MAQUETTE À MONTER - PZL P.24G Greece 1940/1941 Mirage Hobby | N° 48108 | 1:48
Prix régulier 30,00 € TTC 6%
Characteristics
| Scale | 1/48 |
| Manufacturer | Mirage Hobby |
| Size of the box | 29 x 21 x 5 cm |
| EAN | 5901461481085 |
Description
PZL P.24G - ROYAL HELLENIC AIRFORCE Greece 1940/1941. PZL P.24 - ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΗ ΑΕΡΟΠΟΡΙΑ. The PZL P.24 was an all-metal gull-wing fighter aircraft designed by Zygmunt Puławski of the Warsaw-based PZL (Państwowe Zakłady Lotnicze, National Aviation Works). The P.24 was powered with Polish-built Bristol engines that could not, under the licence agreement, be sold abroad. Therefore, they had to be re-fitted with French Gnome-Rhône engines. Between 1933 and 1937, a total of 142 aircraft were produced and exported to Romania, Turkey, Bulgaria and Greece. Both P.24F and P.24G variants were equipped with Gnome-Rhône 14N engine. The P.24F was armed with two 20 mm cannons and two 7.92 mm machine guns. The top speed was 430 km/h. In early 1938 Greece took delivery of twelve P.24F's armed with two cannons and 24 P.24G's armed with four machine guns. The aircraft were initially in natural metal finish and then later received camouflage. The Greek flying P.24's were created with 40 enemy aircraft destroyed (36 Italian and 4 German). On 2 November 1940 Lt. Marinos Mitralexis downed an Italian bomber by ramming. This P.24 captured by the Italians was still in the Italian Air Force inventory in 1943.
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