Author Topic: Planes with streamlined cockpits / fuselages (Read 11519 times)

jcf · « **Reply #25 on:** September 22, 2016, 08:59:17 AM »

Supermarine's Schneider Trophy floatplanes, the S-4, S-5 and S-6

Nope, those are all open cockpit types, whole different animal.

jcf · « **Reply #26 on:** September 22, 2016, 09:00:52 AM »

F-117 ----

or this little home built (read about this years ago in a home built publication)

Facetmobile, Currell has a free-paper model of it:
http://www.currell.net/models/facet.htm

jcf · « **Reply #27 on:** September 22, 2016, 09:02:58 AM »

That home built looked stealthy before anyone heard of stealth.

Not really, first flight in 1993 and stealth, in various forms, was kicked around and worked on for decades prior.

Vuk · « **Reply #28 on:** September 23, 2016, 02:23:43 PM »

Kingdom of Yugoslavia Ikarus Orkan (serbian for Hurricane), 1940. light recon bomber prototype

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikarus_Orkan

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #29 on:** September 24, 2016, 05:28:36 AM »

Surprisingly enough, one can actually get a kit of the Ikarus Orkan:

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #30 on:** September 24, 2016, 05:32:59 AM »

Another: Tachikawa Ki-77

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #31 on:** September 25, 2016, 05:44:25 AM »

Fictional one for you:

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