SKYFOX - SF1 The build
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SKYFOX - SF1 The build
Hope to be able to keep this thread up to date as time goes on with this project, for now following three years of work on moulds, drawings etc we have the first proper complete Skyfox ready for building and ultimately testings and flying.
For those who may not know this jet it was called as the title suggests 'Skyfox' - a joint venture between a private company and eventually Boeing. The Skyfox was derived from a US jet called the T33 (shooting star), and was built to provide an economical 'new' US trainer jet using around 70% of the
T33's original airframe to keep costs down. Skyfox is definately not your F15 or cool jet, but it has something, and as only one was ever made it proved to be a huge challenge.
It remains as close to the original as possible, but considering no drawings or information on the structure was available it is not a 'scale' project by any stretch of the imagination.
I am awaiting the first LMA inspection before the project starts in earnest, and hope to get some way along the build route over the winter.
A couple of pics of the assembled fuselage, 1/4 scale, 3.3M long and a 3.1M span.
marcs
For those who may not know this jet it was called as the title suggests 'Skyfox' - a joint venture between a private company and eventually Boeing. The Skyfox was derived from a US jet called the T33 (shooting star), and was built to provide an economical 'new' US trainer jet using around 70% of the
T33's original airframe to keep costs down. Skyfox is definately not your F15 or cool jet, but it has something, and as only one was ever made it proved to be a huge challenge.
It remains as close to the original as possible, but considering no drawings or information on the structure was available it is not a 'scale' project by any stretch of the imagination.
I am awaiting the first LMA inspection before the project starts in earnest, and hope to get some way along the build route over the winter.
A couple of pics of the assembled fuselage, 1/4 scale, 3.3M long and a 3.1M span.
marcs
