Handley Page AC-10D Jetstorm

[MerlinJones]

I used to have an Airfix AC-47 "Spooky". Loved it to bits...especially the crewman raining firy doom of the baddies below. I also liked the camo job, and neat black undersides. Looked well cool. Happy days.

I've recently acquired some Airfix Jetstreams.
The so-called C-10 version modelled never went as far as being accepted into service, so it's a What If?'s before I do anything...one of these even appeared in the UFO pilot episode as Strakers transport.

Meld Paragraph 1 with Paragraph 2 and you can see where I'm going with this...

...A Jetstream, equipped with AC-47 Miniguns, painted in USAF SE Asian camo. Obviously, the cargo door will be gone and it'll have to sprout some antennae.
I'm looking into exhaust protection and chaff dispensers, for anti-SAM measures and there'll have to be some sort of camera-cum-IR detector. I know they weren't as advanced back then and it'd be wildly inaccurate to stick gadgets and gizmos currently seen on the AC-130, but this is What-If?

Given the size and apparent manouvreability of the Jetstream, I might go completely silly and equip it with underwing hard points...extra fuel at least might come in handy.

A discussion with Thorvic got me thinking about a Fire Suppression role, with gun- and rocket-pods fitted.

Anyhow, on with it...

[B777LR]

HARMs for taking out the SAMs before opening fire with guns?

[MerlinJones]

HARMs for taking out the SAMs before opening fire with guns?

I want to try and avoid overloading it with missiles and such like...the Cessna Bird Dog and 0-2A both got by with small rockets.
The Jetstream is somewhat bigger, but will be carrying at least two, maybe three miniguns.
I've got left overs from an Academy Dragonfly I think I'll be rummaging through.

(Hmmm...wonder what the effect will be, on such a relatively small aircraft, of those guns all going off at once, from one side..?

Started work on it proper today...cockpit's a nice, self-contained unit and I won't be able to see much by way of instrument panel, through that windscreen. I have cut a door through that rear cockpit bulkhead, though, and intend to fix up a rolled up screen to hang over the opening and some emergencyequipment to attach to the wall.

To the rear of the aircraft, the rearmost bulkhead will also gain at least a fire extinguisher and some other gubbins, stowed in a tight net.
There's another bulkhead which bisects the opening in the port fuselge side. I've trimmed this back, somewhat, to allow for two miniguns to be placed in the open doorway.
Third minigun will go through the unglazed window, adjacent to the open cargo doors.

I'll have to fashion a floor of sorts...and a cabin roof...and boxes for equipment and supplies.

Having seen that lovely Rotodyne interior, elsewhere on the site, I feel compelled to add some internal detailing, other than just the attached seats and stretchers.

I'll be keeping two of the stretchers...to serve as in-flight bunks. I'll use one of the seats supplied and move it forwards. I intend to rig up a monitor of some sort, for the Weapons/Targeting Officer Johnny.

[B777LR]

im just talking of two HARMs, possibly on the wingtips, or under the nose, a bit like some F16s. you could possibly do it with the ECM pod from the airfix F16, and a single harm.

[seavixen]

Haven't seen you around on the Airfix forum for a while Merlin. Have you found a new home here?