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| History and Description: Lockheed 12A (Electra Junior)... | ||
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Professionally designed, this is a real blueprint - made directly from a vellum master - Measuring a generous 42"x 30". Lockheed 12 Electra Junior, was flown for the first time on 27 June 1936. The majority of production aircraft were designated Lockheed 12-A, but many of the total entered military service. The US Army Air Corps acquired three seven-seat C-40 (later UC-40), 10 five-seat C-40A (later UC-40A) and one experimental C-40B aircraft with fixed tricycle landing gear; the designation C-40D (later... 
“Did you Know”...? the traditional scale for kit models: 1:144 1:100 1:72 1:48 1:32 1:24 (1/144 1/100 1/72 1/48 1/32 1/24)
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C-40D (later UC-40D) was allocated to 10 Lockheed 12-As impressed for wartime
service. The US Navy received one seven-seat JO-1, five six-seat JO-2 aircraft
(one of which was allocated for US Marine Corps use), and a single XJO-3 with
fixed tricycle landing gear which was used for carrier deck-landing trials. The
type was used also by the air arms of Argentina, Canada, Cuba and the UK, as
well as by the Netherlands East Indies army, this last service being the major
military user with a total of 36. Of this number, 16 were specially-developed
Model 212 crew trainers, with a forward-firing 7.7mm machine-gun, a similar
weapon in a dorsal turret, and under fuselage racks for up to 363kg of bombs.
One of the most interesting aircraft was that acquired by NACA, predecessor of NASA, which was used to evaluate a wing de-icing system that utilised hot gases from the engine exhaust. One of the most unusual applications of the Lockheed 12-A was by Australian Sidney Cotton who, under the cover of his position as an executive of the Dufaycolour Company, used his specially modified camera-carrying Lockheed 12-A to take clandestine reconnaissance photographs of German military installations in the three months leading up to the beginning of World War II. |
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