There's nothing that captures those mid war years of military aviation quite like the silver Hawker biplanes. Their combination of a biplane design and the inclusion of a Rolls Royce V12 engine captures the technology of the day.

The West Wings Hart is a builder’s delight and requires more skill to build than most of our kits. Particular care must be taken in building and jigging the wings to ensure the correct flight performance. You really need to like building wings with this one.

The beautiful fuselage shape is created by the standard method of formers and stringers etc. built over the plan to arrive at two half shells, which are then joined together. All tail surfaces are built up and the final structure covered in doped tissue.

The scope for detailing the West Wings Hawker Hart is enormous. Whether it be guns, bombs or just rigging, this model is a scale ‘buffs’ delight with the final result often being a real worry on that first flight. No need to, she's a great flier and really benefits from trim fine-tuning.

You could also experiment with conversions to either electric or CO2 power for really long flights.

Specs
Printwood Kit
Part Number: WW09
Span (Inches): 24.9
Span (mm): 632
Scale: 1:18 Scale
Power: Rubber

Note: This is a kit, not an ARTF model.

West Wings are probably the largest manufacturer of small model kits in the UK, manufacturing all of the West Wings kits in their factory in West Cornwall. Designs draw on the extensive experience staff have gained from ‘hands-on’ modelling over many years. Combine this with full CAD drawings and their CNC cutting machines and you can appreciate how accurate the kits are. The only items in the kits that are not made in the UK are propellers from Japan and flight quality rubber specially imported from the USA. Balsa wood, being a tropical tree, does not grow in Europe; therefore it is sourced from managed and sustained forests in Ecuador and Papua New Guinea.