Hasegawa 1 / 48 F-104C Starfighter "United States Air Force" japan NEW

Plastic aircraft model assembly kit 143 parts.
The F - 104 series fighter plane is known as the interceptor fighter that broke the wall of Mach 2 for the first time in the world. The prototype XF-104 flew first in February 1954, taking the honor of "missile riding human being", recorded the world's fastest speed of 2,259 km / h in May 1958, the world's most Attracted attention as a fast fighter.

In 1959, Japan decided to domestically produce F - 104 as a successor to the aging F - 86 Saber. This is F - 104J, the one that was assembled based on the parts of F - 104G is the first Japanese star fighter. Next 29 machines received knockdown production with Lockheed company parts supply, flew first flight on May 8, 1962, and since then Mitsubishi Heavy Industries produced. Apart from this, twenty-seater training machine F - 104 DJ was imported from 20 America.

Because in Japan the ownership of aggressive weapons is prohibited by the Constitution, the F - 104J was equipped with an AIM - 9 Sidewinder missile and a fuel tank under the wing and was used as an interceptor fighter. In addition, the engine and armament were also domestically produced, the J-79 engine was manufactured by Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries, and the JM-61 Vulcan artillery was produced by Nippon Metal Industry, respectively.

A total of 210 F-104J star fighters were produced, and until the middle of the 1980's, they got into the air defense mission in Japan. Some of the aircraft, which had been kept in Gifu, had been remodeled for radio control and flying.