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Offline raafif

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Re: Raafif's profiles
« Reply #475 on: September 30, 2024, 06:51:31 AM »
This looks a little fishy to me  ::)

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« Reply #476 on: September 30, 2024, 11:21:15 AM »
Needs more engines!!

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Re: Raafif's profiles
« Reply #477 on: October 01, 2024, 12:58:14 AM »
 ;D
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Re: Raafif's profiles
« Reply #478 on: October 01, 2024, 09:10:03 AM »
This looks a little fishy to me  ::)

 ;D ;D

Love your double-decker Turbo-Commando:-*
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Re: Raafif's profiles
« Reply #479 on: October 01, 2024, 10:58:54 PM »
 ;D ;D ;D

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« Reply #480 on: October 21, 2024, 07:03:15 AM »
Some of you may know I like Trams.

Hope to go to Crich next year & see the real Dreadnaught.
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« Reply #481 on: October 22, 2024, 02:46:55 AM »
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Re: Raafif's profiles
« Reply #482 on: October 26, 2024, 12:03:08 PM »
A jet-powered Loco, vents for the exhaust to add thrust ???

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Re: Raafif's profiles
« Reply #483 on: October 29, 2024, 05:10:05 AM »
Nice! Coal-powered turbine?

... vents for the exhaust to add thrust ???

And to keep the engineer's cab toasty warm  :smiley:
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« Reply #484 on: October 29, 2024, 09:08:14 AM »
Nice! Coal-powered turbine?

JP-4 fuel, I'll leave it to you to calculate just how far it could go with a full tender of that.

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Re: Raafif's profiles
« Reply #485 on: October 29, 2024, 05:02:31 PM »
A jet-powered Loco, vents for the exhaust to add thrust ???

Oh, I like this  ;)
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Re: Raafif's profiles
« Reply #486 on: October 30, 2024, 06:03:47 AM »
JP-4 fuel, I'll leave it to you to calculate just how far it could go with a full tender of that.

That'll depend upon sfc. I'd say gun it and get some really serious speed going ... then you'll be able to coast the rest of the way!  ;D
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Re: Raafif's profiles
« Reply #487 on: February 02, 2025, 08:06:23 AM »
How different could it be ?  Did several subtle changes to the engines too.

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Re: Raafif's profiles
« Reply #488 on: February 03, 2025, 05:30:49 AM »
another freighter - British "cool".

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Re: Raafif's profiles
« Reply #489 on: March 21, 2025, 07:03:30 AM »
more CAC fun.

After the CA-15 Kangaroo was deemed obsolete before production, a modified interim version with P&W R-2800 and jet-assist was built in small numbers.  Dubbed the Cac-a-roo in RAAF service, the Kiwis named it after their very destructive parrot the Kakapo.
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Re: Raafif's profiles
« Reply #490 on: March 21, 2025, 10:12:30 AM »
How different could it be ?  Did several subtle changes to the engines too.

When I first saw this I though... "Hmmm, looks French", then it struck me - it looks like a US version of the Breguet Br 761 ‘Deux-Ponts’!


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Re: Raafif's profiles
« Reply #491 on: April 18, 2025, 09:49:22 AM »
One new done & one very old one finally finished.

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Re: Raafif's profiles
« Reply #492 on: April 19, 2025, 01:06:41 AM »
 :smiley:
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Re: Raafif's profiles
« Reply #493 on: April 19, 2025, 06:13:24 AM »
The stretched fuselage on Hastings MPA looks great but it is missing the MAD tail feature.  :smiley:
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Re: Raafif's profiles
« Reply #494 on: April 20, 2025, 04:48:03 AM »
I love your updated Junkers-Dornier P.490 with turboprops (although they too need Jeff's MAD stingers)  :smiley:

A minor nerd quibble is that your 'Kreigsmarine' should read postwar 'Bundesmarine'.

Lineage: Kaiserliche Marine --> Reichsmarine --> Kriegsmarine --> Bundesmarine (or Volksmarine) --> Deutsche Marine

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Re: Raafif's profiles
« Reply #495 on: April 20, 2025, 11:19:07 AM »
Glad you like them, quibbles noted.  Did consider MAD booms but these aircraft were to snoop on Soviet western regions so running away from Russian fighter-interceptors required tail guns  ;)

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Re: Raafif's profiles
« Reply #496 on: April 21, 2025, 01:26:05 AM »
They are Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA), which includes surface work, rather than pure Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) aircraft though so perfectly acceptable to not have MAD booms given this is specific to the latter mission.
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