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Offline GTX_Admin

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Re: WHIF's found on internet
« Reply #375 on: April 02, 2023, 02:10:05 AM »
 ;D
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Offline apophenia

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Re: WHIF's found on internet
« Reply #376 on: April 02, 2023, 03:17:04 AM »
Boeing Senicruiser.....

Surely someone will attempt the Scenicruiser in styrene!

Perhaps some kind of transparent rigid pipe as the starting point for that Glaze-A-Round™ blister room?
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Re: WHIF's found on internet
« Reply #377 on: April 25, 2023, 01:30:05 AM »
Too many what-ifs to list individually at this link with one contributor in particular having uploaded a lot of great what-if subjects that many of us will appreciate:

Mainly Military Modeling > What If Forum
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Offline robunos

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Re: WHIF's found on internet
« Reply #378 on: April 30, 2023, 02:07:06 AM »
Not sure if this is quite the right place for this . . .
A video of  'Whif kits', kits that should have been made but weren't.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX5B1TUUOA0&t=985s


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Offline Old Wombat

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Re: WHIF's found on internet
« Reply #380 on: May 17, 2023, 05:07:37 PM »
 :smiley: :smiley: 8)

Almost looks like something the Russians might be fielding by the end of the Ukrainian invasion. ;D
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Re: WHIF's found on internet
« Reply #381 on: May 18, 2023, 12:57:39 AM »
:smiley: :smiley: 8)

Almost looks like something the Russians might be fielding by the end of the Ukrainian invasion. ;D

Nah...that will be more like this:

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Re: WHIF's found on internet
« Reply #382 on: May 18, 2023, 07:17:48 AM »
 ;D :smiley:
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Re: WHIF's found on internet
« Reply #383 on: May 18, 2023, 08:27:15 AM »
:smiley: :smiley: 8)

Almost looks like something the Russians might be fielding by the end of the Ukrainian invasion. ;D

Nah...that will be more like this:


Perhaps something like the titular subject of a western starring John Wayne and Kirk Douglas (one of only three they both appeared in), The War Wagon?

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Re: WHIF's found on internet
« Reply #384 on: May 30, 2023, 08:00:07 AM »
I found this interesting and think it might be the best place to post it:

https://hushkit.net/2023/05/29/cold-war-aviation-art/

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Re: WHIF's found on internet
« Reply #385 on: October 24, 2023, 10:45:32 PM »
Fighterman_FFRC @Fighterman_FFRC

Whoever was working at General Dynamics / Westinghouse at the time spent way too much time designing this fictional future Soviet / Chinese bomber concept just for their AIM-152 AAAM(Advanced Air-to-Air Missile, canceled in 1992)promo fact sheet.

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Re: WHIF's found on internet
« Reply #386 on: October 25, 2023, 02:28:49 AM »
 :smiley:
All hail the God of Frustration!!!

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Offline apophenia

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Re: WHIF's found on internet
« Reply #387 on: October 26, 2023, 02:10:24 AM »
Whoever was working at General Dynamics / Westinghouse at the time spent way too much time designing this fictional future Soviet / Chinese bomber concept just for their AIM-152 AAAM(Advanced Air-to-Air Missile, canceled in 1992)promo fact sheet.

When the PMO chief is busy with budget meetings, the mice will play  ;)
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Re: WHIF's found on internet
« Reply #388 on: October 26, 2023, 07:25:36 PM »
Artist :Matt Painter

Supermarine's 6 engined flying boat design proposal. Featured on the rear dust jacket of Ralph Pegram's Beyond the Spitfire: The Unseen Designs of R.J. Mitchell, History Press (2016).
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