My entry for the Turboprop attack challenge
The Westland Wyvern is a British single-seat carrier-based multi-role strike aircraft built by Westland Aircraft that served in the 1950s, seeing service in the 1956 Suez Crisis. Production Wyverns were powered by a turboprop engine driving large and distinctive contra-rotating propellers, and could carry aerial torpedoes.
Total production was 127 airframes with 124 aircraft completed, as the last three Eagle piston-engined airframes, VR138, -139, and -140, were never completed.
All Wyverns were withdrawn from service by 1958: while in service and testing there were 68 accidents, 39 were lost and there were 13 fatalities, including two RAF pilots and one United States Navy pilot.
An unflown pre-production aircraft, the last to be fitted with the original Eagle piston engine, (serial number VR137) is on display at the Fleet Air Arm Museum in Yeovilton, England:
Instructions
AG1 to open canopy
AG2 to unfold wings
VTOL for flaps
Specifications
Spotlights
- NewWorldAerospace 4 days ago
General Characteristics
- Predecessor (Open) Turboprop attack challenge
- Created On Windows
- Wingspan 42.5ft (13.0m)
- Length 42.0ft (12.8m)
- Height 18.2ft (5.5m)
- Empty Weight 18,585lbs (8,430kg)
- Loaded Weight 21,939lbs (9,951kg)
Performance
- Horse Power/Weight Ratio 0.091
- Wing Loading 46.5lbs/ft2 (227.2kg/m2)
- Wing Area 471.4ft2 (43.8m2)
- Drag Points 3772
Parts
- Number of Parts 89
- Control Surfaces 7
- Performance Cost 609
Design: -/10
Functions: 7/10
Speed: 7/10
Maneuverability: 7/10
(Optional) Replica: 8/10
Final: 8/10
PEA are so back
@UltravioletBlood
Sure. :)
@Seeras , can you please make this a successor to @AeroTactical 's challenge? (https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/PC8J2e/Open-Turboprop-attack-challenge)