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[Brian da Basher]

I should probably be embarrassed to post this after Mr Howling Mouse's amazing Buffalo, but here it is anyway, something I call the Avia R-9 Prototype:









Brian da Basher

[HOG]

 hI All
If Brians embarrassed, I`m just making up the numbers.
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At least I`m no longer a GBV.
regards
Gary

[Glenn Gilbertson]

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Anxious to move quickly into a new era, Hawkers pushed the development of the Fury monoplane. The RAF were keen to adopt the Rolls Royce Goshawk evaporatively cooled engine, and arguments raged over the value of fuselage mounted guns as opposed to fitting them in the wings. Two evaluation batches were ordered; the Goshawk meant that the whole of the front of the wings had to be devoted to cooling, so four machine guns were fuselage mounted in the  Harpy I as the monoplane was renamed. The second batch , the Harpy II, retained the Kestrel engine and the two fuselage mounted machine guns of the Fury but added two machine guns in each wing. The wings had a lighter wing structure than the Harpy I, being largely fabric covered. Two new squadrons were formed, 73 sqn with the Harpy II achieving service before 213 sqn with the troublesome Goshawk engines. After short front-line service the Harpy IIs became useful trials aircraft, while Harpy Is were re-engined with Kestrels as popular senior officers' runabouts.
Hawker Harpy I, squadron commander 213 sqn:



Hawker Harpy I with Harpy II of A flight commander 73 sqn:









 

[cthulhu77]

1929 Sith Lord Craft, DKM Fafnir:

[McGreig]

Hurricane, remanufactured from a damaged airframe as a simplified shturmovik with additional armour and a fixed undercarriage. One of a batch of twelve undergoing combat trials with the 17 Guards ShAP in late 1943.

[kitnut617]

Oh! crap.  Another very hard decision coming up I think. Will there be a 1st, 2nd, 3rd this time?

[kitbasher]

Republic Cheyenne I HD110, NF-L, 146 Sqn RAF, 1944
The Republic A-47 Cheyenne was the result of an urgent USAAC requirement for a dive bomber.  Fuelled by the early success of the Ju87 and, particularly after Pearl Harbor, Imperial Japanese Navy dive bombers, the USAAC wanted an easy to build, quick to deliver machine for use by late-1942.
Of the proposals studied, Republic's design – based upon the P-47 fighter – appeared to fit the bill.  Although its cranked wing and spatted undercarriage appeared rather anachronistic, the type promised a degree of bombing accuracy not associated with conventional bombing (useful for pinpointing jungle targets) the design was rugged and could carry a useful bomb load.  Production and maintenance was greatly aided by commonality with the P-47 and an order for 500 machines was hastily placed.  The type was designated A-47A Cheyenne by the USAAC.
In the event, such was the nature of the Pacific War that the need for the type was limited, and only half of the production run served with American forces, mostly in China (not the environment for which the A-47 was planned to operate, some machines were transferred to Nationalist Chinese forces) and the rest with training units.  Approximately 75 were delivered to Australia, where they proved useful in the fight against the Japanese in Papua New Guinea.  Similarly, the RAF made good use of a 100 Cheyenne Is (as the A-47A was known to the British) in the Burma and Malaya campaigns.  Not unsurprisingly, the combination of cranked wing, spatted undercarriage, the P-47 link and the dive bomber role led the type to become quickly known as the 'Stukabolt' by the RAF.
The type served with front line units until the end of 1944, but soldiered on in diminishing numbers as unit hacks and communications aircraft until mid-1945.
(donor kits: Matchbox P-47 Thunderbolt; Airfix F4U-1 Corsair, Hurricane IIc/IV, Typhoon Ib)
NO STUKAS OR VALS WERE HURT IN THE MAKING OF THIS MODEL! 

[Brian da Basher]

Here's something I call the P-2 Balisong:





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