Subject: Re: Pilatus PC-7 - #1
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: Jürgen Klinglhuber <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:14:02 -0700

Hi,
I just wanted to let you know your article went on ARC today.  Thanks again for sending it in.

Steve Bamford
Aircraft Resource Center
http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com

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  From: Jürgen Klinglhuber 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 6:22 AM
  Subject: Pilatus PC-7 - #1

  Gallery Template #05

  "1/72 IMPS Austria Kit, Pilatus PC-7 Turbo Trainer" 

  by "Juergen Klinglhuber"
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  This is my second entry with an IPMS Austria resin kit. The kit was a limited kit sold by the Austrian branch of the IPMS and shows a trainer aircraft that serves at the Hinterstoisser airbase in Zeltweg, Austria in the colours of 2003.

  The Pilatus PC-7 "Turbo Trainer" is a Swiss-made military trainer aircraft that is fully capable for aerobatics. The two-seated aircraft has retractable landing gears and a 650 hp turboprop engine from Pratt & Whitney. The PT6A-25A pulls the bird up to 425 km/h and makes it easily carry additional external loads such as cameras, guns and missiles. The fist flight of this bird was back in 1966, but serial production did not start before 1978. So the plane had a bad start, but since that time it is a quite beloved aircraft among civil and military instructors all over the world.

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  The Austrian Airforce has 16 Pilatus PC-7 in service at the Hinterstoisser airbase in Zeltweg. They use it for basic and advanced training at the local military flight school Center. Corresponding with their possibilities of armament the aircrafts are also involved in tactical operations and airborne surveillance.

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  The kit was built quite a while ago but I remenber that it was my very first multi-media kit I built. There was a vacuum-formed canopy, resin parts for fuselage, wings, rudder and interiors and some metal parts for landing gear ect. Beside the fact that the bird turned out to be a tailsitter (yes, I milled out the nose to fill it with weight, but.) the quality of the resin kit was outstanding. I put a tiny piece of a two-sided adhesive film under the nose wheel and still after all those years it is sticky enough to keep my PC-7 in place.

  I built an other PC-7 with a special paint scheme last year - I will present this bird on my next entry.

  Enjoy the pictures - greetings

  Photos and text © by "Juergen Klinglhuber"