Airfix Valiant, who will be first with these?

Mossie · April 01, 2011, 02:11:46 AM

If you wanted to it you could mount two of them on that high wing of the Valiant. Might be stretching it, but would look good.

rickshaw · April 01, 2011, 03:39:08 AM

Quote from: Mossie on April 01, 2011, 02:11:46 AM
If you wanted to it you could mount two of them on that high wing of the Valiant. Might be stretching it, but would look good.

Quicker way to see the Valiant on the scrap heap. It had enough problems with the added stresses the wing tanks added. Nice design, just too lightly stressed.

Mossie · April 01, 2011, 04:15:55 AM

The B.2 would have had a strengthend wing.

The Wooksta! · April 01, 2011, 05:01:20 AM

The stuff about low level causing the stress fractures of the wing spars is bunkum. It was the alloy used. I heard a tale that there was a wing spar at Vickers that had never been fitted, just sitting on the stores yet that also had similar stress fractures and it had zero flight hours on it!

PR19_Kit · April 01, 2011, 10:17:24 AM

Carrying the fuel in tanks mounted mid-wing actually lessens the fatigue loads, not increases them. But the Valiants broke anyway, just as The Wooksta explained.

[This will now generate about 15 pages of people either refuting my 'wing tank' thoughts or agreeing with them.....

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The Rat · April 01, 2011, 10:21:57 AM

Quote from: The Wooksta! on April 01, 2011, 05:01:20 AM
The stuff about low level causing the stress fractures of the wing spars is bunkum. It was the alloy used. I heard a tale that there was a wing spar at Vickers that had never been fitted, just sitting on the stores yet that also had similar stress fractures and it had zero flight hours on it!

Must have been the same folks who made British Leyland gear boxes, I had a few troubles with them losing teeth!

MAD · April 02, 2011, 10:44:14 PM

I'm still hoping for a top-notch Valiant B.2 profile in RAAF colours and markings

Been trying in vain to get one of these for many many years

M.A.D

Maverick · April 02, 2011, 11:25:33 PM

I've done at least three for the RAAF, all being B.2s or variants on the theme.

MAD · April 03, 2011, 06:30:52 AM

Quote from: Maverick on April 02, 2011, 11:25:33 PM
I've done at least three for the RAAF, all being B.2s or variants on the theme.

Yeah you are probably 100% John, but as I said, I've lost so many of your arts of work with the crash and burn of my old computer - I can not honestly remember all the great pieces you have done

Sorry mate

M.A.D

Maverick · April 03, 2011, 06:42:23 AM

Nps Rob, they're all here: http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php?topic=13503.new;topicseen#new (somewhere)

Regards,

Mav

MAD · April 04, 2011, 04:23:20 AM

Hey great find Overkiller

M.A.D

pyro-manic · April 04, 2011, 04:48:56 AM

That Mk.IV Scheme V is gorgeous.

fourth from the bottom. Lovely wing shape!

rickshaw · April 04, 2011, 05:50:57 AM

What? No mention of the Valiant as an SR.53 launch aircraft?

The Rat · April 04, 2011, 06:04:14 AM

Quote from: rickshaw on April 04, 2011, 05:50:57 AM
What? No mention of the Valiant as an SR.53 launch aircraft?

Believe I've seen drawings of that, and it would look great. But I'm really leaning toward the bare-metal prototype, it just screams 1950s cool! I just have to hope my skills with bare metal, presently non-existant, will someday be up to the task.

The Wooksta! · April 04, 2011, 07:04:06 AM

Except the intakes are different on the prototype, although I'm sure someone will do a prototype intake at some stage. If you have to have a Valiant in NMF there were some early production ones that served in NMF.