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Modelling => Ideas & Inspiration => Aero-space => Topic started by: GTX_Admin on May 31, 2014, 05:46:24 AM

Title: Drop Tanks
Post by: GTX_Admin on May 31, 2014, 05:46:24 AM

I think these guys have monopolised the use of drop tanks as canoes…

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/04/25/article-2612962-1D55E2C900000578-456_964x721.jpg) (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2612962/Ingenious-farmers-build-vital-river-boats-fuel-tanks-jettisoned-U-S-planes-Vietnam-War.html)

Click on the image to see the story and more photos.

Title: Re: Drop Tanks
Post by: Weaver on May 31, 2014, 07:07:23 AM

There's one of those drop-tank boats in the Imperial War Museum in Manchester... ;D

Note that with the typical brilliance of journalists, the picture of a Phantom they used to illustrate the use of drop tanks is of an RAF F-4M that by definition, never went near Vietnam..... ::)

Title: Re: Drop Tanks
Post by: Kerick on May 31, 2014, 11:11:34 AM

Nice possible inspiration for a diorama. That article reads like it was written for third graders. Plus I'll bet the farmers have been using these for years and someone finally noticed.

Title: Re: Drop Tanks
Post by: Old Wombat on May 31, 2014, 11:20:30 AM

My father had a drop tank canoe, P-38 tank (I think).

There's a photo of him & a friend with it in an album my mother has. I think he was about 14 or 15 at the time (Czechoslovakia, 1942/43).

Title: Re: Drop Tanks
Post by: GTX_Admin on April 17, 2017, 04:56:56 AM

I know its not actually a drop tank...though one could possibly build a model of such using one.

https://youtu.be/ZK5IojU8UMM

Title: Re: Drop Tanks
Post by: GTX_Admin on December 13, 2020, 01:59:46 AM

What to do when you have a bunch of leftover bits:

(https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/attachments/he177_58_droptank-jpg.362991/)
(https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/attachments/he177_59_droptank-jpg.362992/)
(https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/attachments/he177_60_schleppgerat_creek-jpg.363075/)
(https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/attachments/he177_61_schleppgerat_creek-jpg.363076/)

Title: Re: Drop Tanks
Post by: Frank3k on December 13, 2020, 07:06:03 AM

I see "Brian der Schlagmann" lived in Germany in the 40s..

Title: Re: Drop Tanks
Post by: riggerrob on February 12, 2021, 04:54:04 AM

Back during the 1970s, and American (Floridian) offered plans for an amateur-built light plane. The centre and rear fuselage were based upon a drop tank off of an F-86 Sabre, which provided most graceful curves for the up sweep aft of the single-eat cockpit. The sheet metal airplane was in the same size class as Parker's Jeeny's Teeny with a VW-engine and tricycle gear.

Title: Re: Drop Tanks
Post by: GTX_Admin on February 13, 2021, 02:04:12 AM

Some more racers built from drop tanks:

(https://www.motortrend.com/uploads/sites/5/2020/11/Steve-Nelson-Liberty-Garage-Lakester.jpg?fit=around%7C480:270)
(https://media.defense.gov/2005/Feb/07/2000585324/-1/-1/0/050204-F-0000P-008.JPG)
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a4/de/26/a4de26ee0b4ba72a7d642ede285218cc.jpg)

Title: Re: Drop Tanks
Post by: ScranJ51 on February 17, 2021, 02:00:42 PM

saw this race in NZ in 2017 - also from a drop tank we were told

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50952230507_f58289d531_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2kCtuYT)IMG_6966 (https://flic.kr/p/2kCtuYT) by David Freeman (https://www.flickr.com/photos/153018533@N06/), on Flickr