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Arkefly B 737-8K5WL 1:500 - 515566
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Wings900 Reviews Commercial Aircraft
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Written by Antesyd
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Friday, 30 July 2010 |
Description
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Arkefly is a Dutch airline headquartered on the grounds of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in Netherlands. It is the charter carrier of the Dutch arm of TUI and its main base is Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. It carries out regular and chartered flights, although most of the chartered flights are operated for the Dutch tour operator Arke. It operates to destinations in the Mediterranean, Red Sea, Caribbean, Canary Islands, Scandinavia, Africa, Asia, Brazil and the Netherlands Antilles.
Arkefly traces its roots to Air Holland, which was founded in 1981. After financial problems Air Holland was taken over by the Exel Aviation Group and took a new start as HollandExel in March 2004. In May 2005 the Exel Aviation Group was declared bankrupt. The TUI Group took over the airline's activities and renamed it Arkefly. It is now wholly owned by the TUI Group. Its name was based on the largest Dutch tour operator, Arke, which is also a subsidiary of the TUI Group. The newly reorganized airline operated its first flight in September 2005.
Operations in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, began on 15 July 2004 as DutchCaribbeanExel, which was originally part of the Exel Aviation Group, but was later taken over, together with parent airline, HollandExel, by TUI Nederland, and renamed Arkefly Curaçao. Arkefly began weekly flights to St. Maarten from Amsterdam on December 2, 2007, but discontinued this service in November 2008. TUI Nederland holds that flights may resume if the volume of tourists travelling to St. Maarten increase.
Source: Wikipedia.
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Model Details
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Airline: Arkefly
Make: Arkefly
Model: B 737-8K5WL
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1:500
Part Number: 515566
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Model Review
| | Mould and Assembly: Not much has happened since the last b737-800 review I did so here we go again. The first impression of this model is good. It looks sharp and professionally made. When you start to look a little closer you’ll find some weaknesses, but not so many. Herpa have done a great job updating this mould. Starting from the nose you can clearly see that Herpas nose is more pointy and slim now than before. The front gear is only slightly too large and looks correctly placed. The wheel doors are to much better too, just with a small remark about it being the wrong shape. Maybe the most irritating about earlier moulds was the strange looking aft section. It looked like a fat duck. Now we even got a crude tailskid…
One more flaw was the engine neckles, not good looking at all. But now a little better but not perfect. Herpa are using the same mould as IF500 it can only be better. And when painting the engines the nasty mould line disappear and it will hopefully not get so yellow over time.
Wing root too looks good and there is no problem with the wing root gaps. The wings are nice and the winglets have all the necessary details and almost correct shape.
Complains??? Well as this mould is so good, Herpa can start to think about the next level or generation. And what do I want to see then? I want to see more detailed wheelbays and landing gear, moving turbine blades, separate flaps rolling tires, etc.
Livery: The livery may not be the most exciting in the world, but it certainly is nice printed. I don’t have any complains actually.
Details: The level of details is the usual when comes to Herpa, not as good as the other “new” generation B737-8 from IF500 for example. I miss some lights, I miss some ID markings on the fin etc... I thought Herpa was back in the game with the Caribbean airlines 737-8 but the old naked Herpa airliners are reappearing…
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Pluses
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Engines
Nice with a tui airline.
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Editor review: Arkefly B 737-8K5WL 1:500 - 515566
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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| Overall rating |
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6.3 |
| Mould and Assembly
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9.0 |
| Livery
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6.0 |
| Details
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3.0 |
| Overall Impression |
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7.0 |
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