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[The_Sprinklez]

USA, Boeing 757-200 "COMCO"/L-3 Capital, LLC



Two 757-200s theorized to operate on US Department of Defense contracts. Though formerly marked as belonging to "COMCO" (a fictitious company), according to the FAA Registry they're registered to L-3 Capital, LCC of Helena Montana.

[The_Sprinklez]

Argentina, Boeing 757-200 (Presidential Transport)



Normally I wouldn't make two posts back-to-back on the same day but I wanted to make sure it was obvious this was a new drawing that hasn't been uploaded to the archive yet.

[Bordkanone 75]

Empire of Japan, Kyushu K10W1
Intermediate trainer that is unrelated to the North American NA-16 and prone to issues.

[Kiwi Imperialist]

New Zealand, Hawker Siddeley HS 748
Mount Cook Airlines operated nine examples of the Hawker Siddeley HS 748, the first of which was delivered in 1968. Some were leased from other airlines and only served a short time. 5W-FAO, for example, flew with Mount Cook for three months in 1982 and retained its Polynesian livery. Most received Māori geographic names including Aorangi (ZK-CWJ), Tongariro (ZK-DES), Rangitoto (ZK-MCA), Te Wai Pounamu (ZK-MCF), Rotorua (ZK-MCJ), Te Anau (ZK-MCB), and Tutoko (ZK-MCP). Mount Cook's 748s flew tourist routes throughout New Zealand with Rotorua, Mount Cook, and Queenstown among the destinations. The 748 was replaced by the ATR 72 in the mid-1990s, with the last flight taking place in 1996. By this point Mount Cook was a subsidiary of Air New Zealand. Mount Cook was the only New Zealand operator of the 748, unless you count the Andover which served with the Royal New Zealand Air Force.

[Bordkanone 75]

United States of America, Vought V-141
unstable, prone to spins, and best of all, no customers.

[Sheepster]

Armstrong Whitworth A.W.XV Atalanta

Having its first flight in June 1932, the A.W.XV was a significant advance in British airliner technology.



Imperial Airways request was for a four-engined airliner for its African routes, and AW's design was so promising that it was ordered "off the drawing board" without a prototype. The aircraft lived up to this confidence and revealed only minor problems, allowing Imperial to place the aircraft into commercial operations only 3 months later. In January 1933 the first aircraft was sent to Cape Town to start the South Africa-Kenya sevice, and was soon joined by 3 other aircraft. Meanwhile other aircraft were positioned to India, setting up the Karachi-London service and stretching the route to Singapore. By 1938 all aircraft were removed from Africa as the Short Empire flying boats took over the routes, and were transferred to the Indian service.



In India most aircraft remained "Imperial Airways" and kept their British registrations, although at least 2 were transferred to Indian Transcontinental Airways and were given Indian registration. With WWII the aircraft were impressed into the RAF in late 1940 and were used in Indian support of the Anglo-Iraqi War. The aircraft all appear to have been scrapped by 1944.

[Bordkanone 75]

Empire of Japan, Kawanishi E15K1 Shiun
advanced, if not prone to failures

[Hood]

Excellent additions!

[reytuerto]

Good afternoon, guys!
Some light american airplanes and a couple of Stinson trimotors of the 1930s era:

Curtiss Robin was a little touring aircraft for 2-3 persons. Equiped with multiple inline or radial engines, was a prolific model with almost 800 built. Despite the size, this model was able to cross the North Atlantic ocean (from NY to Ireland) in 1938 ("Wrongway" Corrigan`s voyage).


Harlow PJC-5 was an interesting aircraft with also an interesting history. Designed by Max Harlow, an engineer specialist in all metal aircraft even in the era of wood and canvas, PJC-5 was a modification made of an all metal (obviusly!) 4 seats touring airplane, a project for the students of Pasadena Junior College. The model was selected by the Royal Indian Air Force to be built in India, and 50 aircraft in knock down components were shiped to India, an indeterminate number (28 is a frecuent refered number by the sources) were built by HAL there, being the first aircraft assembled in that country.


The standart Stinson 4 seat touring aircrft was the Junior, a high-winged American monoplane of the late 1920s, built for private owners, and one of the first models with an enclosed cabin. More than 300 were built until 1933. Motorized with several kinds of radial engines (even a Packard diesel) that were either with or without NACA nose cowlings. Shown here, one with an uncowled Wrigth Whirlwind engine.


Stinson Model U was an evolution of Model T. Slightly longer, with the engines moved from the high wing to a pair of embrionary lower wings. Was built of metal tubes, wood, canvas and metal sheets in the frontal area. Several docens were used commercially across the States in the early 1930s.


Stinson Model A was the last trimotor built by Stinson, made as a cheaper alternative to the all metal Ford Trimotor, Model A costs less than a half the price of the Ford model. Some of the Stinsons were adquired as an interine measure because the waiting list for the Douglas DC-3 was too long. It was a competent aircraft, but were wiped out from market during the second half of the decade by the Douglas DC-3 and only a pair of docens were made.


The Stinson Model A was a common model in Australian skies in th prewar years. Reliable and better suited for the distances and spartan facilities in the island-continent than the biplane de Havilland Dragon Rapide and the monoplane General Aircraft Monospar, and were considered "dammed good aeroplanes". During WW2, two airframes were modified with the P&W Wasp locally made (the spares for the Lycoming engines were not avialable) and renamed Stinson A2W, and used commerically from 1943 to 1945. Cheers.

[Sheepster]

Hawker Audax

Hawker's army co-operation variant of the Hart.



From the flight of the first aircraft in December 1931, the initial deployment of the aircraft was within Britain. In 1933 new aircraft started to be fed into squadrons in the Middle East, and by the time production switched to the follow-on Hawker Hector, over 800 Audaxes had been built. As they moved from front-line roles Audaxes found themselves joining training units, but in the Middle East many Audax squadrons were still awaiting replacement by Bristol Blenheims when war was declared with Italy.