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SR.177 landing gear

Started by Hobbes, May 04, 2006, 02:36:29 AM

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Hobbes

May 04, 2006, 02:36:29 AM
The landing gear supplied with the Maintrack kit of the SR.177 is rather basic: a single strut for each wheel, no detail at all, and it's rather short: the aircraft would nearly scrape the ground. The few photos in Project Cancelled don't show the gear, so I've no idea if this was realistic.
- Did the prototypes use existing gear, or was it newly developed?
- Can I steal the gear from another kit to make things more realistic?  

MartG

#1
May 04, 2006, 02:44:11 AM
The pic here http://www.spaceuk.org/sr53/sr53%20pics.htm only has a poor view of the nosewheel on the mockup. Looks somewhat reminiscent of a Buccaneer one to me......
Murphy's 1st Law - An object at rest will be in the wrong place
Murphy's 2nd Law - An object in motion will be going in the wrong direction
Murphy's 3rd Law - For every action, there is an equal and opposite malfunction

The Rat

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May 04, 2006, 04:16:15 AM
WOW! I love that Valiant idea!  :wub:  
"My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought, cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives." Hedley Lamarr, Blazing Saddles

Life is too short to worry about perfection

Youtube: https://tinyurl.com/46dpfdpr

Gary

#3
May 04, 2006, 04:41:29 AM
Sorry for the hijack here but I love that Valient idea too, and I just landed a SR53 from a friend.

Would a Victor be appropriate, a Vulcan?
Getting back into modeling

MartG

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May 04, 2006, 04:48:30 AM
Did you look at this page ?

http://www.spaceuk.org/sr53/f155/f155.htm
Murphy's 1st Law - An object at rest will be in the wrong place
Murphy's 2nd Law - An object in motion will be going in the wrong direction
Murphy's 3rd Law - For every action, there is an equal and opposite malfunction

The Rat

#5
May 04, 2006, 05:00:26 AM
QuoteWould a Victor be appropriate, a Vulcan?
Either one would be ultracool! I can see a double here, a Valiant/SR53 combo as a test project, and a Victor or Vulcan as the final product.

Must - get - more - SR53s - ...
"My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought, cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives." Hedley Lamarr, Blazing Saddles

Life is too short to worry about perfection

Youtube: https://tinyurl.com/46dpfdpr

Hobbes

#6
May 05, 2006, 05:45:07 AM
No one?

Are there any books that have more information on this project?  

Howard of Effingham

#7
May 05, 2006, 08:26:37 AM
Quote
QuoteWould a Victor be appropriate, a Vulcan?
Either one would be ultracool! I can see a double here, a Valiant/SR53 combo as a test project, and a Victor or Vulcan as the final product.

Must - get - more - SR53s - ...
a vulcan might be more interesting as there was once a proposal for the vulcan
to carry three folland gnats, possibly manned but more likely as a very early UK
'cruise missile' [and with a nuclear warhead iirc.]

afaik, there was not a proposal for using the victor as a carrier aircraft.

more SR53's?  :unsure: definately!  :D light years ago [early 1960's?] there was
[as i have one in the stash] an airfix kit of the SR53.
Keeper of George the Cat.

jcf

#8
May 05, 2006, 12:59:56 PM
QuoteNo one?

Are there any books that have more information on this project?
I'll take a look in Barrie Hygate's British Experimental Jet Aircraft.

Cheers, Jon

jcf

#9
May 06, 2006, 11:47:21 AM
QuoteI don't think it's mentioned in the Hygate book.  It's certainly not mentioned in Project Cancelled.
Hygate has a nice set of 1/72 drawings in the book, and he does mention the basic gear design and extension-retraction sequence. But, graphically there is no more detail than the internal layout drawing in the second edition of Project Cancelled.

Cheers, Jon

Geoff_B

#10
May 06, 2006, 12:42:46 PM
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QuoteI don't think it's mentioned in the Hygate book.  It's certainly not mentioned in Project Cancelled.
Hygate has a nice set of 1/72 drawings in the book, and he does mention the basic gear design and extension-retraction sequence. But, graphically there is no more detail than the internal layout drawing in the second edition of Project Cancelled.

Cheers, Jon
Plus the Hygate book provided inspiration for some of the Project-X models

Archibald

#11
May 06, 2006, 01:32:22 PM
The Saro P.187 project was a monster! two Gyrons (15 tons of thrust each!) + four spectre rocket motors (Ie 15 rtons of thrust) this mean something like 45 tons of thrust... much more than a F-22!!! With such power this plane would have fly at mach 4 at 110 000 fts ;)
King Arthur: Can we come up and have a look?
French Soldier: Of course not. You're English types.
King Arthur: What are you then?
French Soldier: I'm French. Why do you think I have this outrageous accent, you silly king?

Well regardless I would rather take my chance out there on the ocean, that to stay here and die on this poo-hole island spending the rest of my life talking to a gosh darn VOLLEYBALL.
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