i was leafing through...

[simmie]

my newly purchased copy of Jane's Aviation Review, 3rd Ed 1983-84, hen I found an interesting short artictle by Bill Gunston concerning the RAF's then shortage of heavy airlifters.  His suggested contenders were interesting and I thopught that i might share them with you, for comment and as insperation.

2nd hand Lockheed C-5 Galaxy's with 4 x Rolls Royce RB.211-535E4 or H4

these being several tons lighter and 40% less drag and 33% better fuel burn.

or how about these:-

Lockheed C-141 with 2 x RB-211-535H4

Antonov An-22 with 4 x RB211-535H4

Illushin Il-76 with 4 x RB211-535C or 2 x RB211-524D4

[Mike Wren]

still haven't finished this one... it's a Dragon Wings 1/400 diecast

[Hobbes]

Lockheed C-141 with 2 x RB-211-535H4

This caught my eye. Only 2 engines on a C-141? Then I checked the specs for the 141, and found they only develop 9,300 kgp each (less than half that of the RB.211) so it'd be doable. The C-141 must be smaller than I thought.  

[devil505]

still haven't finished this one... it's a Dragon Wings 1/400 diecast

Nice paint job.

[Mossie]

Lockheed C-141 with 2 x RB-211-535H4

This caught my eye. Only 2 engines on a C-141? Then I checked the specs for the 141, and found they only develop 9,300 kgp each (less than half that of the RB.211) so it'd be doable. The C-141 must be smaller than I thought.

Simmie, the C-141 is very close to the Il-76 dimensions & weights wise (copy an American design!  How dare you, Comrade?!?).  The 9,300kg (21,000lb) thrust per engine of the C-141 compared to the 12,000kg (26,000lb) thrust of the Il-76 gives it a disadvantage in payload capacity, although the range is better.

You should maybe save your pennies for this 1/72 beast from Blackbird models:
http://www.lonewulfmodels.co.uk/search.php...rch=C-5+Galaxy#

You could then put a whole convoy of JB Models lovely little British vehicles your RAF version.

Time to sell the bed......

[jcf]

Lockheed C-141 with 2 x RB-211-535H4

This caught my eye. Only 2 engines on a C-141? Then I checked the specs for the 141, and found they only develop 9,300 kgp each (less than half that of the RB.211) so it'd be doable. The C-141 must be smaller than I thought.

Interesting notion, but the cost of redesigning the C-141 wing would be horrendous.

Cheers, Jon

[Captain Canada]

Sheesh.....you're still not done that thing, Mikey ? You're just as bad as me ! Or Baz, or JJ, or Ev.....well, pretty much all of us !



Save for Comrade Anatoly !

 

[Archibald]

You should maybe save your pennies for this 1/72 beast from Blackbird models:
http://www.lonewulfmodels.co.uk/search.php...rch=C-5+Galaxy#

1/72 scale galaxy ??
Now that's a kit... how good is it ? still available  

[Martin H]

last time i looked it was over the 100 quid mark. its one big mother of a vac form

[Mossie]

I've no idea how good it is but being such a large vac-form I guess it's going to need a lot of patience.

Lonewulf state that they only keep one in stock at any one time because the box is so bloody big!   I trawl their site every now & again & I haven't seen it before so I guess it's newly available.

If you do order one, prepare for any 'significant other' to have an immediate sense of humour failure when seeing the size of the box (not to mention when she finds out the price!), it'll also probably put the Postman's back out, so he won't be too happy either!

Dimensions of a 1/72 C-5 will be:
Span: 0.94m
Length: 1.05m
Height: 0.28m,