P-74C Spitfire

[Tophe]

is that a contra-prop in the nose ?

The nose featured 2 propellers, yes, and technical wisdom leads to make them contra-rotating, but... if you ask "are the blades of the model actually inverted between the 2 propellers?", I could just smile... I know GlennLyn did such a huge work for his-her inverted canard Mustang, and Maybe Alvis3.1 did that too for his inverted Hurricane, but as far as I am concerned I would not have done such a detail that only experts could notice, and I don't know what have been done for the Lockheed/NorthAm/Halsted P-74 Forked Lightning - this modeller is maybe one of us with a different name, and he/she will answer...  

[NARSES2]

There's something about Griffon Spit's with that big prop - they just look so much "harder" then the Merlin jobbies, which look somewhat "dainty" in comparison, in my mind at least.

Still my favourite plane though,whatever engine it has    

[Mike Wren]

cheers guys!  

I built it a couple of years ago but never got round to taking any pics, hopefully I'll get time/inclination to get the other ones done sometime soon...  

Rad, your's looks just superb, one of those they takes a couple of seconds to figure out what it is & what it isn't    

Mike

[Tophe]

Still my favourite plane though,whatever engine it has 

Uh, as far as I am concerned , I was not referring to engine machines but to 'long nose'/'shirt nose' shapes. My plastic models had no propeller to rotate, no need of engine at all...    

[Tophe]

Justo Miranda nicely sent me a P-74 Forked Lightning picture from Mr Halsted, and I will try to find this source picture for you.

Here it is, at last... from Finescale Modeller October 2001

nice looking bird, Tophe.......is that a contra-prop in the nose ?

Yes, double-prop better shown here, and contra-prop I suppose...  

[NARSES2]

I remember that one now - one thing about FSM they are not afraid to put WIF's in the gallery

Chris

[Tophe]

By the way, reading the title of this topic: have you noticed the name of the plane on my avatar - P-74C exactly! I show it here, a little bigger...
(a P-38 with 2xV1710=1xV3420 as a pusher)