Sea typhoon ?

[ChrisF]

Now i dont want to get into a argument over the JSF... but... Considering a Navalised typhoon has been brought up as a consideration.... Three things spring to mind:

1: Has anyone tried to make one ?

2: Kit recomendations ?

3: Would you still call it a typhoon? Im thinking "Tempest" 

[rickshaw]

Wooksta more than likely has half a dozen in his collection already...   

[pyro-manic]

Kit would obviously be the Revell one - it's great, cheap, and comes with a stack of weapons.

[ChrisF]

Ive just seen your current projects list.. Looks like ive been beaten to that name change lol

[sequoiaranger]

A "Tornado at Sea" is a "waterspout". I was going to make a Hawker Tornado-at-sea (the Vulture-powered, twin exhaust stack kind) and call it a Waterspout, but never got around to it. The closest I got was my upgraded Hawker Henley at:

http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php?topic=30284.new;topicseen#new

for the look. It's too large for a fighter, but I love the look!

[GTX]

Inspiration:






Regards,

Greg

[Army of One]

Other than a navalised nose gear like the Rafale....and a beefier tail hook (?) what else would be obvious externally for a navalised version.....? Oh....other than markings.....!!!

[P1127]

Other than a navalised nose gear like the Rafale....and a beefier tail hook (?) what else would be obvious externally for a navalised version.....? Oh....other than markings.....!!!

Somewhere I have a Flight article about a naval Typhoon (back in the days when it was just called EFA) which talked about a STOVL variant with forward nozzles........

Here's a link to the PDF on the Flight archive

http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1990/1990%20-%200615.html

Hard to see how you could engineer that into a Typhoon, but I'm sure someone will give it a go!! (Possibly have the nozzles concealed behind doors?)

[The Wooksta!]

Wooksta more than likely has half a dozen in his collection already...   

Wooksta most certainly has not.  My interest in RAF aircraft stops with the cancellation of TSR2, although I do have an interest in the Hunter and Lightning which served post 65.

IIRC, I have two Eurofighters in the stash and I want shot of the pair of them.

[Steel Penguin]

how abought do them as (very) bullet ridden target hulks, with something from you favored era sutibly updated helping reduce them further?

[The Wooksta!]

Nah, rather sell them on.  Then I can buy some Spitfires instead.

[pyro-manic]

drawings of Navalised Tiffie on secret projects: http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,169.msg42852.html#msg42852

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IIRC, I have two Eurofighters in the stash and I want shot of the pair of them.

Which kits are they?

[Spey_Phantom]

there were a few sketches i found on what a navalised typhoon would look like (revised undercariage, carier approach perischope,...), but the images appear to have been removed  
im gonna see if i still have copies of them on my PC  

BTW, a comicbook writer who made "The complete Thunderbirds story" (comic on how Gerry Andersons's Thunderbirds were formed) had invisaged the Eurofighter/EAP as a carrier based aircraft  

here's a few images i scanned in





EDIT:

found them and re-uploaded them

[pyro-manic]

Those are the drawings from the link I posted.

[Spey_Phantom]

Those are the drawings from the link I posted.

whoops, sorry, havent payed attention, my bad