WNW32035 - Wingnut Wings 1/32 AMC DH.9 - WWHP113733

32035 - Wingnut Wings 1/32 AMC DH.9 - WWHP113733

Preowned, Resealed, Mint

The Airco DH.9, built by the Aircraft Manufacturing Company, was planned as a longer-range successor to the excellent DH.4 day bomber. The pilot sat further back, closer to the gunner, and the new BHP engine was supposed to give 300 hp. In mass production as the Siddeley-Deasy Puma, it rarely made more than 230 hp and was badly unreliable, so the DH.9 performed worse than the DH.4 it was meant to replace. Even so, about 3,900 were built. They flew bombing raids over the Western Front, Palestine and Macedonia, and after the war the type served with air forces and civil operators around the world.

• 1/32 injection moulded kit, with parts moulded in grey on multiple sprues, including two RFC armament sprues with bombs and Lewis guns
• Detailed Siddeley Puma engine, cockpits and bomb racks
• Clear parts
• Brass photo-etched fret with seatbelts, gun ring and detail parts
• Two waterslide decal sheets for several RAF aircraft, including B7620, D2989, C6293, D7302 and D6862, with roundels, rudder stripes, Greek markings, unit chevrons and zigzags, plus full stencils and Palmer tire markings
• Full-colour instruction booklet with aircraft history, specifications and paint references

Aftermarket:

• Rexx 32.023 DH.9a modified exhausts for the Wingnut Wings kit