![]() It still holds up good today and a nice representation of the Schwalbe can still be had from this kit. ![]() Monogram's kit is considered "vintage" today, but in its time, it was a top-notch kit, "state-of-the-art". This tends to make one bolder in his modeling approach! Also I could afford to mess up the Monogram kit and replace it if I did so. Both offer about the same amount of difficulty in completion, but the Dragon kit was about $30 compared to the Monogram kit's price tag of between $5 and $10, depending on where one looked for it. I wavered between this kit and the newer Dragon (ex-Trimaster) -262. The kit selected to do the "Racing" Messerschmitt Me-262 was the old reliable Monogram 1/48 scale offering of 1978 vintage. What if, I conjectured, Hughes had been allowed to compete in the trophy races? Hughes' toy ended up in the Planes of Fame Museum in Chino, California where it can still be seen today. Looking back, it is fair to say that the Me-262 would have quite possibly beaten the Shooting Star, causing much embarrassment to the USAAF! When General of the Air Force, "Hap" Arnold, heard what Hughes intended to do he firmly quashed the project.Īll was not lost however. high-performance jet, the Lockheed P-80, in the 1946 Bendix and Thompson Jet Trophy races. Hughes, ever the showman, wanted to pit his new toy against the latest U.S. ![]() Hughes had his people remove all guns and armament, cover over the gun ports, seal the gaps in the airframe, and apply several coats of a high gloss finish. One of the examples was sent to Hughes Aircraft for high speed testing. In his book he told how several of the captured -262's were brought to the United States after the War aboard H.M.S. Several years ago the late Jeff Ethell wrote a book called The German Jets in Combat. Thereby lies the genesis of this modeling project. It put such a scare into the Allies that they were determined to test captured examples as soon as they could get there hands on any. This was the world's first turbojet aircraft to see combat. We are all familiar, I think, with the story of the Messerschmitt Me-262.
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