Grumman Wolfhound Erieye AEW & C

[McColm]

The build, the Heller model kit isn't what you'd call refined. So I just cut out the vacformed fuselage halves and glued the cockpit parts together,then added them to the Hawkeye fuselage trimming the rear so it fits inside the vacformed fuselage. Not quite a perfect fit but at least the wings fit. With a bit of PSR the Greyhound shape will be formed.
I'm using the book American Secret Projects U.S. Airlifters Since 1962, Chapter six Carrier On-Boar Delivery as a reference as there's a few design changes before the prototype was built. This isn't going to be accurate representation when finished hence the name change.
I have opted for the Erieye AEW &C version.

[McColm]

Backstory

 The British Royal Navy wanted a multi-purpose aircraft to replace the Fairey Gannet for the two new super aircraft carriers that were expected to enter service in the 1960s. This never happened but they had placed an order for fifty Grumman Wolfhounds, across the pond the US Navy had the same idea to replace the Grumman Tracker, Tracer and Trader with one airframe but would call the Carrier On-Board Delivery the Greyhound and the AEW version the Hawkeye.
 The Wolfhounds had a twin-fin tail whereas the Americans went for a quad-fin layout, the British plumbed in in-flight refueling and continued the plumbing on the wings for drop fuel tanks or the hose & drogue refueling pods, weather/navigation radar and a fully integrated auxiliary power unit. Including a mechanised pallet handling system and provisions for the sick and wounded service personnel. Stretchers loaded or unloaded from the rear cargo ramp.
With the cancellation of the super carriers the Wolfhound wouldn't be able to land or take-off in the conventional way instead SJMcColm Engineering Limited introduced a Heliplane version so vertical take-off and landings were possible, this evolving into the tilt-rotor with fly-by-wire controls which entered service during 2005.
 All examples in the STOL arrangement had a pair of Allison T56-A-20 (the same as those fitted to the RAF's Hercules C.1s for commality) turboprops @ 4,590 shp /3,40 kW range without refueling of 1,300nm/2,400km when empty, payload of 26 passengers or 20,608lb/9,350kg.
Commercial customers had the option of a two or four turbofan-powerplant with a ten foot fuselage stretch ,these being used for short to medium range combo freighters.
 The Wolfhounds would be used in the Electronic Warfare role and as a training platform, SAR and aerial firefighters, engine upgrades and the use of carbon fiber materials with the aircraft reinventing itself for different duties, floats and skis could also be fitted due to the terrain it found itself operating in.
 In the 1990s the Royal Air Force switched from the AN/APS-120 radar for the Swedish Erieye System and upgraded the engines with carbon fiber rotor blades.

[NARSES2]

I also have a disabled persons railcard so, I get 1/3 off all rail travel (including first class). It certainly gives me an advantage that, I totally appreciate, not everyone enjoys.

A mate has the same card and on last weeks trip to York registered one of the other lads as his carer