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SCALE: 1/72 |
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INITIAL RELEASE: 2004 |
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MEDIUM: Resin |
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RARITY: (2) |
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Sanger-Bredt "Silverbird" on a Suborbital Bomb Run |
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ABOUT THE DESIGN |
ABOUT THE KIT |
| In the mid-1930s, Germany's
Dr. Eugene Sänger's articles on rocket-powered aircraft earned him the
funds necessary to seriously develop plans for a hypersonic bomber capable
of striking targets anywhere in the world. The centerpiece of his
work was the "Silverbird," a 92-foot-long rocket-plane designed to be
propelled down a long monorail track by a rocket-powered booster, then fly
into space where it would "skip" across the outer atmosphere (like a stone
skipping over water) before delivering its atomic payload and then gliding
home. Although funding for Sänger's promising research was pulled following Germany's invasion of Russia in 1941, his "skip-glide" concept led directly to the design of America's aborted X-20 "Dyna-Soar" of the 1950s. |
This massive
1/72-scale kit could be built in either the in-flight (wheels up) or landed
(wheels down) configuration. It also came with a cockpit well and
removable hatch. In addition, modelers could purchase a vacuformed
"booster" and resin engine module to build their own launch rail diorama --
assuming they had three-plus feet in which to display it! Released in 2004, this all-resin model is still available from Sharkit at http://renax.club.fr/sharkit/Sanger/sanger.htm.
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Original Box Art |
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