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Hobby Fan: M501 Missile Loading Tractor
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Posted: Tuesday, October 03, 2017 - 01:25 PM UTC


Following the release of MIM-23 HAWK from AFV Club, Hobby Fan announces a misslie loading platform for the anti-aircraft system.

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Posted: Tuesday, October 03, 2017 - 02:54 PM UTC
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Posted: Tuesday, October 03, 2017 - 05:59 PM UTC
I remember when a company called Adams made one in plastic many moons ago. Al

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Posted: Tuesday, October 03, 2017 - 07:30 PM UTC
yes and these kits were really good for their day!
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Posted: Tuesday, October 03, 2017 - 10:37 PM UTC
There was a helicopter also, it carried two of the missiles. Don't know if that was actually used operationally, or just a proposal, or a figment of someone at Adams. Think two missiles would have been too heavy for a small helicopter. Al


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Posted: Tuesday, October 03, 2017 - 11:04 PM UTC
I'm hoping for an all-injected kit.
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Posted: Tuesday, October 03, 2017 - 11:42 PM UTC

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There was a helicopter also, it carried two of the missiles.


It looks like a Cessna CH-1 / YH-41 "Seneca" :



Empty weight: 2,080 lb (943 kg)
Gross weight: 3,100 lb (1,406 kg)

A bit too light indeed (one HAWK missile weighs 1,290 pounds = 590 kg)...

H.P.
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Posted: Wednesday, October 04, 2017 - 12:19 AM UTC
That definitely looks like the 'copter in the kit. Al
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Posted: Wednesday, October 04, 2017 - 02:08 AM UTC
I'll bet that M-501 is going to be beautiful but oh so pricey .
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Posted: Wednesday, October 04, 2017 - 02:40 AM UTC
Ah nostalgia!
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Posted: Wednesday, October 04, 2017 - 03:57 AM UTC
Now all we need are the half dozen radars, comms vans and transport trailers and vehicles and we'll have a semi complete HAWK set!
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Posted: Wednesday, October 04, 2017 - 12:36 PM UTC

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Now all we need are the half dozen radars, comms vans and transport trailers and vehicles and we'll have a semi complete HAWK set!


and a large area to make a correct to scale diorama, with the correct distances between the units, of this semi complete set showing how it was deployed
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