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Sorry Reg not the Typhoon R8694.
David.
Just done a bit of digging and as you say the tails of the two aircraft are similar that is due as you thought to the some tie up in the design team. The leader of the design team at Napiers did work on the design of the challenge aircraft.
Mel
David.
Just done a bit of digging and as you say the tails of the two aircraft are similar that is due as you thought to the some tie up in the design team. The leader of the design team at Napiers did work on the design of the challenge aircraft.
Mel
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Coffee break time. Mel, is this the Airspeed AS.56? Found a drawing in Flight which looks about right
If correct will have to be OH as back to work now.
If correct will have to be OH as back to work now.
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That is the one the Airspeed AS56 
Ken has called for Open House but I think as David did a lot of digging the batton should be passed to him.
After the Airspeed design team had moved from Portsmouth to the de Havilland Technical School building at Hatfield in 1940, work began on projects powered by 2,200 hp Napier Sabre twenty four cylinder H type liquid cooled engines. The first was an unusual and somewhat anachronistic high-speed twin-engined 'push-pull' bomber, the AS.47, and the others were single-engined fighters such as the AS.48. The work continued when the nucleus of what was later to be the Ambassador team joined Arthur Ernest Hagg who was then a design consultant with Napiers, and the attractive-looking AS.56 fighter project resulted.........
....the day-fighter medium altitude AS.56 worked upon later was possibly more of an exercise in design, making use of the new fan-cooled annular radiator for Napier Sabre IV engine development, than a serious project study. Other features of the AS.56 included a wide-track undercarriage retracting inwards into the forward-extending leading edge. Armament consisted of four 20mm cannon. As an Airspeed design the fighter was dropped but Napiers continued the work on the cooling system.
....the day-fighter medium altitude AS.56 worked upon later was possibly more of an exercise in design, making use of the new fan-cooled annular radiator for Napier Sabre IV engine development, than a serious project study. Other features of the AS.56 included a wide-track undercarriage retracting inwards into the forward-extending leading edge. Armament consisted of four 20mm cannon. As an Airspeed design the fighter was dropped but Napiers continued the work on the cooling system.
I said earlier..
It was that one! Just didn't have the grey matter to think "AS" = Airspeed!!!
Your offer is very kind Mel, but I wonder when TC will be back - soon probably.
Shall we wait a little while or would you all like one up quickly?
Found a drawing of it on FlightGlobal but that's all it says.
Your offer is very kind Mel, but I wonder when TC will be back - soon probably.
Shall we wait a little while or would you all like one up quickly?
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Thanks for the thought LM; as you suspected, it is my coffee time but it's a hasty one and I'm very much pressed for time today! It looks like it's going to be a late night and I don't expect to return to SC today. Sorry guys 
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Good Challenge Mel
!!Good Challenge Mel
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