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Thursday, November 27, 2014 - 06:34 AM UTC
Silver Wings web site has more info on their Curtiss P-6E.
Andy Brazier first published about this in the "News" :-
http://aeroscale.kitmaker.net/news/17186&mode=thread&order=0
Curtiss delivered 46 P-6E Hawks in 1931–1932, which equipped the 17th and 33rd Pursuit Squadrons, However the P-6E was never used in combat.

The P-6 Hawk series went on to see modest export success, albeit in limited numbers, throughout the world - particularly to Latin American customers. The United States Navy also utilized the "Hawk" system with a different designation and some modifications.

Still, the P-6E is recognized as one of the most beautiful aircraft of the 1930s, and to some , it is one of the most beautiful biplanes ever built.

A single P-6E survives. The aircraft was donated to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and restored by the School of Aeronautics at Purdue University. This aircraft is currently on display at the National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton, Ohio.



TECHNICAL DATA:

Wing span: 9,60 m (31 ft 6 in)
Length: 6,88 m (22 ft 7 in)
Height: 2,71 m (8 ft 11 in)
Empty weight: 1,231 kg (2,715 lb)
Maximum Speed: 310 km/h (193 mph)
Service Ceiling: 7,285 m (23,900 ft)
Range: 393 km (244 miles)
Powerplant: Curtiss V-1570 Conqueror liquid-cooled, 600 hp engine
Armament: Two Browning .30 in (7.62 mm) machine guns

Model Details:-
Cat. No.: 31-016
Material: resin
Scale: 1:32
Period: 1927-1937
Marking options: 3 (US ARMY)
Number of parts: 108 x resin, 29 x pe, film
Length & wingspan: 215 x 300 (mm)
Additional features: main elements iron reinforced


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What an outstanding model of a truly outstanding golden era aircraft. I'm really sitting on the fence about this one.
NOV 28, 2014 - 04:44 AM
Well said Joel! I will add this one to my wish list.
NOV 28, 2014 - 08:30 PM
I would like to add this one to my wish list, the price is not listed on the website, and I am afraid to ask.
NOV 28, 2014 - 09:35 PM
Last time I picked up one it was about $120 cdn inc s & h.
NOV 28, 2014 - 10:04 PM
They appeared at our LHS (the only one in the Seattle-Tacoma area now) in September. I picked mine up right away before the rush. It's an incredible kit, and the local shop owner and I thought we were looking at plastic in the box, it's so well engineered and molded. The only give-away besides weight were the two large pour plugs in the tail area. It even has a locating pins on the fuselage! (well, two anyway). My kit was missing the windscreen, but I dropped an email to Silver Wings, and within 24 hours I had a reply email, and within a week, a small plastic bottle arrived wrapped in a padded envelope, inside the bottle and wrapped in bubble-wrap was an exquisitely molded crystal clear windscreen. Not bad for a journey of about 8000 miles from Poland to my little town in Washington. The cost was as stated, about $120 + tax (and s&h if you go that route), but if you want a 1/32 P6E, its the only game in town. I think it's well worth the money, considering the price of large scale kits these days. The detail easily makes this kit the best of all P6Es in any scale, for that matter it's perhaps the best yellow wing US biplane ever produced by any kit maker. The customer service at Silver Wings is also outstanding. Now for an F11C?
NOV 30, 2014 - 06:17 AM
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