Stealth Arrow

[Alvis 3.1]

A top view of the Stealth Arrow showing both lineages of kits: CF-105 and MiG-37

[TsrJoe]

waw waw waw !!! that is sooo sweet...  

[Captain Canada]

Well, it's ugly...but it's alot less ugly than the real -37 !

But of course, that delta wing and those leafy roundels really make the bird

It does look rather mean, eh ?

[TsrJoe]

go on do us a write up on how you did it...id sop love one of those for my own collection...sooo sweet...! im guessing the 48 scale MiG 37 kit with 72 Arrow wings and cockpit? hmmm...what have you done re its undercart tho ?

[Swamphen]

Sweet!


Background, man, we need background!!    

[Alvis 3.1]

Kits that died to make the Steath Arrow; 1/48 Testors Mig-37 and 1/72 HobbyCraft Avro Arrow..the undercarriage  used was the stock 1/48 one...never looked right tho on a 1/72 scale bird..by this point in the mass "build an Arrow" program I was just getting em done...and screw the accuracy!

Story:
In the mid-1970s, Avro was approached by DARPA and the USAF to construct several prototype aircraft utilising stealth capability. Having built 3 planes, Avro was subsequently disappointed to lose out to Grumman for what was to known as the F-117 Black Leopard Stealth Fighter. The three planes were subsequently utilised by the CAF in a covert reconaissance role, supporting Canadian and UN units in the field. All three were eventually lost, the first over Serbia in 1999, the second over Iraq in 2002, and the last somewhere over Baffin Island in what may have been a shoot down incident with Danish fighters.

Aircraft was offically never named, but was known as the Dark Arrow popularly.



Alvis 3.1 B)