:icon_punal: Dibs on the Megaforce Stratofortress, I saw it first! :icon_punal:
Bruce Craig of www dot thunderjet dot com fame (website no longer in service) has built 3 SR-71s: A Fed Ex rapid delivery system with a package bay in it's belly, an Evergreen Aviation transport jet that combines a Hasegawa Falcon fuselage top on an extended SR-71 forward fuse, and his latest an even longer version of the same for Team Ferrari. The build qualities are first rate and bring a spontaneous smile to the faces of those who see them at the shows.
Bruce Craig of www dot thunderjet dot com fame (website no longer in service) has built 3 SR-71s: A Fed Ex rapid delivery system with a package bay in it's belly, an Evergreen Aviation transport jet that combines a Hasegawa Falcon fuselage top on an extended SR-71 forward fuse, and his latest an even longer version of the same for Team Ferrari. The build qualities are first rate and bring a spontaneous smile to the faces of those who see them at the shows.
I had one of those megaforce toys as a kid ! Actually i had quite a few of those toys "Megaforce vs Triax" :)
I have a load of the lil metal ones still too.. same reason cos they've lasted. Theyre in a tub underneath my model desk as it happens.. lol
Why not one refitted to boost an ASAT/ABM-launcher version of the X-15? Add a little relative flexibility in mopping up what the Alaska-based and seaborne Tier 3 Aegis installations miss...I think the relative sizes would be a bit problematical there. How about a direct ASAT/ABM launcher version?
That works too, Evan--I thought X-15 was about the size of a D-21 and an ASAT was about the size of X-15A-2's drop tanks, and was thinking that by adding an intermediate "booster stage" that'd expand the safety margin for knockdown.Check the numbers, I think the X-15 is a bit larger than that. Of course, I like the ABM that was to be deployed from the Ultimate Arrow (with ramjet pods et al.), it was derived from the upper stage of a Nike Zeus. Mind you, if that ABM could fit the Arrow's weapons bay pod and deploy, it likely could fit in the F-12's weapons bays or equivalent on other variants.
Depends what sort of fabric.... ;D
but it seems there's no 1/100-ish Blackbird. :icon_punal: Also no 1/200
Excellent youtube video explaining how the J-58s work in an understandable way, but without dumbing-down:That's a most impressive engine. "Way back when", at the start of my career, I was a young engineer at P&W's Florida R&D Center where those were developed and maintained and I've seen them both on the shop floor and in test stands (a most impressive sight at night in full afterburner).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3ao5SCedIk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3ao5SCedIk)
How could YF-12/A-12 be modified in order to convert it in a low level bomber?
Look at the rudder angle. :o
Found on Facebook. Lockheed L-1271-6 Blackbird Bizjet (version 1)
1/48 Testors SR-71 as a Lockheed L-1271-6 “what-if” six-passenger bizjet in Evergreen Aviation scheme.
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Full build write-up here: [url]http://imodeler.com/2015/01/blackbird-bizjet-version-1/[/url] ([url]http://imodeler.com/2015/01/blackbird-bizjet-version-1/[/url])