Twin-Whirlwind & Catalina…

[Captain Canada]

hehehe...good one !

I was just thinking, tho, maybe the main gear legs are in those nacelles, that would solve the problem !

 

[Tophe]

Other dream:
Maybe you know the USAF competition that led to the triplex pusher XP-54/55/56 (twin-boom/canard/tailless, Vultee/Curtiss/Northrop). The twin-boomer was declared winner (of course!), and I imagine the other companies shouting: "Hey! we can do twin-boomers as well! Let this stupid Vultee company manufacture the booms and use my much better basis!". This created the XP-55/56 MT ("Me Too!")...  

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And a test-bed for the Me 163 dangerous rocket power: 2 Bf 109 at wing-tips for take off...

[Tophe]

And a test-bed for the Me 163 dangerous rocket power: 2 Bf 109 at wing-tips for take off...

And for Ollie and Matrixone who are fans of the Focke-Wulf family: the test bed of the dangerous     turbojet power, mixing Fw 190 for take off and Ta 183 project...  

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(all that came from Captain Canada jokes about external engine weights, thanks! - or "condemn him, not me, your Honor"...)

[Tophe]

seen in the latest Model Graphix : Ta283Z and Ho 229Z !
http://modelbox.free.fr/pix/zwiling.JPG

(from dear JCC)

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also:

(a twin flying-wing is a Zwilling twin-plane, twin-pod, not twin-tail-boom though, as there is zero tail, not two... )

[Tophe]

hehehe...!

As Captain Todd laughed loudly about the great F4U-44, General Canada has alas    refused to invest those few billion dollars for the 44,000 copies that would have provided safety to his homeland .
Well, the Voughtoff artists has been fired out  and the wise Voughterleau team    has taken control of the drawing board. The result is the new ,Radish 4-engined Corsair' F4U-44PP (push-pull) below.  
If Canada still refuse it, maybe France would accept, with a different name (Voughterleau would be pronounced by the French as they pronounce Waterloo, and French teachers pretend this is a name of infamy and not a great victory...). I guess President Chirac wanting to be elected again may sign the order, requiring just to celebrate the designer (with a name slightly improved) with big flashing letters on the wing: ,,Voughtchirac!". Taxpayers will be happy...

[Captain Canada]

Looking good Tophe !

" Voughterleau. promised I'd love you for evermore.....Voughterleau......"

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Voughterleau Waterloo, and French teachers pretend this is a name of infamy and not a great victory

As the opposite of Waterloo is Austerlitz, that remind the Stieglitz Fw 44 plane, so Focke-Wulf, thus a Fw-190Z/4m Zwilling push-pull equivalent to the F4U-44PP...
To be original, the central pod holds a giant tank for very long range.

[Tophe]

How about a 4 engined Corsair....probably very wide though, but impressive.

And what-if the P-82 was a 4-engined? Well, my last book included such freaks (the coupled-engine twin-fuselage and the push-pull triplex-fuselage) but what-if a P-82 had 4 fuselages?  
Many possibilities there: Twin-Twin-Mustang (from a Belgian cartoon Tintin-Mustang? P-82TT), with one lateral observer and one almost central pilot...
And an improved version with better view forward, and a little Asymetry (P-82As means Asymetric, no relation to donkey-hole ).  

[Tophe]

Sorry, let us be serious: warbirds are not toys. Here is the what-if Jet-Twin-Mustang/Condor of our Libelula friend, with a whole background story. In service 1946, it could have been designed in 1945.

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here is the General Motors Super-Twin-Corsair F2G-11

Why 2 fuselages? That is a way to have a free nose for a huge radar (without pusher propeller endangering bailing out)... this is the asymmetric F2G-11R single engine below. And the second cockpit is for the electronic operator - he has a wind-screen mainly to try piloting to land if the pilot is killed in action.

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And the second cockpit is for the electronic operator

No need... A single-seat single-engine Corsair, simply, almost normal... F2G-12 with a big radar - and huge tanks feeding a single engine, the very best for extra long range.  

[Tophe]

the fuselage on the Catalina's are a lot closer than I imagined they would be I wonder what a four engined version would look like

Uh? It seems Aircav's 4-engined Twin-Catalina actually exists, and is famous, attracting Twin-brothers and their Twin-wives...