Twin Skymaster

[Alvis 3.14159]

Four engines, three booms, two fuselages, one bold concept!



Note the ground crew and passengers..all twins! (Doppleganger Airlines is an abvious clue too)
I used two Testors Cieesna Skymasters, 1/48th scale.
Bandai, back in the 70s, did a bunch of light civil planes, that came with passengers and ground crew. Note the typical 1970s jacket on the male, and the era-appropriate jumpsuited female. mmmm...jumpsuits....


Alvis Pi

[PR19_Kit]

Tophe will just LOVE this! 

[Pablo1965]

This is one of the most marvelous ideas that I see in the last times.
Is a Brilliant concept. A four engine  plane, Is probably to long range?

[Eddie M.]

I'd love to this at the big airshow in Houston. Outstanding!

[ysi_maniac]

WWWOOOOOWWW!!

[sotoolslinger]

WWWOOOOOWWW!!

Yes

[Alvis 3.14159]

This is one of the most marvelous ideas that I see in the last times.
Is a Brilliant concept. A four engine  plane, Is probably to long range?

Yes, longer range, more passengers. The real Skymaster was often flown using only the rear engine as it was more efficient to do so, so you could fly this with two engines running. I would hate to get split up from my wife or friends on this plane, you would be able to wave at them, but not talk to them if they were in the other fuselage.

Alvis Pi

[Weaver]

Yes, longer range, more passengers. The real Skymaster was often flown using only the rear engine as it was more efficient to do so, so you could fly this with two engines running. I would hate to get split up from my wife or friends on this plane, you would be able to wave at them, but not talk to them if they were in the other fuselage.

Alvis Pi

Some husbands would think that a perfect arrangement.......

Crazymadwonderful model as ever Alvis!

Can you imagine the O2B version? Propaganda in stereo.....

[GTX]

 

[Tophe]

Tophe will just LOVE this! 

Tophe LOVES this very very very much!!!

[Alvis 3.14159]

Sadly, the only Twin O2B was lost in action during the closing stages of the Vietnam war, with the pilot in one half trying to fly out to sea to a waiting USN Carrier, and the other trying to fly to the Indonesia. The plane was seen zig-zagging over the South China Sea before breaking in two. There were no survivors.


Alvis Pi

[Tophe]

Alvis, this is just official history, but here we know that those two pilots' souls did survive. One has becomen my left brain and the other: my right brain.

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

Sadly, the only Twin O2B was lost in action during the closing stages of the Vietnam war, with the pilot in one half trying to fly out to sea to a waiting USN Carrier, and the other trying to fly to the Indonesia. The plane was seen zig-zagging over the South China Sea before breaking in two. There were no survivors.


Alvis Pi

Good job that they'd agreed on the seating-plan before they took-off otherwise they'd have flown into each other 

Ian

[NARSES2]

Sadly, the only Twin O2B was lost in action during the closing stages of the Vietnam war, with the pilot in one half trying to fly out to sea to a waiting USN Carrier, and the other trying to fly to the Indonesia. The plane was seen zig-zagging over the South China Sea before breaking in two. There were no survivors.


Alvis Pi

Good job that they'd agreed on the seating-plan before they took-off otherwise they'd have flown into each other 

Ian

Genius the pair of you...you've just made an old man happy 

[Tophe]

Inspired by Alvis' Twin-Skymaster, my P-38-addict mind invented the AV-38 Alvightning: