaps.
Paint application is very precise, clear and clearly defined. The metal diecast Mustang looks like the real thing. You can practically hear the engine humming and the propellers rotating.
Beautifully crafted the Mustang makes for a fine addition to anyone’s model aircraft collection.
Jeremiah 29:11-14For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
