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This
Dewoitine D-510 depicts one of aircrafts flown in Spanish civil war by
Czechoslovak pilot Jan Ferak . He was born in 1913 in Usti near Vsetin. He
served in Czechoslovak air force during his military service. He wanted to fly
even in his civilian life, but due to prewar economic depression he didn’t
have this opportunity. In 1936 he
decided to go to Brasil. On the way in Paris he took part in demonstration in aid
of spanish people against fascists. The
decision was made. He arrived to Spain in autumn 1936. He served both in fighter
and bomber squadrons, was 3 times shot down (2 times on bombers), captured and
later returned to his squadron. He scored 940 operational hours and 7 air
victories during spanish campaign. In
summer 1938 he returned to Czechoslovakia, but after german occupation on March
15, 1939 he left to USSR. In 1942 group of Czechoslovak pilots from USSR went to
Great Britain to reinforce Czechoslovak squadrons in RAF. On this way on May 15,
1942 Jan Ferak was killed aboard cruiser HMS Trinidad by Luftwaffe attack...
The
kit:
This
kit I built cca 18 years ago. It was handbrushed with mixture of emamels,
fuselage code was dry transfer. Recently I made little „upgrade“ to this kit
– I added seatbelts, replaced guns with injection needles, made little panel
emphasizing and applied final satin varnish layer.
Happy
modelling
Radim
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Czech
Republic
