blockhaj
Swedish "want to be" aviation specialist
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So i have been reading up on the dh Vampire and its variants. When i tried looking up info on the Mk.7 variant i could not find much except sources which acknowledges that there isnt much information on it. Anyway i didn't think too much of it and moved on to other variants etc. However when i looked into the Mk.50 (Vampire FB.50), aka the J 28B in Sweden, i happaned to stumble across this when i read the Swedish air ascociation book about the J 28 Vampire. According to that book, when Sweden signed the order for the Vampire Mk.50 (name of contract: contract 15/MA) on the 19th of December 1947, it specified the ordered type as the Vampire Mk.7. The book continiues this however by saying that the Mk.7 was just a projected variant that never entered production. However after that it says that the Swedish Vampire Mk.50 was based on the Vampire Mk.5, Mk.6 and Mk.7.
So i wonder, does anyone here have some information on the Vampire Mk.7? Was the Vampire Mk.50 an export variant of a projected british Vampire Mk.7 or something?
Here is a snippet from the book for those who can understand Swedish.
So i wonder, does anyone here have some information on the Vampire Mk.7? Was the Vampire Mk.50 an export variant of a projected british Vampire Mk.7 or something?
Here is a snippet from the book for those who can understand Swedish.