Beyond The Sprues

Modelling => Ideas & Inspiration => Aero-space => Topic started by: finsrin on September 10, 2013, 02:27:40 PM

Title: Biplane heavy bomber
Post by: finsrin on September 10, 2013, 02:27:40 PM

Having got a 1/72 Ilya Muromets bomber, was pondering whiffs.  Could modify to be a late 1920s tech heavy bomber.
1/48 DH-10 should also modify to 1/72 late 1920s heavy bomber.
Don't recall there being any heavy bombers at that time.  Thinking heavy bomber comtempory of Keystone B-3 thereabouts.
P&W 1340 or 1690 engines - something like that.

Title: Re: Biplane heavy bomber
Post by: upnorth on September 10, 2013, 05:58:40 PM

Maybe something could come from a Caproni Ca.5:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caproni_Ca.5 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caproni_Ca.5)

Title: Re: Biplane heavy bomber
Post by: elmayerle on September 10, 2013, 08:39:20 PM

Evolving along the lines of the Vickers Virginia? (See the recent Datafile in Aeroplane Monthly.

Title: Re: Biplane heavy bomber
Post by: finsrin on September 11, 2013, 03:08:58 AM

Did not know there was a Caproni Ca.5 or Vickers Virginia.  Appreciate you mentioning them.
Got me thinking 1930 SAC bombers.
Last latest greatest of biplane heavy bombers.  Like B-36 being last latest greatest of prop bombers.

Title: Re: Biplane heavy bomber
Post by: kitnut617 on September 11, 2013, 04:02:18 AM

There was the Tupolev TB-1, TB-3 and TB-4

Title: Re: Biplane heavy bomber
Post by: Rickshaw on September 11, 2013, 09:40:19 AM

Try the Handley-Page O/400 and the various Gotha and Zeppelin-Starken heavies.   All were large, biplane bombers which were operational in the last 2 years of WWI.

Title: Re: Biplane heavy bomber
Post by: jcf on September 12, 2013, 01:26:23 AM

... and who can forget the Tarrant Tabor ...
(http://flyingmachines.ru/Images7/Putnam/British_Bombers/126-1.jpg)

http://flyingmachines.ru/Site2/Crafts/Craft29784.htm (http://flyingmachines.ru/Site2/Crafts/Craft29784.htm)

... and the Barling Bomber?
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/WITTEMAN-LEWIS_XNBL-1_USAF.JPG)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witteman-Lewis_XNBL-1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witteman-Lewis_XNBL-1)

 ;D  ;D

Title: Re: Biplane heavy bomber
Post by: finsrin on September 12, 2013, 04:41:11 PM

Tabor and Barling are quite the flying machines !
Fuselages appear to have a decent streamline design.  All those struts and wires between wings = Drag.
For a Barling upgrade:
> Wings of modern aluminum construction with struts only near the ends.
> Retractable landing gear.
> Recip or turboprop or fanjet engines
To make it all a modern Barling based triplane bomber can be.