Executive Transport F-106

Gary · January 16, 2007, 10:41:58 AM

Exectutive transport version of the F-106 by Dennis R. Jenkins

I found an article somewhere that this fellow wrote but I cannot find any reference materials. Can anyone one help?

Gary

GTX · January 16, 2007, 12:25:16 PM

I'd try over on Secret Projects.

Regards,

Greg

Madoc · January 16, 2007, 03:28:04 PM

Gary,

I remember Scott Lowther had a piece about it in one of his Aerospace Project Review issues.

IIRC, it involved removing most, if not all, of the weapon system electronics that occupied the fuselage behind and below the cockpit. They'd then put three or four seats in its place. The door to all this would be on the plane's right front.

It looked real do-able.

It also would make a killer what-if model too!

Madoc

GTX · January 16, 2007, 04:56:32 PM

I guess it could be a bit like a US equivalent of the the MiG-25 Business Jet proposal:

Regards,

Greg

upnorth · January 16, 2007, 11:54:51 PM

Now that MiG-25 Biz jet is just too cool!

ysi_maniac · January 17, 2007, 07:00:36 AM

May I add this here: http://www.whatifmodelers.com/forum//index...topic=11526&hl=

BTW: I am very interested in this Delta Dart

elmayerle · January 18, 2007, 04:24:31 PM

Given the availability of 1/48 Buinsess jet kits to "borrow" seats from, this staff transport would be a nice one to do in 1/48 from the Monogram/Revell kit. Hmm, markings as per standard USAF staff transports (C-20s, C-21s, C-22s, etc.) or something fancier?

Andrew Gorman · January 18, 2007, 07:02:59 PM

The Jenkins article is in Aerospace Projects Review, Volume 3, Number 2- 5 pages of whiffy goodness! Basically yank the equipment out of the avionics bay and the fuel tank aft of the cockpit and add four facing seats two abreast, with a little rectangular window for each passenger and a door in the middle on the port side. The fire control radar would be replaced by a simpler weather radar and a baggage area, while the armament would be swapped out for a fuel tank. It's always looked like a super easy conversion that would look great in MATS markings.
Andrew

Jschmus · January 18, 2007, 08:28:47 PM

There used to be some information on the Joe Baugher site, but that appears to have dropped off the net somehow. I remember that the article included info on the biz version, the F-106X and some other mods.

ysi_maniac · January 19, 2007, 06:57:22 AM

How can I get a drawing or artist's impresion?

elmayerle · January 19, 2007, 02:49:23 PM

QuoteHow can I get a drawing or artist's impresion?

Buy a copy of that back issue of APR from Scott Lowther? I admit, I don't immediately have access to my subscription copy and I'm sorely tempted to buy another just for usage purposes (like converting a Revell/Monogram 1/48 kit).

tinlail · January 19, 2007, 09:58:09 PM

Here is a picture

Here is a version someone wants to do for a space plane

Not too sure about the latter, but I like the look of the first one a lot!

Dork the kit slayer · January 20, 2007, 04:12:51 AM

I read about one in a Robert Ludlum book and threw the book out there and then in a fit of peek..............................................perhaps I was hasty

elmayerle · January 21, 2007, 09:48:10 AM

QuoteI read about one in a Robert Ludlum book and threw the book out there and then in a fit of peek..............................................perhaps I was hasty.

Much like I felt "way back when" when I read a novel that had a modified F-15 doing Mach 3 at 80kft for an emergency trans-Atlantic crossing. I later found out that there were PD studies of such with P&W supplying a F100 derivative that could convert to a ramjet for high altitude/high-Mach performance.