HP 38 Heyford Coastal Command

[Rheged]

I also have a Matchbox Heyford in The Stash™. Today I wonder why I ever bought it...?

You may have thought of

• an airliner version
• a floatplane derivative with the other wing now supported by struts above the main wing and floats attaching to the fuselage
• a mostly stock aircraft but purchased by an exotic overseas customer in the throes of Douhetism
• a radar testbed (whether AI or ASV, with all those struts a few antennae don't much increase the drag any more)
• an aircraft used to support SOE/SIS agents and resistance movements
• a lifeboat-dropping search and rescue aircraft
• a "British Mistel" conceived after the fall of France to attack the imminent German beachheads, with a suitably obsolete interwar upper component

Any or all of which I'd like to see!  Think of the backstories that could be created from this selection.

[loupgarou]

All this Heyford stuff reminds me that I've had a monoplane Heyford 'in build' for ages now.

Naturally it needed longer wings to maintain the original wing area...... 

Me too...

[Robomog]

Thanks for all the comments guys!

Sadly my modest stash (165 unbuilt kits at last count) does not contain another Heyford so the desert camo will have to wait for now. Although I'm tempted by the 'Mistel' suggestion above, maybe use a Magister or Tiger Moth as the upper plane.

So many ideas so little time (sigh  )

 


Mog
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[zenrat]

The Henfield nearly became a flying boat with a 1/25 powerboat hull mounted to the lowest wing.  This hull would have carried a number of sky pirates, crew served guns, and small watercraft.

[Doug K]

Looks just right, though would be bloody cold over the North Atlantic!🥶🥶

[jcf]

Nice. 

The enclosed cockpit aircraft was K4029.

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[Robomog]

Looks just right, though would be bloody cold over the North Atlantic!🥶🥶

school

It would indeed ! But some guys were doing anti sub patrols in Tiger Moths so not entirely impractical 

Mog
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