In 1989, Lawson Modelmakers were approached by a company in the Sultanate of Oman with a view to providing model making services for a project they had recently taken on. The project was to build a half scale model of the Royal Navy of Oman sail training ship; Shabab Oman. In essence this was to [...]
The RNAF / BDF had recently purchased a new type of aircraft, and needed to train the pilots about the aircraft systems without resorting to tying up an operational aircraft.