Gnarly Nene's

[Daryl J.]

In thinking of a future group build subject, I wondered what aircraft were based on that engine type.

Shooting Star
MiG-15
MiG-17  sorta
Panther
Cougar
Sea Hawk

What else?


Somehow a massive mixup of gnarly Nene's seems to be plausible.......
Daryl J.
     

[GTX]

Other Nene (or Nene derivative) powered aircraft were:

• Supermarine Attacker
• Il-28 Beagle

Regards,

Greg

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

Tunnan ?

Ian

[jcf]

Supermarine Attacker
Supermarine Swift; prototypes VV106 (Type 510) and VV119 (Type 528 as tail dragger, Type 535 with tricycle gear, only Nene equipped with reheat. VV119 starred as Prometheus in the film Sound Barrrier).

Hawker P.1040 (developed into Sea Hawk)
Hawker P.1052 (swept wing 1040)
Hawker P.1072 (Nene and Sidney Snarler rocket equipped 1040)
Hawker P.1081 (swept wing and tail, straight-through jet pipe 1052)

Vickers Type 618 Viking

Handley-Page H.P.88

Boulton-Paul P.111
Boulton-Paul P.120

Gloster E.1/44
Gloster Meteor F.4; RA490 vectored thrust research aircraft (Westland did the modification).
Gloster CXP-1001 design for the Nationalist Chinese was to be Nene powered.

De Havilland Vampire II, elephant-ear intakes
De Havilland Vampire F.Mk.30 (RAAF)

Avro Tudor 8
Avro Lancastrian Nene test-beds
Avro 706 Ashton

Armstrong-Whitworth A.W.52

EE Canberra; 2nd prototype VN813

Rolls-Royce Thrust Measuring Rig; "The Flying Bedstead"


Only the F9F-2 and re-engined -3 were J42 (RR Nene) powered, the other Panthers and the Cougars were powered by the J48 (RR Tay).

Tunnan was D-H Ghost powered, license built by Svenska Flygmotor (Volvo Aero) as the RM2.

Cheers, Jon

[Archibald]

There's also a french conection. The Nene powered many early French aircrafts.
In fact it was the only engine available in France before the atar 101 come (in 1954!).

A short list

- MD-450 Ouragan (+ the AW variant MD-451)
- Mystere II (AW variant MD-453)
- Mistral (a Vampire with a Nene instead of the Goblin).
- Two bombers in the Canberra class : NC-270 and SO-4000.
- Grognard
- Naval fighters (Arsenal VG-90, NC-1080, Nord 2200)
- The SO-30R (a piston engine airliner modified with Nene. First flight 15/03/1951).
- The SO-6020 Espadon

Don't forget that the improved Nene  become the J-48 in the USA (Panther) but also the Hispano Suiza Verdon in France.
This powered... the Mystere IV (and its AW variant  Mystere IVN).