Off topic, but what is the Lancaster-based gas can named?
Re the Trent Meteor: I'm puzzled. All the pics and drawings I can find, and that pic of the engine, suggest that the prop axis was well above the axis of the engine and the wing leading edge, yet the RV Resins drawings posted here seem to show the prop co-axial with the engine and in line with the wing leading edge.
What gives? ???
Let's take that prone Meteor a little further:
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Does anyone do a conversion for the Beryl-powered prototype? I happen to rather like the lines of that one.
I'll go for "what's available". I prefer 1/72 but enjoy 1/48 just as much.Does anyone do a conversion for the Beryl-powered prototype? I happen to rather like the lines of that one.
What scale?
How would you go modifying some Jumo 004s from a Me262 to create an approximation of it?
Looking at some photos of it in Tony Buttler & Phil Butler's Aerofax book Evan, it looks like a fairly straight forward conversion. All you need is an Meteor F.4 kit and slightly modify the nacelles. The circle of the nacalles weren't equal about the wing though and were slightly bigger in diameter but the top line is about where the top of the Derwent engines were.I thin we're talking about two different Meteors here. The one I'm talking about is the prototype where the axial-flow engines are slung under the wing, not installed through it.
Do you mean this one Evan, with the Metrovick F.2 engineYes, that one. I was under the impression, mistaken or not, that the Metrovick F.2 was the Beryl.
Do you mean this one Evan, with the Metrovick F.2 engineYes, that one. I was under the impression, mistaken or not, that the Metrovick F.2 was the Beryl.
Perhaps the aircraft could not lift this but use a late NF-type Meteor to lift a couple wingtip mounted Firestreaks as a missile rail development/test aircraft.
Perhaps the aircraft could not lift this but use a late NF-type Meteor to lift a couple wingtip mounted Firestreaks as a missile rail development/test aircraft.
According to Phil Butler & Tony Buttler's Aerofax book on the Meteor, three Meteor NF Mk.11's were used in Firestreak trials ----
QuotePerhaps the aircraft could not lift this but use a late NF-type Meteor to lift a couple wingtip mounted Firestreaks as a missile rail development/test aircraft.
According to Phil Butler & Tony Buttler's Aerofax book on the Meteor, three Meteor NF Mk.11's were used in Firestreak trials ----
:o ;D ;D :). Oh? I had no idea. But that doesn't take much with me. :-[
QuotePerhaps the aircraft could not lift this but use a late NF-type Meteor to lift a couple wingtip mounted Firestreaks as a missile rail development/test aircraft.
According to Phil Butler & Tony Buttler's Aerofax book on the Meteor, three Meteor NF Mk.11's were used in Firestreak trials ----
:o ;D ;D :). Oh? I had no idea. But that doesn't take much with me. :-[
If it's Brit fighter tech between 1945 and 1980, there was probably a Meatbox involved somewhere. ;D
Oooo I love the PR.19b!
Oooo I love the PR.19b!If you're in the UK it'll be on the Whiff SIG stand at Telford this weekend.
I am seriously tempted to have a go at the side-by-side seating one.
I am seriously tempted to have a go at the side-by-side seating one.
That does look good, doesn't it? Maybe using a Vampire T11 canopy? But it'd be a real squeeze in there unless they widened the fuselage some.
RAN Sea Meteors on HMAS Sydney in Singapore on the way to Korean War... ;)
...in reality, this shows new RAAF Meteors aboard HMS Unicorn in Singapore on the way to Korea in 1951
RAN Sea Meteors on HMAS Sydney in Singapore on the way to Korean War... ;)
...in reality, this shows new RAAF Meteors aboard HMS Unicorn in Singapore on the way to Korea in 1951
Never seen a sentence or nuttin about Meteors in Korea. They ever score an air-to-air kill be it prop or jet ?
Must have done their share of strafing.
Never seen a sentence or nuttin about Meteors in Korea. They ever score an air-to-air kill be it prop or jet ?
Must have done their share of strafing.
I am seriously tempted to have a go at the side-by-side seating one.
I am seriously tempted to have a go at the side-by-side seating one.
...adding to the temptation >:D
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I'm thinking the two-engine reliability of the Meteor would have been appreciated by naval aviators in the early days of jet/carrier ops. Although, I have no idea of the low-speed handling qualities of the Meteor :-\
M.A.D
Navalised Meteor, push the engines inboard right up against
the fuselage CF-100 style to improve single engine handling.
Navalised Meteor, push the engines inboard right up against
the fuselage CF-100 style to improve single engine handling.
Navalised Meteor, push the engines inboard right up against
the fuselage CF-100 style to improve single engine handling.
Navalised Meteor, push the engines inboard right up against
the fuselage CF-100 style to improve single engine handling.
"Halestorm" retouched with raised engines. I'm thinking that this might work better with the Metrovick axial-flow engine (maybe Armstrong Siddeley continues postwar with the Metropolitan-Vickers F.3/I as a smaller brother to the Sapphire?).
Navalised Meteor, push the engines inboard right up against
the fuselage CF-100 style to improve single engine handling.
Take it one step further and modify the nose along the lines of the F-94C with both radar and unguided rockets/
Gloster Raptor night fighter
Matchbox NF.14 with the incorrect very long nose, no guns, F-89-style rocket pods or 'very British' dummy missiles (square fins, conical noses) on wingtips. Gloss black with a red stripe, civilian reg. G-RAPT and company logos.
Something that's been on my to-do list since forever is a trio of 'advanced' Meteor prototypes as displayed at an air show where Gloster are desperately trying to flog them having lost the RAF night-fighter contract to the DH.110:
Gloster Reaper ground attack aircraft
Airfix Mk.8 with belly tank removed, tip tanks fitted, bomb pylons under fuselage, NF.11 outer wings (8 x guns!), non-British rocket pods on outer wing pylons, green/brown/gray 'European' cammo, but glossy with civilian registration G-REAP and company logos.
I know the RCAF tested the meteor, but never took it...
... I wonder how the Meteor would look with a series of Orenda engines on it.
What about a Meteor fitted with pulse jets...even as a trial?
I know the RCAF tested the meteor, but never took it.Considering the size of the Orenda engine, you could go with an underslung engine installation like that of the MetroVic-powered prototype.
I wonder how the Meteor would look with a series of Orenda engines on it.
RAAF Meteor with a different tail (I love Canberra tail :-*)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/j340/ysi_maniac/Meteor_canberra_hZAkY7HF2BNDGvaeJ5YkhJ.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) (https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/j340/ysi_maniac/Meteor_canberra_hZAkY7HF2BNDGvaeJ5YkhJ.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
RAAF Meteor with a different tail (I love Canberra tail :-*)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/j340/ysi_maniac/Meteor_canberra_hZAkY7HF2BNDGvaeJ5YkhJ.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) (https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/j340/ysi_maniac/Meteor_canberra_hZAkY7HF2BNDGvaeJ5YkhJ.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
Nice! Very nice!!
From what I heard and read about the weak design/construction of the real world Meteor tail design, I think you could have averted a lot of Neteor losses 🤔
MAD