MORE bloody pics!

[Davey B]

BAC Sea Lightning F.2, 892 Sqn, HMS Ark Royal during the Silver Jubilee review at Spithead.

[Davey B]

...and the same model, packing Sky Flash and Taildog missiles, in the South Atlantic, 1982  

I was surprised how BIG! a Sparrow looks on this! But then, the plane would've only been 50 feet long, so...

Dave  B)  

[Hobbes]

You drew these? Cool!
'Project Cancelled' has a proposal for a Sea Lightning that looks very similar except for the intake (that one uses the nose cone intake as on the Lightning). The profile looks a bit chubby when compared to the Lightning. More room for fuel?

[Tophe]

It looks chubby as the whole of the lower fuselage is a fuel tank

According to me, all the jet-Lightnings (not my beloved Lightning P-38) have a too big profile , with these 2 jets one above the other. I know that provides less asymmetry if one engine fails, so it is good   to prefer this way than side by side, for the pilots. But for elegance, I prefer a slim profile than a slim view from above ... Sorry.
I know jet-fighters were not produced to be artistically pleasant, but our dear Davey B is an artist... Is he able to draw a side-by-side-jets Lightning? , just to make us dream , no matter if the RAF preferred the other way , for good reasons.

[Jschmus]

I have often wondered why we didn't see more twins with the jets mounted vertically like that.  I'll have to see if I still have the sketches I did in high school of a Corsair/Crusader-like fighter with two engines.

[elmayerle]

I have often wondered why we didn't see more twins with the jets mounted vertically like that.  I'll have to see if I still have the sketches I did in high school of a Corsair/Crusader-like fighter with two engines.

Well, I suspect the extra maintenance problems it gives would be one reason that more don't use the vertical stack.  One way or another that's just gotta make life way more difficult for the maintainers.

[Tophe]

I have often wondered why we didn't see more twins with the jets mounted vertically like that.

Another one available as model:

[Tophe]

An even cuter view of the Grognard prototype... (from the wonderful book Les Avions de Combat Français 1944-1960/1, Larivière publishing) with a pretty nose reminfing the F-107  

[elmayerle]

An even cuter view of the Grognard prototype... (from the wonderful book Les Avions de Combat Français 1944-1960/1, Larivière publishing) with a pretty nose reminfing the F-107

Actually, it looks more like the little, old Aurora kit of the F-107 which was based on an inaccurate 3-view in AvWeek that gave a very foreshortened nose.

[nev]

As the son of a former Lighting linie, I can testify to the maintaince problems posed by the Lightnings unique engine config.  An engine change used to take at least 2 days, and if you wanted to change to bottom engine you had to tkae the top one out as well  :dum:  :dum:

Actually, the whole Lightning was a maintainance nightmare, but it was just a product of its age.  Concepts such as LRUs just hadn't been invented.

Also the Lightnings cockpit is really, really high.  Climbing into the cockpit as a kid was quite a scary experience    

[Tophe]

And here is British-French military parallel to the Concorde: the "Lightnard"... (with the source Lightning above). What-if...

[elmayerle]

And here is British-French military parallel to the Concorde: the "Lightnard"... (with the source Lightning above). What-if...

Oh, I like that one!  Mind you, I'll bet MMH/FR values are absurd unless you've got really reliable equipment.

[Hobbes]

Oh, I like that one!  Mind you, I'll bet MMH/FR values are absurd unless you've got really reliable equipment.

"Reliable"? This is an Anglo-French product, the people who gave us British Leyland, Renault and Citroën, remember?

 

[Captain Canada]

I really like the top view, that thing looks wickedly tough with those big stubby wings !



But it sure looks a fish out of water from the side profile, with that big belly.....also, the intake config compounds that 'fat' look.

Would still make one hell of a model, tho !

[elmayerle]

Oh, I like that one!   Mind you, I'll bet MMH/FR values are absurd unless you've got really reliable equipment.

"Reliable"? This is an Anglo-French product, the people who gave us British Leyland, Renault and Citroën, remember?

Not to mention "Lucas, Prince of Darkness"?