Bristol Scout type C Model kit

Product description : Bristol Scout type C

Plastic Model Kit of a World War I Bristol Scout Type C Biplane

• 1:32 scale
• highly detailed plastic parts
• 116 pieces (111 high quality plastic injection molded pieces, 5 photo-etched detailed metal pieces)
• High-quality Cartograph decals
• Two versions of the Lewis MG mount and bombs
• Completerigging diagram
• Highly detailed Gnome Lambda 80hp engine
• unbuilt/unpainted
• Paint and glue not included

The Bristol Scout was a single-seat rotary-engined biplane. It was used by the RNAS and the RFC as a 'scout', or fast reconnaissance type. It was one of the first single-seaters to be used as a fighter aircraft.

All later-built fighters continued to be called 'scouts' in British usage into the early 1920s.

Bristol Scout C aircraft number 1611, flown by Captain Lanoe Hawker with No. 6 Squadron RFC downed two German aircraft and forced off a third on 25 July 1915 over Passchendaele and Zillebeke and was awarded the first-ever Victoria Cross for the actions of a British single-seat military scout/fighter pilot in aerial combat against an enemy's heavier-than-air aircraft.

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