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Re: Hawker Typhoon/Tempest
« Reply #50 on: May 31, 2018, 06:56:39 PM »
How about a Typhoon or Tempest Floatplane fighter for the FAA. .


Would this suffice?



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Re: Hawker Typhoon/Tempest
« Reply #51 on: September 27, 2018, 08:38:35 PM »
Found on Facebook on the Monogram Scale Models group. 1/48 scale. You're welcome Greg.



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Re: Hawker Typhoon/Tempest
« Reply #52 on: September 28, 2018, 01:19:38 AM »
Silver and blue works for me.

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Re: Hawker Typhoon/Tempest
« Reply #53 on: September 28, 2018, 11:13:51 AM »
 :smiley:
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Re: Hawker Typhoon/Tempest
« Reply #54 on: August 28, 2019, 01:47:51 PM »
Just an odd thought, the RAF gets nervous about whether the Napier Sabre's development problems can be resolved and negotiates a "Reverse Lend-Lease" deal with the USSR for production and development rights to the AM-38 for use in place of the Sabre, perhaps produced by Fairey.

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Re: Hawker Typhoon/Tempest
« Reply #55 on: August 29, 2019, 03:40:48 AM »
Did someone say Twin Tiffie?




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Re: Hawker Typhoon/Tempest
« Reply #56 on: April 30, 2020, 03:43:36 AM »
The forgotten sister to the Hawker Typhoon:  The Hawker Tornado:



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Re: Hawker Typhoon/Tempest
« Reply #57 on: April 30, 2020, 01:29:42 PM »
The forgotten sister to the Hawker Typhoon:  The Hawker Tornado:
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Or an intermediate step between Hurricane and Typhoon.

I see that Wikipedia has an SVG file, which could be handy for those who like to make drawings.

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Re: Hawker Typhoon/Tempest
« Reply #58 on: May 01, 2020, 05:04:26 AM »
The forgotten sister to the Hawker Typhoon:  The Hawker Tornado:

 :smiley: :smiley:  I always liked the Centaurus-powered Tornado (like your Reply #3 ).
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Re: Hawker Typhoon/Tempest
« Reply #59 on: May 01, 2020, 05:15:49 AM »
IIRC, that Tornado with the contra-prop was assigned to one of the propeller manufacturing companies to be used in testing the contra-props, either Rotol or De Havilland.

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Re: Hawker Typhoon/Tempest
« Reply #60 on: May 01, 2020, 06:47:04 AM »
IIRC, that Tornado with the contra-prop was assigned to one of the propeller manufacturing companies to be used in testing the contra-props, either Rotol or De Havilland.

According to Flying to the Limit: Testing WW II Single-engined Fighters by Peter Caygill, Tornado R7936 was used to test both de Havilland and Rotol contra-props. I think in the attached image, the DH props are shown.
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Re: Hawker Typhoon/Tempest
« Reply #61 on: May 01, 2020, 10:21:45 AM »
Odd thought for grins, cross a Tornado with a Typhoon, a Vulture-powered Typhoon would look attractively different.

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Re: Hawker Typhoon/Tempest
« Reply #62 on: May 01, 2020, 10:16:04 PM »
Odd thought for grins, cross a Tornado with a Typhoon, a Vulture-powered Typhoon would look attractively different.

If you put a Vulture on a Typhoon, you'd get a Tornado Evan, from what I've read, the wing had to be dropped 3"+ for the Vulture to fit the Typhoon fuselage, something to do with what was hanging off the back of the engine that had to go 'over' the wing spar --- or something like that.

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Re: Hawker Typhoon/Tempest
« Reply #63 on: May 02, 2020, 03:47:43 AM »
Correction, I meant cross a Tornado with a Tempest.

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Re: Hawker Typhoon/Tempest
« Reply #64 on: May 02, 2020, 03:52:29 AM »
Yeah, that would have some people scratching their heads wouldn't it --- I like that idea too, I've got a Hawker Tornado conversion in the stash ----  think on it I will   :icon_meditation: :icon_meditation: :icon_meditation:

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Re: Hawker Typhoon/Tempest
« Reply #65 on: May 02, 2020, 07:12:38 AM »
Correction, I meant cross a Tornado with a Tempest.

Hmmm, ... maybe Tempest I-style leading-edge radiators + earliest Vulture installation on the Tornado?
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Re: Hawker Typhoon/Tempest
« Reply #66 on: May 03, 2020, 03:48:32 AM »
I've got a Hawker Tornado conversion in the stash

What scale?
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Re: Hawker Typhoon/Tempest
« Reply #67 on: May 03, 2020, 05:03:49 AM »
I've got a Hawker Tornado conversion in the stash

What scale?

The one ""True Scale""   >:D >:D >:D  (you should know me by now Greg  ;D ) It's a Maintrack conversion. I'll have to dig it out but I think they did the version with the radiator 'Hurricane' style, and also the beard radiator (chin).

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Re: Hawker Typhoon/Tempest
« Reply #68 on: May 03, 2020, 06:47:54 AM »
This one?



I wonder if anyone has done a 1/48 scale for those of us not suffering from the 1/72 affliction?
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Re: Hawker Typhoon/Tempest
« Reply #69 on: May 03, 2020, 06:51:06 AM »
I see they also did this one:

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Re: Hawker Typhoon/Tempest
« Reply #70 on: May 03, 2020, 06:57:30 AM »
Supposedly there was also this full kit, alas still in the wrong scale.  Guess I might need to scratch build.

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Re: Hawker Typhoon/Tempest
« Reply #71 on: May 03, 2020, 07:15:54 AM »
I've got both those Maintrack conversions and the LF one. Seeing the LF box jogged the little grey cells ---- 

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Re: Hawker Typhoon/Tempest
« Reply #72 on: May 03, 2020, 09:11:17 AM »
The LF Models kit exists, I have seen them for sale on Ebay.  It's really tempting to buy one, clone the engine installation and install it on a Tempest along with the tempest mk.I leading edge radiators.

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Re: Hawker Typhoon/Tempest
« Reply #73 on: May 04, 2020, 03:34:03 AM »
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Re: Hawker Typhoon/Tempest
« Reply #74 on: May 04, 2020, 09:40:53 AM »
For those wanting a ground-attack fighter without the vulnerability of a cooling system, how about a Centaurus-powered Typhoon?  For more fun, in USAAF markings replacing P-47s in some fighter group.