Fleet F60K Fort

[Jschmus]

I found a new airplane.  New to me, at any rate:

Fleet F60K Fort

I was following links from the USAF Museum website (BTW, has anyone else noticed that they pulled all the images from the archive galleries   ), and I found myself on the Canadian Warplane Heritage site (or whatever it's called).  I bounced around the various sections, until I happened across this airplane, which I had never heard of before.  It was apparently intended to be the poor man's Harvard, but was apparently too forgiving an airplane.

Now, in the recent past, I have been introduced to the glories of making what if subjects from various prop designs (I'm primarily a jet man, myself), with all the nifty period bits that can be included.  I took one look at this thing, and thought, "It needs spats and a turret".  The Canadians already took me halfway there:



Naturally, this airplane does not appear to have been kitted by anyone.  Now I'm looking at the drawing, trying to envisions suitable donor kits.  Suggestions?

[The Rat]

The Canadian Warplane Heritage has one in flying condition, I've watched it perform a few times. Bit of a heart stopping show though, as she was known as a real bear to fly, poor performance all round. Has just enough pudgy cuteness to prevent it from being downright ugly, and that funky canopy arrangement sure makes you look twice!  ^_^  

[Geoff_B]

1/72 Fleet Fort build on HS

There was a Vacform, but it looks rather hard to find these days.

G

[Brian da Basher]

Woah....nice spats!

Did I mention that I love spats?

Brian da Basher