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[GTX_Admin]

WHAT IF??? RAAF Fiat G.91 "Gina"

[apophenia]

Nice!

I'm guessing that the ADEN guns mentioned in the backstory would be a fairly simple adaptation of the Luftwaffe's G.91R/3 30 mm DEFA mounts?

[GTX_Admin]

I'm guessing that the ADEN guns mentioned in the backstory would be a fairly simple adaptation of the Luftwaffe's G.91R/3 30 mm DEFA mounts?

It might have required some engineering mods to fit the ADENs given the following comparison:

		30mm ADEN		30mm DEFA 552 (as fitted to G.91)
Length:		1.59–1.639 m		1.66 m
Barrel Length:		1.08 m		1.4 m
Weight:		~106 kg		80 kg

[apophenia]

Indeed! I hadn't realized that the ADEN was so much heavier than the DEFA 

[GTX_Admin]

Source:  https://twitter.com/TheWoracle/status/1332375736133562369

[Frank3k]

Here's the Nitter version if you don't want to help Herr Musk: https://nitter.net/TheWoracle/status/1332375736133562369

[Kerick]

That’s been on my to do list a long time! I don’t think I’ll use the Bandai parts however.

[finsrin]

Very nice !

[The Big Gimper]

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[The Big Gimper]

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Builder's Text:

1/72 A-Model Hughes H-4 built as a What If “JX502” of RAF Transport Command 231 Squadron Duval (Dorval?) Canada 1945-46.

All this information is based upon Consolidated Coronados which were actually used to transport high value supplies across the Atlantic during WW2. The H-4 was designed for that very purpose to thwart the U Boats.

In practice of course, build delays, the amazingly quick production of Liberty Ships and victory in the Battle of the Atlantic rendered the whole project irrelevant.

It therefore became a Howard Hughes ego project to prove it could fly which it did for one short flight in Nov 1947 probably with the benefit of ground effects. The airframe is now preserved at the Evergreen Aviation Museum in Oregon.

[GTX_Admin]