Author Topic: F-16 Inspirations & Ideas  (Read 140780 times)

Offline M.A.D

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Re: F-16 Inspirations & Ideas
« Reply #50 on: July 23, 2012, 12:28:42 PM »
Going twin, twinjet and twinfin. Two F-414 should be sufficient and would provide better endurance ???



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Re: F-16 Inspirations & Ideas
« Reply #51 on: July 23, 2012, 12:30:00 PM »
Okay, take two!  ???



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Re: F-16 Inspirations & Ideas
« Reply #52 on: July 26, 2012, 05:38:10 PM »
company artwork Iranian and Australian F.16A Falcon's ...

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Re: F-16 Inspirations & Ideas
« Reply #53 on: July 27, 2012, 03:40:53 AM »
Model by Andrew Doppel:



Another model:



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Re: F-16 Inspirations & Ideas
« Reply #54 on: July 27, 2012, 03:48:49 AM »
Sweet! The world needs more Vipers in "retro" colours!  :)
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Re: F-16 Inspirations & Ideas
« Reply #55 on: August 04, 2012, 05:17:18 AM »
Interesting early F-16 concept with small canards:

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Re: F-16 Inspirations & Ideas
« Reply #56 on: August 04, 2012, 05:21:16 AM »
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Re: F-16 Inspirations & Ideas
« Reply #57 on: August 04, 2012, 05:22:51 AM »



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Re: F-16 Inspirations & Ideas
« Reply #58 on: October 25, 2012, 02:59:19 PM »
Well, before one of my writing partners and I had a falling-out, since she wrote a character who's an F-16 pilot I had conceptualized an F-16XL/IDF Sufa/JASDF F-2 "mixmaster," and while I've abandoned any further thought on the idea for obvious reasons I just thought I'd throw it out if anybody else wanted to play with it.

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Re: F-16 Inspirations & Ideas
« Reply #59 on: October 25, 2012, 09:28:33 PM »



What would look really slick on that would be a butterfly type tail arrangement like the YF-23 had:
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Offline Logan Hartke

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Re: F-16 Inspirations & Ideas
« Reply #60 on: October 25, 2012, 09:59:16 PM »



That illustrator must've spent some long hours on this concept.

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Re: F-16 Inspirations & Ideas
« Reply #61 on: October 25, 2012, 11:57:20 PM »
Hey Greg, you got a bigger version of that Model 1600 cutaway?

Offline Daryl J.

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Re: F-16 Inspirations & Ideas
« Reply #62 on: October 26, 2012, 12:06:31 AM »
Thursday's confession:  I find the F-16 all but impossible to Whiff outside a revised paint scheme.   I have no idea why, but that's where it is.   ;D
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Re: F-16 Inspirations & Ideas
« Reply #63 on: October 26, 2012, 12:32:07 AM »
Thursday's confession:  I find the F-16 all but impossible to Whiff outside a revised paint scheme.   I have no idea why, but that's where it is.   ;D

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Re: F-16 Inspirations & Ideas
« Reply #64 on: October 26, 2012, 01:15:22 PM »
<...> What would look really slick on that would be a butterfly type tail arrangement like the YF-23 had: <...>


Great idea! Here you go!  :)



I was too lazy to do the YF-23-style exhaust, though.  :P 
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Re: F-16 Inspirations & Ideas
« Reply #65 on: October 26, 2012, 01:44:51 PM »
That's plenty cool with or without YF-23 exhaust. I didn't actually envision it with any changes to the engine at all.

Another idea that hit me is to use an F-16 kit as the basis for an aircraft derived from the Rockwell HiMAT:


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Re: F-16 Inspirations & Ideas
« Reply #66 on: October 26, 2012, 01:52:15 PM »
Why am I having Beechcraft Bonanza 1950s flashbacks.......  ???

Sweet - looks like a modernization step. :)     Work well on F/A-16XL Strike Viper.

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Re: F-16 Inspirations & Ideas
« Reply #67 on: October 27, 2012, 01:24:21 AM »
Another modification for V-tail Falcon: add  F-22 vector nozzle and bigger wings: maybe MiG-29 shape?

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Re: F-16 Inspirations & Ideas
« Reply #68 on: October 27, 2012, 04:36:17 AM »
Hey Greg, you got a bigger version of that Model 1600 cutaway?

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Re: F-16 Inspirations & Ideas
« Reply #69 on: October 27, 2012, 06:50:00 AM »
is there a model of the himat available?
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Re: F-16 Inspirations & Ideas
« Reply #70 on: October 27, 2012, 07:24:44 AM »
is there a model of the himat available?

What scale?
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Re: F-16 Inspirations & Ideas
« Reply #71 on: October 27, 2012, 09:29:00 PM »
1/72
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Re: F-16 Inspirations & Ideas
« Reply #72 on: October 28, 2012, 03:11:29 AM »
is there a model of the himat available?


Muroc Models does one in 1/72

I have actually been after the 1/48 Stratosphere kit for a while but they are out of production.
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Re: F-16 Inspirations & Ideas
« Reply #73 on: October 28, 2012, 03:22:06 AM »
is there a model of the himat available?


Ninfinger does one in 1/72



That's a Muroc Models kit Greg, and they're very hard to get in contact with.

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Re: F-16 Inspirations & Ideas
« Reply #74 on: October 28, 2012, 03:48:47 AM »
Teach me to post before finishing my first coffee ...thanks for picking that up.  Corrected.
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