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Re: EE/BAC Lightning Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #125 on: September 29, 2015, 11:28:25 PM »
Yeah, sorry: I tend to forget that other people build things in wierd scales.... ;)
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Re: EE/BAC Lightning Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #126 on: September 30, 2015, 05:04:56 AM »
There's some cooooool stuff in here! I recently got a Matchbox T.55 to bash into a T.5 using an old-tool, never finished Airfix F.2 and was going to make a plain-jane RAAF machine from the short-belly single-seater. Now I have some ideas and schemes to play with.
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Re: EE/BAC Lightning Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #127 on: September 30, 2015, 03:38:02 PM »
Greg: From which of the two books did you get the images from?

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Re: EE/BAC Lightning Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #128 on: September 30, 2015, 03:38:30 PM »
Yeah, sorry: I tend to forget that other people build things in wierd scales.... ;)

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Re: EE/BAC Lightning Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #129 on: September 30, 2015, 03:41:25 PM »
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Re: EE/BAC Lightning Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #130 on: September 30, 2015, 04:09:32 PM »
Feeling the need for a road trip to visit a certain personal library



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Re: EE/BAC Lightning Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #131 on: September 30, 2015, 08:06:56 PM »
Yeah, sorry: I tend to forget that other people build things in wierd scales.... ;)

Who you calling weird...weirdo!!!

Deviants and heretics from the One True Scale, of course....  ;)
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Re: EE/BAC Lightning Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #132 on: September 30, 2015, 10:50:00 PM »
Yeah, sorry: I tend to forget that other people build things in wierd scales.... ;)

Who you calling weird...weirdo!!!

Deviants and heretics from the One True Scale, of course....  ;)

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Re: EE/BAC Lightning Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #133 on: December 19, 2015, 06:10:49 AM »
Something I found online this week:

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Re: EE/BAC Lightning Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #134 on: December 19, 2015, 07:51:14 AM »
Nice Find. Vought Lightsader.
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Re: EE/BAC Lightning Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #135 on: December 04, 2017, 06:18:50 AM »
What a machine!!!!
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Re: EE/BAC Lightning Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #136 on: January 17, 2018, 06:00:41 AM »
From Colin Strachan, owner of Freightdog Models.

A couple of years ago I produced a ‘swing wing’ conversion for the Airfix Lightning F.6 kit in 1/72 scale, a paper project to enhance the original design. This wonderful build took my resin wings and mated them to the Sword Lightning T.5 kit, which was also significantly scratch converted into a Phase III Lighting, itself based on a Naval VG proposal. I can’t remember the modellers name, but I just came across this picture and wanted to share it. The VG wing sets is still available, although designed for the Airfix kit, I’ve seen it fitted to other Lightning kits including Matchbox and Sword ones, with the application of a little modelling skill, as illustrated here!

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Re: EE/BAC Lightning Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #137 on: January 18, 2018, 03:18:56 AM »
Am I the only one who thinks that it looks a bit odd that the outer wing panels in the VG Lightning would have been exactly the same shape as the regular ones? Or was this just a case of paper exercise and if anything would have ever become of it, the wing planform would have been redesigned?

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Re: EE/BAC Lightning Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #138 on: January 18, 2018, 04:05:02 AM »
I cannot speak to the final design but these drawings appears to be authentic and as you noted kept the original shape of the fixed wing version.





Source: http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234991381-ee-sea-lightning-project-help/
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Re: EE/BAC Lightning Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #139 on: January 18, 2018, 07:31:11 AM »
Yes, I'm aware of and have seen the official BAC drawings and brochures around the net. What I meant that if someone had digged further into it, were there any "serious" plans to further redesign the wing if anyone caught the bait, or would this have been it.

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Re: EE/BAC Lightning Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #140 on: January 19, 2018, 02:44:34 AM »
Yes, I'm aware of and have seen the official BAC drawings and brochures around the net. What I meant that if someone had digged further into it, were there any "serious" plans to further redesign the wing if anyone caught the bait, or would this have been it.


I would have to refer to my 'bibles' to confirm but unfortunately they are in storage for another couple of months whilst the new house is built:

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Re: EE/BAC Lightning Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #141 on: September 15, 2018, 08:57:26 AM »
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Re: EE/BAC Lightning Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #142 on: September 27, 2018, 08:42:02 AM »
Just a thought - but Egyptian crews trained on Saudi aircraft after the '73 war. But never attained operational readiness. I just think an F-2A or F-6 would look good in the Nile scheme, or delta scheme.
 

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Re: EE/BAC Lightning Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #143 on: September 27, 2018, 11:19:59 AM »
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Re: EE/BAC Lightning Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #144 on: May 25, 2020, 02:41:39 AM »
Random Inspiration:

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Re: EE/BAC Lightning Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #145 on: September 27, 2020, 02:20:09 AM »
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Re: EE/BAC Lightning Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #146 on: September 27, 2020, 02:55:51 AM »
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Re: EE/BAC Lightning Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #147 on: September 29, 2020, 03:30:19 AM »
Sacré bleu!!!



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Re: EE/BAC Lightning Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #148 on: September 29, 2020, 03:31:38 AM »
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Re: EE/BAC Lightning Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #149 on: October 04, 2020, 03:08:07 AM »

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