Supermarine Jetfire MkI

[kitbasher]

Excellent!  I shall now consign my stalled attempt at something similar but based on an old FROG Me262 to the bin!

[Devilfish]

One of the better Jet Spitfire variants that I have ever seen.

Well done.   

Jim

I'd go one better and say the best I have ever seen! Well done!

[Old Wombat]

Excellent!  I shall now consign my stalled attempt at something similar but based on an old FROG Me262 to the bin!

Don't do that, dude!

Make it into a tank-killer!



Guy

[tc2324]

Another worthy contender for the whiffies and as mentioned, probably the best looking Jetfire seen. 

[Gondor]

I haven't got a pic at the moment ,but the undercarriage is pure 262 , as I used the complete 262 centre section to the outer edge of the engines, seemed simpler to do that way.

Andrew

Thank you very much for that information Andrew

Gondor

[wuzak]

It looks so right you wonder why it wasn't done.

FWIW, the British did have an axial flow jet in the works - the Metropolitan Vickers F.2. This first flew in November 1943 on Gloster Meteor DG204/G.



Metrovicks had started with a turboprop, the F.1, but this was abandoned to be redeveloped as the F.2 turbojet when Whittle showed his pure jet turbine. The F.2 was though to be too unreliable to be put into production, but it led, eventualy, to the Armstrong-Siddeley Sapphire.