Fairey Barracuda

[GTX]

Hi folks,

How about some Fairey Barracuda whiffs - I'll start:

Some late war AEW or ASW versions:




Regards,

Greg

[PR19_Kit]

Now that I like!

The Radar-Barra looks the part a treat. Not only that, I have the bits to make one too..........

But probably not enough room on the bench to fit it with all the other projects I have running just now!

[GTX]

Maybe some alternative operators:

USN?
RAN?
RSAN?
RNZN?
USSR or even...Japan (if you ignore the fin flash, this one below could almost have Hinomorus on it):



Regards,

Greg

[raafif]

tut, tut, isn't the Barra ugly enough without sticking a radar belly on it ?

[PR19_Kit]

tut, tut, isn't the Barra ugly enough without sticking a radar belly on it ?

Eh? The Barra doesn't even come CLOSE in the 'World's Ugliest Aircraft' competition.

You want Ugly? Try a Blackburn Blackburn, yeuk! Or that diabolocal 'thing' that Boeing made from a 747 to carry bits of 777 about, strewth.......

[jcf]

tut, tut, isn't the Barra ugly enough without sticking a radar belly on it ?

Eh? The Barra doesn't even come CLOSE in the 'World's Ugliest Aircraft' competition.

You want Ugly? Try a Blackburn Blackburn, yeuk! Or that diabolocal 'thing' that Boeing made from a 747 to carry bits of 777 about, strewth.......

787 parts actually Kit. 

And as I see them fly over the house on a regular basis I have to disagree about their level of ugliness.
The Dreamlifter (daft name, I'll give you that) is still a 747 and thus her root prettiness still comes through as she passes overhead. 
I'm admittedly biased as I worked on the 747 and have always thought her the most attractive of the large jets.

Jon

[Mossie]

Always thought the Barracuda might be ugglied up even more with the introdutcion of a RR Vulture & a suitably odd looking intake.

The Dreamlifter kind of reminds me of an armadillo, not ugly as such, just bizzare.

[PR19_Kit]

787 parts actually Kit. 

Whatever, a similar job to the Beluga anyway.

And as I see them fly over the house on a regular basis I have to disagree about their level of ugliness.
The Dreamlifter (daft name, I'll give you that) is still a 747 and thus her root prettiness still comes through as she passes overhead. 

As always, it's in the eye of the beholder of course.

To my mind the Beluga, vast though it is, has much more 'style' than the Dreamlifter. The Boeing's fuselage transitions just don't hack it for me. I'm within visual range of Belugas flying into Filton, they look like fast Zeppelins from here......

[kitnut617]

Well I came across this photo, Griffon power egg installation

[jcf]

To my mind the Beluga, vast though it is, has much more 'style' than the Dreamlifter. The Boeing's fuselage transitions just don't hack it for me. I'm within visual range of Belugas flying into Filton, they look like fast Zeppelins from here......

The first time I saw 747-LCF it was fairly low and the sky was filled with multiple layers of cloud ... the aircraft appeared from one cloud and went into another with only the fuselage clearly in view, the first thing that popped into my head was 'Zeppelin'. 

Being quite familiar with the 747 structural layout, I have to say they didn't have much choice in the transitions as the aircraft are rebuilds and
they had to do it with as few modifications to the 41 Section as possible. Redesigning the front end would have raised the cost enormously.

[PR19_Kit]

Well I came across this photo, Griffon power egg installation

Robert,

That's getting there in the ugliness stakes anyway. 

Those are some SERIOUSLY broad prop blades, I wonder if they nicked them off a Ta-152.........?

[Mossie]

Heck, that griffon powered monstrosity is, well, a monstrosity!  Must be built!

[kitnut617]

Got to thinking about it last night, it might be the Merlin power egg found on Lancaster Mk.VI and Lincolns, the spinner looks quite blunt.

EDIT:  no I've found another photo of it, it is the prototype of the Mk.V and did have a Griffon.

[PR19_Kit]

That dorsal fin makes it look even worse, if that's possible! Fairey's Design Office seem to have been taking ugly pills while they 'developed' the Barra.

[GTX]

EDIT:  no I've found another photo of it, it is the prototype of the Mk.V and did have a Griffon.

Which is what I based my first profiles upon.

Regards,

Greg