Bereznyak-Isayev
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bereznyak-Isayev_BI-1
http://tanks45.tripod.com/Jets45/Histories/BI-6/BI-6.htm
http://www.airwar.ru/enc/fww2/bi1.html
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Still my favorite chapter in Green's Rocket Fighter. Through no deliberate action on my part, I have
three of the things, one the VP Canada vac, and two in styrene from some small Russian company. Tiny,
Tiny little airplane.
I did start a Rocket Fighters thread a month or two ago but I'll post my idea here too ...
Jet engines prove unreliable so rockets are used -- the EE Lightning gets 2 rocket-engines like the (Saunders-Roe SR-53) -- short endurance mandates the use of a booster fuel-cell to get to altitude before attacking the incoming enemy bombers -- as they don't need a nose intake, the space is used to house folding-fin barrage-rockets in a circular bank (radar is not needed due to ground-control & no long patrols to seek the enemy at a distance).
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this is a Whif site after all ... :rolleyes:
Shades of Bachem Natter. Well, the Lightning was kinda for point defense I suppose. ;D
As one of the designs made to the F.115T requirement and based on Avro 720, in my mind no-one does it better than Avro 729.
Just find an excuse to take away operationally-restriction-free afterburners and the rocket boosters would be all the more useful again. :thumbsup:
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But this is genial :thumbsup: :party: :blink:
Looks like the Japanese got in on the game, at least for a time, with the Mizuno Shinryu interceptor:
http://www.j-aircraft.org/xplanes/hikoki_files/shinryu.htm
Nice one Raafif! :thumbsup:
I followed a similar line of thought, but in an earlier timeframe, with my Gloster Goblin: http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,28131.0.html
love that Wobblin' Goblin, weaver :thumbsup:
Actually I cheated a bit on the rocket-nose -- a few years ago I saw a pic (think it was in the news section of Flypast) of two Lightning forward fuselages modified for a sci-fi movie (rather like a cross between UFO & Space 1999) -- they had the radome removed & a bank of rocket-tubes instead, the cockpit sides were padded out too.
Anyone have the pic or the name of the movie ??
With that huge booster rocket, that Lightning reminds me of those Stratos 4 anti-meteor TSR.2s! :thumbsup:
Quote from: raafif on August 02, 2010, 06:09:23 PM
love that Wobblin' Goblin, weaver :thumbsup:
Actually I cheated a bit on the rocket-nose -- a few years ago I saw a pic (think it was in the news section of Flypast) of two Lightning forward fuselages modified for a sci-fi movie (rather like a cross between UFO & Space 1999) -- they had the radome removed & a bank of rocket-tubes instead, the cockpit sides were padded out too.
Anyone have the pic or the name of the movie ??
Wing Commander, based on the computer game:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_Commander_(film)
It also used Canberra fuselages as the "heavy fighter".
I rather enjoyed that film. Saffron Burrows is quite hot too.
Me too. :thumbsup:
S'funny isn't it? Sometimes you can watch a film, and you can see exactly why it got critically panned, and agree that it deserved it, but you still enjoy watching it. Mood and blood alcohol level have a bearing on the matter, of course....;)
German Rocket Fighters
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Now the Natter front end attached to the 163 looks quite plausible :thumbsup: