B.A.C/Convair Lancer F.A.W mk 4

[chrisonord]

During  the mid 60' s the U.S government  wanted  several  photo reconnaissance  Canberra  aircraft  to send over to South East Asia. Martin  was unable to  supply  new built RB-57's as it was up to its eye balls working  on repairing  and replacing  current  bomber aircraft. The  U.S turned  to the U.K. government  and asked  if they could  build them some  of their  current  PR Canberra aircraft  and do a swap for a suspended order of 15 F-106 interceptors. The RAF  was quite  excited about getting  their hands  on such an aircraft  and were keen on the idea, but the aircraft  would  need considerable modifications to  the weapons  systems. A deal was struck  and the aircraft  were flown from the U.S to Warton and Samlesbury in Lancashire to be converted. The RAF  didn't  want  the Falcon missiles, so the weapons bay  was sealed up and extra  fuel tanks  were  fitted.  Four  wing pylons  were fitted  and wired to carry firestreak  and later redtop missiles, as well as drop tanks.  Guns  were looked into, but never  made it on a service aircraft, but a fuselage  tray with 2 30 mm cannons  was designed  to be fitted  just  behind the  front  landing gear. The engines  remained the  original  Pratt and Whitney  J-75 's  as fitted and a license was obtained  by Rolls Royce  to produce  parts for the engines.  The aircraft  remained in  service  until  1978, and.was a much loved aircraft by its pilots, and a formidable adversary to  all that locked  horns with it.
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Kit is the old Hasegawa one, it went  together  ok but has lots of flash and seams that needed cleaning up, but I enjoyed building it.  The airbrush  come  back out for this one, as I have  put a different  spring  in the trigger, the paint  kept being  awkward  too, but it will.do.
Chris

[PR19_Kit]

Oh yes! 

An RAF Six looks SO good, and yours is REALLY good Chris. 

[NARSES2]

Now that's really good Chris 

[sandiego89]

Nice!

Maybe the US could have allowed a few Genies under the dual use agreement 

[buzzbomb]

Like that one

[scooter]

Very nice.  That's the nice thing about the Hase 106- you can just paint the frame on the transparency and have an "new" mark of Six.  I did the same thing on my "modernized" Dart.

[kitbasher]

Very smart 

[chrisonord]

Cheers  everyone 
Chris

[AeroplaneDriver]

Beautiful!  Love the 106 and always love seeing it in something other than Air Defense Gray.   

[Dizzyfugu]

That looks surprisingly good. 

[zenrat]

Good job Chris.

[Old Wombat]

Nice!

[Leading Observer]

Excellent work

[Glenn Gilbertson]

Good one - looks very neat!

[DogfighterZen]

Very nice indeed!  Somehow reminds me of the RAAF Mirage III.