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Offline upnorth

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Avia S-90 Hurikan
« on: January 05, 2012, 06:13:05 PM »
Hello all, I just joined  the site and figured I should post up at least one project.

Most of you are familiar with this particular build of mine; however, considering the very positive response she initially received, I figured none of you would actually mind seeing her again.

I give you the uniquely Czechoslovak development of the Hawker Hurricane: the Avia S-90 Hurikan.....





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Re: Avia S-90 Hurikan
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2012, 11:57:32 PM »
Beautiful!!!  :)

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Re: Avia S-90 Hurikan
« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2012, 05:54:31 AM »
Good Choice ! Really nice development / advancement design.
 
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Re: Avia S-90 Hurikan
« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2012, 06:36:35 AM »
She's a corker, upnorth!

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Re: Avia S-90 Hurikan
« Reply #4 on: January 06, 2012, 01:55:26 PM »
I give you the uniquely Czechoslovak development of the Hawker Hurricane: the Avia S-90 Hurikan.....
Wonderful model! :)
The name of the photographs ("Bubblecane") describes the best feature there: a Hurricane with bubble canopy...
Concerning the Czech spelling of Hurricane, I wonder if this could be rather Huriken, no? (my English speaking is not fluent enough to be sure, but the Larousse English/French dictionary with its phonetic signs seems to confirm)...

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Re: Avia S-90 Hurikan
« Reply #5 on: January 06, 2012, 02:41:42 PM »
I give you the uniquely Czechoslovak development of the Hawker Hurricane: the Avia S-90 Hurikan.....
Wonderful model! :)
The name of the photographs ("Bubblecane") describes the best feature there: a Hurricane with bubble canopy...
Concerning the Czech spelling of Hurricane, I wonder if this could be rather Huriken, no? (my English speaking is not fluent enough to be sure, but the Larousse English/French dictionary with its phonetic signs seems to confirm)...

The aircraft went through a few different names while the project was in the works; Bubblecane and Hurriceptor to name a couple, before I settled on a more proper sounding designation and name.

The Czech spelling of hurricane is a bit of an ambiguous thing it seems. When I put "hurricane" in to one of the more reputable Czech/English online translators, three different Czech spellings came up with apparently no difference in meaning between them:

hurikán
uragán
orkán

I chose hurikán as it was closer to the English word and having clarity in communications with English speaking allies in wartime would likely influence how the Czechoslovaks would have refered to the machine in both spoken and text language. By contrast, I often see the Czech news media use orkán when reporting about the actual weather phenomenon.

I'll have to ask one of my Czech colleagues today if there's any important difference in meaning between the three spellings.

As for pronunciation; Czech always has the word stress on the first sylable and all three variations of the word have the last vowel sound made long. As such, pronunciation would be rather like this:

HU-ri-kaan
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Re: Avia S-90 Hurikan
« Reply #6 on: January 06, 2012, 02:56:37 PM »
Thanks for this very serious answer, proving this is a very serious model! :)

Offline Logan Hartke

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Re: Avia S-90 Hurikan
« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2012, 03:10:07 PM »
As for pronunciation; Czech always has the word stress on the first sylable and all three variations of the word have the last vowel sound made long. As such, pronunciation would be rather like this:

HU-ri-kaan

Bill Shatner would pronounce it like this:

hu-ri-KHAAAANNN!!!

Cheers,

Logan

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Re: Avia S-90 Hurikan
« Reply #8 on: January 07, 2012, 06:12:09 PM »
 ;D
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Offline Daryl J.

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Re: Avia S-90 Hurikan
« Reply #9 on: January 09, 2012, 04:52:57 AM »
Lovely.

Lovely enough, in fact, I'd like to copy it for myself some day.

Daryl J.
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Re: Avia S-90 Hurikan
« Reply #10 on: January 20, 2012, 05:22:20 PM »
Lovely.

Lovely enough, in fact, I'd like to copy it for myself some day.

Daryl J.


Hey, go for it!

Here's a link to some in progress shots. It's primarily a Hurricane and Yakovlev Yak-3 (both Heller 1/72) grafted together with a modified Tempest canopy (Squadron vac form)

http://s37.photobucket.com/albums/e59/cancze/bubblecane/#!cpZZ1QQtppZZ16
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Re: Avia S-90 Hurikan
« Reply #11 on: January 21, 2012, 12:12:31 AM »
Wow! :-* The result was so perfect, it was difficult to guess so much hard work was involved! Congratulations... :)

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Re: Avia S-90 Hurikan
« Reply #12 on: January 21, 2012, 12:09:45 PM »
Good to see again. What are the podded guns, 'north? 23mm?
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Re: Avia S-90 Hurikan
« Reply #13 on: January 21, 2012, 04:49:18 PM »
Truly, a thing of beauty!

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Re: Avia S-90 Hurikan
« Reply #14 on: January 21, 2012, 05:19:29 PM »
Thanks all:

The gun pods typically held 20mm guns, but had the flexibilty to carry 23mm and 30mm cannons as well. There was a fair bit of modular design incorporated into the pods and their adjoining ammo bays.

For longer flights, the gun and ammunition related module could be switched out with an auxiliary fuel module. There was also a small cargo module so the aircraft could be used as a high speed courier if the need arose.
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Re: Avia S-90 Hurikan
« Reply #15 on: January 22, 2012, 11:58:43 AM »
Cool. I like the multi-function pod idea. Sort of non-slipping slipper tanks too  ;D
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Re: Avia S-90 Hurikan
« Reply #16 on: January 23, 2012, 02:42:07 AM »
Ive been thinkin about a "what if" the hurricane continued to be developed for some time... Lovely work :)

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Re: Avia S-90 Hurikan
« Reply #17 on: January 23, 2012, 03:54:26 AM »
Thanks, Chris
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