Avpro Concepts

[Charlie_c67]

EXINT pods:

Ok. Who let the ugly bint in?

I'm sure I've seen some of those images before in a future aircraft book from the 80/90s?

[PR19_Kit]

Yeah, how can you make an F-32 look uglier?

Hang a couple of EXINT pods under it!

[Weaver]

An ASTONISHING level of modelling inspiration there H, thanks for posting the whole lot.   

Where did you find them though, I've never seen THAT many of Avpro's stuff before.

I'm not too keen on the mega-angled deck carrier though. I'm not at all sure that the maritime part of the crew would relish sailing THAT far of the apparent wind at high speed!

Somebody posted the lot in a thread on Twitter back in 2020: apparently they were available on a CD. I missed them then, but somebody retweeted the thread into my timeline the other day.

No I don't like the highly-angled deck trimaran carrier either. IMHO, the way to use a trimaran carrier would be to have a dead straight landing deck down the centreline, with catapults+parking to one side and island+parking to the other.

[Weaver]

Ok. Who let the ugly bint in?

Aw c'mon, what other plane greets you every morning with a grin like a big, daft dog? 



Me and aviation journalist Valerie Insinna on Twitter are the hopeless romantics of the X-32 Appreciation Society.

I'm sure I've seen some of those images before in a future aircraft book from the 80/90s?

Yes, a lot of them were published there.

[Mossie]

There are more images on Secret Projects, they got them from the Avpro CD's.
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/avpro-projects.316/

I first came across Avpros art in the X Planes bookazines by Air Forces Monthly, that's where I scanned the old photobucketed images from. Theres many in the Warplanes of the Future book that Charlie mentions.

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[Mossie]

The first X Planes bookazine is dated February 1998, the Warplanes of the Future book is dated 2000.

[Weaver]

The author of the Warplanes Of The Future book, Mike Ryan, was also the CEO of AVPRO.

[Charlie_c67]

Found it! Bill Gunston - An Illustrated Guide To Future Fighters and Combat Aircraft

From 1984, interesting to see what actually made it to production and what fell by the wayside as well as how wrong some "secret" known designs were (looking at you Mr MiG-29)

[PR19_Kit]

Ah, Bill Gunston, my favourite aviation author, sadly missed.