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Modelling => Ideas & Inspiration => Aero-space => Topic started by: tahsin on April 08, 2015, 05:35:39 PM

Title: Tom Alfaro Design from Conceptships
Post by: tahsin on April 08, 2015, 05:35:39 PM
Found this  (http://conceptships.blogspot.com.tr/2015/01/cas-1-dual-configuration-close-air.html) going through Conceptships blog.
Title: Re: Tom Alfaro Design from Conceptships
Post by: GTX_Admin on April 12, 2015, 03:45:48 AM
Wicked design - I can see some technical issues with it but still it looks cool!

(http://www.igorstshirts.com/blog/conceptships/2015/tom_alfaro/tom_alfaro_08.jpg)
Title: Re: Tom Alfaro Design from Conceptships
Post by: jcf on April 12, 2015, 03:51:54 AM
Some technical issues?  ;D  ;)  :icon_fsm:
Title: Re: Tom Alfaro Design from Conceptships
Post by: GTX_Admin on April 12, 2015, 03:55:21 AM
Yeah..."some" is an undefined number ;)
Title: Re: Tom Alfaro Design from Conceptships
Post by: jcf on April 12, 2015, 04:03:33 AM
The technical issues may be solvable with enough $£€¥₩, but those issues involving simple physics ... not so much.  ;D
Title: Re: Tom Alfaro Design from Conceptships
Post by: GTX_Admin on April 12, 2015, 04:20:47 AM
Bah!  Reality...schmeality  ;D

(https://history-schmistory.wikispaces.com/file/view/HistorySchmistory-long.jpg/448047898/HistorySchmistory-long.jpg)
Title: Re: Tom Alfaro Design from Conceptships
Post by: raafif on April 12, 2015, 06:52:49 AM
the concept is quite believable compared to what I watched last night on the tele ...
Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow.

The Captain flew a shark-mouth P-40E (with dicky seat) - quite a good CGI effort apart from the too-tall chrome tube undercarriage.  It could also go underwater, propelled by two pop-out jets on the rear fuselage ::)

Other aircraft were Sky-Crawler type twin-engine bullet fighters with V-tails.  On entering the water the props came to a stop, slid back to the rear spinner & started spinning again !! :-\
Title: Re: Tom Alfaro Design from Conceptships
Post by: elmayerle on April 12, 2015, 09:44:49 AM
Balancing that puppy in the rotor is going to be challenging, at a minimum.  Helicopters and tilt-rotors have pendular stability working for them, balancing on a rotor has it working against you.
Title: Re: Tom Alfaro Design from Conceptships
Post by: finsrin on April 12, 2015, 01:14:57 PM
Quote from: raafif on April 12, 2015, 06:52:49 AM
the concept is quite believable compared to what I watched last night on the tele ...
Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow.

The Captain flew a shark-mouth P-40E (with dicky seat) - quite a good CGI effort apart from the too-tall chrome tube undercarriage.  It could also go underwater, propelled by two pop-out jets on the rear fuselage ::)

Other aircraft were Sky-Crawler type twin-engine bullet fighters with V-tails.  On entering the water the props came to a stop, slid back to the rear spinner & started spinning again !! :-\

We all know the underwater pop-out jets were a post war P-40 development and movie appeared to be 1939-41.  Plus secret base had B-24H/J bombers which were produced later. 
Those nifty front-rear moving props might be prone to mechanical problems, especially with repeated salt water exposure.
How about that raygun ?
Title: Re: Tom Alfaro Design from Conceptships
Post by: GTX_Admin on April 13, 2015, 02:40:44 AM
Quote from: raafif on April 12, 2015, 06:52:49 AM
the concept is quite believable compared to what I watched last night on the tele ...
Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow.



At least they got the aerodynamics of the wing flapping UAVs correct... ;) ;D

(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/e0/76/c2/e076c2f424e5107534aa31622daf6fb6.jpg)

Quote from: raafif on April 12, 2015, 06:52:49 AM
Other aircraft were Sky-Crawler type twin-engine bullet fighters with V-tails.  On entering the water the props came to a stop, slid back to the rear spinner & started spinning again !! :-\


You can get a kit of these:

(http://www.fantastic-plastic.com/MantaBoxArt-500.jpg)