Short Belfast

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as XR371 ‘Enceladus’, the RAF Museum Midlands’ Short SC.5 Belfast C.1 and the last of the ten built, flown by No. 53 Squadron of Air Support Command until the RAF retired the type in 1976 and flown to Cosford in 1978, where it now stands in the National Cold War Exhibition: Britain’s largest military freighter, 158 ft in span, with a deep circular-section fuselage, a beaked nose with a radome under the flight deck and a refuelling probe above it, a high wing carrying four Rolls-Royce Tyne turboprops with four-blade propellers, main-gear panniers on the lower fuselage sides, an upswept beaver tail over the rear loading doors and a tall fin, shown standing level on its tricycle undercarriage: white fuselage and fin, a black radome and anti-glare panel, a dark blue cheatline that steps up below the flight deck, ‘ENCELADUS’ on the nose and ‘ROYAL AIR FORCE’ above the cheatline, red, white and blue roundels on the rear fuselage, a red and blue fin flash with ‘371’ above it, silver-grey wings, tailplane and nacelles and red, white and red propeller tips, as displayed (the rear loading doors are shown closed; the starboard markings are assumed to mirror the port side, and no photograph shows the wing upper surfaces, so no wing markings are painted). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 215 models · download .glb (1.7 MB) · Plate 185 in The Hangar