Blackburn Stuka

[tigercat]

Skua with the engine and wings of a Stuka

Just because they had similar functions and names feasible? thoughts? better or worse than 2 original aircraft

plus of course the variant thee Blackburn Stick of Roc which is a Rocwith Stuka engine and wings.

[Logan Hartke]

I had a similar idea, though went about it in a completely different way.  This is the Vought Viking which is Stuka wings and fuselage with radial, new canopy, and other Vought-ish bits.



http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,20962.msg356574.html#msg356574

Cheers,

Logan

[jcf]

Interesting what one comes across while looking up something else in a book,
from Armament of British Aircraft 1909 - 1939, in the section on the Skua
author H. F. King quoting the Skua's designer G. E. Petty at the Fifth Sir George
Cayley Memorial Lecture in 1958:
'... Our only regret was that we were not allowed to go ahead with a simplified version
with fixed undercarriage as a first-class dive bomber for the Air Force as an answer to
the German "Stukas."'

As to the original question, putting Stuka wings on a Skua would definitely not produce
a better aircraft as the Ju 87 was aerodynamically more primitive than the Skua, which
also had a far superior flap/dive-brake system.

[pyro-manic]

Just give it an engine with a bit more poke, that'd improve it no end. A Merlin or a Hercules would be ideal. Oh, and put a prettier windscreen on it.

[DarrenP2]

Just give it an engine with a bit more poke, that'd improve it no end. A Merlin or a Hercules would be ideal. Oh, and put a prettier windscreen on it.

Or one of the more powerful American engines like the Wright 1820-G205A  or the Pratt & Whitney R-1830-S3C4g or the Bristol Hercules?

[The Wooksta!]

Bearing in mind that the Skua originally flew with the Bristol Mercury*, which was a good ten years past it's best, it didn't fly too badly with the Perseus.  The Skua is a very under rated aircraft - there was at least one ace on the type(!) - and had they been used properly as dive bombers or more built, then I'm sure history would have something better to say.  Like the Defiant, it was never intended to tangle with 109s, it was intended to take on fleet shadowers and reconnaisance types.


*After the prototype had flown and the orders were placed, the RAF pepped up and said that they needed the Mercury for all the Blenheims that were on order and can the Navy please find another engine?  I've always fancied doing an inservice Skua with a Mercury - ironically, one of the fixes for ye olde Frog kit has always been to replace the engine cowling with a Blenheim Mercury!

[kitbasher]

See https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=20057.0

[Captain Canada]

The Vought Viking looks quite Stwicking. What ?