Rocket Fighters

[ysi_maniac]

Bereznyak-Isayev
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bereznyak-Isayev_BI-1
http://tanks45.tripod.com/Jets45/Histories/BI-6/BI-6.htm

[jcf]

http://www.airwar.ru/enc/fww2/bi1.html

[Doc Yo]

 Still my favorite chapter in Green's Rocket Fighter. Through no deliberate action on my part, I have
three of the things, one the VP Canada vac, and two in styrene from some small Russian company. Tiny,
Tiny little airplane.

[raafif]

I did start a Rocket Fighters thread a month or two ago but I'll post my idea here too ...

Jet engines prove unreliable so rockets are used -- the EE Lightning gets 2 rocket-engines like the (Saunders-Roe SR-53) -- short endurance mandates the use of a booster fuel-cell to get to altitude before attacking the incoming enemy bombers -- as they don't need a nose intake, the space is used to house folding-fin barrage-rockets in a circular bank (radar is not needed due to ground-control & no long patrols to seek the enemy at a distance).



this is a Whif site after all ...

[Runway ? ...]

Shades of Bachem Natter. Well, the Lightning was kinda for point defense I suppose. 

[dy031101]

As one of the designs made to the F.115T requirement and based on Avro 720, in my mind no-one does it better than Avro 729.

Just find an excuse to take away operationally-restriction-free afterburners and the rocket boosters would be all the more useful again.  

[ysi_maniac]

But this is genial

[Jschmus]

Looks like the Japanese got in on the game, at least for a time, with the Mizuno Shinryu interceptor:

http://www.j-aircraft.org/xplanes/hikoki_files/shinryu.htm

[Weaver]

Nice one Raafif! 

I followed a similar line of thought, but in an earlier timeframe, with my Gloster Goblin: http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,28131.0.html

[raafif]

love that Wobblin' Goblin, weaver  

Actually I cheated a bit on the rocket-nose -- a few years ago I saw a pic (think it was in the news section of Flypast) of two Lightning forward fuselages modified for a sci-fi movie (rather like a cross between UFO & Space 1999) -- they had the radome removed & a bank of rocket-tubes instead, the cockpit sides were padded out too.

Anyone have the pic or the name of the movie ??

[ChernayaAkula]

With that huge booster rocket, that Lightning reminds me of those Stratos 4 anti-meteor TSR.2s!  

[Weaver]

love that Wobblin' Goblin, weaver  

Actually I cheated a bit on the rocket-nose -- a few years ago I saw a pic (think it was in the news section of Flypast) of two Lightning forward fuselages modified for a sci-fi movie (rather like a cross between UFO & Space 1999) -- they had the radome removed & a bank of rocket-tubes instead, the cockpit sides were padded out too.

Anyone have the pic or the name of the movie ??

Wing Commander, based on the computer game:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_Commander_(film)

It also used Canberra fuselages as the "heavy fighter".

[The Wooksta!]

I rather enjoyed that film.  Saffron Burrows is quite hot too.

[Weaver]

Me too. 

S'funny isn't it? Sometimes you can watch a film, and you can see exactly why it got critically panned, and agree that it deserved it, but you still enjoy watching it. Mood and blood alcohol level have a bearing on the matter, of course....

[ysi_maniac]

German Rocket Fighters