Boeing E-7 Wedgetail

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as WT001 ‘01’, a Boeing Wedgetail AEW1 (E-7A) of the Royal Air Force’s No. 8 Squadron, the first of the RAF’s airborne early warning aircraft, converted from a second-hand Boeing 737-700 by STS Aviation Services at Birmingham: a twin-engined airliner with a low swept wing and plain tips without winglets, two CFM56-7B turbofans in flattened-bottomed nacelles on pylons under the wing, and the Northrop Grumman MESA ‘top hat’ radar on the rear fuselage, a flat-sided array on a pedestal with a long beam along its top carrying a dark radome at its nose, two ventral fins canted outward under the rear fuselage, a row of blade aerials along the spine, sensor fairings under the nose and in the tail cone and a refuelling receptacle on the crown behind the flight deck: light grey overall with most cabin windows blanked, a small Union flag and dark grey ‘ROYAL AIR FORCE’ titles above the forward cabin, ‘WT001’ above the No. 8 Squadron crest on the nose, a low-visibility roundel between yellow, pale blue and pink squadron bars and ‘WT001’ on the rear fuselage, ‘01’ and the squadron’s jambiya badge on the fin above a small pale red and blue flash, and the forward doors and overwing exits outlined in yellow, as photographed between its roll-out at Southend in October 2024 and its arrival at RAF Lossiemouth in 2026 (shape from Boeing’s own airport-planning drawing of the 737-700; the radar’s width and thickness and the ventral fins come from photographs, some of Australian E-7As; the small stencils are left off). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 285 models · download .glb (2.6 MB) · Plate 281 in The Hangar