AIRCRAFT BRITAIN SHOULD HAVE HAD

[maxmwill]

What about the Gloster f9/37?

With a pair of Hercules making it go places instead of the Taurus?

And a quartet of cannon in the nose?

[NARSES2]

Agree re the F9/37, nice looking aeroplane.

I built an in service example and still have one other kit in the stash. Probably D.A.F. tankbuster if it gets built

[rickshaw]

Agree re the F9/37, nice looking aeroplane.

I built an in service example and still have one other kit in the stash. Probably D.A.F. tankbuster if it gets built

I too like the F.9/37 but I have one little niggle with it, the fins look WAY too small, they obviously do the job but I cannot help but to think that.

More than likely in service, the fins would have had to be increased in size IMO.  Particularly once engine power increased, as invariably it would have with successive marks.

[jcf]

What about the Gloster f9/37?

With a pair of Hercules making it go places instead of the Taurus?

And a quartet of cannon in the nose?

F.9/37 (Taurus 1st prototype, Peregrine 2nd prototype) carried five 20mm cannon,
two in the lower nose, three behind the cockpit.
Carter's later single-seat heavy fighter, the Reaper was based on F.9/37 and
had a quartet of 20mm along with 8 .303 Brownings in the belly, engines were to
be Merlins.

Yes Chris, he enlarged the vertical tails when the engines were changed from
Taurus/Peregrine to Merlin. 

[Librarian]

What about the Gloster f9/37?

With a pair of Hercules making it go places instead of the Taurus?

....and you'd almost have a Breguet 693 . Both a/c in my top 20.

[KJ_Lesnick]

F8U-3

[MAD]

Done two:

Hawker Sea Hunter


Hawker Herne (development of the Sea Hunter)

Rickshaw, I love your carrier-based Sea Hunter! But if I may, it would be more British-like if it's nose landing gear had a longer strut, which would give it better angle of attack on launching 

M.A.D

[MAD]

THE BAC AUCKLAND( typical navy didnt want to use the airforce name)

Amy chance of seeing a better/clearer (focused) photo of your BAC Auckland crudebuteffective?
Including a front-on view.

M.A.D

HERE IS A FRONT ON  will search out a better side on pic

Wow thank's crudebuteffective!! I've been wanting someone to do a dedicated ASW/ASV carrier-based variant of the Canberra for years now, and I've always contemplated what & how was the best wing-fold arrangement would be!
My only concern is the inherent problem with hanger roof clearance of the traditional wing-folding arrangement you've chosen  I was wondering if the wing-fold could be engineered to lay more over on the main-wing/fuselage? or could a Grumman wing-fold (eg Wildcat/Hellcat/Avenger arrangement) work? Regardless I love your idea and work!!
P.S. I would greatly appreciate your offer of

will search out a better side on pic

M.A.D

[DarrenP]

westland had the licence to Build the Blackhawk I suspect they were hoping to replace the Wessex HC2 and the the Lynx AH9 would this have been a better option.
I also saw allot of web chat on Avation forums that the AH6/MH6 little bird should have been bought (all this was round the time the Blackhawk Down movie was in the cinema) personally if we'd wanted something like that we should have goten westland to dust of the file marked scout/wasp and build a modern version but to the same build standard.

[NARSES2]

Can I just ask that you bear in mind the comments I have made here please lads ?

Thanking you in advance

Chris

http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,39108.new.html#new

[DarrenP]

given the use by New Zealand should the RAF have bought the Bristol Freighter?

What would have been the fall back had both Swift & Hunter failed?

[Logan Hartke]

I always thought so. The Bristol Freighter was a great, efficient aircraft for what it was. Until the advent of heavylift helicopters, it seemed to be about the best way to tactically transport light vehicles by air.

Cheers,

Logan

[DarrenP]

reading some of the accounts it was highly thought of in Borneo on the air drop side of things to. Would it have been better option than say the Valetta or the Hastings?

[PR19_Kit]

What would have been the fall back had both Swift & Hunter failed?

How many fall-backs would be needed? And what if THOSE fall-back failed?

In one of the other 'Aircraft Britain Should/Shouldn't Have.....' threads people are complaining that we had too MANY fal-backs!

[MAD]

I think the RAF (and for that matter the British military) would have been better of purchasing more and updated Short Belfast long-range, heavy lift transport aircraft. These would be equipped with the 'projected' more powerful Rolls Royce Tyne RTy.22 engine rated at 7,075 hp (5,276 kW) each, replacing the standard Rolls-Royce Tyne R.Ty.12, Mk. 101 turboprop, of 5,730 ehp (4,270 kW) each. Imagine the difference an adequate number of these long-range, heavy lift transport aircraft could have done from the Falklands War onwards!!
Either this or the British/RAF committed itself to the complementing or outright replacement of the Short Belfast with a more modern take on the design - the proposed Short SC.5/45 proposal – essentially a Belfast fuselage (more or less), turbojets and a Lockheed C-141A-like wings

M.A.D