😮 eight propeller blades, two contra rotating props, a 24 cylinder liquid cooled Rolls Royce Eagle engine, two wing folds – what’s not to like about it?!*

* unless you had to fly it!

It would be fair to say that a prototype of the Wyvern survives, unfortunately it is the sole survivor of the type as no production aircraft survived in to preservation.
Worth a trip to the Fleet Air Arm Museum just to be in awe of VR137!

Yes, the Twin Pin belongs to Pully 113, Jon H, Terry P and Anon – all Forumites:eek:

Wow, an illustrious line up! hope you don’t all have different ideas about final possible paint scheme!:D

Thanks for the pics chaps, more complete inside than I had realised.

I do like that Twin Pin ‘pit, anyone get any inside shots of it? Does it belong to anyone here?

Good question.
The two main variants, ie FAW.1, 4, & 5, with British AI.17 radar and the FAW.2, 6, & 8 with American AI.22 radar are all quoted as 56ft 4ins (or 56ft 3in) in every publication that I’ve got.
My understanding is that the airframe of the American equiped variants is shorter in the nose, but the radome is longer than that of the British equiped ones, thus possibly making up the similar overall length. Worth noting that the radome to fuselage joint is asymetric (diagonal when seen in plan view) on these types.

Having said that, when you look at pictures of the two variations there does seem to be a good foot or so difference in the overall length ahead of the windscreen area!

Be interesting to see all the variants lengths form AP/PNs sources, which I would think is the only sure fire way of finding out.

Are those long-range tanks that you can see through the windows?

Welcome aboard, and thanks for putting your side across.
I really wish you all the best with this project, and hope it comes to fruition as a flying Q6 sometime.
I hope you’re not seething from Seething though:)

In a few places we even found her old green/grey camo. Still wish we were going for that colour scheme… 🙁

Agree with that, would be great to see a Victor completed in camo scheme, contrast well with the others and the Nimrod.