Trumpeter 1/48 US.NAVY F9F-2P PANTHER

The Grumman F9F Panther was the manufacturer's first jet fighter and the US Navy's second. It first flew in 1947. Power was a Rolls-Royce Nene turbojet built under license by Pratt & Whitney as the J42. Since there was insufficient space within the wings and fuselage for fuel for the thirsty jet, permanently mounted wingtip fuel tanks were added. F9F-2P: unarmed photographic reconnaissance version used in Korea Length: 11.3 m Wingspan: 11.6 m Height: 3.8 m Weight: Empty: 4,220 kg Max takeoff: 7,462 kg Max speed: 925 km/h Range: 2,177 km:
Item No : 02833
Item Name : US.NAVY F9F-2P PANTHER
Bar Code : 6922803628332
Scale : 1:48
Item Type : Static Aircraft
Model Brief : Length: 239.7mm Width: 241.7mm
Total Parts : 124pcs
Total Sprues : 4pcs
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Description This is an injection-plastic jet aircraft model kit. An all-new tooling of one of the most important of the early US jets, the Panther. This kit features a tremendous amount of detail in the cockpit and landing gear areas, and also features a folded-wing option and choice of bomb or rocket armament. The flaps and dive brakes are separate pieces, but note that the dive brakes were normally closed when the plane was on the ground. Also, parts C33 are plugs for the end of the tip tanks, and were always removed before flight. Very few photos show these in actual use. Also, part C1 is a stand to prevent the model from sitting on its tail; with proper ballast in the nose you wouldn't need this part. Unused parts included in this kit are everything needed to build an F9F-2! There was a lot of talk about the windscreen being incorrect in test shots. We are happy to report this problem seems to have been fixed, and the windscreen no longer has a "MiG-15"-style frame bridging a "gap" between the center windscreen frames and the rear windscreen frame. The center frames now correctly curve all the way up to the windscreen bow, instead of curving up to meet just in front of the bow as was apparently the case in the test shot. Decals are provided for three aircraft: UA/31, BuNo 123709; PP/154 "Look" of VC61; and PP/155 "Life," also of VC-61.