The Captain Prince
Constantin "Bazu" Cantacuzino was born into an
aristocratic Rumanian family in 1905. He was a player of hockey, a
playboy, a motorcycle rider, rallye and civil pilot before entering to the
Royal Rumanian Air Force. He went on to master acrobatics
with the so called squadron Dracii Rosii "Red Dragoons", where his
fearlessness and valor at the moment of doing acrobatics was proved with
every new exhibition.
In 1941, when Rumania began
to fight alongside of Germany and incorporates Captain Cantacuzino
into 53 Squadron to fly a Hurricane Mk.1, shot down 3 Russian
aircraft and he was demobilized. He came back to combat in 1943 to
the 7th Fighter Group to fly the Me-109G as
commander of the 58 Squadron. During this time he shot down 25
Russian aircraft and a North American bomber that was taking part
in the bombing of Ploesti.
In 1944 he was assigned to
the territorial defense, he already had 36 victories, he shot down two
P-51's, two P-38's and was named commander of 9th Fighter Group.
When Rumania declared the
war on Germany, Cantacuzino shot down 3 Heinkel 111's and assigned to
him the mission to transport the Colonel Gunn III, returned to his base
in a P-51 before the impossibility of refuelling again his
Me-109G.
At the end of the war he was
just turning 40 yearsold and had completed 608 combat missions of which
28 were night, 210 air combat, 56 confirmed victories and 13
"probable" being the biggest ace of the Rumanian air
force and the sixth pilot of the list of all 22 belligerent countries.
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This model is the Revell kit
in 1/72
scale and represents the MiG-3 that was captured by the Rumanians and
which was flown by Cantacuzino Captain in the paper of
"aggressor" of the Luftwaffe.
The decals are from another kit, the
cockpit has some elements of detail such as the map pcoket, harness for
the pilots seat, flares and some instrument
panels, the transparent piece of the cockpit were closed, but I
opened them up to allow a better view of the cockpit detail.
In order to accompany it this
Me-109 with its pilot, just before leaving to fly a training mission.
The
figures are of Heller and they are not included in kits of the airplanes.
It is
a very good model, easy to build and a level of normal detail that it
allows to be modified, I recommend it highly.
Tigre
del Aire
Saludos desde Colombia, la tierra de
Juan Valdez!
Greetings from Colombia, the land of
Juan Valdez!
Colombia es Pasión!
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