Author Topic: Super-Lightning & Super-Mustang racers  (Read 17305 times)

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Re: Super-Lightning & Super-Mustang racers
« Reply #25 on: June 11, 2017, 02:32:19 AM »
On the other side, the top of megalomania was a triplane Super-Lightning with 60 engines (no matter drag, power will win, fast!):

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Re: Super-Lightning & Super-Mustang racers
« Reply #26 on: June 11, 2017, 03:31:22 AM »


Aaaarghhhh  :o

 ;D

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Re: Super-Lightning & Super-Mustang racers
« Reply #27 on: June 11, 2017, 02:37:48 PM »
Sorry for the pain in your brains...

Now let us be serious: do you know the 3-engined single-seat Twin-SuperMustang racer?

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Re: Super-Lightning & Super-Mustang racers
« Reply #28 on: June 11, 2017, 04:18:13 PM »
There were related F-38/3e, in several versions, faster and faster:

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Re: Super-Lightning & Super-Mustang racers
« Reply #29 on: June 15, 2017, 01:36:26 AM »
Very improved Mustang racer:

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Re: Super-Lightning & Super-Mustang racers
« Reply #30 on: June 17, 2017, 03:38:03 PM »
The Tandem Wing Super Mustang (TW-SM) was the winner of Reno 2021, do you remember?

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Re: Super-Lightning & Super-Mustang racers
« Reply #31 on: June 17, 2017, 05:07:45 PM »
Oh yes I remember it like it was yesterday tomorrow!

Great stuff, mon ami! I especially like the way you placed that engine up on the tail.

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Re: Super-Lightning & Super-Mustang racers
« Reply #32 on: June 20, 2017, 04:20:32 AM »
Your Tandem Wing Super Mustang (TW-SM) is fantastic (in all senses!) but the Twin-SuperMustang is verrry clever  :D
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Re: Super-Lightning & Super-Mustang racers
« Reply #33 on: June 20, 2017, 05:26:23 PM »
Mmm...the Very improved Mustang racer may look really cool in 3D :-*

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Re: Super-Lightning & Super-Mustang racers
« Reply #34 on: June 21, 2017, 07:10:51 PM »
Thanks!

And the Italian Mustang racers were trimotore or cinquemotore:

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Re: Super-Lightning & Super-Mustang racers
« Reply #35 on: June 22, 2017, 06:26:00 AM »
That trimotor Mustang could be passed off as an actual design study!

Love the five engine one too!

Great stuff, mon ami!

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Re: Super-Lightning & Super-Mustang racers
« Reply #36 on: June 25, 2017, 03:59:03 PM »
Thanks!

And the P-51R-4360 was fast too, but the problems in weight centering and torque needed improvement, I will show you other steps.

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Re: Super-Lightning & Super-Mustang racers
« Reply #37 on: June 25, 2017, 07:46:24 PM »
Nice. :)
For the last one you could make a smaller canopy ... but not very small  ;) or a stremlined canopy
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Re: Super-Lightning & Super-Mustang racers
« Reply #38 on: June 25, 2017, 10:04:06 PM »
Thanks!
Yes, the final one will have a smaller canopy, but first the problem was to deal with torque from this huge engine/propeller:

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Re: Super-Lightning & Super-Mustang racers
« Reply #39 on: June 25, 2017, 10:24:08 PM »
I think here are the final versions, with small canopy, no torque problem nor centering issue (using nose wheel):

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Re: Super-Lightning & Super-Mustang racers
« Reply #40 on: June 27, 2017, 05:48:03 AM »
Smashing idea going with contra-props on the P51R 4360-3, mon ami!

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Re: Super-Lightning & Super-Mustang racers
« Reply #41 on: June 28, 2017, 11:12:11 PM »
Thanks!
And for the unlimited class race, there was the Super-Ramjet-Mustang:

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Re: Super-Lightning & Super-Mustang racers
« Reply #42 on: June 29, 2017, 11:21:32 AM »
The Super-Ramjet-Lightning was better maybe, with 2 piston engines to reach the ramjet ignition speed:

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Re: Super-Lightning & Super-Mustang racers
« Reply #43 on: July 02, 2017, 10:53:11 PM »
As visibility was not a problem for a racer, pusher Lightning canards were good candidates for Reno.

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Re: Super-Lightning & Super-Mustang racers
« Reply #44 on: July 03, 2017, 03:20:23 AM »
Your imagination is brighter that the flash of chrome at race day, mon ami!

It never crossed my mind to mount P-38 booms backwards and turn the tail into canards.

Outstanding Concept!

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Re: Super-Lightning & Super-Mustang racers
« Reply #45 on: July 03, 2017, 07:28:18 AM »
 :) yes
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Re: Super-Lightning & Super-Mustang racers
« Reply #46 on: July 07, 2017, 12:43:37 PM »
Thanks!
And, inspired by AXOR's Do-335 racer with 2 double engines, here is the Racer-Twin-Boom-51... Thanks!

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Re: Super-Lightning & Super-Mustang racers
« Reply #47 on: July 07, 2017, 07:31:03 PM »
That's nice Cristophe  :)
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Re: Super-Lightning & Super-Mustang racers
« Reply #48 on: July 10, 2017, 12:55:07 AM »
Thanks!

The NVBS-38A, B, C racers (the code means No Visibility But Speed)

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Re: Super-Lightning & Super-Mustang racers
« Reply #49 on: July 10, 2017, 07:51:22 AM »
You always have such wonderfully imaginative and delightful concepts, mon ami!

It's a highlight of my day to see you post something new!

Brian da Basher