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General Modelling Forum => General Modeling topics => The "WHIF's You Have Found" => Topic started by: Nils on February 27, 2012, 10:32:23 am
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was surprised to see there wasnt a topic like this yet.
last weekend, i finally got arround to get the march Issue of Air Forces Monthly, and found quite a nice surprise on the last page.
if anyone here hasnt read it, there's an awesome artwork and Alt. history story involving the Fleet Air Arm F/A-18E's, E-2F Hawkeye and Merlin HC4 :wub:
i'll see to get a scan of the artwork, it actually inspired me to get back to work on my HMS Couragious carrier :mellow:
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not so much alt history as 2020?
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Alternate future?
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ok, you asked for it,
send the artist a formal invite, and tell him we will have a whiffie award waiting for him in 2013 ;D
(http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn292/Nilssteyaert/misc/AFM032012-whif.jpg)
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I think he's been lurking on the boards here. :wacko:
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The F-18E/F makes an incredible amount of sense for the UK right now...it allows the Govt to defer the F-35C buy...perhaps an order of 50 initially to get the RAF started on a Tornado replacement, but without the budget issues of the current planned buy of 138ish... But at the same time those savings could be put into an order for say 50-60 F-18E/F for the FAA...this allows time to workup an OCU and a couple of squadrons so HMS PoW will actually have an Air Wing come 2019-20.
Then when economic times are better and the budget allows for it, a follow on order of (more mature) F-35Cs can begin to replace the Super Hornets, BUT at the same time allows the RN to maintain an EW component in the shape of EA-18Gs AND a tanker capability from Hornets with buddy pods....As of now there is no plan to enable buddy tanking for the F-35C which means either the RN go without or pay for the capability entirely. It would be a shame to lose such an expensive piece of equipment because of a failed hook during blue-water ops...
Anyhoo...dont want this to get political, it's just that the Super Hornet makes sense in sooooo many ways for Britain. Plus that's a lovely picture... :thumbsup:
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....As of now there is no plan to enable buddy tanking for the F-35C which means either the RN go without or pay for the capability entirely. It would be a shame to lose such an expensive piece of equipment because of a failed hook during blue-water ops...
That'll teach the MoD to have got rid of the Buccs.................... :banghead:
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Though I will add that a bit of research and the artist could have done away with the steam on deck...No steam cats for the QE Class Mr. O'Brien...
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The F-18E/F makes an incredible amount of sense for the UK right now...it allows the Govt to defer the F-35C buy...perhaps an order of 50 initially to get the RAF started on a Tornado replacement, but without the budget issues of the current planned buy of 138ish... But at the same time those savings could be put into an order for say 50-60 F-18E/F for the FAA...this allows time to workup an OCU and a couple of squadrons so HMS PoW will actually have an Air Wing come 2019-20.
Then when economic times are better and the budget allows for it, a follow on order of (more mature) F-35Cs can begin to replace the Super Hornets, BUT at the same time allows the RN to maintain an EW component in the shape of EA-18Gs AND a tanker capability from Hornets with buddy pods....As of now there is no plan to enable buddy tanking for the F-35C which means either the RN go without or pay for the capability entirely. It would be a shame to lose such an expensive piece of equipment because of a failed hook during blue-water ops...
Anyhoo...dont want this to get political, it's just that the Super Hornet makes sense in sooooo many ways for Britain. Plus that's a lovely picture... :thumbsup:
That it does, not something we would expect from Air Forces Monthly as thats more the realm of Warship International to push What-if Artwork of the 2020 Fleet Air Arm.
I too can see the Super Hornet acting as a stopgap aircraft for the FAA until there are sufficient F-35C to form a viable squadron, some of the first batch to be ordered next year will used by the OCU/OEU, some will go to the RAF and some to the FAA, and of those some are likley to remain in the US for development or to help bring the the F-35C into service as the USN are going to be low on numbers too untill the next decade. Alot is going to depand on how the F-35 flight testing and costs fair in the next year or so as the knock on effect of the US order defferal is accounted for, coupled with how the carrier cooperation deals with the US & France evolves. There is the need to bring on-line a dedicated UK carrier squadron to get them trained as a unit possibly with a tour on an allied carrier before they then work up on the CVF when its ready for Carrier trials in 2020. As for the tanking the UK has asked for a study into the F35C acting in the buddy refuelling mode.
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On the topic, I think that Boeing should ditch on the F-15SE idea and just sell up the Supers as stop gaps to the F-35, not replacements, because they are substantially different, but they would make bucketloads on F/A-18E/F sales to F-35 customers. The Aussie defence budget comparatively isn't particularly high, yet we opted (quite smartly IMHO) to buy 24 Supers to stand in for 15-20yrs.
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That'll teach the MoD to have got rid of the Buccs.................... :banghead:
Politicos do what they want, not what's best for the service ::cough::Raptor debacle::cough::
Or the DoD not buying the dedicated tanker variant of the Viking. Or the COD...or an E-2 replacement... :banghead:
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Though I will add that a bit of research and the artist could have done away with the steam on deck...No steam cats for the QE Class Mr. O'Brien...
I suspect they will still need a steam outlet on the bow though, to indicate wind direction over the deck. Anyway, its more atmospheric...
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I have never understood the requirement to have a steam outlet for wind direction. Who is it indicating for? If for the pilots, why do they need to know? If for the bridge they have instrumentation which gives them wind speed and direction... Having never operated on an aircraft carrier with steam I simply cant see the reason for them.
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It seems to me that if the wind direction is not pretty much forward-to-aft along the deck then you must be doing it wrong...but also, having never operated a carrier... :-\
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I have never understood the requirement to have a steam outlet for wind direction. Who is it indicating for? If for the pilots, why do they need to know? If for the bridge they have instrumentation which gives them wind speed and direction... Having never operated on an aircraft carrier with steam I simply cant see the reason for them.
It's a visual back-up say should the bridge get taken out (there's another point on the ship to do the steering so I've heard) or the electrcis go down. Same reason the Harrier has a wind vane mounted just forward of the windshield I suppose.
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Drifting off topic (as usual.....) the Harrier's visual cross-wind vane is there as it's VERY important that the pilot be pointing directly into the apparent wind when in vertical and transition modes. Otherwise the aircraft could get into serious roll instability issues. It's all explained very well in John Farley's book 'A View from the Hover'.
Going back to the topic, in the 30s they had the steam vents right at the fore end of the flight deck because they didn't have the wind direction instrumentation back then and it was a foolproof system for the deck crew, air crew and bridge staff to see if the ship was going the right way. I recall that when they fitted steam catapults to the Ark Royal IV they did away with the steam jet as the cats leaked like sieves anyway!
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It's a visual back-up say should the bridge get taken out (there's another point on the ship to do the steering so I've heard) or the electrcis go down.
Yup military vessels at least had an alternative steering position and then there was always the abilty to jury rig some form of steering, even if it took half a dozen crewmen on the wheel and a chain of men reporting the course to steer as the steersmen couldn't see a thing from most of these alternative positions.
Don't know what they do nowadays - I mean they don't even have a proper wheel - but there must be a backup that rrelys on muscle rather then computers ?
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There are still backup positions for ships to be steered from, known as tiller flats...
Ill take your guys word for it that it is there as a backup.
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The fellow who helped me with a lot of the Avro Atlantic info I used, told me that in Nevil Shute novel 'In The Wet', there is a description of a fictitious de Havilland Ceres which matches the Atlantic to a tee
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Hm, I have a well worn copy of 'In the Wet' at home, I must check that out.
There's a lot of very interesting aircraft in that book, all are whiffs except a DC3 or two, but I can't remember the dH Ceres.
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I couldn't find a picture o/l but while I was flicking through Model Boats magazine and came across a report on Scale Modelworld 2011 of an East African Schnellboot equipped with paddles.
(http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff202/skidsinlimbo/EastAfricanSchnellboot.jpg)
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Isn't that Eddie Kruks ?
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They also featured a schnellboot with an amphibious Me 163 mounted on it
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pics of the amphib 163?
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http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,25829.0/highlight,163+s+boot.html
I found some better pics of it on here
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From the January 1973 issue of FLYING, a 5-engined Cessna 172!!!
http://books.google.fr/books?id=NWzlTqj0gQ4C&pg=PA106#v=onepage&q&f=false (http://books.google.fr/books?id=NWzlTqj0gQ4C&pg=PA106#v=onepage&q&f=false)
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From the January 1973 issue of FLYING, a 5-engined Cessna 172!!!
http://books.google.fr/books?id=NWzlTqj0gQ4C&pg=PA106#v=onepage&q&f=false (http://books.google.fr/books?id=NWzlTqj0gQ4C&pg=PA106#v=onepage&q&f=false)
I always would look forward to Bax's monthly wit and wisdom in Flying when my father had the subscription. He always made me want to get my license.
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This is a beautiful add I found in our office. The brand is Kohler - a renowned faucets manufacturer. The theme is a la "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow ":
(http://i370.photobucket.com/albums/oo141/canso-forum/POSTER-KOhler.jpg~original)
I like the pilot... ;D
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I sure would love me some flying lessons with that instructor... ;D
But hey? Did she realize that if she uses that side machine gun she also loses her right arm?!? :o :rolleyes:
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What IS she doing with that tap???
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Filling the sink ready to do the washing up, by the looks of it! Not sure it's a wise thing to do mid-dogfight...
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What IS she doing with that tap???
Filling the sink with her left hand she activates the water-gyro-super-balance of the fighter. The nose of the plane goes down (or up) and with her right hand she activates the firing mechanism for the 2 guns. The bullets diverge outwards and do not hit pilots arms. Than she balances the plane opening a valve with her left foot (this we can't see), releasing some water from the sink. And so on...
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Ah right, I KNEW it would be something like that........ ;D
The water helps to adjust the CG of the aircraft as the ammo gets used up I suppose?
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Typical female, she'll be boasting about being able to multi task any minute now :rolleyes: ;D Love 'em really ;D
Great photo :thumbsup:
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I have bought a (French) beautiful cartoon book starting with twin-boomers of Burnelli look, but German WW1 (continued) in 1927 (with swastikas already)...
This is in "Le voyage extraordinaire Tome 1" by Filippi and Camboni
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Le-voyage-extraordinaire-Tome-1/dp/2749306132/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1334684030&sr=1-1
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v670/Tophe2712/r_VoyageExtra1.jpg)
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Interesting....is that a giant airbag in the centre to maintain lift??
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Interesting....is that a giant airbag in the centre to maintain lift??
it rather seems a glazed lifting fuselage for the crew:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v670/Tophe2712/s_VoyageExtra1.jpg)
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http://www.chrismooreillustration.co.uk/illustration/techno/night-of-the-hawk/ (http://www.chrismooreillustration.co.uk/illustration/techno/night-of-the-hawk/)
If books covers count; here's one from Chris Moore - better-known as an sf/fantasy illustrator but the cover of Dale Brown's "Night of the Hawk" is one of a number of aviation paintings he's done.
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Opened up my new issue of Air Forces Monthly this week, with once again a very nice surprise on the last page.
an RAF P-8 Poseidon (or Neptune MRA.1 in RAF service), this one is definatly going on my "things to build"-list.
a few months back, Tim O'Brien also did a what-if art work on a Royal Navy Taranis UCAV, might have to scan that one in later :mellow:
there's a small pic of the taranis at his website, in the section Journalism, halfway the page (first on on the left)
http://www.timobrienart.co.uk/gallery.php
(http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn292/Nilssteyaert/misc/afm0812.jpg)
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http://www.chrismooreillustration.co.uk/illustration/techno/night-of-the-hawk/ (http://www.chrismooreillustration.co.uk/illustration/techno/night-of-the-hawk/)
If books covers count; here's one from Chris Moore - better-known as an sf/fantasy illustrator but the cover of Dale Brown's "Night of the Hawk" is one of a number of aviation paintings he's done.
Reminds me of the "Flight of the Old Dog" B-52 minus the new engines. Still cool.
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Our own Wookster's Speed Spitefull appears in the August SAMI on the 580 Modellers page
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July MAM has a couple of interesting articles that whilst not Wifs inselve's have potential.
Nice build of the Valom Boeing XF8B-1 and Vought -V713
Good article in the "American Patrol" column on Convair Special Projects. These include a Mach 5 bomber to be carried and launched by a B-58 :blink:
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Good article in the "American Patrol" column on Convair Special Projects. These include a Mach 5 bomber to be carried and launched by a B-58 :blink:
Is that the 'Super Hustler' project Chris? I've just been reading about that in the Aerofax B-58 book, it's mind boggling!
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Good article in the "American Patrol" column on Convair Special Projects. These include a Mach 5 bomber to be carried and launched by a B-58 :blink:
Is that the 'Super Hustler' project Chris? I've just been reading about that in the Aerofax B-58 book, it's mind boggling!
Yes it is Kit
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Is that the 'Super Hustler' project Chris? I've just been reading about that in the Aerofax B-58 book, it's mind boggling!
If you've never read about the Super Hustler program (and the related Fish/Kingfish) then you absolutely MUST visit Lockheed Martin's Code One website. It's got a four-parter story on the subject, with lots of information and copiously illustrated. You'll be glad you did!
http://www.codeonemagazine.com/
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Thanks for that Stargazer :thumbsup:
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i got this awesome poster from Lockheed with a couple of company newsmagazines, when i was at the Florennes airshow at the beginning of the summer.
its the cancelled P-7A Super Orion that was offered to the US Navy's MMA requirement (witch eventually was won by the Boeing P-8A)
(http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn292/Nilssteyaert/misc/001-13.jpg)
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More whiffie goodness from Tim O'Brien in Air Forces Monthly.
scanned in some older artwork from last years issues aswell :mellow:
these have been the ispiration for my WW3 build :thumbsup:
(http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn292/Nilssteyaert/misc/Tob-3.jpg) (http://s307.photobucket.com/user/Nilssteyaert/media/misc/Tob-3.jpg.html)
(http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn292/Nilssteyaert/misc/ToB-2.jpg) (http://s307.photobucket.com/user/Nilssteyaert/media/misc/ToB-2.jpg.html)
(http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn292/Nilssteyaert/misc/ToB-1.jpg) (http://s307.photobucket.com/user/Nilssteyaert/media/misc/ToB-1.jpg.html)
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In the French cartoon "Le voyage extraordinaire", tome 2, London is attacked in 1927 by pusher bombers...
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v670/Tophe2712/2013-05-0611-58-11_0070_zps5e3b6265.jpg)
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:o A Reaper wing fall through some sort of weird time portal into young Hitler's hands?
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In the French comics Pif-Gadget, a very old issue of 1972, I have found this weird "Douglas". Is this an A-26 Invader with tandem cockpit?
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v670/Tophe2712/r_0140_zps408d9f05.jpg)
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Not quite, but it's close. The wing on the A-26 was much higher on the fuselage and the fuselage was much boxier, for instance.
I will agree that that's where the inspiration came from, however.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/A-26B_Invader.jpg/1024px-A-26B_Invader.jpg)
The biggest problem with that is the same issue that plagues many scale-o-rama radial-engined aircraft. Those engines are silly small (or that pilot is HUGE!). Those are too small to be even R-1535s. It is just a comic, though, and it's a pretty aircraft.
Cheers,
Logan
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Thanks for this detailed analysis ;D
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72nd scale Invader with 48th scale engines and cockpit :thumbsup:
Love that painting of the Sea Tempest. I'd hate to take a carrier that close to the land/glacier/iceberg tho !
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72nd scale Invader with 48th scale engines and cockpit :thumbsup:
Wouldn't it 72nd A-26 Invader with 48th (T-6?) cockpit and 144th (P-47?) engines?
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Looking back at the pic you could probably use the T-6 engines as well. Single prop as well ?
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Could be (based on) a Yak-200/210, too? From the size and the engines it's a good match:
(http://ram-home.com/ram-old/yak-200-kr1.jpg)
(http://ram-home.com/ram-old/yak-210-kr2.jpg)
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I still think it's Invader based, but that would be a good kit to bash if you were going to build one !
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Could be (based on) a Yak-200/210, too? From the size and the engines it's a good match:
(http://ram-home.com/ram-old/yak-200-kr1.jpg)
(http://ram-home.com/ram-old/yak-210-kr2.jpg)
The bottom pic looks like its balancing on its main gear! Nice looking aircraft, even for a Russian design.
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A Model do kits of various versionshttp://www.hannants.co.uk/product/AMU72162 (http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/AMU72162)
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Could be (based on) a Yak-200/210, too? From the size and the engines it's a good match:
(http://ram-home.com/ram-old/yak-210-kr2.jpg)
I think you nailed it Dizzy', with the dorsal fin fillet showing in this pic
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Interesting comparison... while the text (next page) is saying this is a Douglas...
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v670/Tophe2712/r_0141_zpsad770b19.jpg)
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The other thing that I thought was interesting was that the plane is low wing, but the nacelles are still slung, so the fuselage would sit way off the ground.
Cheers,
Logan
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Yes, thanks.
And here is the last picture with this 'Douglas' plane:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v670/Tophe2712/s_0141_zps46cb52f3.jpg)
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From his (French) toys catalogue, my son showed me the Real Boeing-747 is 2-engined (with 3 passengers only)...:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v670/Tophe2712/001c_zpseb48541a.jpg)
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thats cute, a Jimbo ;D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyTF4ufVBUg
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Thanks for your link, Nils, directing to another link with kinda Vickers Wellington cartoon:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v670/Tophe2712/mysteryPlane_zpsf8373f06.jpg)
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From his (French) toys catalogue, my son showed me the Real Boeing-747 is 2-engined (with 3 passengers only)...:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v670/Tophe2712/001c_zpseb48541a.jpg)
Reminds me of the Fisher Price jet, which is basically an egg-shaped DC-9
(http://www.thisoldtoy.com/new-images/images-ok/100-199/fp183-playfamilyfunjet.jpg)
And which Nick mentioned here (http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php?topic=31836.0)
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Nice one, thanks! :thumbsup:
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this one was on the front page of Belgian bussiness newspaper "De Standaard" today.
(article was the rivalry between Brussels Airlines and Ryanair in Brussels Airport).
(http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn292/Nilssteyaert/misc/1553561_10201994808006589_649654642_o.jpg)
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That's pretty cool ! I think Ryanair would have the upper hand, in sheer numbers....you guys buy about 4 737s for the price of one F-35 !
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Well I know who I'm rooting for :rolleyes: :banghead:
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Well I know who I'm rooting for :rolleyes: :banghead:
I trust it is NOT Michael O'Leary! :angry:
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Well I know who I'm rooting for :rolleyes: :banghead:
I trust it is NOT Michael O'Leary! :angry:
No it's not. I've had a couple of issues. They may well provide a perfectly adequate service for a lot of people but as I said I've had a few issues whilst flying on business. The other major budget provider on the other had was excellent when a couple of problems cropped up
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hate to see the competition escalate - my daughter works in France and flies on Ryanair
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The whiffs you find on pieces of paper at safety meetings ! I spotted this scribbled on a sign in sheet at a job we did for a local frac plant.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v729/buzzhemply/IMG_0558_zps06078a1b.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/buzzhemply/media/IMG_0558_zps06078a1b.jpg.html)
I had to add to it :thumbsup:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v729/buzzhemply/IMG_0560_zpse1ebf88f.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/buzzhemply/media/IMG_0560_zpse1ebf88f.jpg.html)
Tracked down the guy who drew it and asked " Is this supposed to be a Harrier ? " He replied " I dunno, is that the plane from True Lies ?" Close !
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Picked up a copy of Air International June 2014 vol.86 No.6.
On page 51 picture 6. Description is an artist impression of the A-60M laser-gun. Can't help think that the ILyushin IL-76MD-90A Candid has been fitted with the radome from the BAe Nimrod AEW3.
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I have bought the (French) book "Le premier vol d'Oscar" by the delicious cartoonist Jean Barbaud, and I love (most of all) this Vampire shy girl...:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v670/Tophe2712/R0174_zpsef23ad46.jpg)
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I have bought the (French) book "Le premier vol d'Oscar" by the delicious cartoonist Jean Barbaud, and I love (most of all) this Vampire shy girl...:
so cute indeed : Hasegawa should do it as an Egg Plane!
They did the P38, they could start a whole series of twin-boom egg-planes ...
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I have bought the (French) book "Le premier vol d'Oscar" by the delicious cartoonist Jean Barbaud, and I love (most of all) this Vampire shy girl...:
so cute indeed : Hasegawa should do it as an Egg Plane!
Yup make a great Egg Plane
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I think it is supposed to be a cartoon SIPA 200
http://machdiamonds.com/s200.html (http://machdiamonds.com/s200.html)
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I think it is supposed to be a cartoon SIPA 200
http://machdiamonds.com/s200.html (http://machdiamonds.com/s200.html)
Yeah, but a SIPA 2000 is a cartoon Vampire. ;D :lol:
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Yes, I guess you're right (I will ask the cartoonist Jean Barbaud on Facebook, I hope he will answer).
While... there was also a Vampire character it seems, a "boy" not a "girl"...:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v670/Tophe2712/r_0177_zpsd0246d98.jpg)
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Yes, I guess you're right (I will ask the cartoonist Jean Barbaud on Facebook, I hope he will answer).
While... there was also a Vampire character it seems, a "boy" not a "girl"...:
Master Jean has answered: yes, the orange boy is a Vampire and the pink girl is a Minijet!
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Love the look of that Vampire !
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Has it just farted?
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The little smoke on the central exhaust, for a boy, may be... yes, ahem ;D
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If you have a good magnifying glass then in the current issue of Model Art Australia you can just make out Comrade Harps' whiffed DUKW in one of the pics from the Melbourne Model Expo.
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There are some cool designs in the Graphic Novel "Scarlet Traces: the Great Game":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlet_Traces
and:
https://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/12-422/Scarlet-Traces-The-Great-Game-1-of-4
https://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/Previews/12-422?page=4
for some great looking aircraft designs - particularly the Mars Fighter craft.
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Some cool stuff there. In the second link it looks like the planes could be going either way !
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They're all canard configuration, but you're correct - they could very well be going the other way.
Depends on how you want to build it...
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Some delightful illustrations of R2-D2 ‘dressed’ as popular comicbook superheroes. Totally pointless, but...
(http://editorial.designtaxi.com/news-berrington20012015/1.png)
(http://editorial.designtaxi.com/news-berrington20012015/2.png)
(http://editorial.designtaxi.com/news-berrington20012015/3.png)
(http://editorial.designtaxi.com/news-berrington20012015/4.png)
(http://editorial.designtaxi.com/news-berrington20012015/5.png)
(http://editorial.designtaxi.com/news-berrington20012015/7.png)
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Na na na na na Bat Tooey!
Interesting to say the least.
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Nice :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:
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I have recently discovered the wonderful Belgian cartoon books "Luftgaffe 44" with Philippe Abbet marvelous drawings. There are 3 volumes already and many marvelous caricatures of airplanes. I am jealous, I wish I had this talent...
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v670/Tophe2712/2015/bipoutr_zpsvoxytqhy.jpg)
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Love the green R2 ! Very cool and a neat idea.
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In an old magazine at the Ajax model show today
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v474/DaveBailey/Models/C-141%20AWACS_zpsjdjfvurc.jpg)
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The R2 units look good ! Hard to pick a favourite, prob Flash or Green Hornet.
The Starlifter is a great idea too !
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In a French Disney magazine that I bought for my 6 y.o. son (Picsou Magazine Hors Série #34 = Mc Duck Special #34?), I have found a cute cartoon B-17 (drawing of the 1950s):
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v670/Tophe2712/McDuck_B-17_zpslqpxnhev.jpg)
Ups: it is a B-29 according to https://torrentbutler.eu/84899-little-johnny-jet
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ah yes "Little Johnny Jet" :)
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xk8rbj_little-johnny-jet_tv
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That is awesome ! Thanks for the link as well Nils ! I'll enjoy watching more of those.
PS-The Starlifter looks great
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Wonderful link/film, thanks a lot!
I have to scan 6 other aircraft from this magazine, including 2 lovely twin-boomers...
EDIT: Here are the 3 first ones:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v670/Tophe2712/Picsou34_identify_zps4pssdg2v.jpg)
Are they Real aircraft turned cartoons or pure fantasy? I love them :wub:
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And this is a genuine cartoon-airplane, maybe looking-like-nothing but cute...
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v670/Tophe2712/r_Picsou34_p105r_zpsvsrqhqca.jpg)
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And a fantasy twin-boomer (or 2):
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v670/Tophe2712/r_Picsou34_TB01_zps1fpqxs3v.jpg)
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Another classic... :wub:
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JNSZjySQZ7w/SJHlrLrkTYI/AAAAAAAAAO8/A9AV3k0hjWI/s400/Colibri1.jpg)
(http://yoko.tsuno.free.fr/graphics/engins/large/colibri3.jpg)
(http://modelstories.free.fr/analyses/avions/MS2001_4P/YOKO_Colibri/YOKO_Coli_Canon_1.JPG)
And it has even been modeled/scratched several times:
An 1:48 build: http://modelstories.free.fr/analyses/avions/MS2001_4P/YOKO_Colibri/
(http://modelstories.free.fr/analyses/avions/MS2001_4P/YOKO_Colibri/YOKO_Coli_1.JPG)
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ah, Yoko Tsuno :wub: ;D
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another accidental find... Marvel's Sky Wolves and their exotic mounts:
(http://www.ourworlds.net/blackhawk/media/f5u.jpg)
(http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix2/skywolveswwii7.jpg)
Note the interesting design twist of these "jet powered Flapjacks":
(http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix2/skywolveswwii2.jpg)
More here, BTW: http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix2/skywolveswwii.htm
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VTOL Flapjack? Wow! :wub: :thumbsup: ;D
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No Way! :o
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Wow! Never heard of that one. Yeah, it's a blatant copying of "Blackhawks!" but, what the hell! It certainly would get some odd looks at a model contest showing up with a jet / prop VTOL F5U-2 in that livery!
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I like it. Very Bat like. Looks like a cut down CF-100 as well.
:cheers:
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In this months SAM's report on the Bolton show there's a WIF that I initially didn't give a second look because I assumed it was a F.A.A. Tomcat. However putting my glasses on it appears to be a swing wing Phantom with the wings at full sweep. Very nice :thumbsup:
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From an old manual that was my Grandfathers, he was a fitter at 6RD during and after the war.
(https://scontent-yyz1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17362921_10212650265757836_1548810158579093057_n.jpg?oh=e1fbd95002f64a65630c4b0d78e7a30a&oe=5971C780)
Makes me think the RCAF was considering the B-29
(https://scontent-yyz1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17308830_10212650265797837_8697472349581774884_n.jpg?oh=84390debcae93523e255d5998be2377d&oe=59703E71)
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And KC-97s to refuel them too. Bags of Whiffness scope there. :thumbsup:
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Looks like a KB-29P refueling the B-29 rather than a KC-97.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/420th_Air_Refueling_Squadron_Bell-Atlanta_KB-29P-45-BA_Superfortress_44-83906.jpg)
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Could be, yes. They'd have ended up with KC-97s though. ;D
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... or, seeing as it's Canada, KB-50s carrying air-droppable lifeboats for SAR and
they'd still be in service today.
;D
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How about air droppable sleds and dog teams too? ;D
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:thumbsup:
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I've got a few B-29/ KB-50s in the stash that I have always wanted to whif RCAF :thumbsup:
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How about air droppable sleds and dog teams too? ;D
Probably happened somewhere/sometime. I'm sure I've seen footage of dogs being parachuted. Probably would have been back in the 50/60's when there wouldn't have been the uproar there would be now, and I'm a dog lover. I'm sure my old Dobbie Sally would have loved it ;D
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Love the RCAF. B.29/KB.29 are there any further images in the booklet noted, certainly different :)
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<...> I'm sure I've seen footage of dogs being parachuted. Probably would have been back in the 50/60's when there wouldn't have been the uproar there would be now <...>
Not sure about any uproar, but it's still being done regularly. :thumbsup: They've even got protective vests and doggy-sized goggles now.
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<...> I'm sure I've seen footage of dogs being parachuted. Probably would have been back in the 50/60's when there wouldn't have been the uproar there would be now <...>
Not sure about any uproar, but it's still being done regularly. :thumbsup: They've even got protective vests and doggy-sized goggles now.
(http://sofrep.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/NavySEAL5.jpg)
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FsnPAQ137fY/hqdefault.jpg)
(https://sofrep.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/13435347_582736938571581_912883649960295294_n-834x838.jpg)
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Thats got to be a huge amount of training to get the dog to wear that gear and then jump out of an aircraft!
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Love the RCAF. B.29/KB.29 are there any further images in the booklet noted, certainly different :)
Nothing whiffy. This one was pretty much a whif at the time tho, an idea of what the Argus would look like in service.
(https://scontent-yyz1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17353365_10212650265877839_1377864164506860645_n.jpg?oh=0740c63a22072cd138867854249e9e16&oe=596BFE3A)
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Thats got to be a huge amount of training to get the dog to wear that gear and then jump out of an aircraft!
I'm not sure. Look at what some people dress their dogs up in everyday. Plus wouldn't free falling be like the whole body equivalent of putting your head out of the car window?
I think once they'd tried it the difficulty would be stopping the dogs jumping out when they were not supposed to.
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Thats got to be a huge amount of training to get the dog to wear that gear and then jump out of an aircraft!
I'm not sure. Look at what some people dress their dogs up in everyday. Plus wouldn't free falling be like the whole body equivalent of putting your head out of the car window?
I think once they'd tried it the difficulty would be stopping the dogs jumping out when they were not supposed to.
It's probably down to trust in the Handler, at least in part. And Military Crazy - that's not just for Hoomins anymore... :lol:
I've seen photos of Squaddies on patrol with a 'holstered' dog in a carry harness on one's back... first generation smart ordnance, maybe?
And you ever notice that the same Dog that gets annoyed when you blow in their face, will stick it's head out of a vehicle window if given even a fraction of a chance? ;D
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Thats got to be a huge amount of training to get the dog to wear that gear and then jump out of an aircraft!
I'm not sure. Look at what some people dress their dogs up in everyday. Plus wouldn't free falling be like the whole body equivalent of putting your head out of the car window?
I think once they'd tried it the difficulty would be stopping the dogs jumping out when they were not supposed to.
It's probably down to trust in the Handler, at least in part. And Military Crazy - that's not just for Hoomins anymore... :lol:
I've seen photos of Squaddies on patrol with a 'holstered' dog in a carry harness on one's back... first generation smart ordnance, maybe?
And you ever notice that the same Dog that gets annoyed when you blow in their face, will stick it's head out of a vehicle window if given even a fraction of a chance? ;D
I know my old Doberman would probably have loved it given her behaviour when we had the top down in the Spitfire ;)
As for Doggie smart ordnance. The Soviet's tried it and there is footage of what was probably training. The problem was that some of the dogs returned to their owners complete with ordnance :o
Cheers for the pics and info lades
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Love the RCAF. B.29/KB.29 are there any further images in the booklet noted, certainly different :)
Nothing whiffy. This one was pretty much a whif at the time tho, an idea of what the Argus would look like in service.
(https://scontent-yyz1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17353365_10212650265877839_1377864164506860645_n.jpg?oh=0740c63a22072cd138867854249e9e16&oe=596BFE3A)
Thanks Todd --- your pic reminded me I should really get going on the two 1/72 scale Argus I have
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I want to see the pages covering "Untypical Metal Repairs" ;)
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I want to see the pages covering "Untypical Metal Repairs" ;)
They're the ones that use Duct Tape and chewing gum............ ;D
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I want to see the pages covering "Untypical Metal Repairs" ;)
They're the ones that use Duct Tape and chewing gum............ ;D
Hey, if it can't be fixed with Duct Tape and Gum, it's too broken to repair and needs replacing!
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I want to see the pages covering "Untypical Metal Repairs" ;)
They're the ones that use Duct Tape and chewing gum............ ;D
I have heard of RAF airframe fitters being taught to repair control linkages with wooden dowel and five minute epoxy :unsure:
Gondor
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lol I'm sure there have been many untypical cases !
:thumbsup:
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I think I read in one my umpteen Falklands books that they repaired AAA damaged Harriers with duct tape aboard ship.
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I think I read in one my umpteen Falklands books that they repaired AAA damaged Harriers with duct tape aboard ship.
600 mph tape is a common "quick fix" before patching. I know there was a C-5 hit on final to BIAP that took SAM/AAA damage to a nacelle (IIRC) and was patched with 600mph tape.
(http://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/easyjet-airplane-speed-tape-600mph-adam-wood-tweet-fb.jpg)
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I think I read in one my umpteen Falklands books that they repaired AAA damaged Harriers with duct tape aboard ship.
600 mph tape is a common "quick fix" before patching. I know there was a C-5 hit on final to BIAP that took SAM/AAA damage to a nacelle (IIRC) and was patched with 600mph tape.
(http://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/easyjet-airplane-speed-tape-600mph-adam-wood-tweet-fb.jpg)
I'm impressed that he's rubbing it down well with that small rod. I bet he's a demon modeller too. ;D
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Rather looks like aluminum tape to me? :o
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Rather looks like aluminum tape to me? :o
It's prolly got a Lockheed part number and a 4 figure price tag...
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Rather looks like aluminum tape to me? :o
It is, "600 mph tape" is a joking reference, speed tape is the more usual name.
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Rather looks like aluminum tape to me? :o
It's prolly got a Lockheed part number and a 4 figure price tag...
~$30.00 - 40.00+USD per roll depending on manufacturer, distributor source and per roll or per case pricing.
I might even still have a bit from my heli days.
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~$30.00 - 40.00+USD per roll depending on manufacturer
4 figures, Dizzy was right :angel:
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My son got as present a Walt Disney comic booklet, including a nice & weird little plane:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v670/Tophe2712/2017-04-16%2009-37-15_0665_zpsdxzwaqrd.jpg)
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That's quite nice Tophe and very buildable
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Thanks!
I have checked other Disney comics of my son, and found these:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v670/Tophe2712/2017-04-16%20envoi_zpsoajp0k2w.jpg)
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The top one is very Disney, you can almost "see" the face.
The bottom one, along with your origional one, however are what I would consider to be very French or Belgian comic book in their style.
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The bottom one must be the world's only biz-glider, it seems to have no engines...... :o
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The bottom one could be built in 1/144 using a 1/24 modern jet drop tank.
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The bottom one must be the world's only biz-glider, it seems to have no engines...... :o
On the page just after there is a front view, slightly from above: there are 2 little jets under the fin (like DC-9, or biz-jet Mystère-20/DH-125 etc.). Here they are hidden by the wing. Do you want me to scan the front view?
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They must be VERY little ones! :o
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tiny jets, this is cartoon what-if :thumbsup:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v670/Tophe2712/2017-04-16%2018-36-01_0676_zpsfucxhabx.jpg)
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Hm, rather reminiscent of my DC9-BJ.
(http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/4276/tx7h.jpg)
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Lovely!
My son asks me if you ever were a passenger of it... ;)
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Lovely!
My son asks me if you ever were a passenger of it... ;)
Hehehe, although it's in the colours of my ex-employers it never really existed. ;D ;)
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Those cartoons are cool Tophe I like #356 !
:thumbsup:
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An interesting (even utterly absurd!) design for an attack plane - you have almost everything "bi-"there: biplane, bi-empennage, double bi-engines etc. The push-pull idea with different types of engines (Herr Dornier salutes you!) is amazing! I also love the rear positioned cockpit like one of a racing plane (or is the cockpit under the front turret? :rolleyes:):
(https://i2.wp.com/pulpcovers.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/19811003-dustyayres_blakeslee.jpg?fit=746%2C1088&ssl=1).
If you search Google for "Dusty Ayres" you might find more like this:
(https://i1.wp.com/pulpcovers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Dusty-Ayres-and-His-Battle-Birds-May-1935.jpg?fit=1041%2C1482&ssl=1)
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An interesting (even utterly absurd!) design for an attack plane - you have almost everything "bi-"there: biplane, bi-empennage, double bi-engines etc.
Probably even the crewmen/women are bi... :wacko: ;D
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Inspiring!
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An interesting (even utterly absurd!) design for an attack plane - you have almost everything "bi-"there: biplane, bi-empennage, double bi-engines etc.
Probably even the crewmen/women are bi... :wacko: ;D
Or Bipolar.
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An interesting (even utterly absurd!) design for an attack plane - you have almost everything "bi-"there: biplane, bi-empennage, double bi-engines etc.
Probably even the crewmen/women are bi... :wacko: ;D
Or Bipolar.
I'm in two minds about how to take that remark...
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Couple of Wiffs in September's SAM
A photo taken at the Scot's Nationals of a really nice 1/144 FAA Tornado M. Nice twin tails, colour scheme and armament :thumbsup:
Full build article on an in-service Rockwell International XFV-12A. Builder combines parts from the Anigrand kit (which I've built) and the Whirlybird vacform kit. Finished in Aeronvale markings. Very nice :thumbsup:
Good edition of the mag.
Added on 1/9/17
Not a wiff but interesting in the same edition there's an article on USN Reserve Airwing RAW 91. Now one of the units was ZP-911 which was a Blimp unit established in 1950. Now I knew the US operated blimps in WWII on over ocean patrols but had no idea they were still being used as late as the 1959 when the unit was disbanded. Indeed the unit took part in a major exercise simulating a surface and sub-surface threat to the US East Coast in 1953.
Amongst the photos is a great one of two blimps in their hangar taken in 1953 sheltering from a hurricane. Most of the rest of RAW 91 is in their with them and is absolutely dwarfed. Including the 2 Privateer's ! Great article if just for the amazing mix of aircraft the units flew.
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November's Airfix Magazine has a really nice USAF English Electric Lightning in Vietnam style camouflage and US weapons. Could almost be tempted to do something similar ;)
Also has a full build of the new tool Airfix Phantom
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really nice USAF English Electric Lightning in Vietnam style camouflage and US weapons. Could almost be tempted to do something similar ;)
Well in my very latest Air-Britain AeroMilitaria (arrived a couple of days ago), there's a colour photo of an F-102 in the same scheme
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really nice USAF English Electric Lightning in Vietnam style camouflage and US weapons. Could almost be tempted to do something similar ;)
Well in my very latest Air-Britain AeroMilitaria (arrived a couple of days ago), there's a colour photo of an F-102 in the same scheme
Like this?
(http://www.aerospaceweb.org/aircraft/fighter/f102/f102_30.jpg)
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really nice USAF English Electric Lightning in Vietnam style camouflage and US weapons. Could almost be tempted to do something similar ;)
Well in my very latest Air-Britain AeroMilitaria (arrived a couple of days ago), there's a colour photo of an F-102 in the same scheme
Like this?
(http://www.aerospaceweb.org/aircraft/fighter/f102/f102_30.jpg)
Yep!, although it's a photo of one somewhere in the UK (I think) at an airshow and the one in the photo I have shows really worn out paint on the center fuselage, looks almost grey
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Just received my copy of aeroplane through the post and it had an advert for the scale model world 2017, which featured this absolute stunner.
(https://i2.wp.com/ipmsuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Class-76.jpg?fit=800%2C529)
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That was last year's Senior Champion model. I mentioned else where that everyone says it's amazing and yet fail to mention that it's a Whiff. The same builder has won the top spot three years on the trot with his Whiffs now............
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Whif or SciFi? :unsure: The line'd be pretty blurry around this build.
(Unless you're me, & SciFi & What If...? are two branches of the same genre.)
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ah, Yoko Tsuno :wub: ;D
So many planes in the Yoko Tsuno comics! Apart from the Colibri my favorites are the stratospheric recce plane with its parasite glider from "Message pour l'éternité", the glider being able to do jet-assisted take offs, and the hovercraft-lanched typhoon-busting attack planes from "La fille du vent". Also from"Message pour l'éternité": an antique H.P. 42 or 45 named "Horus" doing a jet-assisted take off from an afghan crater.
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Agree. I am just reading though the comics these days and came across that twin-engine U-2 derivative (in Swiss ciolors, BTW). And I am keen on creating something along the lines of the Colibri.
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The current issue of french magazine Aérojournal (april/may 2018) has a what-if article about the use of the P-47N by the French Air Force in East Asia. It starts with the P-47N-5s used against Japan in october 1945 (a french flight attached to 318th FG) or over Korea against the Soviet Union in november/december 1945. The first atomic bomb is dropped over Hiroshima on december 7 and the second one on Kokura 5 days later. They end WWII and lead to the soviets and North Koreans to withdraw to the 38th parallel. In march the 20th Escadre de Chasse is established at Than Son Nhut and takes part in the Indochina war that doesn't end as badly for France even if the North (Tonkin + Annam) does achieve autonomy in 1950 before full independance 4 years later when Cochinchina holds a referendom to decide its fate. Meanwhile the 20th EC flies P-47N-20 from Hanoi to protect the autonomous north from chinese intrusions (5 chinese Mustangs are shot down in 1951). After 1954, the Jugs are used in the Algerian war. The only french P-47 ace is back in Vietnam in 1969 to coordinate the delivery of the 50 Mirage 5J, originally built for Israel and embargoed the previous year, to a unified Vietnam.
The articles opens with a nice painting of a P-47N of the french flight of 318th FG shooting down a Ki-61 of 18th Sentai. It's illusted with 5 profiles: 3 P-47N (1945, 1946, 1951), one Ki-61 (1945) and 1 chinese P-51D (1951).
IRL France never used the P-47N, only the D.
A few moths ago Aérojournal's sister publication LOS! (about naval warfare) had a 2 or 3 part article about aeronaval operations when the Cold War went hot in the 1980ies (the Clem was sunk in the Med but its Crusaders shot down quite a few Backfire on their way home).
Another what if article from Aérojournal was about the Vichy armed forces taking advantage of operation Torch to rejoin the fight against Germany, getting help from the allies and starting the liberation of France.
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A few moths ago Aérojournal's sister publication LOS! (about naval warfare) had a 2 or 3 part article about aeronaval operations when the Cold War went hot in the 1980ies (the Clem was sunk in the Med but its Crusaders shot down quite a few Backfire on their way home).
Sounds like they borrowed that plot from Red Storm Rising, just replacing the Foch with Clem.
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Last month I bought for my son a child magazine: "Les trésors de Picsou" (Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge) #44, and I found this airplane, inventive it seems:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v670/Tophe2712/Picsou201809_zpsqljdq1fu.jpg)
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Last month I bought for my son a child magazine: "Les trésors de Picsou" (Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge) #44, and I found this airplane, inventive it seems:
So piston engines plus a rocket motor ?
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Last month I bought for my son a child magazine: "Les trésors de Picsou" (Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge) #44, and I found this airplane, inventive it seems:
So piston engines plus a rocket motor ?
Looks like it's being shot down
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Last month I bought for my son a child magazine: "Les trésors de Picsou" (Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge) #44, and I found this airplane, inventive it seems:
So piston engines plus a rocket motor ?
Looks like it's being shot down
Must admit I wasn't sure Scoot ???
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Looks like it's being shot down
I have read the story to confirm or deny, and it is rather mysterious. This is not war and there is no ground fire. But the plane in South America's high mountains had its belly hurting the top of a mountain, this is an accident. Why engines are in fire then ? Ahem, this seems to be "artistic" (dramatic) freedom... ;)
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It must come from the same genre as most American movies, the ones where the car crashes and INSTANTLY bursts into flames or explodes violently.
You wouldn't catch me travelling in of those, oh no!
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Thanks for this explanation, very convincing. :thumbsup:
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If it is piloted by Launchpad McQuack it's very likely to go down in flames. Practically everything he flies ends up kerjiggered!
Paul Harrison
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It must come from the same genre as most American movies, the ones where the car crashes and INSTANTLY bursts into flames or explodes violently.
There's an effort on TV Tropes to document those instances!
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EveryCarIsAPinto
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It must come from the same genre as most American movies, the ones where the car crashes and INSTANTLY bursts into flames or explodes violently.
You wouldn't catch me travelling in of those, oh no!
Can't remember which movie it was (James Bond?) where a perfectly intact car goes over a cliff and bursts into flames mid-air before hitting anything on the ground. How does that work then? Is there a weight-on-wheel switch on each shock absorber: four zeroes and the spark plug in the fuel tank gets energised? :o
It's almost as good as those war films where somebody throws a hand grenade (2.5 oz of explosive) into an empty brick building and a massive fireball results: WHAT'S BURNING?
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I know Mythbusters investigated shooting at the petrol tank of a car and I think they also drove some off cliffs to see if they explode.
Of course, being experienced moviemakers they would have already known pyrotechnics were involved.
Why don't cars in movies explode when they hit water from height? Surely the impact would be as great if the fall was enough.
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around 25 years ago, I was an active member of the shadowrun message board, and the cars, fuel tanks, and explosions thing came up. ( this kind of thing being very cyberpunk,) One of the US members and some friends, did ( we were told) extensive research, ( they and some friends, spent a weekend using various fire arms they had access to, some old cars, and various fuel volumes ) and couldn't make it happen. the remote squib / detcord and a bottle of fuel was all that it could be attributed to, the Mythbusters episode merely gave secondary research and conformation.
the true validation is fortunately something that can be seen after most road accidents, crumpled metal but very, very rarely scorch marks. After all would we drive or ride if cars did that on a regular occasion ?
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...would we drive or ride if cars did that on a regular occasion ?
Unfortunately, yes.
We (humans) regularly drive drunk and break the speed limit because "it won't happen to me".
In fact I suspect if one looked into it then one would find that the reason more people don't speed or drink drive is not the fear of death but the fear of getting caught.
I'm a firm believer in the "spike in the middle of the steering wheel" theory of road safety. Maybe if cars were prone to explode on impact then I might get less people tailgating me.
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Zenrat, I hate to have to agree with you on that point :banghead:
the spike in the steering wheel method is one im not certain id use, I like to think more of my fellow man than that, ( alas my statement above shows my contradictory feelings).
I try to learn from the mistakes of others, and not have to repeat them myself, and the one thing that brought this home to me was just after I passed my driving test during 6th form, some one I respected well told me " congratulations on passing, and remember you are now in control of a lethal weapon " It crystallised things perfectly, a lot of freedom, and a equal measure of reasonability, both for myself, my passengers, and those around me.
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I'm a firm believer in the "spike in the middle of the steering wheel" theory of road safety. Maybe if cars were prone to explode on impact then I might get less people tailgating me.
Drive an Austin-Healey 3000, they're totally lethal from that point of view. The steering box is mounted right at the front of the chassis, in front of the radiator even, and the steering column is one long, straight bar that's pointed directly at the driver's chest.
That's the prime reason the car was withdrawn from the US market in the mid-60s, there was NO way it would pass their safety regulations.
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From an on-line article about Russian cyberwarfare in Mother Jones:
(https://scontent.fybz2-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/49947998_10157751574893132_7419310202861649920_o.jpg?_nc_cat=107&_nc_ht=scontent.fybz2-2.fna&oh=0e618175734b432457016664b0ff2ec0&oe=5CD1906C)
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Strange, I never realised the Maus had a Pz IV turret ? :angel: ;D
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It must come from the same genre as most American movies, the ones where the car crashes and INSTANTLY bursts into flames or explodes violently.
You wouldn't catch me travelling in of those, oh no!
I have a fairly well-tested theory that the instant a helicopter appears on screen in most action movies, you can start a timer until when it'll go down in flames, usually in some implausibly over the top fashion.
Same with any monster movie where an airstrike is called in. Apparently in the movie world, aircraft are not equipped with standoff weapons, and only their internal guns.
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It must come from the same genre as most American movies, the ones where the car crashes and INSTANTLY bursts into flames or explodes violently.
You wouldn't catch me travelling in of those, oh no!
I have a fairly well-tested theory that the instant a helicopter appears on screen in most action movies, you can start a timer until when it'll go down in flames, usually in some implausibly over the top fashion.
Same with any monster movie where an airstrike is called in. Apparently in the movie world, aircraft are not equipped with standoff weapons, and only their internal guns.
But usually monsters are cold blooded, so an heat-searching missile would not recognize them, and I don't think a radar-head one would find them either. ;D
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It must come from the same genre as most American movies, the ones where the car crashes and INSTANTLY bursts into flames or explodes violently.
You wouldn't catch me travelling in of those, oh no!
I have a fairly well-tested theory that the instant a helicopter appears on screen in most action movies, you can start a timer until when it'll go down in flames, usually in some implausibly over the top fashion.
Same with any monster movie where an airstrike is called in. Apparently in the movie world, aircraft are not equipped with standoff weapons, and only their internal guns.
But usually monsters are cold blooded, so an heat-searching missile would not recognize them, and I don't think a radar-head one would find them either. ;D
Heck, even in the first Michael Bay Transformers explodathon movie, the responding F-22s were engaging Starscream with M-61s.
(http://www.impdb.org/images/a/a2/TFF-22_4.jpg)
Granted, the logic is that its more...visually exciting. Same discussion happens with Wars nerds and snubfighters.
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Same discussion happens with Wars nerds and snubfighters.
Actually, it's quite simple, really. With SW snubfighters, proton torpedos and concussion missiles work best against large vessels, while lasers are used against snubfighters.
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I found this VTOL cargo with tiltwing in an old French comics, is this a XC-142 or imagination?
(https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v670/Tophe2712/AvionPif_zps9ukarfre.jpg)
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Looks like the XC-142A (not the best photos from the old NMUSAF Experimental and Presidental Aircraft annex)
(https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/857650_10151268191911814_833832741_o.jpg?_nc_cat=107&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-1.xx&oh=2e571d59215735bb1f62b6d57b11afaf&oe=5CEB89E1)
(https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/856762_10151268192396814_271901008_o.jpg?_nc_cat=104&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-1.xx&oh=afe192a32b7e1cf1ad992e903bb8f61a&oe=5CE822A0)
(Behind Rutan's Pulse-jet thing, with horizontal rotor visible)
(https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/823574_10151268192421814_1005302574_o.jpg?_nc_cat=110&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-1.xx&oh=f0872d2c020367a1df0d987f008284b9&oe=5CE9C876)
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Thanks!
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I found this VTOL cargo with tiltwing in an old French comics, is this a XC-142 or imagination?
(https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v670/Tophe2712/AvionPif_zps9ukarfre.jpg)
Nice. I'd like to build something like that but the wing tilt would have to be working so it'd take a bit of engineering to do properly.
How do I calculate lifting capacity based on engine horsepower and propeller size?
Maybe just go with the "if it looks right it is right" principle.
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I wish you could do it. :thumbsup:
Don't be afraid: I will not argue that the propeller diameter is not perfect or something, as we are what-ifers, and a secret change in properties may explain all, what-if? ;D
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Nice. I'd like to build something like that but the wing tilt would have to be working so it'd take a bit of engineering to do properly.
How do I calculate lifting capacity based on engine horsepower and propeller size?
Maybe just go with the "if it looks right it is right" principle.
Or look at what Vought/LTV did here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTV_XC-142)
The C-142 was powered by four General Electric T64 turboshaft engines cross-linked on a common driveshaft, which eliminated engine-out asymmetric thrust problems during V/STOL operations, to drive four 15.5-foot (4.7 m) Hamilton Standard fiberglass propellers. Compared to conventional designs it was overpowered: it had 0.27 hp/lb, compared to 0.12 hp/lb for the contemporary Lockheed C-130D Hercules. This extra power was required for safe VTOL operations, and gave the aircraft excellent all-around performance which included a maximum speed of over 400 mph (640 km/h), making it one of the fastest VTOL transport aircraft of the era.
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Thanks Scoot.
:thumbsup:
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You may find this of use Fred, 175 page pdf on
the CL-84 Dynavert:
https://documents.techno-science.ca/documents/CASM-Aircrafthistories-CanadairCL-84VSTOLhistory.pdf
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Thanks for this link, including the Canadair CL-43 twin-boom project 3-view, rare! :thumbsup:
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Thanks Jon. The tilt wing concept may be the answer to the question "how do I whiff this Airfix Skyvan?"
<edit> Just skimmed the file you linked to. Excellent! Lots of whiffsperation there. I haven't yet built a tilt wing with props so that'll be first but i'd like to revisit the tilt fan concept sometime. I need to keep an eye out for suitable sized fans as scratchbilding them is very time consuming. Computer cooling fans maybe?
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The tilt wing concept may be the answer to the question "how do I whiff this Airfix Skyvan?"
Please do! I had started playing with that very idea a few years ago only for R/C and still plan to do so sometime, be great to see a plastic version. :mellow:
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I need to keep an eye out for suitable sized fans as scratchbilding them is very time consuming. Computer cooling fans maybe?
If you do find something suitable and Cheap!, can you please let the rest of us know?
I for one have a couple of ideas but I'm put off by the thought of scratchbuilding Two! engines with Contra-rotating! fans... :banghead: :
Oh, and did I mention they are to be Shrouded?! :banghead: :banghead:
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I need to keep an eye out for suitable sized fans as scratchbilding them is very time consuming. Computer cooling fans maybe?
If you do find something suitable and Cheap!, can you please let the rest of us know?
I for one have a couple of ideas but I'm put off by the thought of scratchbuilding Two! engines with Contra-rotating! fans... :banghead: :
Oh, and did I mention they are to be Shrouded?! :banghead: :anghead:
Yes. Cheap is the operative word here. I'm sure I could find computer fans that looked perfect but then would have to junk the motors and casings which would be wasteful and expensive.
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I need to keep an eye out for suitable sized fans as scratchbilding them is very time consuming. Computer cooling fans maybe?
If you do find something suitable and Cheap!, can you please let the rest of us know?
I for one have a couple of ideas but I'm put off by the thought of scratchbuilding Two! engines with Contra-rotating! fans... :banghead: :
Oh, and did I mention they are to be Shrouded?! :banghead: :anghead:
Yes. Cheap is the operative word here. I'm sure I could find computer fans that looked perfect but then would have to junk the motors and casings which would be wasteful and expensive.
150% agree!
...well, maths was never my strong suit... ;D
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Perhaps using the fans from old and non-working PCs could be a solution? At the last count I have at least four large size PCs knocking about the place, and there must be a few fans in there.
Garden sheds, attics and basements all over the world could be a suitable source. ;D
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Thanks Jon. The tilt wing concept may be the answer to the question "how do I whiff this Airfix Skyvan?"
Must admit I've been musing on the idea of an RAF tiltwing transport for the GB
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I need to keep an eye out for suitable sized fans as scratchbilding them is very time consuming. Computer cooling fans maybe?
If you do find something suitable and Cheap!, can you please let the rest of us know?
I for one have a couple of ideas but I'm put off by the thought of scratchbuilding Two! engines with Contra-rotating! fans... :banghead: :
Oh, and did I mention they are to be Shrouded?! :banghead: :anghead:
Yes. Cheap is the operative word here. I'm sure I could find computer fans that looked perfect but then would have to junk the motors and casings which would be wasteful and expensive.
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Mini-3-Pin-40mm-PC-Computer-CPU-Cooler-Cooling-Fan-40x40x10mm-DC-12V-9-Blades-/221339558322
4 or more for AU $3.22/ea
;)
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I need to keep an eye out for suitable sized fans as scratchbilding them is very time consuming. Computer cooling fans maybe?
If you do find something suitable and Cheap!, can you please let the rest of us know?
I for one have a couple of ideas but I'm put off by the thought of scratchbuilding Two! engines with Contra-rotating! fans... :banghead: :
Oh, and did I mention they are to be Shrouded?! :banghead: :anghead:
Yes. Cheap is the operative word here. I'm sure I could find computer fans that looked perfect but then would have to junk the motors and casings which would be wasteful and expensive.
How about something like this? (these are 1.25 inch diameter btw and are only an example, there are many other styles like 5 or 6 blades etc and sizes available with a bit of searching)
https://hobbyking.com/en_us/inductrix-compatible-props-grey-color.html
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Oh, cool! Thanks, Flyer - I'll have a peruse! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Later:
YESS!! Those will work, and there's enough material in a lot of them to reshape the blades and cut the diameter down to something more manageable. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Thanks for that, Flyer - have a Pat on the Back - or even two, I'm in a generous mood (takem while you can gettem, it don't happen that often with me... ;D ;) )
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Thanks Brad F. That website looks to be a great resource.
:thumbsup:
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Oh, cool! Thanks, Flyer - I'll have a peruse! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Later:
YESS!! Those will work, and there's enough material in a lot of them to reshape the blades and cut the diameter down to something more manageable. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Thanks for that, Flyer - have a Pat on the Back - or even two, I'm in a generous mood (takem while you can gettem, it don't happen that often with me... ;D ;) )
And - there's these:
(https://cdn-global-hk.hobbyking.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/660x415/17f82f742ffe127f42dca9de82fb58b1/legacy/catalog/f90210b-70.jpg)
$6.35 ea
EDF Ducted Fan Unit 6Blade 2.75inch 70mm
Blade Diameter: 68.3mm / 2.68inch
Outer Case Diameter: 73mm
Wall Thickness: 1.53mm
EDF Length: 59mm
Front Shroud Diameter: 83mm
Motor Mount Holes: (from 18mm & 22mm)
Blade Type: 6
Shaft Size: 4mm
This EDF will take a motor with a maximum diameter of 28mm.(see related items)
Made from high strength reinforced plastic.
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:thumbsup:
There are other empty EDF's like those in there too in 30mm, 40mm and 50mm :mellow:
(I need a replacement 70mm fan for my R/C jet model, it may not sound very large by the spec's but they are quite bulky in the hand, a 50mm EDF would be better suiting the size of a 1/72 model in my opinion, just food for thought...)
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Those ducted fans look very useful, I think I will look in to some of those
Chris
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That's even better, is it from the same site?
Never mind, I see it is... should have looked better!
Thanks, I might have to revisit and spend more money... ;D
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They are almost perfect for what I have in mind.
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Stumbled upon this...
(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/FewAAOSwkXRbZ60v/s-l1600.jpg)
Did Batman change sides? And I find the exhaust stubs (???) under the cockpit quite interesting! :o
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Stumbled upon this...
(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/FewAAOSwkXRbZ60v/s-l1600.jpg)
Did Batman change sides? And I find the exhaust stubs (???) under the cockpit quite interesting! :o
I find the exhaust stubs (???) under the cockpit quite interesting!
...and that explains a lot. :wacko:
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What exhaust stubs Jim ? ah! now I see them ---- looking in the wrong place
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And I find the exhaust stubs (???) under the cockpit quite interesting! :o
If they are exhaust stubs, and yes they do look like some, then why does it need them ? Or am I missing something ?
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Perhaps it works like the Caproni-Campini, with a piston engine driving the compressor?
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Perhaps it works like the Caproni-Campini, with a piston engine driving the compressor?
Didn't think of that
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In the cartoon book "Economix" explaining economy, I have seen several drawings of aircraft, not completely realistic nor crazy but somewhere in between:
(Ju-87, MiG-15, Super-Constellation, DC-10)
(https://oimg.photobucket.com/albums/v670/Tophe2712/Eco_p136-183_zpshrn7bfyx.jpg)
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Perhaps - thinking laterally on a what-if site, the shark teeth are just painted on and there is no air intake at the front (in the teeth). The - your - eyes see what they want to see and the black is not an air intake.
Then - the exhaust stubs are from a cooling device or compressor for a nuclear propulsion unit. Such an engine would explain why this jet was such an opponent. Simple really.
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Took awhile to spot the exhaust stubs here as well !
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Actually, Tophe, that's an F-86, not a MiG-15
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Thanks! I thought the star was meaning Soviet, but the low tailplane is not matching this interpretation, you are right.
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In a (French) Walt Disney cartoon booklet I bought for my son is a weird plane that seems what-if, no?:
(https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v670/Tophe2712/TP47_166_zpscisaxlre.jpg)
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It's a nice looking aircraft Tophe, very much in the style of the period.
Is that Donald Duck in the co-pilots seat ?
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Last month I bought for my son a child magazine: "Les trésors de Picsou" (Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge) #44, and I found this airplane, inventive it seems:
Here, in Uncle Scrooge #47 booklet, this character is Donald's uncle Scrooge.
And in the same booklet is another airplane it seems (twin-engine? jet or propeller powered?):
(https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v670/Tophe2712/TP47_211-_zpsj9qxyk3m.jpg)
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Ah cheers Tophe. I couldn't work out if it was Donald (my favourite) or Scrooge McDuck
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In the next issue was a DC-3-like with additional jets on the tail
(Photobucket refuses now to work anymore, and I have failed to post img pictures with imgur or google-photos, I just give a link, sorry:
https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipNxsMb1BeP_mx0qEix0fHqs5s78GK0cS0FiVgV5
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I try again:
https://imgur.com/YpYRXZ5
(https://imgur.com/YpYRXZ5.jpg)
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And in a pleasant Belgian cartoon book, I found a weird V-tail single jet plane, I am almost sure it is a what-if dream, no? :unsure: ;D
(https://imgur.com/FbNxxBU.jpg)
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It looks like a jet powered Bonanza, quite a nice looking thing though.
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Thanks! And there is a lovely Mirage 3C cartoon also:
(https://imgur.com/tabDbcN.jpg)
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And in a pleasant Belgian cartoon book, I found a weird V-tail single jet plane, I am almost sure it is a what-if dream, no? :unsure: ;D
(https://imgur.com/FbNxxBU.jpg)
Some dreams come true. :thumbsup: :wub:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Cirrus_Vision_SF50%28N280CJ%29_%284632096346%29.jpg)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirrus_Vision_SF50
I had one fly over the house a couple of months back. :thumbsup: :wub:
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Thanks! Good!
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This month my son found another what-if plane in his cartoon magazine: <_<
(https://i.imgur.com/4GnXn38.jpg)
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I try again:
https://imgur.com/YpYRXZ5
(https://imgur.com/YpYRXZ5.jpg)
Yeah that'll totally work. If anyone feels like trying this, please make sure that:
a) Someone who knows what they're doing is fliming it from the ground or another plane,
b) That someone has signed a contract in blood saying that they'll upload the results to YouTube whatever happens...
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This month my son found another what-if plane in his cartoon magazine: <_<
(https://i.imgur.com/4GnXn38.jpg)
Reminds me a bit of the Avro Ashton.
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You are very right (thanks, Google Pictures confirmed me), while… I doubt that American cartoonists of nowadays know this British prototype of 70 years ago... :-\ ;D
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Scanned this to help somebody out on Twitter, so I thought I'd post it here too.
Project for a parasol-wing, mach=4.5 fighter by the USAF's Arnold Engineering Development Center in Tennessee.
Implicitly a live project when the book was published in 1983, but obviously came to nothing.
Published in Modern Air Combat (1983, reprint 1991) by Bill Gunston and Mike Spick.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ERXicbNWsAAaBM3?format=jpg&name=900x900)
Somebody else in the conversation posted links to two other interesting high-speed parasol-wing projects:
freepatentsonline.com/4598886.pdf
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19680028382.pdf
Twitter thread here: https://twitter.com/nyrath/status/1231014262841257984?s=20
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Very cool.
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That picture in the said book was almost enough to make me give up being a plane person... If that was the future there was no point in trying to become an aircraft engineer.
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Actually took up the book. Pages 10-11. Anyone calling himself a plane person should have it but for those who don't, here's what Gunston says:
"At first glance the idea seems ludicrous: unable to manoeuvre, vulnerable in the extreme, astronomically expensive. But dare one ignore it?"
Actually the very first and the last pictures of the book are the same, captioned "Even in an F-15 you dare not stop eyeballing the sky around you." Actually the Mike Spick section begins with almost the same shot, admonishing to check 6. The point? With all due reverence and respect, Bill Gunston would become somehow odd once every month. But instead of howling at the moon he would have it in print that "anti-gravity" was out there, kept secret for some nefarious aim by the Americans. While that USAF windtunnel is obviousy collaborating with the scam, that's nothing of the sort. The Secret Projects Forum has a certain amount of conceit against What-iffers, but maybe we could call on Overscan to say this is not a Slip Wing a la Hurricane style for P-75(?) . Which was a Republic MiG-21/Thunderchief mongrel with twin engines.
Also ignore the silly ideas. (https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/14161/darpas-flying-missile-rail-seems-to-be-more-about-manufacturing-than-combat) How are you going to control it, with Vulcan Mind Meld? There's no Star Trek in 1962. Be simple, just drive two beams up from the bombbay of the '105F/G, hang two large tanks a la Lightning. (Yeees, that's a British invention!) Your loadout will be then, wingtip to wingtip, twin Sidewinder pylon, Standart ARM, 6 snakeyes(half with fuse extenders) Standart ARM, Shrike ARM. You can have a 3rd Standart under the fuselage, why do I care?
This is when the T-46 will tank and Republic/Fairchild will go down. They have added 3 or 4 different projects, a "kit-bash" I'll think you'll call it. There's no need for so many companies! Mach 4.5? Aren't those X-Wing engines? Lockmart would do Mach 45 with them... This is when America is doing the ATF! Why, yeeees, yeeees, America did the ATF.
The moral of the story? I don't what this Roper guy is trying to do. Everyone knows Lockmart will get the next fighter project, so integrated that the onboard pilot can watch Youtube and Netflix and have an ice cream while the AI downs 1000 Felons at once.
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In the new Disney magazine or my son is a weird airliner, with middle tailplanes like a Caravelle and jets like a 737: <_<
(https://i.imgur.com/ggyvU4A.jpg)
The roundel is funny rich!
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That looks fast ! Cheers Tophe.
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Gotta love that $ insignia, especially coming from a multi B$ corporation...