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Tophe · « **Reply #175 on:** September 30, 2012, 08:27:14 PM »

Belated congratulations!

Tophe · « **Reply #176 on:** September 30, 2012, 08:53:34 PM »

Dear Raafif, your art is once again celebrated on my site http://cmeunier.chez-alice.fr/Asymm_addition.htm
Can you help me in enriching the text? Was this GA1546 a British project of 1955 by General Aircraft, or else?

raafif · « **Reply #177 on:** October 01, 2012, 06:57:10 AM »

thanks Tophe, here's the page ... courtesy of What-If Modellers discussion
http://www.transportarchive.org.uk/getobject.php?rnum=G1546&searchitem=RAF&mtv=G1&pnum=10

another page on the airliner vesion !! ...
http://www.transportarchive.org.uk/getobject.php?rnum=G1064&searchitem=concept%20&mtv=G1&pnum=1

apophenia · « **Reply #178 on:** October 01, 2012, 10:38:09 AM »

Quote from: raafif on September 30, 2012, 04:23:35 AM

apophenia -- that looks good enough to work some of my silliness on it $:-\$

Love it! I do wonder though whether a mere three airscrews would be adequate to the task. That engine cries out for four props!

apophenia · « **Reply #179 on:** October 02, 2012, 07:56:11 AM »

The more I looked at the bent-nosed Corsair, the more it cried out for a forward cockpit. Then I thought, why not train more pilots at once. And if more trainee pilots are a good thing, then it only stands to reason that more wings are ...

Tophe · « **Reply #180 on:** October 02, 2012, 11:36:04 AM »

Wonderful family... Vought designers were shy and fearful compared to both of you...

raafif · « **Reply #181 on:** October 03, 2012, 05:31:28 AM »

thanks to you guys, I'm now considering an upside-down cockpit underneath to train pilots in inverted dogfighting !!

$:-\$

finsrin · « **Reply #182 on:** October 03, 2012, 09:59:39 AM »

Quote from: raafif on October 03, 2012, 05:31:28 AM

thanks to you guys, I'm now considering an upside-down cockpit underneath to train pilots in inverted dogfighting !! $:-\$

Congrats on another breakthrough concept here at BTS......

apophenia · « **Reply #183 on:** October 03, 2012, 10:46:56 AM »

Excellent concept! If the cockpits were placed on either side of a twin-boomer, dogfight training could be accomplished with a single aircraft

raafif · « **Reply #184 on:** October 27, 2012, 09:01:48 AM »

my next plastic aircraft project ...

The 300th Rainbow bomber was rolled of the assembly-lines on July 2nd 1944 & was then shifted into the paint-shop where it received a special "4th July" scheme, becoming the Star-Spangled Rainbow.

the RAAF also received a few ...

finsrin · « **Reply #185 on:** October 27, 2012, 09:47:39 AM »

F-103B - yes, build it, like to see that one in plastic. V-tail maybe.
Rainbow bombers, fits right in to post war thru mid 50s. SAC markings.

Tophe · « **Reply #186 on:** October 27, 2012, 03:00:45 PM »

Pleasant profiles

Acree · « **Reply #187 on:** October 27, 2012, 03:09:58 PM »

Love the F-103, but Navy? Underpowered, underwinged and with poor visibility, the Stilhetto would not have gotten along well with carrier ops (I think). Also, In a service version, I would be inclined to increase the size of the vertical tail (at least for aesthetics).

Love the Rainbows, but either the date or the US national marking is "wrong" - of course, it is WHIF, so maybe not!

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #188 on:** October 27, 2012, 03:16:19 PM »

Isn't that far from this though:

Acree · « **Reply #189 on:** October 28, 2012, 12:36:32 AM »

Wow - that's a new one on me! And AMAZING! I sit corrected - go right ahead with that Navy theme!

raafif · « **Reply #190 on:** October 28, 2012, 04:17:10 AM »

I've always liked the Stiletto & have that book (along with a few other Zichek ones too, all excellent refs).

Bought 2 of the old Revell 72nd kits at $38 each !! so one may get the "straight" build while the other will get the Sonicfighter treatment - seriously considering a V-tail for it

The Revell kit is quite crude -- appalling joint for the nose, no engine buckets, molded-on markings etc, however apart fron lots'a PSR, will do a nice whif.

The old Lindberg "48"th kit is crude too but accurate - if I ever get the chance to grab one someone will produce a much better kit

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #191 on:** October 28, 2012, 04:25:58 AM »

Quote from: raafif on October 28, 2012, 04:17:10 AM

The old Lindberg "48"th kit is crude too but accurate - if I ever get the chance to grab one someone will produce a much better kit

Want to put that to the test? I have one you can have if you want.

raafif · « **Reply #192 on:** October 29, 2012, 04:41:22 AM »

OK Greg, send it down :)

Just to speed the new-tool kit along for you, I'll order resin cockpit, wheels & engine buckets for it now. That way, by the time I've spent a gazillion $$$ & much elbow-grease PSRing it up to par, whatever company does do the new kit, it will have everything in the box and at a cheaper price too ...... as usual

raafif · « **Reply #193 on:** October 30, 2012, 08:05:46 AM »

At the end of W.W.1, Mr Sopwith (along with French & some German designers) was still enamoured with tri-planes. In early 1920 he designed a Troop / VIP transport aircraft for the Army - it also having three main wings.

This aircraft soldiered on till 1930 when better engines meant the same aircraft could fly well with just two main-planes so the Land-Tripe was reconfigured as a bi-plane, losing the lower wings. Only a few were converted, as at this point, Supermarine Aircraft became involved, seeing the possibilities of sealing the all-metal fuselage & making it a flyingboat -- the rest of that story is well known.

Post-war there was a need for civil transport & land-planes were again in demand -- De Havilland was doing well with their Foxmoth cabin-biplane, an enlarged TigerMoth. Now just as reluctant to drop the bi-plane as he was the tri-plane, the retired Sopwith insisted his chief designer continue with a tried & true concept -- the original Land-Tripe but with two main-planes. This time the lower two of the original wings were kept with solid interplane struts doing away with most of the drag-inducing rigging-wires & sporting flashy spats on the fixed undercarriage. It was renamed the "Pegasus".

elmayerle · « **Reply #194 on:** October 30, 2012, 12:46:35 PM »

Quote from: raafif on October 28, 2012, 04:17:10 AM

I've always liked the Stiletto & have that book (along with a few other Zichek ones too, all excellent refs).

Bought 2 of the old Revell 72nd kits at $38 each !! so one may get the "straight" build while the other will get the Sonicfighter treatment - seriously considering a V-tail for it The Revell kit is quite crude -- appalling joint for the nose, no engine buckets, molded-on markings etc, however apart fron lots'a PSR, will do a nice whif.

The old Lindberg "48"th kit is crude too but accurate - if I ever get the chance to grab one someone will produce a much better kit

Consider bashing F-5 wings onto it or a F-5 root transitioning to a smaller scale F-18 outer wing.

raafif · « **Reply #195 on:** November 07, 2012, 01:12:08 PM »

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #196 on:** November 07, 2012, 05:04:49 PM »

The Big Gimper · « **Reply #197 on:** November 07, 2012, 06:35:50 PM »

Quote from: raafif on November 07, 2012, 01:12:08 PM

I have to so build this. !!!!!!

The Wings are a from a P-47? Did you scale them down or shorten them? Drops tanks from the P-80?

And the pilot lands how?

Doom! · « **Reply #198 on:** November 07, 2012, 10:15:25 PM »

Best looking parasite fighter I've ever seen! :)

raafif · « **Reply #199 on:** November 08, 2012, 03:14:06 AM »

Quote from: The Big Gimper on November 07, 2012, 06:35:50 PM

I have to so build this. !!!!!!

The Wings are a from a P-47? Did you scale them down or shorten them? Drops tanks from the P-80?

And the pilot lands how?

Wings & tanks too are P-47 ...... scaled to fit, you'll have to experiment to see what plastic fits together .... it's so much easier to be pixelated than plasticated, eh ?

I usualy scan drawings or ~~nick~~ borrow them off the Russian / French 3-vue sites then scale to fit whatever I have in mind. There are sometimes several versions shown so I choose whatever one suits my use best - some are highly accurate & to pure scale but messy, others are very basic but clean B/W drawings.

Ahh, how does he land ?? .... he doesn't !!
He hooks back up to the "ZF Surcouf" (Zeppelin Francais "Surcouf")


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