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Hybrid B17/24

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kitnut617

August 26, 2006, 06:44:24 PM
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Jennings

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August 26, 2006, 07:55:05 PM
I'm assuming this is news to you?  :)  I thought it was pretty cool in the ealry 1970s!

J
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John Howling Mouse

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August 26, 2006, 08:29:29 PM
Definitely news to me as well!!   So much fun to see people building What Ifs in 1:1 scale...!   :P  
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Captain Canada

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August 26, 2006, 08:36:52 PM
QuoteI thought it was pretty cool in the ealry 1970s!

One more reason why we should bring back the seventies !

Great find Kitnut...who knew ? That 'thing' is awesome ! Can't believe we haven't seen one modeled yet !

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elmayerle

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August 26, 2006, 11:39:57 PM Last Edit: August 27, 2006, 08:17:18 PM by elmayerle
If you've got the Putnam book on Boeing aircraft, I seem to remember it had a three-view of a studied high-wing, tricycle-geared B-17 derivative that was "inspired" by the B-24.  Now the book I really wish I could lay hands on was one published during or just after WW II on the evolution, design, and building of the Flying Fortress because in it's pages there's side and top views of a rear gun-position proposal that kept the tapered aft fuselage of the early B-17s, added a faired-in gun position, and went with twin vertical tails.  I wish I'd copied that when I saw it, or at least could easily access it.

PS.  Speaking of that gun position, if anyone has a good, high-res 3-view of a B-17D, I'm game to try and recreate what I saw from memory.
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kitnut617

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August 27, 2006, 07:06:18 AM
QuoteI'm assuming this is news to you?  :)  I thought it was pretty cool in the ealry 1970s!

J
Hi J,

Yes it is new to me. And I only stumbled on it when I was looking for something else.   Mind you just being on this forum has had me find numerous things I've never heard of before.  :blink:

:cheers: Robert

If I'm not building models, I'm out riding my dirtbike

Jennings

#6
August 27, 2006, 07:20:05 AM
QuoteCan't believe we haven't seen one modeled yet !
Oh, you youngsters.  There was one at an IPMS/USA convention decades ago... :)  There truly is nothing new under the sun!

J
"My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over." - Gerald R. Ford, 9 Aug 1974

John Howling Mouse

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August 27, 2006, 09:13:12 AM
QuoteThere truly is nothing new under the sun!

J
I heard there's a certain "new" article in an upcoming issue of "MAM" however...

:P  
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