UKMIL Nimrod AEW

ijay

ijay

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She may be one of the ugliest aircraft ever made, and this model certainly captures her looks.
Well done Gaffer and all concerned.:applause::applause:

Little bit of cropping and colour adjustment in P/shop
 
It does look like maybe early on in the development it had a chance to be a rather striking aircraft design, but then they gave up on that and just went with functional, lol.
 
falcon409 said:
It does look like maybe early on in the development it had a chance to be a rather striking aircraft design, but then they gave up on that and just went with functional, lol.
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I don't think there was much design thought given to it other than to stick more bits onto the existing Nimrod to be honest.
 
falcon409 said:
It does look like maybe early on in the development it had a chance to be a rather striking aircraft design, but then they gave up on that and just went with functional, lol.
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Well, it's based on the faithful Comet design...which itself wasn't a nominee for the beauty award.
 
Most people who have described it have said that the Comet was a very attractive aircraft, Bjoern... It does always come down to personal choice, though.

The thing about the Nimrod AEW was that in spite of its drawbacks, the ruddy thing worked and a was a technical marvel. Typically British though, all that made it work was probably some bailing twine, electrical tape and a lump of 2x4. The problem was that it was just going to cost so much to actually finish development on and the Boeing offering was so much cheaper that it was on a hiding to nothing pretty much right from the start.

I mean apart from us weird types in the soggy isles, who else would serious try and link two radars together to provide a single scan... Anyone? Seriously? :icon_lol:
 
That project cost the UK taxpayers almost as much as those retched 'wide boy, selfish bankers in the City did. A pile of dog's doo, both of them turned out to be, the Nimrod radar could get confused between incoming Russian jets and trucks driving along the M6 motorway!!!!
 
I heard a story that the intercom was based on a design in "Practical Wireless" magazine using 741 op amps.:isadizzy:
 
IanP said:
Most people who have described it have said that the Comet was a very attractive aircraft, Bjoern...
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Most people are wrong anyways. :icon_lol:


(I have a really hard time finding most british designs beautiful. If you say "Spitfire" now I'll spend thousands of Euros and hours to invent a device for poking you in the eye through the internet just for that. x( ;) :d)
 
Hawker Hunter. And you're just biased, anyway. :p ;)

Any yes calypsos, but there's an enduring urban legend that the USAF rapidly hushed up one of the Nimrod testbeds happily tracking a supposedly undetectable stealth demonstration flight for several hundred miles.

Whether it's true or not I don't know, but it's a good story. :d
 
IanP said:
Hawker Hunter. And you're just biased, anyway. :p ;)

Any yes calypsos, but there's an enduring urban legend that the USAF rapidly hushed up one of the Nimrod testbeds happily tracking a supposedly undetectable stealth demonstration flight for several hundred miles.

Whether it's true or not I don't know, but it's a good story. :d
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ive yet to meet a service guy that didnt have a laugh about that one, something along the lines of 'hey whats that?' 'Get the f&^% out of our airspace now'
 
It's the "being able to tell the difference" bit that was the problem. However, it probably wouldn't have taken much to make that work, in reality.

On the other hand, those Nimrod airframes are now seriously way past their should-have-been-retired-by-now date, whether you love them, loathe them or are utterly indifferent about them. Although the same could be said for the B707, could it not?
 
lets not forget the Brabazon Ian, that was a beauty, ok british designs that are beautiful... Harrier, Hawk..

i'm one of the strange few who finds the Nimrod an attractive airframe, :icon_lol:
 
Although the same could be said for the B707, could it not?
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I don't know, I think the last 707 airframes produced were for the UK E-3 fleet so they're certainly a lot newer than even the shinest of the Nimrods.
 
Never liked the Victor. The front end looks silly. Like a 1920s cartoon spaceship.

The Valiant was quite nice, though. Vulcan...? Impressive. I wouldn't say beautiful, but exceptionally striking and impressive.
 
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