de Havilland dh89s Sea Dragon

[Bungle]

I was watching something on one of the Discovery channels last week and it included the Fairey Swordfish wings folded on a WWII carrier. Something stirred and a What-if started bubbling up (must have been the curry). So looking through the stash I find a Heller Dragon Rapide and the juices start flowing.... What if the RN required a twin engined torpedo bomber. Hmmmm.....

A furious weekends work and I have chopped the wings into four pieces (ok they started in five pieces so actually I glued them and then chopped them), deglazed the fuselage and I'm adding a upper turret, forward firing cannons and uprating the engines to radials.

This could be messy !

[Caveman]

nice!

I am imagining something along the lines of the Potez 620 but with the second wing.

[ysi_maniac]

I did not know that Potez. It is a beauty. Thanks for posting!

[Bungle]

Finished.

Not quite as I imagined but here's the Sea Dragon....

[Ed S]

Interesting concept.  I'm not sure how well it would have worked, but it looks good.

Ed

[Daryl J.]

Sweet!




Daryl J.

[Captain Canada]

Oh I like that Bungle ! Looks like it would have been right at home on a mid-war carrier deck...and then remain there until wars end ! Could have even been the a/c that first struck the Bismark !