Author Topic: High Altitude Photo Recon  (Read 13581 times)

Offline Artoor_K

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Re: High Altitude Photo Recon
« Reply #25 on: September 07, 2016, 05:24:49 AM »
Looks like a unknown child of U-2 and Me-262 :D
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Re: High Altitude Photo Recon
« Reply #26 on: September 14, 2016, 05:58:55 AM »
Wow does that baby look fast, Ed!

The V tail is a great touch!

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Offline ed s

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Re: High Altitude Photo Recon
« Reply #27 on: October 01, 2016, 11:23:01 AM »
The R-6 "Icarus" was developed by Consolidated (Convair) and Avro Canada in the late 40's as a high altitude reconnaissance aircraft. It flew operationally with the RCAF, USAF, RAF and RAAF. For a short period in the early 50's a few were leased to the French AF. They flew a number of successful missions during the Korean War. NASA acquired 3 of these in 1953 for high altitude missions, including photo mapping, air sampling, chase planes and other missions. 









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Re: High Altitude Photo Recon
« Reply #28 on: October 01, 2016, 11:31:39 AM »
 :-* Wonderful!

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Re: High Altitude Photo Recon
« Reply #29 on: October 01, 2016, 05:17:08 PM »
Wow did that ever finish up a treat!

That's one of the cleanest, sharpest, most unique builds I've seen in a while!

Well done, ed!

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Re: High Altitude Photo Recon
« Reply #30 on: October 02, 2016, 03:03:44 AM »
 :)
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Re: High Altitude Photo Recon
« Reply #31 on: October 02, 2016, 03:12:51 AM »
That looks amazing!!! Would never guess the original design !
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Re: High Altitude Photo Recon
« Reply #32 on: October 02, 2016, 06:57:37 AM »
+1 to all previous comments. You would never know there is a B-24 somewhere in there.

Great job!  :)
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Re: High Altitude Photo Recon
« Reply #33 on: October 02, 2016, 01:21:41 PM »
Make it another +1.
B-24 parts morphed away into R-6 Icarus. :-*

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Re: High Altitude Photo Recon
« Reply #34 on: October 16, 2016, 11:37:11 AM »
 :-* :-* :-*
WOW!