Fairey Seal Mk.I Fleet Air Arm Carrier Service KORA KPK 72131

Description

This is KORA Models kit KPK 72 131
The Fairey SEAL  Light Bomber
was  the  Royal Navy Version of the  Fairey GORDON Mk II  using the  Armstrong Siddley PANTHER engine .
With the Fleet Air Arm  in Empire Service
It has  the  enlarged  rounded vertical tail of the Gordon MkII
see  my
RED note  below please !)
The  Gordon  was an important  RAF two seater between the  wars   and served up to the middle of WW II
As a Note :
Companies  like KORA consistently re-box and  rename  their molds with insignificant  changes simply to maximize  sales to distributors ...This  "marketing Ploy" plays  hell  with the Retailers like  me as  well as  YOU the  Modeler...I means  "What to Buy"?  ... as  to the  price its  the  same  game   so this is  the best  I can do
To me  the  above practice  is   disingenuous at best  and  is  based  on the conviction that Modelers  are simply STUPID impulse  buyers .
So...PLEASE try to check the online  reviews using the  kit  numbers when it comes  to these "variants"
Thanks
Joe
Ps  there  is  an excellent  book in print on the  Fairey III F  by Phil Jarrett as  well  as  the   reliable old  Profile  publication
HISTORY
One of the criticisms of early Fairey aircraft was aimed at their appearance, for they were frequently regarded as being numbered among the most ugly aeroplanes in the air....But not so  the  "III F" varient !
It was an unkind attitude in an age when it was difficult to attain the sort of performance required by a general-purpose aircraft: one which might be expected to operate from and to a ship at sea, in addition to more conventional use as a landplane or seaplane.
Fairey's IIID, first flown in prototype form in August 1920, derived from the company's F.128 experimental floatplane of 1917. This introduced the Fairey Patent Camber Gear evolved for the Hamble Baby, which was then described as a trailing-edge flap and used to increase the lift of the wings. Today we would regard these aerofoil control surfaces as drooped ailerons, for they were used as ailerons in flight, but could be drooped symmetrically to enhance the lift developed by the normal wing surface. Tested as a two-seat sea-plane, the F.128 was known as the Fairey III. With a single frontal radiator behind the propeller and the floats replaced by a wheel landing gear, the designation became Fairey IIIA.
In modified form the designation became Fairey IIIB. These had float landing gear, increased wing area, and ailerons on the upper wing in addition to the Patent Camber Gear on the lower. The IIIC which followed had a performance increase of some 14%, almost entirely due to the installation of a Rolls-Royce Eagle VIII engine. It was regarded as one of the best seaplanes of its day, but it entered service too late to be involved in World War I.
The Fairey IIID benefited from considerable experience with Fairey Ills in both RFC and RNAS use. The prototype retained the Eagle VIII engine, but of the 207 built for service with the RAF and Fleet Air Arm, 152 were powered by Napier Lion IIB, V or VA engines. A large-span two-bay biplane with constant-chord wings, the IIID was operated as a landplane from shore stations and aircraft carriers, or as a seaplane for catapult launch from warships. In fact, on 30 October 1925, a IIID became the first standard FAA seaplane to be catapulted from a ship at sea.
In landplane form, the IIID was one of the first service aircraft to have oleo-pneumatic (oil/air) shock-absorbers. It was used to record the RAF's first flight from England to South Africa and its first official long-distance formation flight. Led by Wg Cdr C. W. H. Pulford, between 1 March and 21 June 1926 IIIDs completed a flight of almost 22,530km, Cairo-Cape Town-Cairo and thence to Lee-on-Solent. At no time throughout the period of almost four months was any delay caused by mechanical failure of any of the aircraft, speaking volumes for the soundness of the basic design of both airframe and engine.
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omestic orders of  BOOKS
Mail at Media  Mail Rate  and  CanNOT  be  combined  with other items. The  kits  will  be invoiced  separately
Please inform me immediately if after winning an item if you are bidding on another.  The  postage  is  free so you are not saving money by waiting  to combine  items  but :
IF it is more than 3 days away the ITEMS WILL NOT COMBINE on the invoice once  I send it. So please  tell me WHY you are waiting
I ship most of my items cocooned in bubble wrap in a large envelope . Folding style, one piece boxes are collapsed flat to avoid damage. This is a very effective, lightweight & inexpensive way to mail.
BUT if you want your items shipped in a BOX there will be additional weight and additional cost, its up to you.
IF You want your order BOXED,
You must Request  a Boxing  via Ebay ,
or call me,
Joe ,
So  IF YOU WANT TO USE YOUR CARD OR HAVE A QUESTION PLEASE CALL ME
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sincerely ,
Joe Gian Francesco/Joe's Models
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