VERSIONS – E.6/41, F.Mk.1, F.Mk.2, F.Mk.3
Engine testbed, details as F.Mk.1 unless otherwise indicated
3 x F.Mk.1 airframes (TG276,
TG280, TX807) modified by
Rolls Royce, Hucknall,
Nottinghamshire, UK as
Nene engine testbeds and
redesignated as F.Mk.2 in
1945, TX807 to Royal
Australian Air Force,
redesignated as F.Mk.30
and reserialled as A78-2
1 x Rolls Royce Nene RB.41
centrifugal turbojet
305 mm (12 in) dural strip fitted to elevator trailing
edge improving pitching at high Mach numbers
High set tailplane, later fitted with
low-set tailplane (see F.Mk.3) by
English Electric, Samlesbury,
Lancashire, UK 1947-48
2 x dorsal 'elephant
ear' intakes
Revised intake ducts by Hawker
F.Mk.2
'Type Two Raised Boom' with
shorter, squared off fins
Production version, details as E.6/41 prototype unless otherwise indicated
Cannon ports/cartridge ejector chutes
4 x 20 mm (.79 in) Hispano Mk.5
cannons with 150 rounds per gun
Increased fuel
capacity in wings
154 x F.Mk.1 airframes produced by English Electric
Company, Preston, Lancashire, UK 1944-46
Additional exports: 70 x F.Mk.1 to Swedish Air Force,
1946 designated as J28A; 4 x F.Mk.1 to Swiss Air
Force 1946
1 x de Havilland Goblin 1 centrifugal turbojet in
first 40 airframes, later airframes with Goblin 2
Cockpit pressurisation
fitted from 51st airframe
onwards
Single-piece, rearward sliding
canopy (see F.Mk.3) added
from 87th airframe onwards
F.Mk.1
.8 m2 (8.65 ft2) vertically
mounted fin on forward
nose/fuselage
First prototype LZ548/G modified to investigate
directional stability 'snaking' during 1944 and
developing the 'Type Two Raised Boom' for
production airframes
E.6/41 prototype
LZ548/G later
Forward fuselage constructed from Plywood/balsa wood sandwich
Two-piece perspex canopy with
rearward sliding bubble section
Pitot (starboard fin)
Tail bumper
Tall, rounded tail fin with horn
balanced rudder and trim tab
Whip antenna
Twin tail booms with high set tailplane
canted upwards to clear jet efflux
Tail bumper
Cannon ports/ejector chutes (on MP838/G)
Avionics: TR.1464 four
channel radio; IFF
system
IFF antenna (port wing)
Anti-flutter mass balance weights
Intakes in wing roots
Gun camera
4 x 20 mm (.79 in) Hispano Mk5 cannons with 150
rounds per gun (on third prototype MP838/G)
Half-span, round nose cable
operated ailerons with trim tabs
Sharply tapered, mid-
mounted wing with
rounded wing tips
3 x prototypes (LZ548/G, LZ551/G, MP838/G)
produced by de Havilland, Hatfield, Hertfordshire,
UK between 1943-44, also known as 'Spider Crab'
Mk.II gyro gun sight
Armoured windscreen
No ejector seat
Rear fuselage, wings, tail booms
and tailplane constructed from
flush riveted aluminium
One-piece
elevator
with trim
tab offset
to port
Split trailing edge dive brakes
1 x Halford H.1
centrifugal
turbojet,
MP838/G: 1 x
Halford H.1A
Slab tailplane
Pressurised cockpit
Split trailing edge flaps
Provision for 227 lt (50 Imp gal,
60 US gal) or 454 lt (100 Imp gal,
120 US gal) jettisonable tanks
under each wing
E.6/41 prototype
'Spider Crab'
Details as F.Mk.1 unless
otherwise indicated
Revised tailplane with increased chord,
lower set tailplane by 330 mm (13 in)
with reduced chord elevator and
'acorn' fairings at fin/tail junction
Revised fin/rudder shape
Addtional ballast in nose
Single-piece, rearward sliding bubble canopy
Whip antennas moved
to tail booms
Pitot on port fin
Addtional 291 lt (64 Imp gal,
77 US gal) fuel tanks in each
outer wing
Some airframes: IFF antenna relocated
under starboard boom, with radio whip
antenna moved under port wing
1 x F.Mk.1 airframe (TG275) modified by de Havilland,
Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK as F.Mk.3 prototype
1945-46, 138 x F.Mk.3 produced by English Electric
Company, Preston, Lancashire, UK with additional
86 x for Royal Canadian Air Force, 80 x airframes
also produced under licence by FIAT, Turin, Italy
All metal fuel tanks changed
to interconnected Marston bag
tanks, filled through common
refuelling point
Revised cockpit flight controls
1 x de Havilland Goblin 2
centrifugal turbojet
Provision for 1 x 454 lt
(100 Imp gal, 120 US gal
fuel tank under each wing
F.Mk.3
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