Supermarine 510

[andrewj]

Not really a What-if perhaps ,as this one actually existed and flew, but, here's my 1/48 Supermarine type 510. The basis was a Magna Attacker I picked up part started for a tenner, at Cosford earlier this year. Wings and tail surfaces are scratch built, markings from the spares box.




Andrew

[NARSES2]

Nice one Andrew

[PR19_Kit]

Excellent stufff there. 

And all that from a Magna kit too!

The mind STILL boggles at the thought oif a tail-wheel jet, even more so at a swept wing one!  

[perttime]

The mind STILL boggles at the thought oif a tail-wheel jet...

In "real life", designers quite early found reasons to go for trike gear: much easier on ground structures, and (in case of the Yak-15 at least) some parts of the airframe itself   

[PR19_Kit]

I lived for a couple of years at RAF Benson which housed the 'Weekend Warriors' of the RNVR's Southern Air Division.

One of their Squadrons, 1835 NAS, flew Sea Hawks and their co-located unit, 1832 NAS, flew tail-wheeled Attackers. While the 1835 NAS pilots revelled in their faster and better handling aircraft, the 1832 pilots would say that '....proper pilots flew tail wheeled jets!' 

[kitnut617]

Nicely done Andrew -- 

I was reading in the Morgan & Shacklady book that the Supermarine 391 design lead to the Attacker with it fuselage and tail design, which in turn led to this one.  I can't quite see the relationship myself but there you go.

[The Wooksta!]

Very tasty.

I may have to do one at some point from an Attacker and a Sabre. Obviously it would have to wear in service markings, perhaps the flying greyhound with one of the RNVR squadrons, although I was tempted to add that to a Sea Hawk (I found a Novo one in a box, albeit missing tailplanes).

On reflection, perhaps I could play about with the wing of a Swift?  I've one I'd started hacking about and it may have to end up as conversion fodder.

[Daryl J.]

Lovely!

[van883]

Very nice-I got my Whirlykits one off the shelf today. And then put it back...

[Glenn Gilbertson]

Great bit of work! 

[The Wooksta!]

Very nice-I got my Whirlykits one off the shelf today. And then put it back...

To be fair, some of the early Maintrack Project X vacforms were pretty basic and I think the 510 was one of them.  Then Gordon Stevens of Rareplanes got involved.  The Saro SR177 and Hawker P.1121 were two of his.