Supermarine Attacker

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as WA473, the Fleet Air Arm Museum’s Supermarine Attacker F.1 and the only Attacker left anywhere, completed at South Marston in July 1951, flown by 702 and 736 Naval Air Squadrons, retired in 1956 to stand at the gate of RNAS Abbotsinch and at Yeovilton since the early 1960s: the Royal Navy’s first jet fighter in squadron service, a single-seat carrier fighter of 36 ft 11 in span with a Rolls-Royce Nene centrifugal-flow turbojet fed by two tall D-shaped side intakes, the straight-tapered laminar-flow wing of the Spiteful with a fold just outboard of the four 20 mm Hispano cannon, a bubble canopy, a deck hook and, unusually for a jet, a tailwheel undercarriage, shown standing tail-down with the wings spread (the museum displays it with the outer panels folded): the markings of 800 Naval Air Squadron in HMS Eagle, Extra Dark Sea Grey upper surfaces on the wings and tailplane and a grey spine band along the fuselage over Sky fuselage sides, undersides, fin and rudder, Type D roundels on the rear fuselage, upper wings and under the outer wings, a black side code ‘102’ with ‘ROYAL NAVY’ and ‘WA473’ in small capitals beneath the fin, the deck letter ‘J’ on the fin, black ‘WA473’ serials under the wings, red rescue triangles on the nose and the 800 Squadron crest on the port side. Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 215 models · download .glb (966 KB) · Plate 122 in The Hangar