IIRC the FBW core unit at both A and B -and the Segway- is still of Marconi fame.
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Originally Posted by dixi188
(Post 11385631)
What about the electrical/radio/navigation equipment. I doubt there is much UK made stuff around now.
The last Vickers Viscounts built for China 1963/4, had all Brit stuff due to USA sanctions. All the Islanders I worked on had Narco, King or Bendix radios. I meant the airframe, who knows where the rubber for the tyres comes from if one wants to go …… |
Originally Posted by dangermouse
(Post 11385357)
Wildcat is uk designed, with no foreign input to the best of my knowledge
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Originally Posted by chevvron
(Post 11385767)
But wasn't the Lynx a joint Anglo French project?
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Originally Posted by JagRigger
(Post 11385613)
https://www.swiftaircraft.com/the-swift.html being built at Coltishall
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A wildcat is not a lynx....
There may be some legacy items that had French design leadership on wildcat but there is no French input now, it depend on what passes for totally British designed, does that include EVERY component or just the airframe? Does the engine have to be british, or the radios etc....?
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Still a way from being completed and flown but the Hill HX50 may become a contender...
Regarding the Wildcat, are they brand new airframes or seriously rebuilt Lynx airframes? |
All new
Wildcat airframe is completely new and different to Lynx.
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Thanks Dangermouse.
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That's good to know.
The fact that the Wildcat looks like a Lynx on steroids is clearly pure coincidence. And it's early "Future Lynx" designation was simply to confuse the enemy. |
Originally Posted by mikeoneflying
(Post 11385205)
I was lucky enough to see an Optica at a airshow.
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There were a number at North Weald in the film company hangar.
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Originally Posted by Pypard
(Post 11386850)
You didn't need to be lucky to see one at an air show: I recall seeing the 1st prototype (unfinished at that point) at the Cranfield PFA Rally circa 1978, and the last time I saw one at an airshow was (I think) Farnborough circa 2018. They had in the meantime been marketed at various trade shows initially as by Edgeley, then Optica (I think), plus maybe others in between. Though a good number were lost in the Old Sarum fire, I think a number still exist, though how many are airworthy I don't know.
During a later airshow display, Neville Duke flew an Opfica and embarassingly was instructed to land by the Flying Control Committee as he had drifted south of the runway; strictly verboten. |
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