106 inch Hawker typhoon

[chris willis]

Hi all
Next year if all goes to plan i shall be kiting the hawker typhoon 106 inch span which shall be built up fuselage with slab sides and lazer cut formers, it will have a glass cowl, a canopy either car door type or bubble, with a 4 piece foam wing, no price details exist untill first kit is available, below is the build to date, there are two on the go this is my one, and Ken Bones is building the other, there will be a build to view on the link below.
hope you like it
all the best
Chris

http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd38 ... ure349.jpg
http://www.rcmf.co.uk/4um/index.php/topic,59248.0.html

[Gregg Veasey]

Yeah man,

Post a few pics direct on this thread

G

[chris willis]

well heres a start.

[maurice northcott]

Looks good Chris.
Might have a go at one myself.....
maurice

[chris willis]

thanks Maurice.
well you should see them at Baldock early in the year fingers crossed. or visit Ken to look at the build

[Mike Booth]

Cor... can i have one mister...

2nd Tactical Airforce next year.

M

[Mike Booth]

This is obviously the clipped version.

[chris willis]

thought us typhoon chappie's were a bit common for you spit pilots, chocks away were awf

[Mike Booth]

thought us typhoon chappie's were a bit common for you spit pilots, chocks away were awf

Of course, as the need to put pilots in Tiffy seats progresses towards Operation Stripey Wings next year, we will need to relax class and education background and take on some non commissioned types..... bloody hard cheese for the Squadron old chap.
Still , at least it will lessen the odds of catching a packet from the Bosh ack ack.
TTFN old chap.

[Mike Booth]

[chris willis]

hope it all goes well like your spit has, will have to get together before christmas for a sortie

[Mike Booth]

Check your emails.

[chris willis]

Am at Helens so cant get into my email as cant remember how from here, will check them out tom morning when back at mine

[robert ellis]

id be up for one of those.....any idear on price? shame theres no real ones flying,,,youd think with todays tech in the warbird world they would be able to master the saber engine.......

[chris willis]

Hi Rob thanks for the interest, yes it would be lovely to see a real one in the air, maybe one day, not sure on the price till nearer christmas as other people are involved in price ie wing cutters glass cowl maker and laser cutting, once prototype has flown early in the new year and i am happy with it, i will gets kits into action, if you look on rcmf forum you will see more about it
Chris

[robert ellis]

thanks for that,,,,il keep watching with interest.. looks like in the posted pics its he car door type canope...is the plug done for the bubble type yet?... out of interest did you know the tempest canope was modified to become the bubble top we all know on the p47....,every days a school day some once told me.,

[chris willis]

no i didn't know that, yes it is car door type this is only a temp one as the main mould is done but needs a bit of a clean up and framework attached, the bubble one i will make soon, this will be on my second build with rockets racked up on the wing

[Denis Brown]

You probably know ,there is a full size tempest being restored for flying. Have heard on the gossip channel that they are waiting for the engine to be returned from USA

DB

[chris willis]

will love to see that fly

[robert ellis]

i know theres a bristol centaurus engined mk5 to fly soon,,MW763,,,,,Also kermit weeks has EJ693 which is a tempest 2,, the best looking in my opinion with the napier saber engine,,,,this one seems the most likey to move under its own power with that type of engine.....i did here the late nick grace had one or two tempest"s with a collection of saber engines,,all of which were zero hour units...anyway i cant wait to add one of these super looking kits to my large scale warbird collection,the tiff is a lovely flying aircraft in large scale....balance can be an issue though.,,hats of to all involved....