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[BlackAce7727]

TSR.2...... Holy..... 

[Geschirr]

I love your version of the Hawker Hunter T.10!!!  Hawker took a beautiful air frame and massacred it with the T.7 (in my opinion).  You have brought back that British elegance with your T.10.

[SAS~GJE52]

 

TSR.2...... Holy.....

.... well technically that image is actually the TSR3A... The internal arrangement was very different from the TSR2 with improved avionics and removal of the internal bomb bay to provide increased fuel capacity and allow for a Single 27 mm Mauser BK-27 cannon with 360 rounds to be mounted on the left side. The undercarriage was redesigned and strengthened to address the tendency for the aircraft to "shimmy" on landing and to allow operation from less well prepared airfields.  Four fuselage pylons and four underwing pylons with a capacity of a maximum of 9000 kg (19,800 lb) of weapons, fuel, and ECM pods. The  inner wing pylons have shoulder rails for two AIM-9 Sidewinder, IRIS-T or AIM-132 ASRAAM air-to-air self-defence missiles. A wide variety of air-to-ground weapons may also be carried as well as the RAPTOR Reconnaissance pod and TIALD laser designator.

This is the version that would have been in service during the Gulf Wars... if of course the original project had not been cancelled and consequently the Panavia Tornado programme not been undertaken.

I love your version of the Hawker Hunter T.10!!!

... however, this would have negated the need for the development of the excellent Hawk T1 trainer and consequently  the Goshawk USN trainer...

Hawker took a beautiful air frame and massacred it with the T.7

I am not sure .... however it is worth noting that the wider cockpit actually improved the aerodynamics.

[SAS~GJE52]

[SAS~GJE52]

The Vought F7U Cutlass was a USN carrier-based jet fighter and fighter-bomber of the early Cold War era. It was a tail-less aircraft for which aerodynamic data from projects of the German Arado and Messerschmitt companies, (obtained at the end of World War II) is rumoured to have been used. German scientists who worked on these projects, did contribute, however, at the time Vought designers denied any link to the German research. see "Operation Paperclip".

Former Messerschmitt AG senior designer Woldemar Voigt, who supervised the development of numerous experimental jet fighters , but especially in the development of the Messerschmitt P.1110 and P.1112, did have significant input to this design


The F7U's performance suffered due to a lack of sufficient engine thrust; consequently, its carrier landing and takeoff performance was notoriously poor. The J35 engine was known to flame out in rain, a very serious fault.

The first fleet squadron to receive F7Us was Fighter Squadron 81 (VF-81) in April 1954. Few squadrons made deployments with the type, and most "beached" them ashore during part of the cruise owing to operating difficulties.

In 1957, Chance Vought analysed the accident record and found that with 78 accidents and a quarter of the airframes lost in 55,000 flight hours, the Cutlass had the highest accident rate of all Navy swept-wing fighters.

The poor safety record caused Vice Admiral Harold M. “Beauty” Martin, air commander of the United States Pacific Fleet, to replace Cutlass aircraft with Grumman F9F-8 Cougars.

[SAS~GJE52]

[SAS~GJE52]

Family Tree

FJ-3M
         FJ-4B
                  FJ-5A 
                           FJ-5B

[KingTiger503]

Good Job GJE-52, Can't Wait for your New Experimental Aircraft.


Best Regards KT503

[Draken]

Wow !
Are these fictionnal / Alternate history planes ?

[SAS~GJE52]

Are these fictionnal / Alternate history planes ?

The FJ-3M and the FJ-4B did see service with the USN and US Marines. The FJ-5 was one of a couple of  actual design studies, based on the F-100 airframe,  but for some reason they were never developed further.

[Geschirr]

That F-100/A-7 looking monstrosity in USN training colors is something else... Great looking plane and fantastic work GJE52!!

[SAS~GJE52]

It is what happens when you leave the A7 hanger door unlocked overnight and a Randy F-100 sneaks in