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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #275 on: September 22, 2012, 01:31:12 PM »
Roteron X100 with a derivative featuring a more classical twin-boom tail:

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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #276 on: September 22, 2012, 01:32:32 PM »
Saunders-Roe P.1033 and test prototype:

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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #277 on: September 23, 2012, 01:24:52 AM »
Pelenberg and push-pull derivative:

Niiiiice!  :)
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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #278 on: September 23, 2012, 09:45:27 PM »
All hail the God of Frustration!!!

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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #279 on: September 30, 2012, 08:45:20 PM »
Thanks...

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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #280 on: September 30, 2012, 09:58:57 PM »
Outstanding!  Put floats on it would be nice too...
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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #281 on: October 01, 2012, 01:51:25 AM »
Adding floats? Are you crazy, dear admin, or... is this the top secret forefather of ekranoplanes?...

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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #282 on: October 01, 2012, 03:59:39 AM »
Nice that Pelenberg  :)

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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #283 on: October 01, 2012, 07:03:31 AM »
wow !! you guys are gonna make every DC-3 kit rare as hen's teeth - modellers will have to build all of these versions in plastic !! ........... unless they're boring numpties :D

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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #284 on: October 01, 2012, 10:33:21 AM »
Love the Lisunov ekranoplan  :)
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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #285 on: October 01, 2012, 11:40:02 AM »
Thanks for the comments.
And thanks AXU for those great additions! :-*

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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #286 on: October 05, 2012, 01:10:18 AM »
Double Mustang-Cheranovsky flying-wing...

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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #287 on: October 06, 2012, 06:13:12 AM »
Like those pictures Tophe.
dc3_q1 picture and push/pull Pelenberg be great projects in plastic.

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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #288 on: October 09, 2012, 01:32:17 AM »
Thanks.

Compared to a Spitfire, the (symmetrical) single-engined Whirlwind had the same 'free' nose as the twin-engined Whirlwind:

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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #289 on: October 09, 2012, 01:48:46 AM »
And the Twin-Single-Whirlwind featured 2 free noses:

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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #290 on: October 10, 2012, 11:15:05 AM »
Love the pedestal-engined Whirlwinds  :)
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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #291 on: October 27, 2012, 08:12:07 AM »
Thanks.
And from Brian's http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=2113.0 I add an asymmetrical Twin-Whirlwind:

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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #292 on: October 27, 2012, 02:23:23 PM »
Very nice one, Tophe! :)

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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #293 on: October 28, 2012, 12:36:49 PM »
Thanks.
Now the (provisional) drawing of Celestino Rosatelli CR-50 and CR-55, together with the improved CR-56 of mine...

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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #294 on: October 30, 2012, 10:54:01 PM »
North-American O-141 Half-Twin-Mustang...:

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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #295 on: October 31, 2012, 01:59:42 AM »
Different.  You could also have a prone bombardier in that one - kind of a counterpart to the P-38 Droopsnoot.
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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #296 on: October 31, 2012, 02:20:24 AM »
You are right, my drawing was not very panoramic... ;)

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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #297 on: November 02, 2012, 11:40:26 AM »
Thanks Tophe. I like your take on Rosatelli's CR.50 and CR.55  :)
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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #298 on: November 02, 2012, 05:18:58 PM »
For next Christmas, I consider requiring from Santa-Claus a Junkers EF-112 (http://www.unicraft.biz/germ/ju112/ju112.htm ), but I will lack room for its span and it will be biplane. On the same way, as I lack skills for undercarriage, I plan to discard propellers into a glider:

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Re: Tophe's slanting views
« Reply #299 on: November 02, 2012, 05:41:48 PM »
If I had more money and room and skills, I would build Zwilling EF-112: