Pterodactyl VIII

[Jschmus]

If memory serves me, the Dynavert is the CL-84.  I suspect a lot of folk would love the three-view of a studied attack/assault derivative that's published in the latest issue of APR.

Hmm...CL-84 Dynavert.  Armed VTOL - music to my ears.

Dynavert

The government ordered three updated CL-84s for military evaluation in 1968, designated the CL-84-1. They were fitted with mini-gun pods near the fuselage. From 1972 to 1974, this version was demonstrated and evaluated in the United States aboard the aircraft carriers USS Guam and USS Guadalcanal, and at various other centres. These trials involved military pilots from the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. Unfortunately, the first CL-84-1 was lost in a training accident during the trials, when a propeller gearbox failed, but the pilots ejected safely.

Lots of potential there.

[Tophe]

TsrJoe...I'll look in my Canadian Aircraft books and see if there are any three views....somewhere i thot I had one...

Probably there is a 3-view in Alain Pelletier's book "Les ailes volantes" (flying wings), but I have not it. Maybe JCC?

[Tophe]

Pterodactyl VIII was a YELLOW tailless glider

surprise today in the Unicraft Models newsletter, the Northrop MX324 was also a YELLOW flying wing, see more at: http://www.geocities.com/unicraftmodels/on...mx324/mx324.htm
(I had never seen a coloUred picture of it till now)  

[elmayerle]

If memory serves me, the Dynavert is the CL-84.  I suspect a lot of folk would love the three-view of a studied attack/assault derivative that's published in the latest issue of APR.

Hmm...CL-84 Dynavert.  Armed VTOL - music to my ears.

Dynavert

The government ordered three updated CL-84s for military evaluation in 1968, designated the CL-84-1. They were fitted with mini-gun pods near the fuselage. From 1972 to 1974, this version was demonstrated and evaluated in the United States aboard the aircraft carriers USS Guam and USS Guadalcanal, and at various other centres. These trials involved military pilots from the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. Unfortunately, the first CL-84-1 was lost in a training accident during the trials, when a propeller gearbox failed, but the pilots ejected safely.

Lots of potential there.

The version in the three-view from APR is a much more optimized design for attack and would make an excellent escort for a cargo version.

[Captain Canada]

The version in the three-view from APR is a much more optimized design for attack and would make an excellent escort for a cargo version.

Let's see 'er !

Don't think I've ever seen it before.......

   

[TsrJoe]

NRC./NRL. (GTR. Hill) Pterodactyl tailess glider ... https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.774113144571325&type=3

[PR19_Kit]

NRC./NRL. (GTR. Hill) Pterodactyl tailess glider ... https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.774113144571325&type=3

Does this set a record? The longest EVER gap between posts on here, getting on for TWENTY years! 

The OP even predates my arrival on here, and I've never seen this thread before!

[KarlSack]

Hi. I was searching the net for Pterodactyl and came across this forum. My Dad worked on the Tailless Glider / The Flying Wing at NRC in Ottawa, Canada during the war. I am 3D printing a 1:24 scale model.

My Dad is the one leaning over the wing with the black hair. He left NRC in 1946 and started his own company making radomes for the RCAF and USAF on the DEW line and Pinetree line with co-operation from NRC with testing. He flew the glider shown below at Carp near Ottawa during the war.

Cheers,
Karl

[Rick Lowe]

NRC./NRL. (GTR. Hill) Pterodactyl tailess glider ... https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.774113144571325&type=3

Does this set a record? The longest EVER gap between posts on here, getting on for TWENTY years! 

The OP even predates my arrival on here, and I've never seen this thread before!

I've seen zombie revivals before, but this has to be the record!
I didn't even know this site *was* around back then... if I had, I'd probably have been annoying you lot for even longer! 

[NARSES2]

Wellcome and many thanks for those photos Karl 

[KarlSack]

Well, the 3D printed 300mm wingspan model (1:48 scale) is all glued up! It's "ok" but as they say, we are our own worse critic!!

I still have to think about what I am going to do with the canopy.

Behind the NRC Tailless Glider / Flying Wing, we have the F14, F16, and SR-71 that I had fun putting together with my Step-Dad when I was younger. Many moons ago!

Coming up, the 600mm wingspan model (1:24 scale)

[NARSES2]

Coming along