Tophe's slanting views

[ChernayaAkula]

Thanks ChernayaAkula!
Will you like also the turbojet version P-51TJ-2?

I do!  :)

[raafif]

I like the P-51 TJ-1 :)

[Tophe]

Thanks!
Of course, a jet-Mustang does not need to be twin-boom:

[Tophe]

The twin-fuselage versions were called Twin-MustJet:

[Tophe]

The Gotha Go-245 was designed as a mix of (from starboard to port) Go 242, Go 244A, Go 244B...

[Tophe]

Mustangs with kinda giant spats, reduced from a Daimler-Benz mother-ship project. Safe landing with them!

[Tophe]

At http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=957.195 dear ysi_maniac invented the missing link between Dassault Super-Mystère B2 and Mirage III. Here is the Super-Mirage B5 derivative of it:

[GTX_Admin]

Interesting.

[Tophe]

Thanks!
And... as there were classical (famous) Spitfires and twin-boom (secret) Spitfires, there were twin-boom (classical) SAAB J.21 and classical (secret) J.21:

[Tophe]

That's why there were both twin-fuselage J.21Z and twin-boom J.21Z:

[GTX_Admin]

That's why there were both twin-fuselage J.21Z and twin-boom J.21Z:

The twin-boom J.21Z looks like the ancestor to this:

[Tophe]

Science-fiction year 2040? Nice! (no need of wings in outer space)

EDIT: in fact (as long as Reality is concerned!), my favorite J.21Z was the strongly asymmetric push-pull one:

[ysi_maniac]

The twin-boom J.21Z looks like the ancestor to this:

What is this? two flying shoes? 

[ysi_maniac]

At http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=957.195 dear ysi_maniac invented the missing link between Dassault Super-Mystère B2 and Mirage III. Here is the Super-Mirage B5 derivative of it:

Thanks for your recreation!

[Tophe]

Thanks also.

Now here is the compound Spitfire model that may be built with one 1/48 kit and two 1/72nd:

[apophenia]

Very nice Tophe! I like the P-51T-2 and Saab variations too  :)

[Tophe]

Thanks a lot Apophenia!
Well, as you like the P-51T-2 canard and Saab variations, I must present the top-secret Saab canard (J.21-55) and its zwilling derivative...:

[JP Vieira]

You never run out of imagination: keep it up :)

[Tophe]

Thanks!
And here are derivatives of the Burnelli B-2000:

[apophenia]

Always nice to see Burnellis  :)

[Tophe]

Thanks Apophenia!

And here is the twin-booming of the Curtiss P-40 Hawk:

[Tophe]

Final step of the P-40 twin-boomation:

[Logan Hartke]

And here is the twin-booming of the Curtiss P-40 Hawk:

I don't see what the advantage of the middle one would be, but I really like it!  It has a Crimson Skies feel to it.

Cheers,

Logan

[GTX_Admin]

Ditto!

[Tophe]

I don't see what the advantage of the middle one would be, but I really like it!  It has a Crimson Skies feel to it.

The advantage would be: testing the twin-boom layout (intended for the final pusher step) without having yet the tools to manufacture a brand new fuselage/pod. Maybe.

But you are right, Logan, this seems not plausible a story. So I must reveal the 'Real' one : the proposed twin-engined P-40 was a push-pull twin-boom aircraft, inspired by the Fokker D-XXIII, but the test pilots refused to fly it (in case of bailing out) so the rear propeller was moved ahead. No?