Beyond The Sprues

Modelling => Ideas & Inspiration => Engineering Dept. => Topic started by: Twiddle on March 11, 2019, 01:01:47 AM

Title: Longer wings = Longer and broader fuselage ?
Post by: Twiddle on March 11, 2019, 01:01:47 AM

Planning on a "what-if" using the 1/48 Academy Spitfire Mk. XIVe.

The plan is to have longer wings with more ordnance :)

However, a bit of realism has crept into my idea ...

Longer wings on the Spitfire Mk. XIVe (in my uninformed opinion) will result in a longer and broader fuselage?

Sticking with the original powerplant on the Spitfire Mk. XIVe.

Also going with a revised landing gear arrangement.

Thanks for making BtS so great  :smiley:

Title: Re: Longer wings = Longer and broader fuselage ?
Post by: elmayerle on March 11, 2019, 03:02:58 AM

Longer wings will not necessarily result in a broader fuselage, though weight and balance with full stores might require a longer one.  I would probably go with an inward-retracting main landing gear to improve ground handling.

Title: Re: Longer wings = Longer and broader fuselage ?
Post by: Kerick on March 11, 2019, 06:20:35 AM

Either a longer fuselage or perhaps a larger vertical stabilizer to control yaw? Just guesstimating.

Title: Re: Longer wings = Longer and broader fuselage ?
Post by: kim margosein on March 12, 2019, 09:44:34 AM

Check out "Erryplanes by Pert time" on this site, around page 2.  He hjas some ideas on long wing spits.