ex-extinct de Havilland Sea Hornet to be restored to fly
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Yertis said:
Do any other actual prototypes of WW2 aircraft exist?
Fleet Air Arm museum has 2, if you can squeeze the Vampire just in.de Havilland Sea Vampire (3rd protoype)
Fairey Fulmar (prototype) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_Fulmar
Yertis said:
FourWheelDrift said:
Do any other actual prototypes of WW2 aircraft exist?I think there's a whole gallery in one of the US aviation museums devoted to prototypes and development airframes.
Ginetta G15 Girl said:
Kccv23highliftcam said:
Didn't know they kept the 303s thought they were deleted for the radar gear...
As dr_gn says that's a photo' of an NF Mk II which carried the AI Mk IV Metric wavelength radar. You can see the arrowhead transmitter aerial on the nose; the receiver dipole aerials were carried under the outer wing sections.When the AI Mk VIII Centimetric waveband radar became available the aircraft were fitted with a 'thimble nose' (Mosquito NF Mk XII onwards) and the Brownings were removed.
Certainley when the NF.11 first went into service on home defence nightfighter duties in late 42, they were in all over night-black finish as the Beaufighter NF's were that they started to replace in service.
I must admit, I'm not wholly convinced that a NF.11 would have been in day fighter scheme's, certainly later NF marks that replaced the NF.!!'s in service were that were operated on home defence duties.
Haven't got the books to hand to have a check, but I'm sure Tony hasn't made such an obvious error after all the years he's worked on it!!
I must admit, I'm not wholly convinced that a NF.11 would have been in day fighter scheme's, certainly later NF marks that replaced the NF.!!'s in service were that were operated on home defence duties.
Haven't got the books to hand to have a check, but I'm sure Tony hasn't made such an obvious error after all the years he's worked on it!!
aeropilot said:
Certainley when the NF.11 first went into service on home defence nightfighter duties in late 42, they were in all over night-black finish as the Beaufighter NF's were that they started to replace in service.
I must admit, I'm not wholly convinced that a NF.11 would have been in day fighter scheme's, certainly later NF marks that replaced the NF.!!'s in service were that were operated on home defence duties.
Haven't got the books to hand to have a check, but I'm sure Tony hasn't made such an obvious error after all the years he's worked on it!!
According to a reference book I've got, it's correct, at least for a mid 1943 NF Mk.II - Medium sea grey overall with dark green upper camo. I thought that for conventional camo patterns, the upper and lower greys were always different (or sky, or black for the undersides). Every day a school day.I must admit, I'm not wholly convinced that a NF.11 would have been in day fighter scheme's, certainly later NF marks that replaced the NF.!!'s in service were that were operated on home defence duties.
Haven't got the books to hand to have a check, but I'm sure Tony hasn't made such an obvious error after all the years he's worked on it!!
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