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Supermarine Type 391

Started by GTX, December 31, 2007, 10:19:30 PM

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GTX

Hi folks,

Has anyone ever modelled a Supermarine Type 391?





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Daryl J.

What a beautiful machine!!!!!    


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Jennings

Never seen that one before!  What a beauty!  What are the lumps on either side of the cowling though?

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QuoteNever seen that one before!  What a beauty!  What are the lumps on either side of the cowling though?

J
Depending on what powers the thing, those may just be blisters to accomodate rocker covers or some other engine part, the nose does look pretty narrow so I don't think that's unplausible.

Definitely a beautiful aircraft.
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Its powered by a RR Eagle, which would explain the location of the lumps. From what I recall of the Westland Wyvern, there should be exhaust pipes there too. Perhaps theyre tucked away into some sort of turbocharger setup?
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Modelling it? Hmm, the wings & tail are pretty close to a Mustang, so you could start there.  You'd have to scratch the radiators of course.  Fuse, now that's more tricky, but for one that slender you might be able to start with a Westland Whirlwind, it'd need a lot of modification.  Classic Airframes do it in 1/48 Greg.
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That's a beauty!  That would be a sure thing for the 'Piston Perfection' GB!
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Funny, never heard of it but I've drawn virtually the same design before.  Cool!
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Considering that it was proposed to be powered by this lump:

The Rolls Royce 22 'Eagle', the fairing on the side would be to cover the heads as already mentioned above.

This photo incidently, is of a 1/5 scale fully working model of the engine and was built by Barry Hares (a Aircraft Engine Historical Society member)

Here's what the rest of it looks like:
http://www.enginehistory.org/eagle_22.htm

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GTX

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Sorry folks,  I should have posted some more details.  As Wooksta mentioned, it is essentially a much modified Spiteful/SeaFang - see pg 30 of British Secret Projects 3: Fighters and Bombers 1935-1950.

BTW, here is the similar Hawker P1030 also mentioned in that excerpt:



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Greg
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perttime

Somebody has modeled Supermarine Type 391... as a Radio Control model.

I'm not sure what the status of the model is now but it flew OK until a minor landing mishap.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_V2HqAZzms






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That's both a nice looking design and model of it.
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Germany wasn't the only country with some interesting ideas before the end of WW2...