What The Heck Do I Do With This?

[elmayerle]

If you've got four jet engine pods on pylons, mount them on the underside of the wing as a shuttle in independent ferry mode (if you go this route, I think I can give you the approximate locations to use based on what I remember of the wind tunnel testing at school, 35 years ago).

[B777LR]

I was just about to suggest FedEx, but someone else mentioned that one...

Perhaps santas new ride? The astronauts and cosmonauts in the international space station need gifts!

A "Buran" would also be nice!

[GTX]

Any airliner markings!

Regards,

Greg

[GTX]

Here's another idea - somewhere here I have a cartoon showing a picture of the Shuttle on the launch pad about to be launched except that the shuttle is upside down (the boosters etc are still in the correct direction) - the launch director is telling off the engineers - "Don't come telling me about technical problems now - I've got a schedule to keep!" (or something to that effect.  I will try to find the picture for you.

Regards,

Greg

[jcf]

Any airliner markings!

Regards,

Greg

'Twould have to be PAN-AM!




             

Jon

[aerofan]

I got a freaken huge Monogramme Space Shuttle. Cripes almighty, what do I do with that behemoth. Anyone have any suggestions?

I thought about a great grey over grey USAF thing with an anti sattelite weapon in the bay, but that would need a bit of thought and I'm real short on that material these days.


Help  

How about making it into one of the Moonrakers from that double 'O' seven movie?

[noxioux]

Scratchbuild a big scramjet in the belly, or big rectangular aerospike motor, et voila, instant SSTO. . .

[Hobbes]

I'd add my vote for Buran. The orbiter shouldn't be too hard to adapt, the tank and boosters would need more work (you'd need two more boosters, for starters).

Or, go for a Shuttle redesign to alleviate the problems they had with ice from the tank hitting the heat shield on the orbiter: place the orbiter on top of the tank, instead of alongside it. Move the main  engines to the bottom of the tank.  

[Captain Canada]

Glue most of it together in a drunken haze......then 'accidentally' drop it ! Bring it to the next meeting in a state of despair and tell them you simply can't go on.......

 

[SinUnNombre]

Paint it in the colours of your favourite postal service/courier/Pizza delivery company and bill it as making deliveries to the ISS  

For whatever reason, I think DHL yello would look good on the shuttle and not be that hard to reproduce.

Jon

[LemonJello]

Dang.  All the good ideas seem to have been mentioned.  So, some not so good ideas:

Dress it in the livery of your local constabulary.  The "eye in the sky" keeping everyone under Big Brother's gaze?

Perhaps put in in "Air America" colors; it's how those "persons of interest" wind up in Gitmo?

Make it a tiltrotor.  Those are cool.

[PanzerWulff]

Paint it up in "Budweiser"(or insert beer company name here) beer truck colors.....NO WAIT COORS!!! the ultimate Silver Bullet!

"Panzer"