Westland Wyvern
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1/48 F4U-7 Corsair (French Navy) – Wyvern S Mk.4 (Royal Navy) "Operation Musketeer"
"Operation Musketeer" Suez Crisis 1956. British Carrier Eagle and French Carriers Le Fatette and Arromanches.
I decided to build these two as a personal remembrance of the Suez events in 1956. My mother, father and I were [...]
W.35 Wyvern S Mk.4 (Trumpeter 1/72)
Trumpeter kit, OOB nice kit, good fit.
Trumpeter 1/48 Wyvern S. Mk. 4
The Aircraft:
The Second World War saw the development in naval aviation of a single-seat strike fighter concept that performed both fighter-bomber and torpedo-strike. In the U.S. Navy, this ed to the Douglas Skyraider, one of the most [...]
Classic Airframes 1/48 Westland Wyvern S.4
One thing for sure, Westland’s Wyvern won’t win any beauty contests. It’s a real ungainly beast. Nor does it have the graceful curves of the mythological, two legged dragon for which it was named. But it does have a forked tail of [...]
Westland Wyvern
This is the ID vacuform kit. I have built nearly every scale kit of this aircraft starting with the Frog kit years ago. This kit however challenged me from the very start- and I have built a number of 1/32nd scale Vacs.
I used the [...]
Westland Wyvern S. Mk. 4
During WW II the Royal navy invented a strange breed of aircraft called the torpedo fighter. One TF, the Bristol Beaufighter was a success but it was converted from an existing aircraft. Another, the Blackburn Firebrand, was purpose built [...]
A Wyvewhat?! That's not a real Plane!
I had never heard of a Wyvern until I saw an add for the Trumpeter kit. It's what I call "ugly cool" looking, like the F-4 Phantom. As soon as I saw it, I wanted one. The 1/48 scale kit was a little expensive for my taste, so [...]
TRUMPETER 1/48 WESTLAND WYVERN S.4 (LATE)
The aircraft J/371 s/nWN328, shown moments before ejection by Lt. Cdr. "Smokey" Cowling was one of two Wyverns lost during Operation Musketeer, on Nov. 05 1956.
Not a bad kit though reading Tom Cleaver's article on another site [...]
The mythical beast: 1/48 Wyverns from Classic Airframes and Trumpeter
The Wyvern has to be one of the strangest airplanes to ever grace a carrier deck. The first turboprop, its ten years of gestation and failure as the FAA's strike force paid off for the rest of aviation by solving the problems of [...]
