Fokker F27 Friendship/Troopship

[Jschmus]

This is AeroplaneDriver's Fokker Gunship from a couple of years back.

http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/Gal6/5701-5800/gal5710_AC1_Walton/00.shtm

[MAD]

There was a real world COD proposal to the USN IIRC - will try to find reference.

regards,

Greg

Hay Greg, I have read about Fokker offering a derivative of its F-28 as a multi-role tanker/COD to the USN in response to a RFP in the late 1980's, but not the F-27!

She seems a little flimsy for carrier ops

I have always been a fan of high-low ratio structure of the RAAF (wether it be fighters, transport or ASW/MP...), so as to give it both the numbers and capability at a more affordable price - what with the coastal area they have to cover.

I had always hoped (with interservice rivalry aside!!), that the RAAF may have taken on the RAN's Grumman S-2 Trackers for inner coast ASW/MP, freeing up the more capable and long endurance Lockedd P-3 Orion's to do their thing much further out.

Come to think of it after seeing the Singaporean F-27's, I wonder what a F-27 ASW/MP would look like in RAAF colours and markings???


M.A.D

[ChernayaAkula]

I'm not 100% sure whether it was a Fokker, but there was a picture of a mock-up of an MPA called "Fearless Albatross" in an issue of Air Forces Monthly. Can't remember which issue though and I can't find it.  IIRC, it was displayed at some Expo in Shanghai. Anybody know any details? It looked pretty cool. Raked wing tips as on the P-8 Poseidon and ASM launchers for Exocets () on the fuselage sides.

[Hobbes]

Google is your friend:
it's the Xian MA-60

[ChernayaAkula]

Thanks for the heads-up, Hobbes. So it wasn't a Fokker after all.

Strangely enough, Google wasn't my friend earlier on when I looked for it. Now it's acting all innocent and gives me the site you linked as the first option.

[AeroplaneDriver]

In UK service the gunship F.27 is known as the Guardian.  Four are currently deployed to Afghanistan.  The program to replace the fleet has been delayed yet again due to budget issues, so the type will likely be in RAF service for another decade.

[AeroplaneDriver]

DOH   

Jason beat me to posting it.  That'll teach me to not check page 2.

[GTX]

Hay Greg, I have read about Fokker offering a derivative of its F-28 as a multi-role tanker/COD to the USN in response to a RFP in the late 1980's, but not the F-27!

You're right, I was wrong - it was the F.28 that was offered to the USN.  Mind you, one could offer the F.27 in a whiff alt. reality .

Regards,

Greg

[GTX]

F.27 whif alt. reality

Regards,

Greg

[MAD]

Hay Apophenia
NICE work!!!!!

You have quite a talent with photoshop!

You may need to fold that tail fin down to one side to fit bellow deck!!

M.A.D

[raafif]

Quote --
       "She seems a little flimsy for carrier ops"


I'll say !!  retired Ansett/Qantas engineer told me that at every major-maintenance a certain undercarriage mounting-bolt was removed & the hole checked for "roundness".  When he first found a hole that was slightly oval...
check specs for tolerances -- hole was outside said specs -- look up manual for approved repair technique ...
manual states ... "not repairable, order new aircraft from factory" ... I kid you not.

They did a fix & advised the Fokkers.

[DarrenP]

AEW Variant

[Weaver]

Google is your friend:
it's the Xian MA-60

With that nose, it should be called the Gnu....

[AS.12]

Score!  I knew I'd seen a diagram of the F.27 King Bird with ventral AWG-9, here it is at the bottom of the page from this 1985 Flight article.

http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1985/1985%20-%201888.html

Very nifty, but I wonder if AWG-9 export licenses would have been a hindrance for the types of nations that might have been looking to purchase this rather than a "top-tier" AWACS.

Main cutaway is of the Maritime Enforcer.

Edit: here we go, some kind chap has already cropped and posted to Photobucket:

[McColm]

AEW Variant

Wow, I tried to build that. I might have a second attempt.