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  1. oldironside

    Fairey Fulmar also designed as a single seat version alongside the Hurricane & Spitfire?

    I would love to believe that could get off a British carrier deck with a full load. I honestly have no idea.
  2. oldironside

    Fairey Fulmar also designed as a single seat version alongside the Hurricane & Spitfire?

    I seem to recall someone did a very impressive 1/72 what if of a single seat Fulmar called (I think) a Fairey Pilchard. My old brain must be playing tricks on me because I can't find any trace of it.
  3. oldironside

    Fairey Fulmar also designed as a single seat version alongside the Hurricane & Spitfire?

    The Barracuda was actually designed around the Rolls Royce Exe, which was cancelled (along with the Vulture and Peregrine) to allow RR to focus on Merlins and Griffons.
  4. oldironside

    Alt 'day' fighters for Luftwaffe, 1937-45

    Personally I don't have a problem with that but the mods might. If you want to PM me auf Deutsch I can maybe help you out.
  5. oldironside

    Glossary of Sealion Threads

    There was a certain joy in finding ever more elements that would undermine the whole fiasco.
  6. oldironside

    Alt 'day' fighters for Luftwaffe, 1937-45

    Können wir das auf Englisch diskutieren?
  7. oldironside

    WI West Germany buys the EE Lighting and not the F-104?

    I would have a cool icon outside my classroom, rather than a heap of junk. Unfortunately the Lightning is no more suited to the job the Luftwaffe had in mind than the F-104 was. There were far better contenders for the role of tactical fighter. The only real advantage the Lightning had was a...
  8. oldironside

    Ju187, how could it not be an improvement

    The simplest and best answer was to use the FW190. It could carry a big load, dive bomb, required half the trained aircrew, was much more difficult to intercept, could fight its way out after dropping its bombs on more or less equal terms with enemy fighters, and could operate from almost any...
  9. oldironside

    Alt 'day' fighters for Luftwaffe, 1937-45

    Maybe something closer to the Me 263, which was slightly larger and had a permanent undercarriage rather than the dolly the 163 used.
  10. oldironside

    RAF's 'day' fighters' alternatives, 1931-39

    Quickly perusing the wikipedia article about Whittle, I came across this... "Pat Johnson remained convinced of the validity of the idea, and had Whittle patent[14] the idea in January 1930. Since the RAF was not interested in the concept they did not declare it secret, meaning that Whittle was...
  11. oldironside

    RAF's 'day' fighters' alternatives, 1931-39

    I think a jet fighter in 1941 is entirely possible. The Heinkel 280 made its first jet powered flight on 30th March 1941. Give Whittle the sort of backing von Ohain had and a Meteor, Vampire or something resembling the Gloster E1/44 flying at the same time (or earlier) is more than feasible
  12. oldironside

    RAF's 'day' fighters' alternatives, 1931-39

    Well, it would make a great POD.
  13. oldironside

    RAF's 'day' fighters' alternatives, 1931-39

    Well, that's sort of getting away from the notion of "Whittle gets funding, so the Gloster Pioneer flies two years earlier and we have a practical jet engine available by 1939". I'm not sure we'd have to use an axial flow engine. Modifying the forward fuselage to fit a WB2 or Welland sounds...
  14. oldironside

    RAF's 'day' fighters' alternatives, 1931-39

    The Jetfire's nozzles seem, in the image anyway, to be of a much smaller diameter than those on the Sea Hawk. Maybe a bit of artistic licence. I understand how the Yak-15 is arranged and I meant that it seems a more practical solution than the Jetfire's twin nozzles. The Jetfire's exhausts as...
  15. oldironside

    RAF's 'day' fighters' alternatives, 1931-39

    Yeah, but I'm not convinced the jet nozzles on the Jetfire are big enough, or that the cowling will fit a centrifugal turbojet. The early British jet engines were a bit bulkier than the Jumo 004 that powered the Yak. I think it would have bit more overhang. It could make an interesting...
  16. oldironside

    RAF's 'day' fighters' alternatives, 1931-39

    Of course, if we could get a usaeable Welland in 1939/1940, there is a chance to fit it into an existing fighter airframe. However, that would probably lead to something resembling this... I personally think it would be a crime to do that to a Spitfire.
  17. oldironside

    RAF's 'day' fighters' alternatives, 1931-39

    You raise the interesting question of what would Mitchell have done with access to the Rolls Royce Welland? And then the Nene? I think it's unlikely he would have produced such an unbalanced design as the Supermarine Attacker.
  18. oldironside

    RAF's 'day' fighters' alternatives, 1931-39

    Indeed. IIRC Whittle said that the RAF could have had Meteors in 1942 if he had been given the proper funding. By that token, it's not that much of a stretch for the Gloster Pioneer (easier to type than E.28/39) to make its maiden flight on May 15th 1939 (as opposed to May 15th 1941), thus...
  19. oldironside

    RAF's 'day' fighters' alternatives, 1931-39

    She was designed to mount four .303s.
  20. oldironside

    RAF's 'day' fighters' alternatives, 1931-39

    According to Sir Frank, not that much of a stretch.
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