As with most Academy kits I've built, this one needs a bit of careful fitting as some of the parts don't line up terribly well. Aside from that, they're not a bad little kit for the money.
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41% of people buy Academy F-16 Fighting Falcon 1/144 Model Kit and Academy F-14A Tomcat 1/144 Model Kit.
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As with most Academy kits I've built, this one needs a bit of careful fitting as some of the parts don't line up terribly well. Aside from that, they're not a bad little kit for the money.
This has the detail the Phantoms and Jaguar fighter jets from this manufacturer should have. The only fit issue is the upper fuselage and the instructions aren't quite clear enough for the main undercarriage.
Outstanding value for money. Very simple good looking kit.
The General Dynamics (now Lockheed Martin) F-16 Fighting Falcon is a single-engine multirole fighter aircraft originally developed by General Dynamics for the United States Air Force (USAF). Designed as an air superiority day fighter, it evolved into a successful all-weather multirole aircraft. Over 4,500 aircraft have been built since production was approved in 1976. Although no longer being purchased by the U.S. Air Force, improved versions are still being built for export customers. In 1993, General Dynamics sold its aircraft manufacturing business to the Lockheed Corporation, which in turn became part of Lockheed Martin after a 1995 merger with Martin Marietta.
The Fighting Falcon is a fighter with numerous innovations including a frameless bubble canopy for better visibility, side-mounted control stick to ease control while maneuvering, a seat reclined 30 degrees to reduce the effect of g-forces on the pilot, and the first use of a relaxed static stability/fly-by-wire flight control system helps to make it a nimble aircraft. The F-16 has an internal M61 Vulcan cannon and 11 locations for mounting weapons and other mission equipment. The F-16's official name is “Fighting Falcon”, but “Viper” is commonly used by its pilots, due to a perceived resemblance to a viper snake as well as the Battlestar Galactica Colonial Viper starfighter.
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