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Re: Red Star layout for Lightning & Mustang
« Reply #25 on: April 03, 2017, 03:49:46 PM »
Engineer comrade Tofi argued that guns are capitalistic weapons and proletarian pilots should use ramming fighters with the Tools of workers & farmers, this gave the Serp i Molot SM-38P1, P-2 and P-3 The last one had a worker pilot and a farmer pilot, reaching at the top the communist glory... (no, not propaganda, who said that ? before going to prison or graveyard...).



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doable in plastic + mixed material   :D

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Re: Red Star layout for Lightning & Mustang
« Reply #26 on: April 08, 2017, 08:45:22 PM »
Thanks!

And the Soviet political bureau had an objection about the RS-82: "why double fuselage and no double red star ?!". This was cured of course:

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Re: Red Star layout for Lightning & Mustang
« Reply #27 on: April 09, 2017, 04:23:22 PM »
The tandem version was materially fragile but politically right and political experts explained communist materialism will make it very solid, unbreakable!

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Re: Red Star layout for Lightning & Mustang
« Reply #28 on: April 09, 2017, 06:40:01 PM »
There was a political dispute also about the Parasol-wing RS-38: is the "parasol" a capitalist tourism tool? Many ones among apparatchiks denied this, so it was actually built (and crashed):

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Re: Red Star layout for Lightning & Mustang
« Reply #29 on: April 09, 2017, 09:40:14 PM »
This is the rain of stars  ;D
Well done Cristophe!
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Re: Red Star layout for Lightning & Mustang
« Reply #30 on: April 10, 2017, 08:00:02 PM »
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Re: Red Star layout for Lightning & Mustang
« Reply #31 on: April 11, 2017, 06:13:59 AM »
Great stuff, mon ami!

The red stars are truly delightful and I can only dream of having the capability to imagine what you've done!

Love the hammer & sickle ones too!

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Re: Red Star layout for Lightning & Mustang
« Reply #32 on: April 12, 2017, 12:13:50 PM »
Thanks!

There was a political dispute also about the Parasol-wing RS-38: is the "parasol" a capitalist tourism tool?
The parasol Red-Star-38 had a problem: during the victory air-parade (soon for sure!), the red star would be half hidden by the aircraft, what a shame! So a parade version, special for being admired from the ground, has been developed. However, landing was a problem...

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Re: Red Star layout for Lightning & Mustang
« Reply #33 on: April 15, 2017, 02:14:42 AM »
Simple Lightnings with double red stars:

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Re: Red Star layout for Lightning & Mustang
« Reply #34 on: April 15, 2017, 04:59:11 AM »
Comrade Tophe will ensure the skies above our glorious motherland are filled with the Red Star of Soviet Revolutionary fervor!

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Re: Red Star layout for Lightning & Mustang
« Reply #35 on: April 15, 2017, 08:38:16 AM »
I especially like the one in the middle, mon ami and they're all very colorful!

I bet your son finds them delightful too.

Your imagination is boundless, Tophe!

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Re: Red Star layout for Lightning & Mustang
« Reply #36 on: April 17, 2017, 01:19:16 AM »
Thanks!

And the best red-star Lightning may be the one designed for agricultural workers (with full military support): the farm workers together with chemical workers and aircraft factories workers all together will remove danger for the benefit of the population. Simply glorious!

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Re: Red Star layout for Lightning & Mustang
« Reply #37 on: April 17, 2017, 01:59:34 AM »
The record crop yields will yet again prove the superiority of the Soviet system over the Running Dog West!

The workers' paradise beckons! You have nothing to lose but your chains!

Great stuff, Tophe! Making it an agricultural aircraft was truly inspired!

You should be awarded the Red Banner of Bukharin for your efforts!

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Re: Red Star layout for Lightning & Mustang
« Reply #38 on: April 17, 2017, 02:06:16 AM »
 :) Yes, this chemical agricultural communist Heaven is delightful, but the generals clapping hands and requiring for soldiers now breathing masks are a little mysterious. ??? ;)

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Re: Red Star layout for Lightning & Mustang
« Reply #39 on: April 17, 2017, 04:48:30 PM »
The Party denied that a single-seater is a good Soviet fighter: it is an individualist capitalist shame!
At least 12 Party members should decide in a meeting to turn right or left, fire or not, this is communism, victorious against selfishness and egotism!

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Re: Red Star layout for Lightning & Mustang
« Reply #40 on: April 17, 2017, 05:01:17 PM »
While the Stalinian communists were happy with the Leader in front (on the Lightning above), the Leader having the final decision, the Trotskist communists denied that and required talking tables, even if that takes room (and the seats should rotate for front position of every one, changing every minute). This was efficiency and goodness all at once! (see below):

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Re: Red Star layout for Lightning & Mustang
« Reply #41 on: April 18, 2017, 07:20:16 AM »
This one might be my favorite yet, comrade!

Glorious modern air transport for the great masses of the Workers' Paradise!

A 1,000 orders of Lenin to you!

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Re: Red Star layout for Lightning & Mustang
« Reply #42 on: April 18, 2017, 09:38:07 PM »
Thanks!
Among sesquiplanes (with one and a half wings), the genealogy of the RS-38 is more easy to see:

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Re: Red Star layout for Lightning & Mustang
« Reply #43 on: April 20, 2017, 05:42:01 PM »
Engineer John William Dunne has been enlightened by communist glory evidence, and that let to the DU-51s tailless biplanes:

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Re: Red Star layout for Lightning & Mustang
« Reply #44 on: April 20, 2017, 06:06:56 PM »
I really like the tailless versions, Comrade!

Nothing could further prove the brilliance of Socialist engineering like these fine concepts!

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Re: Red Star layout for Lightning & Mustang
« Reply #45 on: April 21, 2017, 11:49:39 PM »
I really like the tailless versions, Comrade!
Thanks!
These twin-fin versions were even more tailless:

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Re: Red Star layout for Lightning & Mustang
« Reply #46 on: April 22, 2017, 01:37:05 AM »
Soviet bat  ;D,
nice
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Re: Red Star layout for Lightning & Mustang
« Reply #47 on: April 22, 2017, 04:49:46 PM »
Thanks!
There were similar RS-38s:

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Re: Red Star layout for Lightning & Mustang
« Reply #48 on: April 23, 2017, 01:38:26 PM »
For unknown reasons the RS-38 and RS-51/82 all failed in operational service (decided despite testing failure), ahem... So a brainstorming occurred with engineers and political experts/controllers. It was decided that the red star was marvelous but not as lifting area, the use should be different. So, not horizontally but vertically was the red star in the new RS-51:

The goal was mainly parade on the ground, to get the people's enthusiasm (and confidence in victory and in the Leader's genius):

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Re: Red Star layout for Lightning & Mustang
« Reply #49 on: April 24, 2017, 06:18:04 AM »
That's a parade to make a citizen of the Great Workers' Paradise fill with pride in overwhelming superiority of socialism!

We are all better communists for having seen this, comrade!

Brian da *hic* Basherski