Armstrong Whitworth Argosy

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as XP411, the RAF Museum’s Armstrong Whitworth AW.660 Argosy C.1 (c/n 6766), built at Bitteswell and first flown in April 1962, flown to Aden with No. 105 Squadron that summer and later with Nos. 114 and 267 Squadrons, retired in 1975 and used for ground training at Cosford as 8442M before joining the museum, now in the National Cold War Exhibition at RAF Museum Midlands, a twin-boom tactical freighter with four Rolls-Royce Dart turboprops, the weather-radar nose and the rear clamshell doors, which are shown open as it is displayed, painted in the scheme it carries today: gloss white upper fuselage, booms and fins over light grey undersides, a faded fluorescent red-orange band along the cabin windows and round the nose behind the black radome, a black anti-glare panel under the windscreen, red-orange stripes along the booms, Type D roundels on the outer sides of the booms, a black ‘XP411’ near each fin, red-orange panels above the fin flashes, red-orange outer wing panels and tailplane, roundels and ‘XP411’ under the wings, natural-metal nacelles and spinners and grey propeller blades with red and white tips. Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 215 models · download .glb (1.5 MB) · Plate 174 in The Hangar