Author Topic: Orchard Studios (Read 17640 times)

Ghost Rider · « **on:** April 14, 2019, 09:49:33 PM »

I decided it was time to put my Profiles into one folder. So ..

Based on this proposal :- http://tailspintopics.blogspot.com/2009/10/proposed-super-furies.html

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #1 on:** April 15, 2019, 01:22:59 AM »

Ghost Rider · « **Reply #2 on:** May 06, 2019, 11:04:01 PM »

I saw this image .......

...and thought .. what would the later models have looked like ........

Gloster Reaper GR2 & GR3

Ghost Rider · « **Reply #3 on:** May 06, 2019, 11:08:47 PM »

Ghost Rider · « **Reply #4 on:** May 06, 2019, 11:10:20 PM »

Based on the North American F-100 : Super Sabre ......... the FJ-5 : Super Fury

FJ-5A

FJ5B

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #5 on:** May 07, 2019, 03:37:13 AM »

Nice work

apophenia · « **Reply #6 on:** May 07, 2019, 04:51:51 AM »

Quote from: GJE52 on April 14, 2019, 09:49:33 PM

I decided it was time to put my Profiles into one folder...

Excellent idea ... and as impressive as ever

elmayerle · « **Reply #7 on:** May 07, 2019, 07:15:18 AM »

Beautiful FJ-5A and FJ-5T models. Perhaps a FJ-5TE as the USN equivalent of an early F-100-based Wild Weasel? In either standard gull grey over white or in a variation of some of the camouflage efforts the USN trialed.

Ghost Rider · « **Reply #8 on:** May 07, 2019, 05:08:35 PM »

Like this "Navalised" F-100 ....

F-100N.

A basic F-100 airframe with strengthened undercarriage, arrestor hook, a modified vertical stabilizer to allow for hangar deckhead clearance, an angled intake to improve airflow at high AoA and of course... folding wings.

finsrin · « **Reply #9 on:** May 07, 2019, 06:05:16 PM »

Has 1960s USN look on steroids. Last picture has side intake !

Ghost Rider · « **Reply #10 on:** May 07, 2019, 06:53:10 PM »

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...Last picture has side intake !

Well spotted, my mistake

. I was using it to illustrate the undercarriage and hook arrangement, however that image is actually one of the two prototypes of the XF-100N.

The design was rejected by the USN but was developed into the F2J model that had a higher, "shoulder" mounted wing and different undercarriage arrangement. The F2J was adopted by the Royal Navy where it was called the Rapier, as featured in an earlier profile. When the Royal Navy lost it's carrier fleet the remaining Rapiers were transferred to the RAF where they served in the low level strike role.

RAF Rapiers - Desert Warriors