WW-I Aircraft for Whiffery.

[Daryl J.]

All of this is simply thinking aloud, any idea free for the taking if so wanted:


As a gift from Captain Nemo to Allan Quatermain:

Hanriot HD.2 with a parasol configuration based on an extended Sopwith Camel upper wing; section between ailerons metal skinned.    Supercharger off either a Bf-109 or P-38, extra prop   blade.   Metal surfaces ever so slightly off white, rear fuselage royal blue.    Floats embellished in the vein of Captain Nemo's car and ship. 

Interior will have a leopard print along the fuselage with a tiger stripe cushion on the seat.    Additional instrumentation in a bullet shaped fairing just outside the cockpit to the starboard.    Cleats on floats to be two horned sculpted heads scavenged from Quatermain's discoveries and feats.     


The jury is still out on whether or not  this machine will be 'time melded' or not with a glass cockpit, carbon fibre struts, iPod hookup, and a vintage hand crank phone.   

Eduard 1/48 kit.




Other scenarios *not* related to Quatermain:


Roland Walfisch:    Pressure 'pod' cabin with round pressure windows rather than the square and a pressure dome where the pilot looks out with those teeny round windows.   Single, rather long upper wing swept with winglets, enlarged tail empennage.

I-16:     Overall metal construction, ski equipped fixed gear, cowling made corrugated aluminium along with outer wing panels.  Not dubdub-wunn but odd idea inserted.

P-6E:     Upper wing lowered closer to fuselage, revised intakes, enlarged radiator which would include an intercooler.     Other details to follow later.  Again, off time aircraft but Lindberg kit is cheap.

Bristol Fighter:    Converted from a tail dragger to a 'quadratyre'.  See Finneas Phog's 'wheelie shoes'.    Metal 'scales' along fuselage with areas not covered by the metal in natural leather.  Black wings and forward fuselage.    "The Black Knight"    Aesthetics to emulate Mark Nason shoes, slips, boots, and bags.   Emblem on the side of two migrated coconuts.

Nieuport 11/16/17    One on skiis, one on floats, one to be determined

Avia B.534 serie III:    All metal construction, desert ready with extra filtration, reduced armament for mercenary work.

DH.4:    Steampunker's dream.   
BE2c:     Steampunker's dream part 2.

Sopwith Camel:   Floats including rear a la Sopwith Schneider.   Squared off wing tips.

Albatros D.V and Pfalz D.III:    Glass cockpit with square MFD and round buttons rather than square, fewer in number.   Metalized front, mixed wood and carbon fibre rear fuselage.    Wings overlaid with layered metal.    Wood can be highly weathered and carbon fibre about as factory fresh as can possibly be.    Carbon fibre struts, rigging significantly reduced.   Engine work to include some sort of charged air for the intake, extra radiators for heat dispensation.   Brass headlamps for landing lights.    One rear fuselage 'whorled' with engraved wood in a Victorian-esque bannister spindle sort of fashion.   Albatros gets an extra propellor blade.   



Daryl J.

[Daryl J.]

More ruminating aloud since we'll be offline for possibly some months:

B.E.2c (Roden 1/48)   Twin exhaust driven turbochargers attached to leading edge of top wing.   Possible intercooler between blowers with twin returns to the engine following exhaust stacks.  Somehow, those exhaust pipes have a Peterbuilt or Kenworth look to them.   Exhausts exit across wing top.    Conversion to single seat observer or sport aircraft.   Paddle blade prop with rear profile echoing Ta-152 series just on a smaller scale.    Glass cockpit.   Enlarged vertical tail that is a parody/exaggeration of the current shape in order to manage additional horsepower.   Steel rigging and thus reduced. (Yay!!!!)

DH-2:   Winter aircraft:  Tri blade wood prop.   Skiis made out of closely set parallel metal tubing and either leather or thick cloth to be the ski.   Side heating cores for cockpit with some blown air for pilot comfort.   Pilot dressed in contemporary ski gear brightly colored.   Vertical tail in natural brightwood finish.   Tubing composing aft ''fuselage'' to be wrapped giving it a bandaged together look.   Possible carbon fibre leading edges zigzagged in similar to the Revell Germany/Monogram Rafale kit.    Bamboo flooring.   

Curtiss Jenny:    Cumbersome looking supercharger under the deficient-looking chin in order to buff it up a bit.    Slightly clipped wings.   Conversion to single seater, aft cockpit used.  Unarmed.    Other cockpit used as a cargo area for either Jack Daniels or Johnny Walker's best.    ?Used by Ethyl's Alcohol Transport Services, Revenoo-er free?     Black, shiny fuselage, natural clear doped linen elsewhere, very satin in finish.   Tundra tires and STOL slats.    Cleared to fly 100' AGL or less ONLY.

SE5A (Lindberg kit):   Tailplane converted to be as square as the rest of the machine.   Grill full of round circles a la GMC Denali.    On wide set skis, each ski a bit wide as well.
-------or------ conversion of all surfaces to wooden ply and finished in blonde varnish.   Tailplane also simplified for table saw work.    Sundry power bulges and plumbing in engine/exhaust area.   Possible mixed woods so colors vary in places.

Fokker D.VII:   Oh boy!        Parasol with wood wing E.V style.   RLM 70 overall slightly lightened.   Seat brilliant red.    Or:   US Atlantic colors for patrol work by high school kids during WW-II, either Boeing or Douglas built with Dutch emphasis for political acceptance.  (or whatever country Fokker is from).     Or:  1920's US markings based on the premise that Anthony Fokker chose to sell to the Allied forces rather than Axis, post war machine.      D.VII on floats.     

Fokker Dr.1:   Somehow Bugatti Blue just wouldn't be appropriate; that red overall is just so choice.     Black/White Dazzle?  Not really.    Overall RLM 71 with a black/white wrap around striping behind cockpit area to end of machine.

More ideas to follow.


Daryl J.

[Joe C-P]

So, you've put some thought into this I guess?   

Please don't be gone forever, because I really want to see these! Especially the "quadratyred" Bristol! 

[Brian da Basher]

For some reason this is making me think of a SPAD XIII converted to a flying Nitrous Oxide tank...



Brian da Basher

[Daryl J.]

DH-2:   Out of era machine: Vietnam    Uprated engine, prop and frame support armored open cockpit (oxymoron if there ever was one, eh?).   Forward firepower  replaces front cockpit and is similar in style to the A-26K, just massively downgraded.   SEA/Black camo.    Equipped with a set of bomb racks to carry two small WW-1 shaped daisy cutters.

SPAD N₂0 Tank?   

Daryl J.   

[Daryl J.]

Gavia 1/48 Pfalz Eindekker converted to look a bit more like the Nieuport N6H.

[Weaver]

Bristol Night-Fighter with an early version of Mr. Marconi's Patented "Radiographic Locator" : arrays of dipole aerials on the interplane struts, wind-driven generator, valves sticking out of the fuselage side for cooling, and a "what-the-butler-saw" scope for the back-seater...... Armament could be a pair of SE.5A Lewis Gun mountings, allowing conventional fire or "schrage muzik" attacks.

[Daryl J.]

Sopwith Siamese, a tribute to Rutan and Tophe...the twin Camel.



Daryl J.

[jcf]

B;D Armament could be a pair of SE.5A Lewis Gun mountings, allowing conventional fire or "schrage muzik" attacks.

An oblique MG setup was used on the B.E.2c night fighter (the first use), and the Sopwith Dolphin was designed with two Lewis guns trainable in a vertical arc.

Here is an interesting page on Nightfighter operations in GB during WWI.
http://worldatwar.net/chandelle/v4/v4n1-2/ww1nite.html

Jon

[Daryl J.]

Special Hobby 1/48 Lloyd C.V in Weyerhauser or Boise-Cascade markings and bright finish to be used as a flying plywood promotional air machine.   

[Daryl J.]

Copper State Models Rumpler 6B.1 in the markings of the Royal Alaska Fishing Charter Corps.   Externally mounted fishing chests beneath the fuselage and side-fuselage fishing rod carrying cases by Thule or Yakima.   Dynamite case optional in case there is no game warden around when fishing is slow.

Grigorovich M.5 in matching markings as part of RAFCC airborne repertoire. 


Dornier D.1 in NMF/Clear Doped Linen and AlcoaGermany sponsorship, 4 blade prop and uprated engine.



Daryl J., again thinking aloud during a house-packing break

[Daryl J.]

German balloon converted to a reven-oo-er utility vehicle for the moonshiners of Kentucky.  iPhone is standard equipment.



Daryl J.

[Daryl J.]

Albatros D.V with a slightly extended span parasol wing.   Winter skiis for undercarriage.    Kelly Green upper wing and tail assembly, RLM-77 fuselage.
Fokker Dr.1 on floats.   Another Dr.1 in Fat Hermann's markings.


Daryl J.

[Daryl J.]

Sopwith Camel in lo-vis Hemp and lo-viz blue/pink roundels as an off-the-cuff British version of N. African mercenaries.



Daryl J.

[Edit]  Awright, a thread merge from days gone by!   The Nieuport N6-H is great!

[Daryl J.]

Lloyd C.V monoplane---->   Lower wings extended with full aileron and flaps added.    Birdseye Maple outer veneer option in bright finish for civilian luxury versions.   


Fokker D.II on floats.




Daryl J.