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I'm probably getting a couple for civil paint schemes, hopefully it's just a matter of leaving off the military lumps and bumps!

Model Hobbies has it a little bit cheaper at 16.19. http://www.modelhobbies.co.uk/shop/revell-...63-p-39837.html

Paul Harrison

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A 747-200 can be made from the kit, right?

By coincidence I was looking for it today and only found it at Hannants.

Carlos

Yes, out of the box if you leave the E-4B specific antennas, IFR bump and satcomm bump you can build it as a 747-100/200 (depending on how many upper deck windows you want) with GE engines (although resin ones are better than the kit ones).

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Yes, out of the box if you leave the E-4B specific antennas, IFR bump and satcomm bump you can build it as a 747-100/200 (depending on how many upper deck windows you want) with GE engines (although resin ones are better than the kit ones).

Thanks!

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Think I still have some very old Air Canada and JAL decals for the 747, used the Northwest Orient ones on a Revell shuttle carrier rebuild & repaint in the early 80's.

Paul Harrison

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Jennings is right - it's a myth that the number of upper deck windows show the diference between the -100 and the -200.

The 747 has it's origins in a US Air Force requirement for a very large transport, which was won by Lockheed. Boeing figured all the work they had done wasnt going to be wasted so used it to develop a cargo aircraft, which is why the hump and the cockpit is where it is. At the same time, Pan Am, amongst others, wanted a bigger version of the 707 but boeing found stretching that type presented more problems than it was worth so the end result was the 747.

Originally the space behind the cockpit was intended for a 1st class pax lounge but one of the unintended consequences of the cargo aspect to the 747 was a lot of extra space when the design was modified for pax use.

What brought the 10 windows about was the realisation that some internal systems re-arranging, using some of that extra space, would mean the upper deck could be filled with revenue earning seats instead of a non-revenue earning bar and lounge for 1st class pax.

As an aside the that, at the time, airlines were not confident about having two decks on an airliner, with concerns about emergency exits, access, turn-round times, etc. Once they did feel ok about pax on the upper deck, the lounge and bar was doomed, and 10 windows was the standard.

Some -100's, BA's being a good example, were retrofitted with 10 upper deck windows, some, including Pan Am's, never were.

And just to confuse things a bit more, some aircraft with 10 windows, like some of TWA's, had the extra windows plugged to present a uniform appearance with earlier fleet members which had just 3 upper deck windows (the aircraft that crashed into the sea off the north east coast of the USA after leaving New York was one of them).

edited for typos - think I got them all...

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