PAV72015 Focke-Achgelis Fa 330 1/72

Kit has detailed resin parts, recessed panel lines, photo-etch details, vacu or injection-molded clear parts - canopy.
(injection-molded plastic kit). Limited edition. *****

Submarine-borne reconnaissance autogiro.
plastic parts: 10, resin parts: 0, vacu canopy: 0, photo-etched: 18
1 version decals (Luftwaffe)

The Focke Achgelis Fa 330 Bachstelze rotor-kite for submarines was designed by Heinrich Focke in 1942. The rotor-kite of simple construction and small dimensions was assigned to German class IX ocean submarines. With an observer the Fa 330 was to take off from a platform behind the submarine's tower.
Then it was towed at the end of a 300 m cable enabling ceiling of 220 m. Two hundred production Fa 330s were built by the Weser-Flugzeugbau factory at Hoyenkamp. The Fa 330 first saw limited service in the Southern Atlantic in 1942 summer, but more often it was used over the Indian Ocean.