Bell 407 / PHI Ships and Boats substantial payload and reasonable cost

substantial payload and reasonable cost made it the ideal candidate to protect allied tactical forces against enemy radar defenses

At the time it was the largest transport plane ever designed for the RAF

At the outbreak of World War Two the Fleet Air Arm had 13 operational squadrons

this museum-quality model is both beautiful and durable

These were of the Mirage F1C-200 version with a fixed refuelling probe

Bell 407 / PHI Ships and Boats substantial payload and reasonable costBell 407 Jet Ranger helicopter model. A modified 206L3 Long Ranger served as the concept demonstrator 407 and first flew in this form on April 21,1994, while the 407 was first publicly announced at the Las Vegas HeliExpo in January 1995. The 407 concept demonstrator mated the Long Ranger's fuselage with the tail boom and dynamic system of the military OH58D Kiowa (which has a four blade main rotor). Fake fairings were used to simulate the wider