What to do with a frog Gannet

[Rheged]

Ah yes, I remember that now, a bit of knife and file work, and a basic cockpit should do, as it will be painted black anyway. Thinking inside the box a tad, would the griffon be powerful enough for it to carry a sizeable load?

It might be a tad short on power, the Griffon had around 2500 bhp and the Double Mamba 3500-4000 bhp. But the Gannet could cruise with only half of the Double Mamba running. Maybe JATO bottles to help its take -off?

I have some spare from  wyvern in my bits boxes, so they could well be used on this.

I would imagine that a Wyvern engine  rescued from your  bits box   (1 × Armstrong Siddeley Python , 3,560 hp +1,100 lbf  residual thrust  according to Wiki)  would be sufficient to persuade  a Gannet  to get up and go, assuming that the overall length of the Python didn't cause CofG  or visibility problems.  I'd be most interested to see such a beast should you choose to build it

[PR19_Kit]

That's the B-54, packing a Griffon, which answers Chris's question. Blackburn flew it with a piston engine before the Double Mamba (B-88) was ready.

Darn it, I clicked on the wrong pic in my Blackburn library, sorry.

[Gondor]

My immediate thought when I read the thread title was, throw it in the bin. 

Gondor

[Rheged]

My immediate thought when I read the thread title was, throw it in the bin. 

Gondor

It wasn't quite that  bad!

[chrisonord]

I bought several for a few quid each, just for the engines and wings, the rest didn't even get a thought about any use. I don't have any other wyvern bits, hence the spare griffon being used. I wanted to make something different, as single engined bomber types were a rarety during ww2.

[Gondor]

I wanted to make something different, as single engined bomber types were a rarety during ww2.

That's because of how poorly the Battle did. Not its fault, the specification for the resulting aircraft was at fault.

Gondor

[chrisonord]

I wanted to make something different, as single engined bomber types were a rarety during ww2.

That's because of how poorly the Battle did. Not its fault, the specification for the resulting aircraft was at fault.

Gondor

I was also thinking of the welsley as they were a bit lacking too.

[Gondor]

I wanted to make something different, as single engined bomber types were a rarety during ww2.

That's because of how poorly the Battle did. Not its fault, the specification for the resulting aircraft was at fault.

Gondor

I was also thinking of the welsley as they were a bit lacking too.

Oh yeah, I forgot about them