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you do know your countrymen are about to kick your arse...

 

 

Er, it was a fellow Brit who asked for it!

 

(Adopts Huggy Bear voice) Mind you, word on the street is that he's as mad as a box of frogs.

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Couldn't resist doing a 'Desert' He.380 in service with 2./JG27, 1946

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The Tupovlev Tu-22M Backfire masquerading as the Junkers EF.145...

 

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Timmy's 'Projekt Two' masquerading as....

 

The Lavochkin La-13 'Fireball'

 

Even before the end of WW2 the Soviets were in a desperate rush to catch up with British and American technologies and particularly in military aviation. Almost all captured German designs were studied with several being pressed into service in the immediate post-war era including the Lavochkin La-13 'Fireball' jet fighter despite it being an essentially flawed design. Based on the Focke Wulf 'Projekt Two' the La-13 was powered by a Klimov RD-10A (a direct copy of the wartime Jumo 004A) and was little more than a FW-190 with an underslung jet engine kept clear of the runway by a stalky and fragile undercarriage.

 

Whilst this crude 'modified piston-enginned fighter' configuration was also adopted by the MiG-9 'Fargo' and Yakovlev Yak-15 'Feather' the La-13 was heavier and had viscous handling qualities being initially rejected by the VVS evaluation team and heartily loathed by VVS service pilots. First displayed at the Tushino Aviation Day on 18 August 1946 the La-13 entered service in 1948 (later than its home-grown rivals) and was soon dumped on unsuspecting client states. It was later given the entirely appropriate NATO reporting codename of 'Fireball' which became the fate of many La-13's.

 

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Action has been slow in this thread so I've dredged this one up from the archives.

 

 

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The Saab J-29F masquerading as the Focke-Wulf Ta199...

 

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The Martin-Baker MB.5 masquerading as the Macchi M.C.250 'Athena'...

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The Fiat BR.20 masquerading as the Fairey Heron...

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Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 Sparviero masquerading as the Boulton-Paul Trident II...

 

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The Shenyang J-8 'Finback' masquerading as the...

 

 

Supermarine Scarab F.1 - No.74 Squadron, 'The Tigers', RAF Fighter Command, 1961

 

During early 1955 the expected transition of the English Electric Lightning from research aircraft to front-line interceptor troubled senior RAF officials who urgently demanded an alternative design as insurance and to also take advantage of the early lessons learned from the P.1A which had first flown during the previous year. Despite the epic failure of their Swift design Supermarine were entrusted with this project as the Air Ministry were aware that they had been designing a supersonic interceptor as a follow-on to their submission to Specification F.4/48 and by March 1955 their Type 557 had evolved into a twin-engined tailed delta with a nose intake and translating shock cone housing a Ferranti AI.23 AIRPASS radar and fire-control system and Operational Requirement OR.333 was drafted around this design.

 

Work on the new design progressed well at the Hursley Park design offices during 1955 and 1956 and soon metal was being cut at the South Marston works leading to a first flight in October 1957 which put the programme only about six months behind the P.1B Lightning. Powered by two Rolls-Royce RA.24R Avon engines rated at 11,250lb thrust dry and 14,500lb with reheat the Type 557 appeared at the 1958 Farnborough airshow where the rather unflattering name 'Scarab' was officially bestowed upon the type. Prototype and pre-production testing went well during 1958 and 1959 and by early 1960 Scarab F.1's were being delivered to Air Fighting Development Squadron before entering operational squadron service in June 1960 with No.74 squadron at Coltishall.

 

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This is, of course, the Shenyang J-8 'Finback' by Erwin_Hans in it's early nose intake configuration.

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The Shenyang F-8M Finback masquerading as the...

 

British Aerospace Thunderstorm F.3 - No.92 Squadron, RAF Germany, 1987

 

Tracing it's ancestry back to the Supermarine Scarab design started in the mid-1950's the Thunderstorm F.3 was the final version of the Scarab/Thunderstorm family of interceptor-fighters and the last all-British combat aircraft.

 

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Scramble!

 

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Erwin_Hans lovely F-8M 'early' :clapping:

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There is a tonne of stuff I want to add here, I just need to make some screenies!

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Great! This thread needs fresh input...

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The MiG-23ML masquerading as....

 

Republic F-7C Thunderstorm - 429th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Vietnam, 1968

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Takhli RTAFB

 

 

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The Gloser Meteor NF.14 masquerading as the Heinkel He P.1088 'Fledermaus'

 

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were any of these what if jets released to the community? i esp like this one and the LUFT'46 meteors

 

Yokosuka Ki-299 'Hunter' - Imperial Japanese Army Air Force, 1954

 

 

perfect additions for the what-if sf2 folder

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were any of these what if jets released to the community?

 

 

Some were but, generally, I create my 'what ifs' simply to create screenshots for my long-running thread at the what if modellers website. Most of them are not to release standard and are regarded as disposable and do not remain on my hard drive.

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I want to see a WW2 Luftwaffe F-105...

 

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Heinkel P.105 - JG6, Luftwaffe, 1949

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Wow! It does look kind of Teutonic in that camo.

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the splinter looks great on that Thud!!!

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The Republic F-105D Thunderchief masquerading as the Heinkel P.105 Zerstörer

 

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The Aeritalia G.222 masquerading as the Handley-Page Harris* C.1

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*Named after the wartime AOC-in-C of Bomber Command.

 

 

BTW Wrench's Desert Camo made this so easy!

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