Was’nt the distributer for the US revell F19 stealth fighter kit arrested by the FBI as they ‘claimed’ they had attained classified information on it’s design?

curlyboy

I remember a story from many years ago about the KGB wanting to know how Airfix obtained details of the undercarriage of one of their aircraft, which had been modelled. Although photographs had appeared of the aeroplane in the air, no pictures had been available of it on the ground. Airfix’s answer was that they had used past experience of the manufacturer (can’t remember which – MiG?) and designed what they thought appropriate – which by all accounts was pretty accurate – or so the story went.