jakub mankowski

scale: 1:48, construction date: 07-24-2009

The "Spirit of St Louis" is without doubt the most famous aircraft of all time, designed and built with one aim only: the NON-STOP transatlantic crossing from New York to Paris. After numerous unsuccessful attempts by other pilots, on 20th May 1927, Charles Lindberg took off from New York for this world-shattering event. He covered a distance of over 3,600 miles (5972 km) in 33.5 hours and on 21st May 1927 he landed at Paris, Le Bourget, where he was met with great acclaim. (revell.de)

scale: 1:35, construction date: 11-20-2008

The M247 Sergeant York DIVAD (Division Air Defense) was a self-propelled anti-aircraft weapon (SPAAG), developed by Ford Aerospace in the late 1970s which featured twin radar-directed 40 mm rapid-fire guns. It was intended to replace the M163 Vulcan Air Defense System and fight alongside the M1 Abrams and M2 Bradley fighting vehicles in the U.S. Army, and was similar in concept to successful Soviet and European tracked systems such as the ZSU-23-4 and Gepard. However, despite the use of many off the shelf technologies, a series of technical problems with the system and cost overruns caused the cancellation of the project in 1985. The vehicle was named after Sergeant Alvin York, a famous World War I hero. (wikipedia.org)

scale: 1:750, the old one

USS Tarawa (LHA-1) is a United States Navy amphibious assault ship, the lead ship of her class, and the second ship to be named for Tarawa Atoll, site of a Marine landing during World War II. The first Tarawa was the USS Tarawa (CV-40). Tarawa was decommissioned 31 March 2009, at Naval Base San Diego. (wikipedia.org)