Homebee Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 (edited) A&A Models is to release in September 2021 a 1/72nd Beechcraft 200 Super King Air kit - ref. 7224 A Beechcraft 350 King Air kit is also expected - ref. 7226 Sources: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2464665557011398&id=1048501705294464 https://www.aviationmegastore.com/beechcraft-super-king-air-200-aa-models-aam7224-scale-modelling/product/?action=prodinfo&art=180778 The same in 1/48th please and a complete family of military C-12. V.P. Edited Monday at 12:04 PM by Homebee 16 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheyJammedKenny! Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 Be still, my beating heart! This is excellent news, and unexpected. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Lime Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 Nice, I'll have a few of them! Mark. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cngaero Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 That's good news. I'll begin standing in an orderly queue. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grayhawk Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 Not wanting to sound like I'm whining but...why not an RC-12D etc. If they plan on a new fuselage for a 300 that would really be AWESOME!!! I will buy at least 1 of the 200 for an RAF bird but I'd buy 10 RC-12D etc. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ad-4N Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 Well, I can finally disable the 15 year long “Saved Search” I had for the RarePlane kit on eBay. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cngaero Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 Now I needn't start the extremely rare and highly detailed Andy Pack vacform kit!!!!! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobo Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 Thank you A&A Models! We modelers are getting really spoiled. Check out the Swedish and Algerian schemes - nice. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Esposito Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 I know OT, but would love to see an styrene kit of the Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner in 1/72! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheyJammedKenny! Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 1 hour ago, Mike Esposito said: Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner OMG! The "screaming tube of death!" I think I flew on one only once, many, many years ago. LOL! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Esposito Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 Never flew a prop job! Would love to someday. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Esposito Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 3 hours ago, TheyJammedKenny! said: OMG! The "screaming tube of death!" I think I flew on one only once, many, many years ago. LOL! I thought that was the ATR 72! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheyJammedKenny! Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 Sorry to go OT, but the Garret-powered Metro was/is a noisy aircraft with a tiny fuselage and low ceiling that made the passenger feel as if he/she were flying in a tin can with windows. The ATR is pretty roomy by comparison! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabrejet Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 Don't RVHP do a line of C-12s? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LN-KEH Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 13 hours ago, TheyJammedKenny! said: Sorry to go OT, but the Garret-powered Metro was/is a noisy aircraft with a tiny fuselage and low ceiling that made the passenger feel as if he/she were flying in a tin can with windows. The ATR is pretty roomy by comparison! And you have to negotiate the wing spar as well as the low ceiling in the Metro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard E Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 7 hours ago, Sabrejet said: Don't RVHP do a line of C-12s? Yes they do - they are good (in my opinion) but, being resin they are quite an expensive way of building up a collection of relatively small twin engine turboprops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabba Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 54 minutes ago, Richard E said: Yes they do - they are good (in my opinion) but, being resin they are quite an expensive way of building up a collection of relatively small twin engine turboprops. And now difficult to get hold of. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harold55 Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 Have to agree that this would be great to have in 1/48. There are so many schemes just waiting to be done! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admiral Puff Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 Good stuff! The aftermarket troops can start with a sheet that includes markings for the NSW Ambulance Service's Air Wing ... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madoc Posted July 13, 2021 Share Posted July 13, 2021 The Swearingen Metroliner? Ack! It's difficult for me to put into words just how much I loathed that plane. This, from a ground crew perspective. Yeah, the airframe's robust - that recent mid-air in Colorado proved that. And it's apparently an economical plane to operate as I first learned to loathe 'em back in the 80s when they came through the Commuter Terminal ramp at National Airport in DC where I worked as a "ramp agent." The "human factors engineering" of that aircraft was appalling. One example - of many - was where the engineers first put the receptacle for the ground power cable plug. It was located on the outboard side of engine number two, right between the prop and the leading edge. That meant that you had to get up between the leading edge and the spinning prop to unplug the ground power before the aircraft could get going on its flight. Atrociously bad placement, that. The fix however, showed just the same level of "intelligence." They next moved that receptacle to be directly underneath the nose of the plane. Fair enough. The protective flap which latched closed over the receptacle was where that next display of "intelligence" was. To secure that flap closed you needed a screwdriver to turn the little captured bolt into its locked position. No, your fingers couldn't do it. You needed a screwdriver. That implement was about the last damn thing anyone would want to have in their pockets with 'em when out on the ramp around all those aircraft and turbine inlets. "Brilliant engineering" indeed. Then there was the oh-so-cool door latch handles Swearingen came up with. On the cargo hold door that handle took the form of a nice long piece of sharply angled metal bar. You'd press it in at one end and that would pivot the bar to pop the other end out where your thus grab it and rotate it downward to open the door. The cargo door would then rise itself up on its hydraulics. The floor of the cargo compartment was at almost shoulder height. This, thanks to the low wing design of the plane which meant it had tall stalky undercarriage so the props would still clear with the engines mounted on that low wing. That meant the loading of the plane was a righteous pain. But that was little when compared to what could - and too often did - happen when you pulled that cargo compartment door closed. Remember that door handle? The one that's shaped as a long piece of sharply edged metal bar? And how that handle was popped out at an angle once you opened the cargo door? Yeah. Now you're yanking on the pullcord to get that cargo door to come down again and that means that sharply edged metal bar sticking out at an angle from the door is now coming down fast - and is in just the right position to leave it's sharply edged mark in your head. No, I truly loathe the Swearingen Metroliner. I wouldn't mind a good injection molded rendering of one however. In 1/72nd, of course. But that's not gonna stop my loathing of that plane's design.... 5 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
71chally Posted July 13, 2021 Share Posted July 13, 2021 How does an announcement of a new King Air kit run so badly off topic! 1 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LN-KEH Posted July 13, 2021 Share Posted July 13, 2021 8 minutes ago, 71chally said: How does an announcement of a new King Air kit run so badly off topic! We were at least talking about another twin engine prop feeder liner. I hope A&A Models 1/72nd Beechcraft 200 Super King Air kit sells well, so they release more versions of the Beechcraft and other similar aircraft. The list of air forces and government agencies operating the Super King Air is long and with some interesting colour schemes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Beechcraft_King_Air_operators In Norway, they are best known as the air ambulance - picture by Teemu Pesonen 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheyJammedKenny! Posted July 13, 2021 Share Posted July 13, 2021 (edited) 3 hours ago, 71chally said: How does an announcement of a new King Air kit run so badly off topic! "They" started it!!!! LOL. At any rate, a friend of mine flew C-12s in the USAF between stints on the UH-1N. He ended up doing a belly-landing in the C-12 after the landing gear failed to lower, and without scraping a prop blade--just some minor sheet-metal damage and a sheared-off VHF/UHF antenna. When I asked him about it, he replied: "I just followed the checklist." I have the photo of the aircraft on its belly. I think he'd appreciate a diorama displaying the incident, but he'd need to do something really good for me to merit it! Edited July 13, 2021 by TheyJammedKenny! added stuff 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Esposito Posted July 13, 2021 Share Posted July 13, 2021 Sorry guys... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madoc Posted July 13, 2021 Share Posted July 13, 2021 7 hours ago, 71chally said: How does an announcement of a new King Air kit run so badly off topic! I take it you're new to being on the Internet? 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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