Author Topic: Rockwell B-One (aka B-1 Lancer)  (Read 29878 times)

Offline KiwiZac

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Re: Rockwell B-One (aka B-1 Lancer)
« Reply #75 on: January 02, 2022, 10:27:15 AM »
Bone with forward sweep wings? At full forward sweep, you'd have a delta planform much like the Concorde.

Neat B-1 whif on HyperScale - LINK(with more pics)

Wasn't there something similar to this in some of the Dale Brown novels?

I don't know if it returned after, but during the funeral at the end of Day Of The Cheetah a V-tailed, FSW B-1 variant makes a cameo. I don't have my copy to hand but back at What If? in 2006 I said "XFB-5/FB-115 - forward-sweeping VG wings, smaller than a normal B-1, two engines" and I built it with the Academy-Minicraft box-scale kit:
fb-1155_35293778040_o by Zac Yates, on Flickr
fb-1153_35293778290_o by Zac Yates, on Flickr

And here are some fresh pics to properly show it off (I apparently never tackled the exhausts):
FSW B-1 by Zac Yates, on Flickr
FSW B-1 by Zac Yates, on Flickr
FSW B-1 by Zac Yates, on Flickr
FSW B-1 by Zac Yates, on Flickr
FSW B-1 by Zac Yates, on Flickr

Looks cool, but I hate to think of the burden this would put on stressed-out cabin personnel, always rushing to calm down frightened passengers yelling "THE WINGS ARE COMING OFF!" every time they're altering wing sweep.  ;D

Reminds me of Captain Haddock in the Tintin album Flight 714, when the Carreidas jet's wings are swept back!  ;D (Who else wants a Carreidas jet kit?)

One done by SentinelChicken a while back:


It could almost have happened... ;)

I went earlier with a Lindberg B-1A(?):
RAAF B-1A by Zac Yates, on Flickr
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Re: Rockwell B-One (aka B-1 Lancer)
« Reply #76 on: November 14, 2023, 12:57:17 AM »
All hail the God of Frustration!!!

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But you can make the Bastard work for it.