Cabin Pressure

[tigercat]

I don't know if any of you are aware of the very funny BBC Radio Sitcom about a Charter Air Dot (as you need more than one aircraft to form a line) They fly an ex business jet that the owner took off her husband in a divorce.

I am tempted to build their aircraft called Gertie. Are their any kits out their in 1:72 it needs to carry 16 passengers and have 2 jets but otherwise the type is fairly flexible.

I thought Gulfstream but their doesn't appear to be an affordable easy to build  one in plastic.

[NARSES2]

Airfix or Matchbox HS 125 Dominie ?

[PR19_Kit]

Mach 2 do a Falcon 20, but it's £27.00 or so, quite pricey for a smallish aircraft.

[JayBee]

The Airfix kit is for the Dominie T1 which ahd capacity for only six pax.
The Matchbox kit is the CC2 which had a capacity of only 14.
So both are a bit on the small side.

[NARSES2]

Right - wasn't sure of the size of the 125. Thought it might be a little small

[PR19_Kit]

The Airfix kit is for the Dominie T1 which ahd capacity for only six pax.
The Matchbox kit is the CC2 which had a capacity of only 14.
So both are a bit on the small side.

But cutting and shutting two Matchbox -600s would make a '-850' or something similar? It's difficult doing it with the Airfix Dom as the wing fairing overlaps most of the straight sections of the fuselage.

[Mossie]

Revell do a Canadair Challenger, although it's in 1/144.  It should take sixteen passengers quite easily, if your willing to swap scales.

[tigercat]

What  about cross kitting a Dominie with a Heron or possibly a twin Otter

How feasible is a high level wing aircraft with fuselage mounted engines or woulfd the engines have to be wing mounted.

[Old Wombat]

Saw something that might fit that description today but I can't, for the life of me, remember if it was 1/72 or 1/48 a Citation or a Gulfstream.

I kinda tossed up buying it for the Africa GB but decided being alive was better than being murdered by my wife (I'm unemployed & we're running into solvency issues ).

[Weaver]

That gives me an idea: how about taking the Revell Dornier 228 and replacing it's turboprops with jets, the backstory being that Fairchild Dornier offered this as a cheaper, smaller version of the 328JET? You could either just swap the engines, or use scaleorama'd wings, engines and tail surfaces from a bigger airliner.

Another possibility: Plasticart made a Yak-40 in 1/100th scale which is cheap and easily available - I wonder if it would scaleorama to 1/72nd?

EDIT - the Yak seems doable: I havn't got many airliner kits, but I've just offered it up to a 1/72nd Do28, and it's fuselage is about the same width and height (though circular section rather than square, which maybe an issue), it's about 25% longer than the 12-seat Dornier, which seems about right.

[tigercat]

How about IL 28 wings and engines on a DO 228 fuselage

[Weaver]

How about IL 28 wings and engines on a DO 228 fuselage

The Il-28 wings would be way too big in 1/72nd, but they'd be just about right, span-wise, in 1/100th, and the Ben Hobby/Tamiya Il-28 is cheap enough.... Wrong kind of engines for a modern aircraft though, although perhaps you could cut the backs off the nacelles and fit a smaller diameter pipe to make them look like turbofans.

[Jennings]

Mach 2 do a Falcon 20, but it's £27.00 or so, quite pricey for a smallish aircraft.

Calling that monstrosity a Falcon 20 is tantamount to slander

[rallymodeller]

The Revell/Hasegawa 1/48 Citation is a IISP; get two (fuselage plug) and you could do a Citation V; those seat about 16 in commuter layout.

[tigercat]

Theres a a few options then the YAK 40 looks promising