Welcome to the 2023 Whiffie Awards Show

[TomZ]

The 2023 Whiffie Awards Show



Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 2023 Whiffie Awards show.

We have another great show to share with you tonight.
The quality of the nominated models is really outstanding and we heard from many members that making choices in the voting was very hard.

For all of you are coming out as winners, know that it is well deserved.
For those who didn't win any prizes this year, know that in many cases the voting was very close.

I would respectfully ask that members refrain from posting comments in this thread until after the show is finished.

Well, the food is served, the whisky is poured(at least mine is...), so without further ado, let's start with the first award.....

[TomZ]

The nominees were:

AeroplaneDriver's Hellcat
MartinH's F-101F Voodoo


And the winner is:

AeroplaneDriver's Hellcat

[TomZ]

The nominees were:

Rheged's Hs 681 history
Nönöbär's Kleiner Flugzeugträger "Rhein", January 1944
Dizzyfugu's MV-10H Super Bronco
Chrisonord's Blohm&voss B.V. P 204
Cammnut's SV-14 Pelican
Narses2's Spitfire Mk IId
AeroplaneDriver's RAuxAF Hunter GR.13
PR19_Kit's Supermarine Defender F3
Zenrat's Handley Page Harpy
TomZ's Fokker F-30 Transport
Zenrat's Martin B28½ Canberra
UhuFin's Para-Martin A-26P Reduaram
Pellson's Luftwaffe F-100S Super Sabre
DogfighterZen's Moroccan AF TigerEye


And the winner is:

Cammnut's SV-14 Pelican

The pitching deck of the destroyer came into view as the Pelican broke through the low cloud deck, a roiling grey sea filling the pilots' view. As the wipers worked to keep the large windshields clear, the copilot double-checked that the gas generators were at full throttle, driving the lift fans to their maximum vertical thrust as the pilot brought the cruise engines back to idle and the aircraft slowed to a uneasy hover above the wave-washed flightdeck.

With landing-beacon crosshairs on the pilot's flight director showing the aircraft was in position, he eased back on the gas-generator throttles, beginning a slow descent toward the deck. As the pilot fought the turbulence to keep the aircraft level, movements of his stick now commanded a complex mix of vane angle on the lift fans and thrust from reaction control jets on the tail. Thankfully the Pelican's unusual circular wing was fairly insensitive to gusts.

Braving the sweeping spray, the destroyer's crew grappled a cable lowered from the aircraft and secured it to the flightdeck's beartrap haul-down device, which guided the Pelican on its final descent onto the pitching metal deck, which rose to meet the landing gear with a crash of overcompressed oleos.
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In the early 1970s, the U.S. Navy wanted to boost its ability to defend against a growing Soviet submarine threat by basing fixed-wing anti-submarine warfare aircraft on the then-planned Sea Control Ship (SCS). The need was for something with more speed, range and firepower than the ASW helicopters with which the SCS was originally planned to be equipped.

At the time, the Rockwell XFV-12A supersonic fighter was under development to protect the SCS, which was a small V/STOL-only aircraft carrier. Ryan Aeronautical had built and flown the XV-5 Vertifan fan-in-wing V/STOL experimental aircraft in the mid-1960s. When the Navy's VSV requirement for a V/STOL ASW aircraft emerged, it teamed with Lockheed to bid.

Lockheed, with LTV, had just won the Navy's VSX competition for a carrier-based ASW aircraft and was developing the S-3 Viking. Together, Lockheed and Ryan proposed a fan-in-wing V/STOL ASW aircraft based on the Viking and using many of the same sensors and systems. In 1972, the Lockheed/Ryan team won the contract to develop what would become the SV-14 Pelican.

For vertical flight, the Pelican had two large fans embedded in the wing to provide lift for VTOL and a smaller fan in the nose to provide lift for balance and control. The fans were tip-driven by exhaust gases ducted from two turbine engines housed in the roots of the unusual circular wing, which was chosen to avoid the need for wing folding while on the SCS.

To take off, large doors on top of the wing opened while louvres deployed below the wing and nose fans. These vanes deflected to vector the fan thrust to provide control in vertical flight. The slow response of the fans to thrust commands had made flight control in hover difficult on the XV-5, so the Pelican had additional Harrier-style puffer jets on the tail.

After takeoff, to transition to wingborne cruise flight, the rear-mounted TF34 turbofans provided forward thrust to accelerate the aircraft as the fans were spooled down, doors and louvres closed and internal gas generators shut down. The Pelican then flew like a conventional jet-powered fixed-wing aircraft, with more speed, range and payload than a helicopter.

The Pelican was designed to be able land on any air-capable warship to refuel and rearm. So, with the sailors on such ships likely to be unfamiliar with jet aircraft, the intakes for the gas generators were fitted with FOD screens to prevent the ingestion of any foreign objects left on the ship's flightdeck.

This ability to operate from cruisers and destroyers saved the SV-14 when the Navy cancelled the Sea Control Ships. Instead, the Pelicans were based on large-deck aircraft carriers and forward-deployed to warship flightdecks to extend the reach of anti-submarine patrols protecting the battlegroup.

[TomZ]

The nominees were:

Dizzyfugu's MV-10H Super Bronco
SanDiego89's P-5 Marlin Gunship
Robomog's Walraaars
Zenrat's Akuyaku tank
AeroplaneDriver's USN Buccaneer
Captain_Canada's USMC Spruce Goose
EdS's F-100 Super Sabre
Scooter's Egyptian Vampiress Pyrate
AeroplaneDriver's RAuxAF Hunter GR.13
Dizzyfugu's BAC Skyspark F6
TomZ's Sea Lightning FR.1
Zenrat's Judean People's Front Gun Car


And the winner is:

AeroplaneDriver's USN Buccaneer

[TomZ]

The nominees were:

Flappydaffy's J-10S Vigorous Dragon
AeroplaneDriver's RAAF Lockheed F-104K Starfighter
AeroplaneDriver's USN Buccaneer
Zenrat's Czech F-100 Super Sabre
Devilfish's D.H. Vixen F.A.W.2a
OldWombat's RAN F9F-8 Cougar
Wacek85's Polish AF Su 25
Dizzyfugu's Austrian BAC Lightning F.56
Seadude's Soviet Ar 555
DogfighterZen's Moroccan AF TigerEye

And the winners are:

Flappydaffy's J-10S Vigorous Dragon

AND

AeroplaneDriver's USN Buccaneer

[TomZ]

The nominees were:

Devilfish's Tigercat FB.1
Rankinstein's Brazilian F6F Hellcat
Flappydaffy's De Havilland Hornet
AeroplaneDriver's Seafire
KiwiZac's New Zealand Post's Skyservant
Narses2's Arsenal-Delanne 10-C2
Hotte's Chilean Polikarpov I-16
Dizzyfugu's Burmese Typhoon Mk IV
Hotte's Romanian Spanish Civil War IAR 80
Narses2's Republic P-43 Lancer
Wacek85's Japanese Pogo
Captain_Canada's USMC Spruce Goose
Narses2's Dutch Orkaan
JohnsJunkII's HA-1112
Zenrat's DAP Tempest II
Devilfish's Vietnam A-20 Havoc
Wacek85's captured Me 509
TomZ's He-100 Finnish racers
ComradeHarp's Free Spanish Tempest FB.21

And the winner is:

Devilfish's Tigercat FB.1

[TomZ]

The nominees were:

Ericr's SR-71/Concorde hybrid
Devilfish's BAC Vanquish B.3
Hobbes's Nimrod
Chrisonord's Blohm&voss B.V. P 204
Beermonster's EE Lightning bomb truck
Beermonster's Russian Dragon
Amenofys's Ar-334
Cammnut's SV-14 Pelican
Kitbasher's EE Canberra F.10
Wardukw-Nz's Cobalt Industries Python
Zenrat's Handley Page Harpy
MerlinJones' Ursus
Dizzyfugu's BAC Skyspark F6
TomZ's Valiant EC Mk 3
Zenrat's Martin B28½ Canberra
CammNut's Phantom Lightning
TomZ's USAF Medium Transports
TomZ's Sea Lightning FR.1
Devilfish's Viking AS.1
Wardukw-NZ's F-18 SWP
Devilfish's Scorpion NF2
UhuFin's F/A-18 Hornet Finnish Service Life Extension Update
Kitbasher's English Electric/BAC P.8 Lightning F.3
Kitbasher's Hawker Siddeley Arrow F.1

And the winners are:

Devilfish's BAC Vanquish B.3

And

Cammnut's SV-14 Pelican

[TomZ]

The nominees were:

Zenrat's DH Rapide Floatplane
Hobbes's Britannia
Dizzyfugu's MV-10H Super Bronco
SanDiego89's P-5 Marlin Gunship
Wardukw-NZ's TP-88 Heavy Fighter
Beermonster's C-27 Spartanach
TomZ's Messerschmitt Me-410 D-5
Far148's Mohawk
Devilfish's Lightning Mk III
UhuFin's Para-Martin A-26P Reduaram
Steelpillows' RAAF Twinfire
63cpe's Aeronáutico Industrial SA Bombardeo
63cpe's Macchi MC400
63cpe's Fokker D-25
Aeroplanedriver's USMC Mosquito Operation Downfall

And the winner is:

Dizzyfugu's MV-10H Super Bronco

[TomZ]

The nominees were:

Ratty's Fairey Tosser
Dizzyfugu's Wonson Aircraft Works "Freshman"
Zenrat's Mitsubishi Amatsubame
TC2324's Thunder Strike
Gondor's Israeli Hawk
FAR148's pair of Scooters
Zenrat's La-200B
Dogfighterzen's Portuguese AF Hawk T.1
EdS's F-100 Super Sabre
AeroplaneDriver's RANFA's Super Entendard
AeroplaneDriver's RAuxAF Hunter GR.13
PR19_Kit's Supermarine Defender F3
Dizzyfugu's Hungarian AF Saab
Dizzyfugu's J32E Lansen
AeroplaneDriver's Vampire-RAE Meteorological Research Flight
Uhufin's Para-Folland Gnat
OldWombat's Valmet OY Lentokonetehdas
Pellson's Luftwaffe F-100S Super Sabre
Firefox's JASDF F-2D

And the winner is:

TC2324's Thunder Strike

[TomZ]

The nominees were:

Stevehed's Sopwith Super Pup
MartinH's Falkland Islands Skytruck
Dizzyfugu's Anbo IX
Devilfish's Skymaster Mk I
Ratty's Supermarine Starling
VickersVandal's Fokker D-V
Dizzyfugu's Ki-38-Ic
Wacek85's MB-5
Firefox's Mono Moth
Wardukw-NZ's Kyushu J7W1 SHINDEN
Knightflyer's Supermarine Spitfire ASR.Mk.14
Frank2056's Cal Fire RQ-7B
Hotte's Piaggio P-125
Narses2's Spitfire Mk IId
VickersVandal's Von Balchow's Roland
VickersVandal's Hanover and Albatros
Zenrat's Lasso Labrador
63cpe's Reggiane Re 2020
TomZ's Gloster Goldcrest
VickersVandal's Red Nose Albatross
63cpe's Ar 85
Wardukw-NZ's Spad Float Plane


And the winner is:

Firefox's Mono Moth

[TomZ]

The nominees were:

Wardukw-Nz's Hill Climb Monster
Frank2056's Hypersonic Missile and launcher
Robomog's Whirlwind
Ericr's Kenworth Osprey
Zenrat's Steyr ADGZ M35 Mittlerer Panzerwagen
Zenrat's '30 Ford 5 window coupe
Zenrat's Judean People's Front Gun Car

And the winner is:

Robomog's Whirlwind

[TomZ]

The nominees were:

Loupgarou's early Israeli mortar
OldWombat's Strv 103 in RAAF service
Zenrat's Akuyaku tank
Wardukw-NZ's M88A3-1
TheChaos's Sdkfz 251
Wardukw-NZ's M1090 ATLSPG

And the winner is:

OldWombat's Strv 103 in RAAF service

[TomZ]

The nominees were:

Nönöbär's Somewhere in Eastern Europe
TomZ's Fokker F-30 Transport
TomZ's He-100 Finnish racers

And the winner is:

Nönöbär's Somewhere in Eastern Europe

[TomZ]

The nominees were:

Beermonster's C-27 Spartanach
Beermonster's EE Lightning bomb truck
Beermonster's Russian Dragon
Amenofys's Ar-334
Amenofys's Haunted Burma Banshees P-40
MerlinJones' Ursus
JohnsJunkII's HA-1112
Uhufin's Para-Folland Gnat
UhuFin's Para-Martin A-26P Reduaram
UhuFin's F/A-18 Hornet Finnish Service Life Extension Update

And the winner is:

UhuFin's Para-Martin A-26P Reduaram

[TomZ]

The nominees were:

Spinners' Fairey Gannet AS.52
Weaver's Type 21G
Zero-Sen's Vickers Sea Eagle
Jostein's Fuerza Aerea San Escobar
Scooter's Egyptian Vampiress Pyrate
Zero-Sen's Peashooter II
Spinner's Blohm & Voss P 170 'Schnellbomber'
Ysi_maniac's Storchtuka

And the winner is:

Zero-Sen's Vickers Sea Eagle