High altitude Battle

[uncle les]

Here's one I made many years ago from the remnants of an old Airfix Battle and a leftover resin Vulture engine I'd made for a Manchester conversion ( built for a wartime tail gunner as a gift but that's another story..)

[PR19_Kit]

Now that's DIFFERENT alright!

[kitnut617]

Not far off the truth they UL, the Battle was used as an FTB for a number of 'big' engines --

[GTX_Admin]

What scale?

[GTX_Admin]

Not far off this real world example modified to accommodate the experimental 2,240- h.p. Fairey P.24 Prince X-type, 24- cylinder liquid-cooled engine:

[PR19_Kit]

What scale?

It was an Airfix Battle originally so it's got to be 1/72.

[wagnersm]

Not far off this real world example modified to accommodate the experimental 2,240- h.p. Fairey P.24 Prince X-type, 24- cylinder liquid-cooled engine:

That looks interesting.  Any reason why the aircraft would have looks like a pre or early WWII USAAC rudder? 

Steve

[jcf]

The P-24 powered Battle was sent to the US and extensively tested at Wright Field.

[kitnut617]

and one of the first contra-props ---

[mrvr6]

and one of the first contra-props ---

yeh looks like a twin contraprop too

[kitnut617]

what's interesting with that photo is the censor has 'whited' out one blade from each prop ---