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The International Best for Modelling and Reference
May 2016 • £4.50
Volume 38 • Issue 03
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The Hawker P.1081
By
Tony Grand
don’t like not finishing things, but this
praiseworthy sentiment runs contrary to what
happens. Confining myself to my modelling
exploits and what are laughingly called plans,
there’s one piece of unfinished business in
particular that bugged me. Back in the early
1980s I had the bright idea of converting a
Hawker Sea Hawk into a Hawker P.1052,
Hawker’s first aircraft for research into the
aerodynamics of swept wings. I’d seen the plane
in
Project Cancelled
by Derek Wood and liked the
look of it. A little tubby because of its centrifugal
flow Nene engine, but with elegant lines. I
completed the conversion, making the thirty five
degree swept wings from balsa wood,
appropriately sealed, and modifying the Sea
Hawk undercarriage as it differed significantly.
The P.1052 was at that time in the RAF
Museum Cosford (it’s currently at the Fleet Air
Arm Museum Yeovilton in the reserve collection)
and I got permission to get a little closer than
normal to the exhibit for photos, especially of
the cockpit, as cheap as ever I was converting a
Frog kit, which whilst in many ways admirable,
had no cockpit opening, just a flat surface with a
pilot’s head perched on it. Now that’s what I call
cutting costs…
Being a brave chap, I wrote up the conversion
process and sent the draft article to Alan W. Hall,
late of this parish. He replied saying that he
rarely printed conversion articles on prototype
aircraft as there were plenty of fully operational
ones that ought to be dealt with first, but would
keep the article on file in case he had a gap to
fill. Reader, he printed it.
All right so far. I built a couple more British
prototypes of the time via conversion, but never
got round to building
the P.1081, a
I
conversion of VX279, one of the two P.1052
prototypes. This was to have an RB.44 Tay, a new
Rolls-Royce centrifugal flow engine more
powerful dry than the Nene, and fitted with
reheat. The P.1081 accordingly had a straight
through jet pipe to allow for reheat (the two
1052s originally had bifurcated exhausts) and
swept horizontal tail surfaces had been added.
In this form there was considerable interest from
the Royal Australian Air Force. However Rolls-
Royce pulled the plug by halting development
of the Tay in favour of the axial flow Avon. RAAF
interest evaporated and Hawker terminated the
P.1081 programme. The Nene fitted P.1081,
having flown first on 19th June 1950, was
transferred to the RAE at Farnborough to
continue high subsonic/transonic trials. The
plane was lost in a crash in April 1951. The pilot,
Hawker’s Chief Test Pilot Trevor Wade, ejected
but at too low an altitude and was killed.
The P.1081 Kit
Time passes, modelling moves on and some
time in 2007 I noticed that Heritage Aviation
Models produced a complete 1/72 kit from
which you could make either a P.1052 or a
P.1081, and very cheaply. When it arrived I
discovered a not very refined offering - but then,
are we not modellers? The biggest surprise at
the time was the cockpit space. You could call it
a ‘grave’ mistake (sorry, Great Helmsman) as
that’s what it looked like. I devised a cunning
plan of chopping off the Heritage nose forward
of the intakes and replacing it with that from an
Airfix Sea Hawk I had in stock. OK back on the
shelf, time passes, I buy a Pavla cockpit set (a
lovely bit of moulding), back on the shelf…
So when’s the old fool going to start building
this thing? December
2015, when I was looking
for something
straightforward after building the Mach 2
Seamaster. The first task was the straightforward
removal of the nose sections from the Sea Hawk
and the Heritage kit - razor saw for the former
and cutting disc on mini drill for the latter. As I
offered up the Sea Hawk nose to the Heritage
centre section, it dawned on me that the latter
had a rather odd cross-section. The Sea Hawk,
P.1052 and P.1081 fuselages are for most of their
length, at any given point, circular in cross-
section (Barrie Hygate’s excellent plans of the
P.1081 show this clearly) whereas the kit had a
rectangular section with rounded corners. A very
bad case of shrinkage possibly? The kit was not
exactly cutting edge (or Cutting Edge) and it was
cheap so correcting this misshape turned out to
be time consuming and irritating at times, rather
than a big deal. The discrepancy was too big to
correct with Green Stuff, and epoxy putty has a
nasty habit in my hands of not setting hard. I
therefore decided to build up the fuselage with
thin styrene sheet and Green Stuff, having first,
with reference to Hygate’s plans, stuck an
appropriately sized disc of styrene to each end
of the section, as a guide to work to.
Whilst things were at various points setting
and drying, I added the Pavla Sea Hawk cockpit
insert to the Airfix nose. This is nicely detailed
(complete with ejection seat) and considering it
was designed to fit a HobbyBoss kit went in well.
However to fit it I trimmed plastic from the Airfix
cockpit edge, rather too much in fact, so that
when I finally offered up the Heritage vacform
canopy it had nothing to sit on but a one-piece
surround cut from styrene sheet corrected that.
The cockpit had been painted Lifecolor Deep
Cockpit Black, a dark grey, and just right I felt to
simulate the black of the original.
I decided to fit the wings
before the nose portion
as I figured it would
be easier to
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S C A L E
A I R C R A F T
M O D E L L I N G
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H AW K E R
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Finished subassemblies ready for the final stages
The Heritage cockpit
After the Heritage nose is removed discrepancy between their
fuselage and the true cross-section is revealed
Styrene sheet is used to build up the fuselage
Further modification under way. Note the undercarriage wells
The fuselage is approaching the stage at which filler can be
added over the styrene
Here we are almost ready to sand to profile
Wings now added to the finished centre section
Sorting out the undercarriage wells
Forward fuselage fitted. A Hawker P.1081 emerges
Note surround fitted to the cockpit opening to correct its size
Final addition to the airframe is the tail which Heritage have
replicated with considerable accuracy
Ready for the paint shop
The final phase begins
Canopy and undercarriage fitted and an overall coat of Duck
Egg Green applied
MAY 2016
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