Supermarine Swift: All sheet pusher prop.

[Stuart Quinn-Harvie 1]

Afternoon all. I blame Tony Nijuis and Nigel Hawes for this. I've always wanted a small pusher Swift, having very much enjoyed Nigels Hunter back in the day and eventually decided that if it was going to happen then I was going to have to do it myself - it's not a particularly popular subject and there are plenty more out there for others to design ( and I am keenly awaiting TN's Phantom and possible Jet Provost, as well as having his Lightning on my To build List)

Anyway, off I went and found a 4 view, blew it up to 25inch wingspan and 31 and change long for all sheet construction with a pusher on the back.

I am keeping the surfaces and proportions scale with the largest departure being a hand launch rail along the bottom near the CG.

wing will be 3/8 sheet, the rest a mix of sizes with triangular stock to allow for a lot of planing and sanding. Power a 3s pack and similar but slightly more powerful to the set up in the TN lightning.

I need to go off and do some more poking at batteries, motors and props, and work out weights/loadings. 

here are a couple of the very preliminary sketches, done straight over the three views.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited By Stuart Quinn-Harvie 1 on 28/03/2019 11:22:37

[eflightray]

Lovely nostalgia, the Swift, Scimitar, Hunter, Javelin, Gnat ........ when kids could recognise and name planes.

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[Mike Etheridge 1]

They have got a Swift at the Tangmere museum. I have got a couple of photos of it but only of the cockpit and tail plane. My Keil Kraft Jetex Swift just did not work in the 1950's but I assume others managed to fly the model ?