Anyone Ever Whiffed An Engine And Built

[Daryl J.]

With all the aftermarket nozzels for jets and cowlings/engines available in resin,  has anyone made their own machine around an engine?

The reviews of the J-79 tailpipes on another website recently got me thinking about the Avro Arrow, what could have become of that machine, and then due to thought drift, wondered about an entirely new design around certain power plants.

IE:   A Spey + Rocket + massively evolved SR.177
      Twin J-79's in pods going through a supersonic straight wing and bullet shaped fuselage for some shorter ranged recon. sprinter.
      etc.

It would be a massively scratchbuilt project but that opens doors, yes?      



Daryl J., up far too late

[Hobbes]

The Piston Perfection GB is aiming to do just that, but with piston engines instead of jets.  

[Archibald]

With all the aftermarket nozzels for jets and cowlings/engines available in resin,  has anyone made their own machine around an engine?

The reviews of the J-79 tailpipes on another website recently got me thinking about the Avro Arrow, what could have become of that machine, and then due to thought drift, wondered about an entirely new design around certain power plants.

IE:   A Spey + Rocket + massively evolved SR.177
      Twin J-79's in pods going through a supersonic straight wing and bullet shaped fuselage for some shorter ranged recon. sprinter.
      etc.

It would be a massively scratchbuilt project but that opens doors, yes?      



Daryl J., up far too late

That's something I've been thinking for some time now    
For example, aircrafts build around the M-53 turbofan, in an unreheated variant.
Podded engines are cool, too. Best example being the Vautour    

Delta wing aircraft with two J-79 would give an excellent interceptor
(a kind of F-106 / Mirage IV/ Phantom kitbash)

Got a project based on the Vautour layout.
Imagine a supersonic aircraft with two big, podded underwing turbojets in the
30 000 Ibs thrust class  such as Olympus, Iroquois, Gyron, Conway, J-75, J-58 or J-93.
Having the engine underwing free a lot of space in the fuselage, then you can house a nice weapon bay for AAMs, and fuel tanks for long range.  

Closer "real world" projects are aparently the AW-169 and Northrop N-144.
Merge them with the Vautour overall layout, and you got the interceptor of my dreams  

[Hobbes]

I would really like to find a source for some 1/72nd scale exhaust cones any of the engines that power the F-16 and F-15.

I'd have to check, but I'm pretty sure the Italeri F-16 Nato Falcon includes two different nozzles.

And there are a few aftermarket ones:list at Hannants

[elmayerle]

Well, I wouldn't quite call it whiffing an engine, but the old Revell-UK 1/48 F-4K had some rather bogus Spey nozzles (their, and for that matter, those of Revell-US, other 1/48 F-4 kits of that period (F-4E and F-4J) have these as unused parts) that appear to be ideal for 1/72 nozzles for afterburning Medways.  These could make good installations in uprated TSR-2s, P.1121s, etc.