Hawker Typhoon, Tempest, and Sea Fury

[dogsbody]

Nice one, though if it were up to me, I'd remove the outboard portions of the horizontal tailplanes.

[tigercat2]

Here are a few of my birds from Hawker.  Always liked these airplanes in their various incarnations.

Wes W.

[tigercat2]

Here are a couple more.


Wes W.

[sequoiaranger]

tigercat--I am surprised your collection didn't include one of those "Baghdad Furies" the PM made with the double-bubble hoods. I really think they look cool.

Though I would have to admit the ARTWORK on the box looked cool, but it didn't translate to the model. I found out that the box artwork is "off"--the distance from the end of the second cockpit to the tail is greatly reduced on the actual model in relation to the boxtop artwork--the boxtop artwork looks better proportioned, methinks. Seems like someone "photoshopped" a Baghdad Fury by copying the actual cockpit-to-tail portion and pasting it just behind the actual cockpit, then drew it.

[GTX]

Staying with the mid-engining theme of the moment:



Regards,

Greg

[Mossie]

Not unlike the Sea Hawk.

[rickshaw]

I'm actually surprised they didn't look at a mid-engine for the Typhoon/Tempest.  Considering the weight of the Sabre, putting it in the middle would have been a huge advantage.

[PR19_Kit]

I'm actually surprised they didn't look at a mid-engine for the Typhoon/Tempest.  Considering the weight of the Sabre, putting it in the middle would have been a huge advantage.

Apart from the poor bleeders who would have had to maintain it! My Dad flew a Typhoon a few times, and his comments on the complexity of the Sabre and the work needed to keep it going were pretty unprintable. 

[ysi_maniac]

Staying with the mid-engining theme of the moment:



Regards,

Greg

Look like that Antonov 

[Caveman]

or an il 20?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilyushin_Il-20_%281948%29

[famvburg]

     Except the Il-20 isn't mid-engined.

or an il 10?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilyushin_Il-20_%281948%29

[Just call me Ray]

Regarding the mid-engine Typhoon, I wonder if you could move the chin radiator back, if that would, uh, make it look better? 

[Weaver]

Not unlike the Sea Hawk.

You could stick a prop and Tempest wings on a Seahawk, remove the jet exhausts and then claim it's got a Sabre in the middle and make wing leading edge radiators for it, OR put NACA intakes and slot exhausts around the rear fuseleage and claim the radiator sits behind the the engine...

[kitnut617]

Not unlike the Sea Hawk.

You could stick a prop and Tempest wings on a Seahawk, remove the jet exhausts and then claim it's got a Sabre in the middle and make wing leading edge radiators for it, OR put NACA intakes and slot exhausts around the rear fuseleage and claim the radiator sits behind the the engine...

Going along with that Weaver, my favorite subject -- the exhaust turbine similar to what RR developed, the bifucated exhaust nozzles of the Sea Hawk fall right into this, like this below

[Weaver]

Alternatively, have a flat-12 under the nose, with the cockpit above it, and another flat-12 with a drive-shaft, behind a big fuselage fuel tank. The engines drive independent contraprops Gannet-style.

Sure I've posted this once already, but it seems to have vanished into cyberspace......