BAe Eagle GR7 Swing Wing

[Devilfish]

The Variable Geometry TSR-2 was designed fairly early on in it's life.  I have taken that design and updated it and a few other aspects.

Entering service in the early 00's as a replacement for the GR6, the airframe has been stripped and completely rebuilt.  New swing wings and ramp style intakes have been fitted, along with a new nose and advanced radar.
The bomb bay has been sealed and is now a fuel tank, with twin pylons fitted along it's outside.

[Dizzyfugu]

Sick... but REALLY cool. I like the paint job and finish, too. 

[PR19_Kit]

Are the 'hinged bits' and the intakes from an F-14? They suit the overall shape really well and give me similar ideas about what to do with an F-14 that I'm never likely to build OOB. And the canopy and nose radome from a Tornado perhaps?

It all goes together really well and IMHO looks a lot better than BAC's original swing wing proposals! 

[Devilfish]

Close. Wings and upper intake area are F-14 (My old RN Tomcat).  The intakes themselves are F-15 as Tomcat ones weren't deep enough.  Nose is, as you point out, Tonka.


100_3706 by devilfish2014, on Flickr


100_3345 by devilfish2014, on Flickr

[Captain Canada]

Wow....does that ever look nice ! Great use of multiple airframes. And the paint, markings and weathering look spot on.

I wish the pics were a little smaller tho so I could see the whole a/c without scrolling...but that's a minor niggle.

[NARSES2]

That looks really good 

[eatthis]

any pics with the wings swept?

[McColm]

Amazing!

[Steel Penguin]

 
zoinks that's a looker!

[Weaver]

That looks damned good: the Tonka nose really suits it. 

[ChernayaAkula]

Wicked! Really cool!

[kerick]

Looks great! You really pulled it together perfectly. I'm sure some one not into military aircraft would easily think it was a model of a real aircraft.

[Gondor]

1/72 or 1/48 scale?

Gondor

[Scooterman]

Very nice as is, but I'm seeing twin fins and red stars.......

[McColm]

Clint Eastwood , Firefox?