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Wayne Little · Aug 11, 2016

did they really take a box of rejected designs...throw them in a mixer and out popped the Wyvern....?

Wurger · Aug 11, 2016

Lucky13 · Aug 11, 2016

Date: 31-OCT-1949
Time: day
Type: Westland Wyvern TF Mk 2
Owner/operator: Westland Aircraft
Registration: VP113
C/N MSN: 12/45
Fatalities: Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities: 3
Airplane damage: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location: Yeovil, Somerset - United Kingdom
Phase: Landing
Nature: Test
Departure airport: Yeovil, Somerset
Destination airport: Yeovil, Somerset
Narrative:
At the completion of a test flight the pilot made a fast, low level run across the airfield in the course of which the Wyvern's engine failed.
The pilot pulled the plane up to 2,500 feet and then attempted a forced landing on the airfield.
Crossing the boundary fence at an estimated two hundred miles per hour, the Wyvern touched down 3/4 of the way across the airfield, overshooting and crashing into a housing estate near the boundary.
One house was demolished by the impact, and 3 occupants were killed.

Sqdn-Ldr M.A Graves DFC, Westland test pilot, and three other persons R.I.P.

Lucky13 · Aug 11, 2016

For what I understand, the early S.4's, were redesignated TF.2's, so Trumpeter's early version is the one to get, doing VP113....

Wurger · Aug 11, 2016

VP113 was the second prototype Wyvern fitted with the Armstrong Siddley Python turboprop. In the event, only 20 Mk 2s were built before 87 production TF. Mk4s were delivered to the Royal Navy. This latter marque differed in minor ways, but had small fins attached to the tailplane to counter a longer spinner.

Lucky13 · Aug 11, 2016

Was just going with the famous Wiki....

W.35 Wyvern TF.2
The original production version. Three prototypes were ordered in February 1946 with a production contract for 20 aircraft issued in September 1947. Only nine production aircraft were built, and the remaining eleven were completed as S.4s.

....and...

W.35 Wyvern TF.4
The definitive version. 50 were ordered in October 1948, 13 in December 1950, 13 in January 1951 and a final 11 in February 1951. A total of 98 built (including 11 that had started as TF.2s). The model was later redesignated as the S.4