British Aerospace EAP

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as ZF534, the RAF Museum Midlands’ British Aerospace EAP (Experimental Aircraft Programme), the only one built, first flown from Warton on 8 August 1986, flown 259 times before it was retired in 1991, used for teaching at Loughborough University and moved to Cosford in 2012, where it is displayed: Britain’s technology demonstrator for what became the Eurofighter Typhoon, 38 ft 7 in in span, with two Rolls-Royce RB199 afterburning turbofans fed by a chin intake under the cockpit, a cranked-delta wing, all-moving canard foreplanes close behind the cockpit, a single swept fin and a bubble canopy, shown standing level on its tricycle undercarriage with the canards set leading edge up as parked, four dummy Sky Flash rounds semi-recessed under the fuselage and dummy ASRAAMs under the outer wings: off-white overall with a dark navy spine from the windscreen to the tail, a thin navy cheatline from the nose to the tail, a navy canopy frame, a navy arrow on the fin carrying a white ‘eap’ logo, a black ‘ZF534’ at the fin root and a red and white rescue marking on the rear fuselage, as displayed (no photograph shows the upper surfaces squarely, so the top of the spine and the plain upper wings are inferred, and the navy is the darker shade seen in museum photographs rather than the brighter blue of its 1986 slides). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 215 models · download .glb (980 KB) · Plate 210 in The Hangar