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SCALE: 1/72 |
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INITIAL RELEASE: 2001 |
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MEDIUM: Polystyrene |
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RARITY: (2) |
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FD2 at the 1955 Coventry Air Show |
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ABOUT THE DESIGN |
ABOUT THE KIT |
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The Fairey Delta 2 (FD2) was a British research aircraft designed to test flight controls at subsonic and supersonic speeds. Powered by a Rolls-Royce Avon engine with afterburner, the craft flew numerous missions between 1954 and 1960, at which point it was renamed the BAC 221 and used to test concepts for the civilian Concorde SST, then under development. Like the eventual Concord, the Fairey Delta 2 had a "droop nose" to improve the pilot's visibility during take-offs and landings. The first plane to fly more than 1,000 mph in level flight, the FD2 was retired in 1973. |
Like many Russian-made
injection-molded kits, the Maquette Fairey Delta 2 posed numerous challenges to even
veteran model-builders. Kit pieces with heavy with flash, fit was often
difficult, the forward clear plastic windscreen was far too large (requiring
significant sanding to fit into place), and there were no clear plastic pieces
for the smaller cockpit windows. Oh, and the RAF wing and fuselage
roundels were at a good 30% too large. This model was built from an original issue. |
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Fairey FD-2 Original Box Art |
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