Herpa Wings 1:200

Slovakia operates a rather small air force whose main example is the very powerful MiG-29. They were recently completely modernized and received new liveries which was for instance also displayed on this years ILA in Berlin.

In 1960, the Japan Self Defence Force (in Japanese, 'Koku Jietai') decided too, to deploy the Lockheed Starfighter as its standard interceptor. The first three aircraft, still manufactured at Lockheed, were followed up by 178 F-104Js produced under...

In 1954, the Starfighter, manufactured by Lockheed, had its maiden flight. The interceptor behaved like a race car in supersonic speed but lacked mission flexibility. Ultimately, the Air Force purchased barely 300 aircraft, far less than planned. In...

The F-16 Fighting Falcon is best imagined as a Volkswagen Golf with a Porsche motor. Its light weight paired with enormous energy has made the F-16 the most successful jet-engined interceptor and fighter-bomber of all time. It replaced famous...

The SU-27 is the current show-piece fighter jet of the Russian airforce. It was created in the engineering office of Pavel Osipowitsch Suchoi in 1971. The advanced two seated training version SU-27UB is today the craft the stunt pilot squadron already...

A completely black painted, also called Vandy One F-14A, with which the test team VX-4 back then went public, caused a furor in 1990. It flew the Black Bunny on the tail unit, the logo of Playboy magazine as the VX-4 squadrons emblem, which was erased...

The performances of the Eurofighter EF-2000 are impressive: two EJ-200 engines deliver up to 90 kN thrust, which give the aircraft a maximum speed of mach 2.1. It is well equipped with a Mauser cannon as well as up to 13 attachment points for bombs and...

In 1986, Lockheed and Northrop accepted a bid to build a prototype each for a USAF contract, resulting in the YF-22 and the YF- 23. Lockheed won the competition with the F-22. At the end of 2002, the specifications had once again been extended the...

The 1972 commissioned fighter F-14A Tomcat has become history. The last of the 22 F-14s operated on the US aircraft-carrier USS Theodor Roosevelt was mothballed in spring 2006 at the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base near Tucson, in Arizonas desert, replaced...

Welcome Air was at first known as a business travel operator and air ambulance, because its cast bombers flew injured skiers home. Today, as a regional carrier, it took over the operations of the former Tyrolean Air. It operates two turboprops of the...

Just in the last New Releases, Herpa presented its first Dornier 328Jet model. Now the German-American manufactured regional jet will enter the 1/200 scale retail collection, too. It also comes imprinted with the colors of the German Automobile Club...