Modelling > Aero-space
High-performance Seaplanes
kitnut617:
--- Quote from: Volkodav on May 26, 2016, 07:55:02 PM ---I can see a Typhoon, Tempest or Firebrand in that configuration, or how about a Wyvern or Skyraider?
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Interesting thing about Typhoons and Tempests, is their max' TOW is the same as a Bolingbroke ---- and here's a pic of a Bolingbroke on floats.
jcf:
--- Quote from: Old Wombat on May 26, 2016, 08:46:25 PM ---One of the big problems I see with high-performance jet seaplanes is that they either have to lose their weapon-carrying capacity or their high-performance in order to be seaplanes.
A high-performance jet can't have floats hanging down from it & keep its performance but, if you have the floats fold/retract into the fuselage/wings you lose a lot of weapons-carrying capacity.
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Which is why all of the high-performance jet seaplanes built; fighter, bomber and transport, have been flying boats. ;D
The Convair SeaDart used retractable hydro-ski(s), not a float, ditto the various unbuilt concepts like the Lockheed design
posted above.
Kerick:
Was the Seadart area ruled? It doesn't look like it. That wold be a factor in fuselage design.
The Big Gimper:
Merge the Seadart with a F-106?
dy031101:
--- Quote from: The Big Gimper on May 27, 2016, 11:56:33 PM ---Merge the Seadart with a F-106?
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Redesigning the FFAR batteries to fire Stinger missiles (assuming Stinger missiles are suitable for use by supersonic aircraft) and putting pylons over the wings for radar-guided AAMs?
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