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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #1000 on: October 25, 2017, 12:26:06 AM »
When appeared the YF-107 Ultra-Sabre (after the F-100 Super-Sabre, after the F-86 Sabre), Dassault engineers proposed the Ultra-Mirage 507 (after the Super-Mirage 500, after the Mirage 5):

Give it 3 engines and call it a "Viper" ;)
Uh, 3 engines with some above? I try... ;)

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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #1001 on: October 27, 2017, 01:38:12 PM »
For the transsonic (not supersonic) version of the Mirage 5, no need of afterburner nor axial turbojet: the DH-100 Vampire gave better ideas, and with a discount on the copyright, this gave the Mirage 5-100:

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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #1002 on: October 27, 2017, 05:16:43 PM »
That's nice  :smiley:

A small modification to improve fins structure .

« Last Edit: October 27, 2017, 05:18:54 PM by AXOR »
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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #1003 on: October 27, 2017, 06:41:02 PM »
Very good :-*
Thanks for this improvement! :smiley:

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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #1004 on: October 30, 2017, 12:49:18 PM »
And the final design was the Top-Mirage 508:

Definitely my favorite. 

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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #1005 on: October 31, 2017, 01:26:31 PM »
Thanks!
And I tell you a secret: the Mirage 508 was just the first of a family, with long range zwilling and short-range asymmetric:

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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #1006 on: November 22, 2017, 02:14:11 AM »
The Mirage-furtif was using American technology, it seems:

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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #1007 on: December 01, 2017, 02:42:19 AM »
A little different from the XP-54 and YF-54, the F-54A was canard and slightly asymmetric:

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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #1008 on: December 02, 2017, 03:18:09 AM »
I like. :smiley:
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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #1009 on: December 05, 2017, 03:34:48 AM »
Thanks!

Now Intermeshing-Propellers Double-Lightnings and Asymmetric-Lightnings:


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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #1010 on: December 05, 2017, 08:16:58 AM »
Great stuff ... love your 4-engined versions  :-*
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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #1011 on: December 19, 2017, 02:39:29 AM »
Thanks apophenia!

Now, more serious: the Mirage with double nose was a trainer: two cockpits with two radars sharing the same engine (low cost supersonic training):

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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #1012 on: December 19, 2017, 07:47:56 AM »
Hmmm ... how about a Double-Nez 2 with wider cockpit spacing and the jet intake between the noses?
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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #1013 on: December 19, 2017, 02:11:19 PM »
Thanks! Here she is:

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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #1014 on: December 20, 2017, 07:37:31 AM »
Love it! And the pilots can use sign language to communicate is the intercom fails  ;)
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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #1015 on: January 02, 2018, 01:32:41 AM »
Thanks!

And between the De Havilland DH-100 Vampire and the DH-110 Vixen was the DH-100/110 Vampxen, a Vampire with test of double engine and swept wing:

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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #1016 on: January 02, 2018, 04:47:42 AM »
It would be really interesting if one could write some code to shuffle these configurations around.

Choose an aircraft, then run the code to generate multiple crazy configurations out of them. That would be fun !  :))

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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #1017 on: January 12, 2018, 01:43:56 PM »
Thanks for this idea, for some future...

In the meantime, I have made the drawing of the MiG-3 according to my usual angle. I plan to build a 1/72 MiG-3 that I got for Christmas from Unicraft models and, before that, I may play with the drawing, imagining Zwilling MiG-3Z:

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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #1018 on: January 13, 2018, 04:19:05 AM »
 :smiley:
All hail the God of Frustration!!!

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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #1019 on: February 05, 2018, 12:28:57 AM »
Thanks!
And after the failure of the XP-55 (Ascender), and the order of Zwilling P-55A, B, C, D (Twin-Ascender), the next version was the push-pull P-55E-4, with 4 engines:

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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #1020 on: February 05, 2018, 12:38:40 AM »
Well,that's nice....a jet version would fit perfectly in ''Allies 46 GB'' ;)
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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #1021 on: February 12, 2018, 01:16:16 PM »
Thanks, I followed your suggestion.
And now a fighter before 1946, the tandem-piston-engined Boulton-Paul P.99B:

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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #1022 on: February 12, 2018, 06:21:44 PM »
I like it,especially the long nose version...it reminds me of Vultee XP-54.
 :smiley:
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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #1023 on: February 13, 2018, 03:09:20 PM »
Thanks!
The top one was the P.99 "real" project.
Below was the P.99B fantasy of mine :-\ ;)

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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #1024 on: February 14, 2018, 01:04:39 AM »
There were derivatives of both the P.99 and P-38: BP.38A, B, Z. But this was in a foreign country (named MyDreams):