BAE Nimrod

[Thorvic]

Builds up OK as well, although it does NEED the extra nose weight. The Heritage White Metal undercarriage and resin nose gear bay might be handy for the AEW3 version.

This was my build from earlier in the summer:-



Geoff

[kitnut617]

That sure does look good Geoff,  nicely done 

[Captain Canada]

Oh yeah, that is a real beauty, Geoff. Where on earth do you keep all these giant birds you build ?

[Hobbes]

I don't suppose there's a Nimrod AEW in 1:144? Otherwise I might have to pick up an Airfix Nimrod sometime soon...

[Howard of Effingham]

The conversion is here http://cammett.websds.net/ and its about £25

mine only cost £XX  from antics in coventry

and i have some NASCAR decals too..... 

[Mossie]

I don't suppose there's a Nimrod AEW in 1:144? Otherwise I might have to pick up an Airfix Nimrod sometime soon...

Welsh Models do a vacform Nimrod in 1/144, but I don't know of an AEW kit or conversion in that scale.
http://www.hannants.co.uk/search/?FULL=WHPJW32

[Daryl J.]

How about a 6 engined Nimrod?

That conversion above looks great too btw.



Daryl J.

[RLBH]

Or, go the other way: a two-engined Nimrod. The Treasury hears that two engines are often shut down once on station to save fuel and stay on station longer (true), and decides that it would be a good idea to save money by removing the other two.

Of course, it's expensive to remove one engine from each wing, and connect the wing back on, so both engines are taken out of the same wing 

Well, maybe not. But there might be some sort of sensible reason...

[Hobbes]

The two remaining engines would have to be a bit bigger. If you think the MRA4 has big intakes, imagine having CFM56s buried in the wing roots 

[kitnut617]

--- imagine having CFM56s buried in the wing roots 

hmm!  If the engines are short enough to fit in between the wing spars that's a possibility, but if not I can see a major problem getting enough strength into some very large banjo hoops that would be needed for the spars

[Aircav]

Could always mount four turboprops above the wings, he,he. 

[royabulgaf]

I don't know if this is the right place to post.  I ordered the Cammett conversion a week ago, and I got it yesterday.  I live in the US.  Hats off to cammett.

[elmayerle]

--- imagine having CFM56s buried in the wing roots 

hmm!  If the engines are short enough to fit in between the wing spars that's a possibility, but if not I can see a major problem getting enough strength into some very large banjo hoops that would be needed for the spars

If they'll fit beween the wing spars, I can just see two CFM56s installed with bifurcated inlets and exhausts (using existing structure) to keep the structural changes down.  That would look distinctively different.

[kitnut617]

If they'll fit beween the wing spars, I can just see two CFM56s installed with bifurcated inlets and exhausts (using existing structure) to keep the structural changes down.  That would look distinctively different.

If they fit, it would have to have streamlined fairings leading over the front spar similar to a Meteor,  would you have the inlet set quite a bit forward of this streamlining and in front of the wing leading edge or could it have the inlets set further back over the wing ? What would be better aerodynamically ?  What aerodynamic interference do you think could happen between the nacelle and fuselage ?

[Weaver]

Actually, it would be relatively easy, structurally speaking, to convert the MRA.4 wing to take one, bigger engine in each wing root. The intake/exhaust paths arn't "holes in the spar" as they were on the MR.2, rather the spar has a separate "spectacle frame" section which joins the outer wing to the centre box. You could "just" unbolt the "spectacle frame" and replace it with a "monacle frame" relatively easily.

Why you'd want to is another matter of course, since you'd lose a chunk of airfoil section over the new, bigger engine, and the BR.715s are very efficient anyway.....