1/48 85-5960 Monogram F-86D Sabre Dog Pro Modeler + Black Box Cockpit + Eduard PE + Eagle Strike Decals - 97th Sq or 498th FIS USAF
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc+
Includes Black Box #48020 Cockpit Set, Eduard #48380 PE Detail Set and Eagle Strike #48070 'F-86D Sabre Dogs Part III' decals for four different aircraft. These three items have not been used and are complete. The kit itself is very highly detailed. Features all recessed panel lines, detailed cockpit, detailed wheel wells, optional position leading edge slats and wing flaps, drop tanks, optional position speed brakes, canopy and rocket tray and a highly detailed tow tractor. Markings for 498th FIS and 97th FIS 'Dennis the Menace'. Never started. All parts are still in the factory sealed bags. Decals and instructions are as new. Around 1949 the USAF assigned a high priority to all weather fighter design and deployment. Most manufacturers built traditional two seat machines, such as the F-94. North American, however took a new approach and created one of the first true "One-Man Interceptors". Keeping the wings and landing gear from the proven F-86 Day Fighter, they made a longer and deeper fuselage with a large radome and J47 engine. Guns were replaced with 24 2.75" folding fin rockets. Although more than a ton heavier than the F-86, the Dog was the fastest aircraft of it's day and set several world records. 2,504 were built and formed the backbone of America's air defense system in the 1950s.
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