#DOUGLAS M2 MAILPLANE PLUS#

This kit can be completed in 1 of 2 variations of Western Air Express markings. The only issue I've seen so far is that one of the exhaust tips seems to have been broken.

Looks like everything is there (the box had been opened). Japanese ace fighter pilot Akio Matsuba flying an A2N from the aircraft carrier Kaga in his number one aerial combat engagement, claimed his first dual-lane up victory over an O-2M while providing air-cover for Japanese troop-landings in Shanghai on third day in the airwar of the War of Resistance/WWII, 16 August 1937.This is the first model out of my grandfathers old stash I've decided to tackle. As their late speed offered the O-2Ms vulnerable to fast Japanese fighters, they either flew clandestine night missions solo or day missions escorted by Hawk IIs or Hawk IIIs. Operational historyĭouglas O-2M variants were deployed by the ] were heavily deployed in the Battle of Shanghai, the Battle of Nanjing and the Battle of Taiyuan. The only similar aircraft known to live are a restored Douglas M-2 mailplane and a follow-on derivative of the O-25 variant, an O-38. His body was recovered but the wreckage was abandoned due to the airframe and engine both being a writeoff. Cadet Rogers was instantly killed in the crash by the impact. Weather was not considered a contributing factor. Apparently flying low, the aircraft clear a hill and burned after the crash leaving only the found wreckage today. Rogers on a night recon contemporary training mission.

It is so-called it was flown by Aviation Cadet Charles D. The rear and central/forward unit of the fuselage gradual the firewall, wing attachments and landing gear parts, tailplane and numerous engine parts and eight of the twelve pistons are now recovered. However, in 2011 the wreckage of O-2H 29-163 that crashed out of Kelly Field Texas on Mahas been positively identified. Up to 2011 there were no O-2's invited to exist. Major differences were heavily staggered wings, a more compact engine installation, and clean landing gear secured to the fuselage. The O-2Hs were an entirely new structure but continued the same basic model number. In 1927 the O-2BS was adapted as a three-seater with a radial engine.

#DOUGLAS M2 MAILPLANE PLUS#

The O-2 proved to be a conventional but very reliable biplane which soon attracted orders for 25 more aircraft: 18 O-2A machines equipped for night flying and six O-2B dual-control dominance aircraft for the US Army, plus one civil O-2BS modified specially for James McKee, who presentation a remarkable trans-Canada flight in September 1926. of the shared up type, the horizontal tail surface was strut braced, and the engine was cooled by a tunnel radiator. The fixed tailskid landing gear sent a main an fundamental or characteristic component of something abstract. The XO-2 had been flown with short as living as long-span wings, the latter giving renovation handling and therefore being subject for the production aircraft. The US Army ordered 45 O-2 production aircraft in 1925, these retaining the XO-2's welded steel tube fuselage, wooden wings and overall material covering but at the same time introducing aluminum panels on the forward fuselage. The important brand of Douglas observation aircraft sprang from two XO-2 prototypes, the first of which was powered by the 420 hp 313 kW Packard 1A-1500 Vee engine, which proved unreliable. The Douglas O-2 was the 1920s American observation aircraft built by a Douglas Aircraft Company.

Douglas m2 mailplane