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09/03/2026

Available now for purchase. Drawing of the Last Demo of the Harrier, MCAS Cherry Point May of 2024. - AV-8B Last Demo

09/02/2026

Available now for purchase. This is a hand drawn image of the Viper Demo in the 50th anniversary color scheme. - Viper Demo 50th Anniversary Edition

**Pre-Order**This is a pre-order. You will immediately receive the digital instructions and XML parts list.The printed p...
09/01/2026

**Pre-Order**

This is a pre-order. You will immediately receive the digital instructions and XML parts list.

The printed parts & minifigures will ship approximately September 26th, 2026.

The MH-139A Printed Parts Pack MOC is an exclusive, limited edition 1:30 scale parts kit plus instructions and part XML list.

These are NOT complete model kits, as you will only receive the printed parts & digital instructions.

The remaining parts must be purchased or gathered from your own collection. Read my Build Help page for more information.

(1397 parts, 289 lots; 1514 parts, 317 lots for the stand version)

The MH-139A Grey Wolf is the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation utility helicopter, designed to replace the aging UH-1N Huey supporting nuclear security operations across America’s intercontinental ballistic missile fields. The Air Force recently announced that the MH-139A had achieved Initial Operational Capability in August.

Features:

37 individual UV printed LEGO® parts

3 Exclusive UV Printed Minifigures by The Brick Service Premium Figs & Kits

Aircraft Stand (Optional - Instructions and XML with and without the stand)

Limited Edition - 18 Packs

08/30/2026

Reel says it all!

Cleveland, are you ready?
08/30/2026

Cleveland, are you ready?

08/28/2026

Peek behind the curtain for Corsair gear movement!

The B-52 uses Fowler flaps, which translate aft as they deploy. Unlike a simple hinged flap, this movement increases bot...
08/28/2026

The B-52 uses Fowler flaps, which translate aft as they deploy. Unlike a simple hinged flap, this movement increases both the camber and effective wing area, allowing the wing to generate more lift at lower airspeeds.

An interesting feature of the B-52 is that the flaps use the same deployed position for both takeoff and landing.

This is particularly useful during a touch-and-go or missed approach. Since the aircraft is already in its takeoff flap configuration, the crew doesn’t need to reposition the flaps before transitioning from the approach back into a climb.

On an aircraft as large and aerodynamically unique as the B-52—with its highly swept wing, bicycle landing gear, and relatively high approach speeds—keeping the flap configuration unchanged simplifies a critical phase of flight.

The Fowler flaps aren’t simply changing the shape of the B-52’s wing. By extending aft, they temporarily make the wing larger.

📌 Goldsboro Nuclear Bomb B-52 Accident Site📍 35°29′34.08″N, 77°51′31.33″W — Faro, North CarolinaFrom LiDAR America on FB...
08/26/2026

📌 Goldsboro Nuclear Bomb B-52 Accident Site
📍 35°29′34.08″N, 77°51′31.33″W — Faro, North Carolina

From LiDAR America on FB - highly recommended!

Somewhere beneath this ordinary farm field, part of a 3.8-megaton thermonuclear weapon has been sitting since 1961, and only one safety switch stood between this being a quiet news story and something far worse.

On January 24, 1961, a U.S. Air Force B-52G carrying two Mark 39 Mod 2 thermonuclear bombs broke apart in the sky near Goldsboro, North Carolina. Each weapon carried a maximum predicted yield of 3.8 megatons, hundreds of times the explosive force of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The bomber, based at nearby Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, was flying as part of Strategic Air Command’s airborne nuclear-alert program when it developed a serious fuel leak. The crew lost control while trying to return to base, and the B-52 began breaking apart around 9,000 feet. Five crewmen survived. Three were killed.

As the aircraft disintegrated, the two bombs fell separately, and what happened to each was strikingly different. The first descended almost as if it had been deliberately dropped, its parachute deployed, its arming rods pulled, and several stages of its firing sequence activated. Its 42-second timer even completed its countdown, and the contact switch closed when it hit the ground. But one crucial component remained set to SAFE, the Arm/Safe switch, which prevented the firing circuitry from completing the sequence that could have triggered a nuclear detonation.

The second bomb had a very different fate. Its parachute never deployed, and the roughly 9,000 to 10,000-pound weapon slammed into the farmland at high speed, punching a crater about nine feet across and five feet deep while much of it continued burrowing deep underground. Recovery crews dug through the muddy soil and found the bomb’s primary nuclear component about 20 feet down, but groundwater, unstable soil, and collapsing excavation walls made the work increasingly dangerous, and the digging was eventually abandoned. The thermonuclear secondary component was never recovered, later estimates placed the remaining material roughly 180 feet underground

08/26/2026

Available now for purchase. "Swamp Fox" North American Aviation P-51D drawn using Faber-Castell Polychromos Color pencils. Size of original drawing: 9 inches x 12 inches on Strathmore Bristol paper. - Swamp Fox P-51D

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