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G.1vw Fokker

Started by Tophe, February 27, 2011, 05:02:16 AM

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Tophe

The next kit I am going to build is the Fokker G.1 that I want to make (very short span and) asymmetric, no matter how poor are my skills.
I am not good enough to move the central pod inside the boom for a single-engine single-fuselage-single-boom layout... Too bad.
My project was to install a double-engine on the port boom and no engine on the starboard one: either nothing or a radar. I wondered: how do we say double-Twin-Wasp in Dutch? That makes translating "Quadruple-Wasp", and Google Translate told me this is "viervoudige wesp", so a "G.1vw" code with no relation to a German licence VolksWagen...
(Checking if the normal G.1 was using Twin-Wasp, Wikipedia told me No, but Mercury. Anyway, this will be a Quadruple-Wasp prototype).
[the word "realistic" hurts my heart...]

Tophe

This is the principle of my project G.1a --> G.1vw:
[the word "realistic" hurts my heart...]

saintkatanalegacy

looks tamed compared to your other creations ;)
Ivylicious!™

Taiidantomcat

"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality." -Jules de Gaultier

"My model is right! It's the real world that's wrong!" -global warming scientist

An armor guy, who builds airplanes almost exclusively, that he converts to space fighters-- all while admiring ship models.

Tophe

You are right, ahem... :-\
A quadruple Wasp radial is too much power for a single 3-bladed propeller, and contraprop are not funny enough. Well... with shafts and gears, that could drive also a pusher propeller (which would justify fully the twin-boom layout! yes, this must be the truth about the G.1... ;D)
[And I said I must reduce span drastically]:
[the word "realistic" hurts my heart...]

Weaver

#5
How about a push-pull engine pair on one side and a single boom on the other?



"We thank you, but this diversion is not true. Things never happened thus."

"Oh, but it IS true. Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are
the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot."

- Sandman: A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Neil Gaiman

Tophe

#6
Yes (or like this below? :unsure:), it is funny :lol:. But I am not skillful enough to make it plastic :-\. And destroying a twin-boom layout is pain for me ;)
EDIT: Dear Weaver, I have made your designer name: part of Aviation History on my asymmetric aircraft site http://cmeunier.chez-alice.fr/Asymm_addition.htm Thanks!
[the word "realistic" hurts my heart...]

philp

Different ideas as usual.

Been trying to find one of these kits for a RW build.
Phil Peterson

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Weaver

Cheers Tophe!

How about a three-surface layout?  ;D

"We thank you, but this diversion is not true. Things never happened thus."

"Oh, but it IS true. Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are
the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot."

- Sandman: A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Neil Gaiman

Tophe

Funny! :lol:
Or 4-engined G.1, rather easy as drawings, while I am unable to build them, sorry :-\
[the word "realistic" hurts my heart...]

Tophe

Building has started: gluing, putty...
I consider using a 3rd propeller, as antitorque rotor (horizontal, from a P-47 kit). I know the push-pull layout may be balanced enough contrarotating, but the main propeller (tractive) is supersonic (noisy) and the extra pusher propeller is not counter-balancing enough...
[the word "realistic" hurts my heart...]

Tophe

from my twin-boom topic http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,20326.675.html
Quote from: Tophe on February 28, 2011, 10:43:45 AM
At http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,31754.0.html dear Weaver invented a wonderful 3-surface Fokker G.1 with 2 booms, and in French, we would say "bipoutre" meaning twin-boomer, but in English, I don't know if the word "twin" is appropriate, so I have made 2 derivatives (twin-tractor, or else twin-pusher) that may be better in this English collection.

[the word "realistic" hurts my heart...]

Weaver

And here is a logical one which I quite fancy forsome heavy bomber projects (not based on the G.1 per se):

"We thank you, but this diversion is not true. Things never happened thus."

"Oh, but it IS true. Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are
the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot."

- Sandman: A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Neil Gaiman

Tophe

Thanks Weaver for your great enrichment (so funny) to this (quite boring) topic! :thumbsup: :bow:
[the word "realistic" hurts my heart...]

Tophe

Back to plastic... the model is taking shape:
(at last the starboard anti-torque rotor will not be 4-blade propeller from P-47 but 3-blade from Mc-202)
[the word "realistic" hurts my heart...]