Author Topic: Amiot 143 Touring  (Read 4786 times)

Offline Timcat

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Amiot 143 Touring
« on: July 18, 2016, 01:00:54 AM »
During the long peace of the 1940's the French government sold old bombers to individuals.  Some of the Amiot 143's were converted to touring aircraft.  The slowness and large windows of the aircraft were advantages for touring.  The conversion involved lengthening the fwd and aft fuselage and adding seats.  The bomb bay was converted to a restroom.  The aircraft had some problems. It could only carry 6 passengers. The cabin was very narrow making movement forward and aft difficult.  Also, the pilot's forward visibility was very poor, especially on the ground.


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Re: Amiot 143 Touring
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2016, 02:39:05 AM »
Interesting concept and the inclusion of spats on your Amiot will make several people happy as they are big fans of spats on aircraft.  :)
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Re: Amiot 143 Touring
« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2016, 03:15:31 AM »
I like.
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Offline Timcat

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Amiot 143 Touring more pictures
« Reply #3 on: July 18, 2016, 03:19:32 AM »
More pictures.

Offline Brian da Basher

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Re: Amiot 143 Touring
« Reply #4 on: July 18, 2016, 07:07:58 AM »
My what lovely spats yoiu have there!

 :-* :-* :-*

That's a really great concept! I commend you not only on superior streamlined landing gear but on having the creativity to come up with this beauty!

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Offline Timcat

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Spats
« Reply #5 on: July 18, 2016, 09:38:05 AM »
Sometimes you have to give the people what they want...

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Re: Amiot 143 Touring
« Reply #6 on: July 18, 2016, 01:14:02 PM »
I thought the first set of pictures were artist concepts from the 1930s... looks period-accurate (weird, ugly-beautiful) French.

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Re: Amiot 143 Touring
« Reply #7 on: July 18, 2016, 01:55:44 PM »
I thought the first set of pictures were artist concepts from the 1930s... looks period-accurate (weird, ugly-beautiful) French.

Me too !

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Re: Amiot 143 Touring
« Reply #8 on: July 20, 2016, 03:27:31 AM »
Love it! Very Brian-esque  ;D
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Re: Amiot 143 Touring
« Reply #9 on: July 20, 2016, 04:43:19 AM »
Absolutely original and well conceived!  :-* :-* :-* :-*

Offline Timcat

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Re: Amiot 143 Touring
« Reply #10 on: July 21, 2016, 04:27:11 AM »
The model does not qualify for the GB because I started it on April 1 and finished it on June 19.  So consider it display only.