Tophe's slanting views

[Tophe]

Thanks. And I was lucky I did not invent by mistake an insult meaning (in some language)... :)

[Geist]

 

Thanks. And I was lucky I did not invent by mistake an insult meaning (in some language)... :)

[Tophe]

The Macchi C.205P was based on the Macchi bifusoliera, with a touch of Savoia SM-91 (or enemy P-38?):

[Logan Hartke]

That one's simple, but really lovely.

Cheers,

Logan

[Tophe]

Thanks a lot! :)
Any idea of further "improvement"/change?

[Logan Hartke]

I like it as is, but if you want variants, you could go with a longer, sleeker nose.

Possible variants?
Glass nose for photo reconnaissance or aerial survey work.
Night fighter with German-style radar.
I thought it looked a lot like a mini-XC-120 Packplane, so you could go with a much smaller, sleeker detachable mail pod.
You could even do a really weird one with no center pod, but a cockpit integrated into the wing like the Savoia-Marchetti S.55 family.

The one I'd really like to see, though, is one with floats, like the related SM.87.

Cheers,

Logan

[Tophe]

Thanks a lot for these great ideas! I may try to draw these during this week-end or next week.

[Tophe]

Possible variants?
Glass nose for photo reconnaissance or aerial survey work.
Night fighter with German-style radar.
I thought it looked a lot like a mini-XC-120 Packplane, so you could go with a much smaller, sleeker detachable mail pod.
You could even do a really weird one with no center pod, but a cockpit integrated into the wing like the Savoia-Marchetti S.55 family.

The first 4 ones, thanks!

[Tophe]

I like it as is, but if you want variants, you could go with a longer, sleeker nose.
The one I'd really like to see, though, is one with floats, like the related SM.87.

With thanks again:

[lauhof52]

Hi Tophe! This one is really outstanding! Very nice job! :) :)

[Tophe]

Thanks lauhof.

Well, you probably know that Gloster felt bad when De Havilland won the contract for the Vampire, my uncle ordering said "we prefer twin-boomers". So the Gloster design bureau worked hard and proposed a twin-engine twin-boomer: the Meteor-II.

[ericr]

I like it as is, but if you want variants, you could go with a longer, sleeker nose.
The one I'd really like to see, though, is one with floats, like the related SM.87.

With thanks again:

always nice with floats 

[CiTrus90]

The Gloster twin boomer screams for becoming a tri-engined jet

[Tophe]

Thanks ericr!

And thanks Citrus, you seem to know the top secret order for 40,000 Meteor-III (cancelled in May 1945):

 

[Tophe]

Of course, long before the Meteor-III, Gloster did design a single-jet twin-boomer but too late for the Vampire contract:

[lauhof52]

Very nice One! 

[CiTrus90]

 

[Tophe]

Thanks!
Now the Gloster Meteorology had little in common with the classical Meteor: no more jet, no more twin-engine, no more fighter, no more military...

[Tophe]

The Pure-Delta Mirage 5 (in French: Pur Delta) was not named PD-5 because of pedophile possible accusations. So it became TD-5 True-Delta Mirage 5 (in French: Très Delta, meaning Very Delta):

[Tophe]

I have discovered a new twin-boom derivative of the Yak-15 (unbuilt Real project it seems), in the book Ryeaktivniye Perventzi SSSR. And I have added a variant of my own:

[Tophe]

In his topic http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=5284.90 , CiTrus90 required a what-if proposal for the TFX jet-training program. But the Real World candidates are so normal/sad/boring, there is a need to change further. With the F-82TFX (using parts of existing Twin-Mustangs), the price is very low and the student feels like a Real pilot, in his own cockpit! (under control of a teacher elsewhere, distant)...

[CiTrus90]

the student feels like a Real pilot, in his own cockpit! (under control of a teacher elsewhere, distant)...

This is probably the BEST IDEA EVER for a trainer aircraft.

If i were a top brass in the Air Force, i'd buy it

[Tophe]

Thanks A LOT CiTrus90...

Now, let us talk of the Spitfire after the Mk.24:
- of course there was the Twin-Spitfire Mk.25 but the separate cockpits were a problem
- the son of a Supermarine engineer played Scale-o-Rama game with a 1/48 canopy on the 1/72 basis, inventing the Mk.25 SOR
- then, this idea of big cockpit on the port side was built as Mk.25B:

[Tophe]

This saturday afternoon during my nap, I was on some planet reading a book, and I saw a surprising sentence: "the Supermatine Spitfire is the most famous of all 6-fin aircraft". I checked and this is all true: the Griffon-engined Mk.14 lacked lateral control (this is the famous source of increased-size fin on the Mk.22 then further on the Mk.24), but the first try was a triple fin (Mk.14T). And that improvement gave 6 fins on the Twin-Spitfire derivative (Mk.14TT). Well, this one was built in less than 10,000 copies but... I woke up, sorry I don't know the end of the story...

[Tophe]

I was on some planet reading a book, and I saw a surprising sentence: "the Supermatine Spitfire is the most famous of all 6-fin aircraft".

Oh, sorry... this was a mistake of mine: on no planet in the Universe, the glorious name SupermaRine is called SupermaTine, this was a mistyping: 6 fins per plane, yes! but SupermaTine, no!