Mistercraft D035 1/72 1/72 F-16A (Storm Birds) Fighter Plane Plastic Model Kit (MRCD035)

1/72 F-16a Model Contents

• Plastic injection parts
• Decal
• Assembly guide.

1/72 F-16A model features

• Disasted plastic parts.
• Use a frame scissors to remove the parts.
• Use a model knife and sanding to clean the burr in the parts.
• Fill the gaps between the parts with filling material and sanding.
• There is no adhesive and paint in the box.
• You can make the necessary jerking with the assembly guide in it.
• It is recommended to paint it with the colors specified in the guide.

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The US Air Force ordered 15 full-scale development (FSD) aircraft (11 single and four two-person models) for the flight test program, but eight was reduced (six F-16A single and two F-16B two people). The YF-16 design was changed for F-16 production. The trunk was extended by 10.6 inches (0.269 m), a larger nasal body was placed for the An/APG-66 radar, the wing area was raised from 280 fit frames (26 m2) to 300 fit square (28 m2), the tail-finish height was reduced, the abdominal fingers were enlarged, the two stores were added and the original nasal stations were added and the original nasal was replaced by a single door. With these modifications, the weight of the F-16 was increased by 25 %compared to the YF-16.
Fort Worth by General Dynamics, FSD F-16s, was produced in Texas at the end of 1975 at the United States Air Force Factory 4; The first F-16A departed on October 20, 1976 and made his first flight on 8 December. The first two -seat model made its first flight on August 8, 1977. The first production standard F-16A was first flew on August 7, 1978 and its delivery was adopted by USAF on January 6, 1979. On July 21, 1980, he was named "Fighting Falcon" and on October 1, 1980, Hill AFB in Utah entered the USAF operational service with his 34th tactical hunter fleet, 388th tactical hunter wing.
On June 7, 1975, four European partners, now known as the European Participation Group, were enrolled for 348 aircraft at the Paris Air Show. This was divided as 116 for Belgium, 58 for Denmark, 102 for the Netherlands and 72 for Norway for Norway. Two European production lines, one at the Schiphol-Oost facility of Fokker in the Netherlands and the other in Sabca's Gosselies facility in Belgium, would produce 184 and 164 units, respectively. Norwegian Kongsberg Vaapenfabrikk and Danish Terma produced pieces and subsidies for EPAF aircraft. The European joint production was officially launched at the Fokker factory on 1 July 1977. Starting from November 1977, the components produced by the Fokker were sent to Fort Worth for body installation, then sent back to Europe for the final assembly of EPAF planes at the Belgian factory on February 15, 1978; Delivery to Belgian Air Force began in January 1979. The first Dutch Air Force plane was delivered in June 1979. In 1980, the first aircraft was delivered by Sabca to Norway Royal Air Force and by Fokker to the Danish Royal Air Force.
In the late 1980s and in the late 1990s, the Turkish Aviation and Space Industry (TAI) produced 232 blocks 30/40/50 F-16 under the Turkish Air Force license on a production line in Ankara. TAI also produced 46 blocks for Egypt in the mid -1990s and 30 blocks 50 since 2010. Korean Aerospace Industries opened a production line for the KF-16 program and produced 140 blocks from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s (ten years). . If India had chosen the F-16IN for the supply of medium multi-purpose fighter aircraft, a sixth F-16 production line would be built in India. In May 2013, Lockheed Martin said there is enough order to continue to produce F-16 until 2017.