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In the fleet Air Arm Museum they have a P1127 that has a set of wings from a GR3 Harrier so I plan to merge the old Airfix P1127 and their new GR3 kit to make the cross breed mongral as seen in the museum.

Will look forward to seeing this.

David.

These are the planned kits I intend to butcher

Alan. To save you using a new kit will the wings from an old mold GR3 work? I have acouple of bagged kits and can spaer one.

All the best.

Greg

Thanks for the offer Greg.

I have several of the old GR3's in my stash, I'm just making life simpler by using the new kit as it has the one piece wing.

My subject has had an interesting career mainly as a crash test dummy by the looks of its history below you can see it had a GR1 wing fitted in 1971 and in 1981 was painted to look like a Sea Harrier for use on the dummy flight deck at HMS Sea Hawk

XP980 - Hawker P1127, built at Kingston

• 24/02/1963 - first flight at Dunsfold
  16/11/1963 - made a heavy landing
  25/11/1963 - flew again following repairs
  11/02/1965 - to Bircham Newton
  10/03/1965 - to Dunsfold via RAF West Raynham
  14/07/1965 - grounded
  30/12/1965 - next recorded flight
  27/01/1966 - last flight from Dunsfold To A&AEE for trials, damaged during practice forced landing, used for spares recovery
  1970 - moved to Tarrant Rushton
  03/1970 - used by Flight Refuelling as ground experimental vehicle/barrier trials
  03/1971 - wing returned to Boscombe Down, replaced with wing from Harrier GR1 XV751
  1972 - to RAE Bedford for pilotless crash barrier trials
  09/1973 - to 71MU at RAF Bicester for conversion to display exhibit (not carried out)
  ?/?/? - to RAF Gaydon for grounds handling training
  06/11/1974 - to Bitteswell
  08/1975 - to RAE Bedford for Sea Harrier restraining hook trials
  08/1977 - to Tarrant Rushton for Drone braking tests as part of the Sea Vixen D3 programme
  09/10/1980 - to School of Aircraft Handling at RNAS Culdrose for dummy deck training and allocated A2700 with engine E4754
  1981 - repainted to look like a Sea Harrier
  09/03/1989 - moved to FAAM to be part of VSTOL Exhibition
  13/11/1999 - moved to the Cobham Hall store
  Now on display in FAA Museum in Hall 4/Leading Edge Exhibition.

Looks like she's had quite the career!

dollar19 wrote:Looks like she's had quite the career!

You can still see join when they fitted the GR1 wing. I wonder how many people will just think it's my poor workmanship when I copy the wing joint?

Are you going to add sutures across that joint?
Seriously no one can argue with photographic evidence.

I will watch this with interest especially as this arrived on my doorstep today.


David.

Good luck with this one mate.

Let the surgery begin.

The old P1127 kit is lacking in any detail, for example on the real a/c, there is trunking between the two air intakes, but on the kit you can see right through from one side out through the other.

To overcome this problem, I'm using the inside of the new kits air intakes cutting them down and fitting them in the old kit.

While I'm at it I might see how much of the new cockpit will fit into the old.

I'm shocked I think this might work.

It would appear you already have this well in hand Splash.

Airfix must have got the dimensions of the P1127 right as the parts of the new GR1/3 kit almost fit with only minor alterations