B-25 Mitchell HQ
The North American B-25 Mitchell — the medium bomber that flew the Doolittle Raid off USS Hornet in 1942 — captured as an HQ giant-scale RC warbird.
About
The B-25 Mitchell was designed by North American Aviation and made its first flight on August 19, 1940. Named in honor of Brigadier General William "Billy" Mitchell, the early-twentieth-century pioneer of U.S. military airpower, the B-25 entered service in 1941 as a twin-engine medium bomber and went on to fly in every theater of World War II. About 9,800 airframes were produced.
The single mission that put the B-25 in the popular imagination was the Doolittle Raid. On April 18, 1942, sixteen B-25s under Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle launched off the carrier USS Hornet and bombed targets in Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, and Kobe — a propaganda victory of incalculable importance to American morale just months after Pearl Harbor. The B-25 was not designed for carrier operations, and the takeoff run from the Hornet's pitching deck was the kind of feat previously considered impossible for a medium bomber.
The "HQ" suffix in this model name refers to a higher-quality (giant-scale or detailed) RC implementation. The unmistakable twin-tail, twin-engine, glass-nose silhouette is one of the most-modeled WWII subjects in modern RC scale flying.
In the simulator
A demanding twin-engine warbird. Twin-engine throttle coordination, substantial inertia, and the kind of pattern flying that real-world WWII pilots had to master. A sibling of the B-25 (CV Planes Pack 1) — same airframe, larger or higher-detail scale.
