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BAe Spectre SR-1

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deathjester

September 16, 2012, 02:38:14 PM
Ever wondered why Britain seemingly gave up on the Space Race?  It's because we didn't need to bother - we'd already won it...

Here I present the aircraft the RAF will never admit to having, to the extent of basing them at Ascension Island, far away from eagle - eyed planespotters, and blaming sightings on American cover ups.  Ladies and Gentlemen, let me lift the veil on the BAe Spectre Strategic Reconnaisance aircraft...







The Model:

This is a little 1/300?  scale Concorde I picked up a while ago, with the intention of creating a Concorde bomber.  Of course, this was precisely two days before everyone started posted pics of their Bombcorde builds!  Ho hum, back to the old drawing board.  Then, I thought of what no one else seemed to have envisioned - a spaceplane!

So, I replaced the nose with a spare part from the spares box, popped the engines atop the wings, and gave her a NASA space shuttle scheme...

Old Wombat

#1
September 16, 2012, 02:53:23 PM
Sweet! :thumbsup:

:cheers:

Guy
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The Rat

#2
September 16, 2012, 04:57:57 PM
Excellent! Now, photoshop some in-flight pics and send them in to some organization like MUFON, they'll go nuts!
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deathjester

#3
September 16, 2012, 05:05:40 PM
Quote from: The Rat on September 16, 2012, 04:57:57 PM
Excellent! Now, photoshop some in-flight pics and send them in to some organization like MUFON, they'll go nuts!
Oh now that's tempting!

chrisonord

#4
September 16, 2012, 05:27:10 PM
I likes that Jay. This gives me some inspiration to finish a spaceplane from a concord I filed away last year  :thumbsup:
You need to build a SHADO version now ;)
Chris
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Cobra

#5
September 16, 2012, 07:45:33 PM
this is Superb :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: has a Thunderbirds feel to it!  Agree that a SHADO version should be built,along with a SPECTRUM version too! Keep up the Superb work :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: Dan

Mossie

#6
September 17, 2012, 04:15:45 AM
Wooosh!!! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughin'. He gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it.

MiB

#7
September 17, 2012, 05:09:40 AM
Seems like the Starflight One, do u remembre the movie?
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Steel Penguin

#8
September 17, 2012, 05:11:37 AM
very nice and with a little photo manip certain to make people scratch there heads.
the things you learn, give your mind the wings to fly, and the chains to hold yourself steady
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wow, its like freefalling into the Geofront
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Army of One

#9
September 18, 2012, 01:57:45 AM
I agree with Chris an Dan...... :thumbsup:.....great work on the kit as well.....
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deathjester

#10
September 18, 2012, 09:16:26 AM
Quote from: MiB on September 17, 2012, 05:09:40 AM
Seems like the Starflight One, do u remembre the movie?
...was Lee Majors the pilot in that one :-\  IIRC, the plane was saboutaged?...and got stuck in orbit, and they ended up sending up TWO shuttles, with refitted Saturn fuel tanks that were pressurised, as lifeboats?
Is that the one you mean?

Mossie

#11
September 19, 2012, 05:33:18 AM
Ohhh yeah, I'd more or less forgotten about that one until you described it!  Saturday afternoon specials on ITV, old or ropey movies wedged in between the sports in the early afternoon and the usual light entertainment in the evening.  Seen worse, but I've seen much, much better as well!!!!! :lol:
I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughin'. He gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it.

MiB

#12
September 19, 2012, 05:53:25 AM
Quote from: deathjester on September 18, 2012, 09:16:26 AM
Quote from: MiB on September 17, 2012, 05:09:40 AM
Seems like the Starflight One, do u remembre the movie?
...was Lee Majors the pilot in that one :-\  IIRC, the plane was saboutaged?...and got stuck in orbit, and they ended up sending up TWO shuttles, with refitted Saturn fuel tanks that were pressurised, as lifeboats?
Is that the one you mean?
Sure! :thumbsup:
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TallEng

#13
September 19, 2012, 11:54:40 AM
Is it me or does that have a certain Duck-Billed Platypusness about it?  :drink:

Nice Spacecord :thumbsup:

Regards
Keith
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deathjester

#14
September 19, 2012, 01:39:02 PM
Quote from: MiB on September 19, 2012, 05:53:25 AM
Quote from: deathjester on September 18, 2012, 09:16:26 AM
Quote from: MiB on September 17, 2012, 05:09:40 AM
Seems like the Starflight One, do u remembre the movie?
...was Lee Majors the pilot in that one :-\  IIRC, the plane was saboutaged?...and got stuck in orbit, and they ended up sending up TWO shuttles, with refitted Saturn fuel tanks that were pressurised, as lifeboats?
Is that the one you mean?
Sure! :thumbsup:
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Quote from: Mossie on September 19, 2012, 05:33:18 AM
Ohhh yeah, I'd more or less forgotten about that one until you described it!  Saturday afternoon specials on ITV, old or ropey movies wedged in between the sports in the early afternoon and the usual light entertainment in the evening.  Seen worse, but I've seen much, much better as well!!!!! :lol:
Saturday afternoons when I was a kid was so cool:  from around 12.30 - ish, in the break between the sports programmes, they would play 'The A-Team', 'Airwolf', and/or 'Knight Rider' !!
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(sigh)  Those were the days...
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