B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber Wood Model

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

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 Models

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.

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2009 Greater Binghamton Airshow - AV-8B Harrier Demo

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.

Helipcopter Model Airplane

These Airplane Model are 16 inches in length and finely handcrafted, and hand painted by our artists - to scale and museum quality

 The Agusta A129CBT Mangusta is an attack helicopter originally designed and produced by Agusta in Italy. It was the first attack helicopter to be designed and produced wholly in Western Europe.

The AH-1W Super Cobra is the US Marines' attack helicopter.

The Apache is a four-blade, twin-engine attack helicopter with reverse-tricycle landing gear arrangement, and tandem cockpit for a crew of two.

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The Qantas Airlines Model Fleet

Qantas has an average fleet age of 8.8 years as of March 2009.As of August 2010 the Qantas mainline fleet numbers 136 aircraft, albeit with some aircraft in storage. The fleet consists of the following.

As of June 2010 Qantas and its subsidiaries operate 256 Model Aircraft, which includes 52 Model Airplanes by Jetstar Airways, 52 by the various QantasLink-branded airlines, seven by Jetconnect, four by Express Freighters Australia and four by Qantas Freight. The Boeing customer code for Qantas is 38. This code appears in Boeing aircraft model numbers (such as 747-438)^.

The A380 operates flights from Sydney and Melbourne to Los Angeles, Singapore and London (via Singapore). Qantas is currently the only operator of the A380 to operate the superjumbos from multiple bases.

Qantas has two aircraft painted in Australian Aboriginal art liveries: Wunala Dreaming (Boeing 747-400ER VH-OEJ), and Yananyi Dreaming (Boeing 737–800 VH-VXB). Both carry striking, colourful liveries, designed by Australian Aborigines.There was previously a third livery Nalanji Dreaming (Boeing 747–300 VH-EBU), but the aircraft was sold for spare parts in 2007.

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Airbus A320 test flight gone wrong

This is one of the first A320 test flights, the fly-by-wire setting that went wrong

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.

Space Shuttle Atlantis

These Airplane Model are finely handcrafted, and hand painted by our artists - to scale and museum quality. 18 inches in length with custom models available.

Space Shuttle Atlantis (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-104) is one of the three currently operational orbiters in the Space Shuttle fleet of NASA, the space agency of the United States. Atlantis last mission was STS-132 in May 2010.

When first flown in 1985, Atlantis became the forth operational orbiter. The final reading on Atlantis' "odometer" after its 32nd flight (STS-132) is approximately the same distance as 505 flights from the Earth to the Moon and back. Atlantis has performed both research and International Space Station (ISS) assembly missions.

Atlantis was the shuttle that deployed the planetary probes Magellan to Venus (on STS-30) and Galileo to Jupiter (STS034). Shuttle Atlantis has also delivered several vital components for the construction of the International Space Station (ISS).

Amateur videos: Qantas A380 engine failure, emergency landing

Australian airline Qantas grounded its Airbus A380 fleet after one of the superjumbo jets blew out an engine on Thursday, making a safe emergency landing in Singapore with 459 people aboard. Qantas said there had been no explosion, but witnesses aboard the plane and on the ground reported blasts. This is the most serious mid-air incident involving the double-decker A380 Model Aircraft, the world's largest and latest airliner.

Lufthansa A320 Severe Crosswind

The Lufthansa flight LH44 from Munich experienced severe crosswinds while landing at Hamburg Germany on 1 March 2008 during Hurricane Emma storm. Nobody was injured; the Airbus A320 Model Aircarft landed using another runway.

The Shuttle Carrier Aircraft

These Model Aircraft are finely handcrafted, and hand painted by our artists – to scale and museum quality. 18 inches in length with custom models available.

The Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) are two extensively modified Boeing 747 airliners that NASA uses to transport Space Shuttle Orbiter. One is a Boeing 747-100 model, while the other is a short range 747-100SR.

The first Model Aircraft, a Boeing 747-100 registered N905NA, was originally manufactured forAmerican Airlines and still carried visible American side stripes while testing Enterprise in the 1970s. It was acquired in 1974 and initially used for trailing wake vortex research as part of a broader study by NASA Dryden as well as Shuttle tests involving an F-104 flying in close formation and simulating a “release” from the 747.

The Model Aircraft was extensively modified by Boeing in 1976 Its cabin was stripped, mounting struts added, and the fuselage strengthened; vertical stabilizers were added to the tail to aid stability when the Orbiter was being carried. The avionics and engines were also upgraded, and an escape tunnel system similar to that used on Boeing’s first 747 test flights was added. The flight crew escape tunnel system was later removed following the completion of the Approach and Landing Tests (ALT) due to concerns over possible engine ingestion of an escaping crew member.

The C-5 Galaxy was considered for the shuttle-carrier role by NASA, but rejected in favor of the 747—in part due to the 747′s low-wing design in comparison to the C-5′s high-wing design, and also because the US Air Force would have retained ownership of the C-5 Galaxy, while NASA could own the 747s outright.