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RE-PRINTED!!! USAF Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker. The workhorse of the USAF tanker fleet since the 1960s, the KC-135 Stratotanker will be serving the USAF (and its allies) well into the 2010s. Our latest decal sheet is a very comprehensive tribute to the current version of the Stratotanker : the KC-135R. Our first 1/144 scale sheet is a scaled-down version of our best-selling 1/72 KC-135R sheet. This extensive set features markings for 16 different units from every command that operates the KC-135R. We are sure you will agree that there has never been a more comprehensive KC-135R sheet in any scale! Designed to fit the Minicraft KC-135R kit. Only 300 sets were printed. KC-135R 62-3516, 161 ARW, Arizona ANG KC-135R 62-3576, 157 ARW, New Hampshire ANG KC-135R 63-8872, 157 ARW, Maine ANG ("Maine Freeze" nose art) KC-135R 61-0305, 97 AMW, Altus AFB KC-135R 61-4840, 121 ARW, Ohio ANG KC-135R 62-3543, 459 ARW, Andrews AFB KC-135R 58-0001, 100 ARW, RAF Mildenhall ("Wolff Pack" nose art) KC-135R 58-0102, 434 ARW, Grissom AFB KC-135T 58-0065, 22 ARW, Mc Connell AFB KC-135R 60-0345, 127 Wing, Michigan ANG KC-135R 60-0318, 154 Wing, Hawaii ANG KC-135R 59-1506, 185 ARW, Iowa ANG KC-135R 59-1500, 126 ARW, Illinois ANG KC-135R 60-0348, 18 Wing, Kadena AFB KC-135R 62-3512, 128 ARW, Wisconsin ANG KC-135R 62-3514, 108 ARW, New Jersey ANG

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Boeing B-52H Stratofortress: High quality markings for recent/current USAF B-52H Stratofortresses; complete with enough stencilling and national insignia to build two examples. Designed to fit the Revell and Minicraft kits. This 1/144 scale sheet provides complete markings for no fewer than 11 USAF B-52H's in the current overall gray scheme, each with unique nose art. Designedto fit both Revell and Minicraft kits. All operational units in Minot and Barksdale AFB are represented. The aircraft featured on this sheet are: B-52H 60-0059 "The Devil's Own" (96th Bomb Sqn commander's aircraft) B-52H 60-0033 "Peace Persuader" B-52H 61-0029 "SAC Time" B-52H 60-0018 "POW-MIA" B-52H 61-0017 "Lone Star Lady II" B-52H 60-0023 "Bomber Barons" (23rd Bomb Sqn commander's aircraft) B-52H 60-0053 "Louisiana Fire" B-52H 61-0004 "Lobo" B-52H 60-0022 "Deuces Wild" B-52H 61-0008 "FDNY - We Remember" B-52H 61-0007 "Ghost Rider" Stencilling for two B-52H in the current standard scheme is included. All of the sheets in this set were professionally silk screen printed by Cartograf in Italy.

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Boeing C-17 Globemaster III. The C-17 Globemaster III is one of the most capable and flexible transport aircraft in USAF history, and is also flown by several allies. The C-17 took part in almost every major conflict that the US was a part of since its introduction to service in 1993, and most recently proved its worth once again over Iraq and Afghanistan. This comprehensive set was designed for the Revell kit, and features markings for 14 different aircraft including the initial prototype/test airframe T1, which was the only C-17 to have been painted in the European One camouflage scheme. Accurate stencilling and well-designed, easy-to-apply walkway decals are included to give your model a realistic, "busy" look. Using the spare digits provided in the set, it should be possible to build any C-17 tail number for the units covered in the set. One of the marking options we chose for the set is 01-0186, also known as "Reach 871" - its call sign during the evacuation of Kabul. On August 15, 2021; "Reach 871" safely evacuated more than 800 people from Afghanistan. The options on this decal sheet are: C-17 00-0172, 97th AMW, Altus AFB C-17 00-0185, 176th WG/3rd WG, Alaska ANG, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson C-17 10-0223, 437th AW/315th AW, Charleston AFB C-17 01-0186 "Reach 871", 436th AW/512th AW, Dover AFB C-17 03-3121, 412th Test Wing, Edwards AFB C-17 00-0171, 3rd WG/176th WG, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson C-17 05-5153, 15th WG/154th WG, Hickam AFB C-17 03-3127, 62nd AW/446th AW, McChord AFB C-17 04-4133, 305th AMW/514th AMW, McGuire AFB C-17 03-3115, 172nd AW, Mississippi ANG, Jackson ANGB C-17 02-1099, 911th AW, Pittsburgh ARS C-17 05-5143, 445th AW, Wright-Patterson AFB C-17 08-0001, SAC Heavy Airlift Wing, Papa AB C-17 87-0025, first prototype (Euro 1 camouflage scheme) Designed for the Revell kit.

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Boeing C-135 Recon Variants: This new 1/144 item is basically a scaled-down version of our very popular RC-135/WC-135 sheet. While it provides many interesting USAF recon/weather C-135 variants that you can model by converting your Minicraft kits, it also features several RC-135V/W options that you can use on your new Roden RC-135W kit out of the box. The KC-135 Stratotanker was not only a tanker - in its reconnaissance variants, it has been serving as an important intelligence asset during the Cold War and beyond. This Caracal set provides markings for 11 (eleven) RC-135/WC-135 variants from various periods. This set is intended to be used with various Minicraft KC-135 kits and conversion sets, as well as the Roden RC-135V kit for the Rivet Joint options. Please note that while this decal sheet includes only minimal maintenance stencilling. You can source these markings from our 1/144 scale KC-135 General Markings Set (CD144004) or the kit decals. This sheet is intended to be used with the AMT/ERTL kits. The options on this decal sheet are: OC-135B 61-2670 Open Skies reconnaissance jet WC-135B 61-2665 WC-135C 62-3582 RC-135U 64-14849 (TF33 engines) - with Soviet "excellent aircraft" badge nose art RC-135U 64-14849 (F108 engines) - with sharkmouth/li> RC-135W 62-4134 Rivet Joint RC-135V 64-14845 Rivet Joint RC-135V 64-14841 Rivet Joint RC-135S 61-2664 Cobra Ball (aircraft lost in 1981 - profile not shown RC-135W Rivet Joint "ZZ664", RAF RC-135W Rivet Joint "ZZ664", anniversary markings, RAF

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North-American B-45 Tornado. 264-pages (13-pages of color). 90,000 words, over 450 images. Author Geof Hays. This 264-page book about the North-American B-45 is generously illustrated with 267 drawings, 355 photos, of which 15 are color aircraft images, and color drawings of 33 insignia of units which flew the Tornado. The book is presented in 12 chapters detailing B-45A, B-45C and RB-45C design, production, performance, payload, endurance and operations as it served as a bomber, reconnaissance and flight test aircraft. The author delves into the technological difficulties, lack of operational assignments, and politics which plagued the first third of the Tornado's career, from 1947 through 1950. He then presents the Tornado's more demanding and highly successful career from 1952 through 1958, which saw this turbojet develop into a fully combat capable aircraft using an entirely new field of weapons and carrying out a new and essential element of reconnaissance. The author includes the tail numbers of RB-45Cs assigned to Yokota AB, Japan who flew combat missions during the Korean war, and highly classified covert missions following the Korean War. Configurations, colors and marking of aircraft assigned to units at Yokota AB, Japan are provided as well. Mission details, tail numbers, and markings for aircraft supporting NATO from the UK, such as RB-45Cs which flew Peripheral Aerial Reconnaissance Program missions or PARPRO in Europe. For the first time, serial numbers of all armed RB-45s in the Far East Air Forces and US Air Forces in Europe are covered. And critically important sorties flown by allied personnel over denied territory deep into eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in 1952 and 1954 are also covered in detail. A separate detailed table presents a list and facts of all known accidents. Scale models of the B-45 Tornado from 1956 to the present day are presented with pictures of the boxes and a review of each kit. Geoffrey Hays is a retired USAF officer, Museum professional and the respected author of Ginter Books' sell out title, Air Force Legends No. 215, the Boeing B-50. As with the B-50 book, he once again presents here a detailed, accurate and highly readable history of the USAF's first multiengine turbojet bomber and reconnaissance aircraft, the North-American B-45 Tornado.

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Convair (Consolidated Vultee) B-36 'Peacemaker' Conceived when the Americans thought that the stuttering British candle would be snuffed out by Germany, the Consolidated Vultee, Convair, B-36 was intended to take the air war to Europe from the Continental USA. Fortunately Britain hung on and caused the cancellation of the invasion due to the stalwart efforts of the RAF during the Battle of Britain. As global war developed the B-36 programme was put on the back burner as other needs were more pressing. Eventually the B-36 would resume this time as a high altitude long range nuclear delivery platform. Numerous versions entered service with USAF covering both the bombing and reconnaissance versions, both undertaking overseas deployments in support of their intended missions. Continued production of the B-36 caused a great rift with the U.S. Navy whose first super carrier was cancelled to pay for more B-36's that the Admirals regarded as redundant. It would be the emergence of the reliable turbojet engine that would spell the end of the B-36 as a front line aircraft as both the Boeing B-47 and B-52 bombers would quickly see the types demise. Outside the needs of Strategic Air Command there were other uses for the B-36 airframe, one would be used to transport a B-58 Hustler fuselage/ wing assembly for structural testing, another would become the NB-36 and carried a working nuclear reactor aboard whilst the final throw of the dice saw the type developed into the YB-60 eight engined bomber in competition with the B-52. The basic design threw up one more off shoot, the XC-99 transport that saw a new fuselage married to the original wings and fittings plus the original tail feathers, as a unique one off the XC-99 survives in preservation. This book is written by Kev Darling and is superbly illustrated by Richard J.Caruana.

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