Canadian Car & Foundry Tiger F Mk VI

[TomZ]

When in 1944 the Royal Canadian Navy was looking for a heavy long range fighter aircraft their eye fell on the Grumman F7F Tigercat. Although the US Navy was not very enthusiastic about the Canadians saw a big potential for the Grumman design.

In October 1944 negotiations started with the Grumman Company about buying 240 Tigercats. Grumman however was already overloaded with work and could not produce the aircraft for Canada. Also there was a problem with obtaining the proper engines for the Canadian aircraft.

When this became clear the Canadian Navy approached the Canadian Car & Foundry Company for a possible license production of the Tigercat. This company was happy to oblige but this still left the problem of the engines. Canadian Car & Foundry Company proposed to re-design the Canadian produced aircraft to take the Rolls Royce Merlin which was also license produced in Canada.



And so the Canadian Car & Foundry Tiger was born. The first Merlin powered aircraft took to the sky in January 1945 and an initial production batch of 120 Tigers F Mk I was delivered from April 1945 onwards. Just like with the US Navy the type proved difficult to handle from aircraft carriers of the day and was mainly used from land based airfields.



The end of the war saw a large cutback in orders for new aircraft but in total 486 Tigers were produced in different versions. The last production version was the F Mk-VI of which 96 were delivered to the Royal Canadian Navy.



See also on my site:  http://airwar1946.nl/whif/L46-Tiger.htm

TomZ
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[kitnut617]

I like it, had similar thoughts myself. I see you used DH Hornet nacelles which is a good choice. 

But I have one tinnie-little technical question to ask --- where's the radiators 

[TomZ]

But I have one tinnie-little technical question to ask --- where's the radiators 

Well, being an advanced design it uses surface cooling of course 
And it has some cooling capability using the air inlets in the wing roots.

TomZ

[kitnut617]

But I have one tinnie-little technical question to ask --- where's the radiators 

Well, being an advanced design it uses surface cooling of course 
And it has some cooling capability using the air inlets in the wing roots.

TomZ

Hmm, OK.  The idea I had for mine was to put them in the rear of the nacelles. It would have inlet air scoops each side of the nacelle and the exit would be a vertical rectangular opening right at the rear which would be variably controlled.

[PR19_Kit]

It's Canadian, it's so cold up there it doesn't need cooling.............. 

[Rick Lowe]

It's Canadian, it's so cold up there it doesn't need cooling.............. 

LOL!

Nice work on that - the slimmer nacelles suit the slender fuselage better than the Honkin' Big Radials, too.

[Dizzyfugu]

But I have one tinnie-little technical question to ask --- where's the radiators 

That's a dire question that also sprang to my mind - lovely mod, and the paint scheme suits the Tigercat well, too. But the radiators are somehow missing... 

[zenrat]

Looks good in that scheme.

[NARSES2]

She does look rather tasty 

[Scotaidh]

Nice work, TomZ.  :-)  Great idea!   

I now have an an urge to build one of these with Hurricane MkIIC nacelles.  I think the radiators could go on the inboard aft end of the nacelles.  Or one could use a liberated set of P-38 radiators ... I don't think those were particularly secret.  :-)