Not really a What-if perhaps ,as this one actually existed and flew, but, here's my 1/48 Supermarine type 510. The basis was a Magna Attacker I picked up part started for a tenner, at Cosford earlier this year. Wings and tail surfaces are scratch built, markings from the spares box.
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Andrew
Nice one Andrew
Excellent stufff there. :thumbsup: :bow:
And all that from a Magna kit too!
The mind STILL boggles at the thought oif a tail-wheel jet, even more so at a swept wing one! :o
Quote from: PR19_Kit on December 08, 2012, 02:25:24 AM
The mind STILL boggles at the thought oif a tail-wheel jet...
In "real life", designers quite early found reasons to go for trike gear: much easier on ground structures, and (in case of the Yak-15 at least) some parts of the airframe itself :lol:
I lived for a couple of years at RAF Benson which housed the 'Weekend Warriors' of the RNVR's Southern Air Division.
One of their Squadrons, 1835 NAS, flew Sea Hawks and their co-located unit, 1832 NAS, flew tail-wheeled Attackers. While the 1835 NAS pilots revelled in their faster and better handling aircraft, the 1832 pilots would say that '....proper pilots flew tail wheeled jets!' ;D
Nicely done Andrew -- :thumbsup:
I was reading in the Morgan & Shacklady book that the Supermarine 391 design lead to the Attacker with it fuselage and tail design, which in turn led to this one. I can't quite see the relationship myself but there you go.
Very tasty.
I may have to do one at some point from an Attacker and a Sabre. Obviously it would have to wear in service markings, perhaps the flying greyhound with one of the RNVR squadrons, although I was tempted to add that to a Sea Hawk (I found a Novo one in a box, albeit missing tailplanes).
On reflection, perhaps I could play about with the wing of a Swift? I've one I'd started hacking about and it may have to end up as conversion fodder.
Lovely!
Very nice-I got my Whirlykits one off the shelf today. And then put it back...
:bow:
Great bit of work! :thumbsup:
Quote from: van883 on December 15, 2012, 10:12:57 AM
Very nice-I got my Whirlykits one off the shelf today. And then put it back...
:bow:
To be fair, some of the early Maintrack Project X vacforms were pretty basic and I think the 510 was one of them. Then Gordon Stevens of Rareplanes got involved. The Saro SR177 and Hawker P.1121 were two of his.