I can remember building a model of a Wyvern – googled Frog + Wyvern and came up, almost inevitably, with this:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Frog-Westland-Wyvern-Model-Kit-1-72_W0QQitemZ6054747492QQcategoryZ2587QQssPageNameZWD2VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Also, Frog made a semi-scale flying model in their Junior range, but I never had any success with low wing flying models – unstable I thought, probably my bad building.

Best wishes and ignore the rudeness.

SoG

Thank you for these helpful and interesting replies. I wasn’t exactly sure about the weight of new or rermanufactured fittings, but thanks for the information.

SoG

That seems like a lot of aileron droop (see the wing-drop pic) – why so much?

I remember a flying wing glider made by a Fred Breeze and known perhaps irreverently as the ‘Oozlebird’ which was propped up against the wall of the old Nobel Dynamite factory which then served as the glider hangar at Perranporth Airfield (RAF Trevellas) back in the 1960’s. I wonder if that might just be the one that was later at Halton? I think I am right in saying that Mr Breeze came and took it away eventually.

You are so right Matt, although I have never seen the Avian for real, and likely never will, I think it is an appropriately sad memorial to Bill Lancaster. I admire the dignity in his final message.
SoG

There is one (was one at least 7 years ago, oh how time flies) in poor condition on the dump at RAF West Freugh. The Battalion I was serving in at the time did an airborne assault on exercise, a tactical landing at West Freugh in Hercules’s “Brace, Brace, Brace”!

I wonder if it’s still there?

SoG

I wonder if anyone remembers the TV series ‘Heimat’ – in which a Whirlwind was used by the son of the household, an aviation business that he tried to start after the end of the War.

SoG