Project 4 : Whiff in search of a name mission etc.

[63cpe]

As the subject line says.

This build started with the concept of a single Buccaneer fuselage and seperate it's engine's further from the fuselage and put them in pod/ tailboom annex vertical tail.
For pod/ tailboom annex vertical tail two AMD Ouragan's were selected. Cockpits were faired over.
As wing a nice swept wing was severed were the inner wing meets the Ouragan's wing root. The rest of the wing was put to the outer wing root of the Ouragan.

The fuselage of an Matchbox Buccaneer was sanded smooth to get the bumps involved in accepting the engines out. While working on this I figured some tail defense could be a "Nice to have". So grafted an Il-28 tail turret unit on the bucc rear end and presto. That's where it is today.

The tailplane (just straight model, no sweep) will be made to fit between the top ends of the Ouragan's tail's. The tail turret is below the tailplane.

PXL_20250601_193333141 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr
PXL_20250601_193416397 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr
PXL_20250601_193433516 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr
PXL_20250601_193455300 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr
PXL_20250601_193505197 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr

Yes, there is still quite some PSR to be done..
Now having made all this it would be nice to have a mission and name for it..

Hope you like it,
David aka 63CPE

[scautomoton]

wooohooo, that would fight you with an engine out!

[jcf]

Blackburn Blackburn II
Maritime Reconnaissance and Strike
MRS.1

[Old Wombat]

It looks so  SOVIET ! 

[zenrat]

Yep.
Tail gun = soviet.
Some kind of experimental Yak 28 development maybe?
NATO reporting name BOOMSLANG.

[63cpe]

wooohooo, that would fight you with an engine out!

Hehhehheh, just like the black knight in Monty Python. Fight you coward! it's only a scratch!

David aka 63CPE

[63cpe]

Blackburn Blackburn II
Maritime Reconnaissance and Strike
MRS.1

Oeh, I like that! Thank you. I like heralding yesteryears not so great planes from the same manufacturer.
Might aswell change the glasing above the turret by a radar dome like the early Douglas A3D / B-36.

David aka 63CPE

[63cpe]

Yep.
Tail gun = soviet.
Some kind of experimental Yak 28 development maybe?
NATO reporting name BOOMSLANG.

Hehheh, yeah. I like that too. But I like JCF's suggestion for Blackburn MRS.1 Blackburn II even better.

David aka 63CPE

[Spino]

Well this is an interesting one.  I agree with the name Blackburn II for sure.

[chrisonord]

Hmm, Blackburnov Blackburnovski.
Very soviet indeed David 

[jcf]

Muttering about divorce and adultery
was not uncommon in the squadrons
that operated the Blackburn II.

[Spino]

Muttering about divorce and adultery
was not uncommon in the squadrons
that operated the Blackburn II.

 

[su27rules]