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Modelling => Ideas & Inspiration => Aero-space => Topic started by: GTX_Admin on June 30, 2019, 04:21:24 AM

Title: Pack/pod Planes Ideas and Inspiration
Post by: GTX_Admin on June 30, 2019, 04:21:24 AM

I'm sure most of us are aware of the Fairchild XC-120 Packplane:

(http://k33.kn3.net/taringa/6/C/9/E/E/7/SCIFIQAZ2/D1B.jpg)
(http://k46.kn3.net/taringa/9/6/7/4/8/D/SCIFIQAZ2/D2F.jpg)
(http://k33.kn3.net/taringa/8/2/B/A/7/0/SCIFIQAZ2/0BB.jpg)
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7828/47414677392_c0e76d234d_b.jpg)
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7848/47414677492_dfcc3b8005_b.jpg)
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7835/47414677982_0b4b59dac2_b.jpg)
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7913/47414678642_73dcc08ef9_b.jpg)

And there was the CH-54A:

(http://www.aviastar.org/foto/gallery/sikorsky/sik_s-64_1.jpg)
(http://www.combatreform.org/CH54podsystemoffloads2jeeps.jpg)
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/CH-54_Tarhe_Drawing.svg/714px-CH-54_Tarhe_Drawing.svg.png)
(http://www.combatreform.org/CH54withpodinflight.jpg)
(http://www.combatreform.org/CH54podondisplay.jpg)

But what about some other related ideas.

Title: Re: Pack/pod Planes Ideas and Inspiration
Post by: GTX_Admin on June 30, 2019, 06:04:30 AM

Some interesting articles related to this:

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/clip-air-pod-airplane-concept/index.html (https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/clip-air-pod-airplane-concept/index.html)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3676816/Could-new-kind-aircraft-change-travel-forever-Revolutionary-clip-air-pod-planes-inspired-shipping-containers.html (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3676816/Could-new-kind-aircraft-change-travel-forever-Revolutionary-clip-air-pod-planes-inspired-shipping-containers.html)
https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/future-of-flight-from-the-return-of-supersonic-travel-to-pods-that-clip-onto-planes-1.158347 (https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/future-of-flight-from-the-return-of-supersonic-travel-to-pods-that-clip-onto-planes-1.158347)

Title: Re: Pack/pod Planes Ideas and Inspiration
Post by: elmayerle on June 30, 2019, 10:40:02 AM

Larger pack/pod helicopters derived from CH-46 or CH-47?

Title: Re: Pack/pod Planes Ideas and Inspiration
Post by: jcf on June 30, 2019, 02:35:39 PM

Mil Mi-10, it could carry containers as well as vehicles
driven onto its attached platform.

(https://ridingmode.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/22-19.jpg)

Title: Re: Pack/pod Planes Ideas and Inspiration
Post by: Rickshaw on July 01, 2019, 11:21:04 AM

I've often wondered about the CH-54.  How often did they operate with the container(s)?  Most of the pictures I've seen of them they used slung loads - often of downed aircraft, occasionally of vehicles and usually of odd sized objects in nets...