BAe Sea Eagle ASM

[Army of One]

Yup.....waiting to see who/how long....

[ChernayaAkula]

Sorry it took so long (camera acted up, so I had to use the phone), but here's the pic I promised:

They're almost impossible to photograph as they're on the bottom edge of the fuselage, and behind the main gear fairings/floats. And they're not really 'pylons' as they're just a pair of clamps. This is the best I've found, and the full size version that's five times the size, is at

Thanks, Kit. That's what I initially thought, too. Until I saw a drawing in the Wings & Wheels Publications book on the Sea King that showed a more elaborate pylon/clamp doo-hickey. It consists of a beam/rod connected to the fuselage via some angle brackets. The rod/beam features a clamp which in turn holds the Sea Eagle. It can also be seen in the first Sea King pic H posted.

Here's a combination of the two best pics I've found so far.



Some of the Exocet-carrying Sea Kings seem to use a similar angle bracket to fit the Exocet launch rail to the fuselage at the rear, but the front one looks quite different. Could be the same location, though. I suppose there are certain areas designed for attaching external loads at the helo's design stage. Would make sense, what with otherwise having to (unnecessarily) jump through a multitude of engineering loops for basically the same goal.

[kitnut617]

They're almost impossible to photograph as they're on the bottom edge of the fuselage, and behind the main gear fairings/floats. And they're not really 'pylons' as they're just a pair of clamps. This is the best I've found, and the full size version that's five times the size, is at

Thanks, Kit. That's what I initially thought, too. Until I saw a drawing in the Wings & Wheels Publications book on the Sea King that showed a more elaborate pylon/clamp doo-hickey. It consists of a beam/rod connected to the fuselage via some angle brackets. The rod/beam features a clamp which in turn holds the Sea Eagle. It can also be seen in the first Sea King pic H posted.

Those clamps Kit has referred to, would they be the ones that a torpedo is held on with, I have a model which has four torpedos and the front two seem to be about where those clamps are.

[PR19_Kit]

They're almost impossible to photograph as they're on the bottom edge of the fuselage, and behind the main gear fairings/floats. And they're not really 'pylons' as they're just a pair of clamps. This is the best I've found, and the full size version that's five times the size, is at

Thanks, Kit. That's what I initially thought, too. Until I saw a drawing in the Wings & Wheels Publications book on the Sea King that showed a more elaborate pylon/clamp doo-hickey. It consists of a beam/rod connected to the fuselage via some angle brackets. The rod/beam features a clamp which in turn holds the Sea Eagle. It can also be seen in the first Sea King pic H posted.

Those clamps Kit has referred to, would they be the ones that a torpedo is held on with, I have a model which has four torpedos and the front two seem to be about where those clamps are.

Could be right, yes.

I zeroed in on the clamps because they looked exactly like the fixtures we used to mount the test Sea Eagle to the impact test rig, but more and more it looks like that setup was a very early attempt at the helicopter launch idea, or else a dead-end development of the system.