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Re: Oddities that don't fit anywhere else...
« Reply #125 on: August 31, 2023, 01:11:16 AM »
Enough kits and parts around to build something similar.

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Re: Oddities that don't fit anywhere else...
« Reply #126 on: August 31, 2023, 01:20:38 AM »
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Re: Oddities that don't fit anywhere else...
« Reply #127 on: August 31, 2023, 03:53:03 AM »

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Re: Oddities that don't fit anywhere else...
« Reply #128 on: August 31, 2023, 04:44:24 AM »


Those engines look small enough to be electric motors. Where’s the batteries?

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Re: Oddities that don't fit anywhere else...
« Reply #129 on: August 31, 2023, 09:07:39 AM »
the cover art shows exhaust smoke from the engines so I expect mini-turboprops ?  Those side fins block a fair bit of the pilots vision to the sides - way to focus his attention on what's in front not what's coming at him from behind ! ;D

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Re: Oddities that don't fit anywhere else...
« Reply #130 on: August 31, 2023, 09:54:58 AM »
Here's a not great scan of the issue "Mechanix Illustrated" October 1952 Less than 6" wingspan in 1/72, slightly less than 12" in 1/35, 12.75" in 1/32

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Re: Oddities that don't fit anywhere else...
« Reply #131 on: September 01, 2023, 01:38:44 AM »
Small gas turbines.
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Re: Oddities that don't fit anywhere else...
« Reply #132 on: September 01, 2023, 02:47:23 AM »
According to the article:
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This is no aerial baby buggy, however. With a gross weight of nearly 5,000 pounds, the duo-mono T-1 lifts 1,850 pounds of armor and armament and carries fuel for one hour. Its twin gas turbines, also armored, swing 12-foot propellers and drive the little fighter through the air at better than 150 mph. The pilot is completely enclosed in plastiglass armor and bulletproof glass. He is armed with six .30 caliber machine guns in the lower wing roots, sixteen 3-inch rockets in twin automatic launchers and 250 pounds of bombs of various types.

Plus a radar and a bucket load of nonsense.

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It is the duo-mono wing arrangement invented in France and sponsored in this country by the Pardel Development Corporation of New York. Looking like a cross between a widely staggered biplane and a tandemwing setup, the two duo-mono lifting surfaces function as a single slotted wing. Four basic advantages are claimed for the duomono principle.

The "Pardel Development Corporation" probably never existed. This may just be another Mechanix Illustrated fantasy design.

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Re: Oddities that don't fit anywhere else...
« Reply #133 on: September 09, 2023, 06:41:09 AM »

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Re: Oddities that don't fit anywhere else...
« Reply #134 on: September 09, 2023, 07:13:39 AM »
I really dont get the point of this "armour", all it would take to make an aircraft unairworthy is is a single shard of shrapnel puncturing any number of sensitive parts of the aircraft. Unless they completely bury the plane in tires it's not going to be possible to protect it from a drone attack ???     

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Re: Oddities that don't fit anywhere else...
« Reply #135 on: September 09, 2023, 09:20:21 AM »
They're putting tires on aircraft that are not airworthy, trying to fool the Ukrainians into bombing them. There are satellite pictures of Tu-95s without props and missing other parts, with tires on them.

But - just to be sure they should take out off of them.

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Re: Oddities that don't fit anywhere else...
« Reply #136 on: March 14, 2024, 08:08:20 AM »
Frank3K has this for free to US modellers ....


Boy !!, would that make a great VTOL fighter for the USN circa 1947 ! (AKA Secret Projects).
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