Now going back "seriously" to aircraft... I consider building this F-16 in 2023, at 1/144 scale with a Revell kit (having 2 fins, 2 sets of tailplanes, 2 jet exhausts);

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/F-16drwG_ee.jpg
(my F-16 what-if site is at http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/f16ofil.htm )

Of course, my version would be a little asymmetric, as the replicate parts in the kits are for different versions: tailplanes/foreplanes, fins, jet exhausts would be a little different on port side and on starboard side. 

It seems this F-16 was a VTOL of the 1960s with 8 vertical little jets:

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/F-16drwG_ef.jpg

I can't help thinking that's a design for a supersonic transport featured in a 1920's German Sci-Fi movie

Thanks for this dream!

And there was a twin-boom derivative "of course":

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/F-16drwG_ei.jpg

  

Thanks!

And here is a F-16 air-freshener with 2 lateral fans, uh I mean: propellers, uh...

 
= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/f16propeller-fresheners.jpg

As air freshener, no need to make one F-16 from a F-18, another model was a true F-16, with a clock for some reason.


= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/rr-f16-propeller-freshener.jpg

Quote from: Tophe on October 05, 2022, 08:35:25 AMAnd here is a F-16 air-freshener with 2 lateral fans, uh I mean: propellers, uh...

Here is the related scale 1 project:

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/F-16drwG_ej.jpg

I have been inspired by an airplane teddy bear:

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/F-16drwG_ek.jpg

I have seen the pictures of the old Fairey Battle Trainer : almost twice the same plane, in front of one another. The same could be done with F-16:

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/F-16drwG_eo.jpg

The F-16XL still lacked range, so a big increase of the wing area created the Delta Falcon, with round-the-world ability! no?

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/F-16drwG_eo2.jpg

I do think that it would still need In Flight Refueling, on the way around the world 

Quote from: perttime on October 24, 2022, 03:49:17 AMI do think that it would still need In Flight Refueling, on the way around the world 

Yes, in RW you are right, but in my whif universe with kerozen++, it works! Yes, what-if...