Tophe's slanting views

[GTX_Admin]

That top one is interesting - could be quite build able too.  Maybe a stepping stone towards the F-15/P-61E?

[Tophe]

Thanks.
You are very right (wright?): the light-P-61 (especially in its bubble-top form below) was the missing link between the standard P-61 and the XP-61E

[GTX_Admin]

I quite like your "birdcage" look.

[Tophe]

Uh? I thought the bubble canopy was the opposite of a birdcage canopy, no?
How do you call the canopy below? not birdcage?

[GTX_Admin]

Yes, the bubble is opposite to birdcage - I was simply stating that I preferred your first (i.e. birdcage) one over the more recent one.

[Tophe]

All right. And here are Mustangs with either birdcages or bubbles:

[Tophe]

Nakajima twin-boom project (and what-if derivative of mine):

[Tophe]

A half Belyayev OI-2 Tvin-Aerokobra would have been similar to a P-39:

[ysi_maniac]

I like AeroKobra. The plane and the name. :)

[Tophe]

Thanks!
And here is the completed family (in my dreams): from twin-fuselage to twin-boom pusher:

[Tophe]

The General Aircraft Twin-Hotspur is well known, but what about the Triple-Hotspur and the Twinboom-Hotspur?

[PR19_Kit]

The Twin-Boom Hotspur looks eminently modellable there. I did the Twin many years ago and I still have an old Frog Hotspur in The Loft...... 

[Tophe]

With these long long wings? as designed for you...

[GTX_Admin]

That first one reminds me a bit of the real world Twin Blanik:



Which you can get a model kit of:

[GTX_Admin]

I did the Twin many years ago and I still have an old Frog Hotspur in The Loft...... 

Bit like this perhaps?




More here

[Tophe]

Thanks for this parallel and this link!

[PR19_Kit]

I did the Twin many years ago and I still have an old Frog Hotspur in The Loft...... 

Bit like this perhaps?

Pretty much EXACTLY like that, except mine has a vestigial Y-shaped tow-line attached to each fuselage.

It was even moulded in that bilious yellow styrene so beloved of Frog at the period, almost everything they did was in yellow, perhaps it cost less as raw material just because it was such a bizarre colour?

[ysi_maniac]

A different B-51 (and the B-82): the SuperMustang (and TwinSuperMustang) mix of 1/144 B-29 and 1/48 P-51D

I do like this idea!

[Tophe]

Thanks ysi_maniac!

Kit, I am glad I did not understood what you were saying, about Y shape on each fuselage of the Twin-Hotspur: that produced in my dreams the GAL-48YY:

[PR19_Kit]

Kit, I am glad I did not understood what you were saying, about Y shape on each fuselage of the Twin-Hotspur: that produced in my dreams the GAL-48YY:

Hehehe, it was the TOW line that was Y shaped Tophe! But I like your Y tail, like a twin glider version of the Planet Satellite.

[Tophe]

The Planet Satellite of 1948? You seem to ignore this was a derivative of the motorglider GAL-48ZZ:

[Tophe]

Venezuela's V-tail Mustangs:

[GTX_Admin]

 :)

[Tophe]

Mirage 5 TB:

[GTX_Admin]

 :)