Planet Models 219 1/48 Westland Welkin NF Mk.II

The Westland Welkin was a British heavy fighter aircraft in a spine-wing configuration with a retractable landing gear from the Second World War. The drive was provided by two Rolls-Royce Merlin 76/77 engines with 1233 HP each. The prototype flight took place in 1942. In the course of serial production, about 80 examples of this aircraft were produced. It was armed with 4 20mm Hispano-Suiza cannons.

The Westland Welkin was created as a highly specialized fighter to operate at very high altitudes (over 13,000 meters), capable of engaging German reconnaissance and long-range bombers (eg Ju-86P) that could raid over the British Isles. Work on this atypical plane began in 1940, and Westland relied on the Whirlwind plane. The planes entered the line in the summer of 1944, but in November of the same year they were withdrawn from the line as the threat from the Luftwaffe bombers had dropped to zero. The only mass-produced version was the Westland Welkin Mk. I. A prototype of a night fighter (Westland Welkin NF Mk. II) was also created, but it never entered mass production.