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Tom Alfaro Design from Conceptships
« on: April 08, 2015, 05:35:39 PM »
Found this going through Conceptships blog.
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Re: Tom Alfaro Design from Conceptships
« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2015, 03:45:48 AM »
Wicked design - I can see some technical issues with it but still it looks cool!

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Re: Tom Alfaro Design from Conceptships
« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2015, 03:51:54 AM »
Some technical issues?  ;D  ;)  :icon_fsm:
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Re: Tom Alfaro Design from Conceptships
« Reply #3 on: April 12, 2015, 03:55:21 AM »
Yeah..."some" is an undefined number ;)
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Re: Tom Alfaro Design from Conceptships
« Reply #4 on: April 12, 2015, 04:03:33 AM »
The technical issues may be solvable with enough $£€¥₩, but those issues involving simple physics ... not so much.  ;D
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Re: Tom Alfaro Design from Conceptships
« Reply #5 on: April 12, 2015, 04:20:47 AM »
Bah!  Reality...schmeality  ;D

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Re: Tom Alfaro Design from Conceptships
« Reply #6 on: April 12, 2015, 06:52:49 AM »
the concept is quite believable compared to what I watched last night on the tele ...
Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow.

The Captain flew a shark-mouth P-40E (with dicky seat) - quite a good CGI effort apart from the too-tall chrome tube undercarriage.  It could also go underwater, propelled by two pop-out jets on the rear fuselage ::)

Other aircraft were Sky-Crawler type twin-engine bullet fighters with V-tails.  On entering the water the props came to a stop, slid back to the rear spinner & started spinning again !! :-\
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Re: Tom Alfaro Design from Conceptships
« Reply #7 on: April 12, 2015, 09:44:49 AM »
Balancing that puppy in the rotor is going to be challenging, at a minimum.  Helicopters and tilt-rotors have pendular stability working for them, balancing on a rotor has it working against you.
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Re: Tom Alfaro Design from Conceptships
« Reply #8 on: April 12, 2015, 01:14:57 PM »
Quote from: raafif on April 12, 2015, 06:52:49 AM
the concept is quite believable compared to what I watched last night on the tele ...
Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow.

The Captain flew a shark-mouth P-40E (with dicky seat) - quite a good CGI effort apart from the too-tall chrome tube undercarriage.  It could also go underwater, propelled by two pop-out jets on the rear fuselage ::)

Other aircraft were Sky-Crawler type twin-engine bullet fighters with V-tails.  On entering the water the props came to a stop, slid back to the rear spinner & started spinning again !! :-\

We all know the underwater pop-out jets were a post war P-40 development and movie appeared to be 1939-41.  Plus secret base had B-24H/J bombers which were produced later. 
Those nifty front-rear moving props might be prone to mechanical problems, especially with repeated salt water exposure.
How about that raygun ?
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Re: Tom Alfaro Design from Conceptships
« Reply #9 on: April 13, 2015, 02:40:44 AM »
Quote from: raafif on April 12, 2015, 06:52:49 AM
the concept is quite believable compared to what I watched last night on the tele ...
Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow.



At least they got the aerodynamics of the wing flapping UAVs correct... ;) ;D



Quote from: raafif on April 12, 2015, 06:52:49 AM
Other aircraft were Sky-Crawler type twin-engine bullet fighters with V-tails.  On entering the water the props came to a stop, slid back to the rear spinner & started spinning again !! :-\


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