XF-15 HyperSabre

[anthonyp]

Nice!  T-tails, definately.

[John Howling Mouse]

aaaaaaaah, I dunno.

Maybe the T-Tail version is the best?



Great concept and doing one of each would make a lot of sense.
Lots of quick evolution of similar yet distinct designs are possible.

[Andrew Gorman]

There was a proposal to launch X-15's from Navaho booster rockets, and another scheme (I can't find the picture- it's on a zip disk somewhere...) to vertical launch an x-15 on a baroque cluster of 3 or 4 Titan rockets.
Found the image I was looking for:
http://www.ninfinger.org/~sven/models/vault/X15.jpg
Andrew

[Shasper]

X-15/Navajo

My X-15A3

Shas B)

[ysi_maniac]

X-15/Navajo

My X-15A3

Shas B)

They look great      but another angle in your X-15A3 ?

[Davey B]

Lokin' good...        

[MMM]

Okay, update:

I've taken a few... liberties... with the design- making her hew closer to one of my favorite designs of the Early Space Age, the old Estes XF-302 Interceptor.



The decals are the classic Estes "Interceptor" decals, reduced in size to 45% of normal size and temporarily Glue-Sticked on.











Instead of styrene gray, printer-paper white, and masking-tape blue, imagine her in aircraft white (guess they licked that ablative paint problem- probably with technology gained from the first Zork shoot-down.) The decals are merely Xeroxes, glue-sticked onto the airframe to determine size and location- final decals will be full-color, and will include a Strategic Space Command shield.

Once I went with the "Interceptor" style, the location of the Genie II missiles was obvious- as was their color. (Florescent red-orange, of course.) I even retro-engineered a reason for keeping the weaponry out on the wingtips- and why they would be anchored at the warhead. (You see, these brave pilots would already be at the mercy of cosmic rays and such- designers would want to keep two minimally-shielded nuke-warhead missiles as far as possible from the crew compartment. And the Genie II- my missile- is designed to drop the booster engine on unfired missiles before landing, so as to keep wingtip weight to a minimum. Attaching the missiles at the warhead means that the plane keeps the warheads for landing, while ejecting the booster rocket to land by 'chute.

I'm sure people are either going to hate it or love it... but I'm building her anyway!
Semper whiff!

[BlackOps]

Well I didn't see that one comin' but I gotta say it's cool!

[Eddie M.]

I love it! I also like your rockets. I used to fly them all the time. Ah, the memories ^_^
   Eddie  

[Archibald]

Lovely "whatif" X-15! But what the hell are those cool rockets ?
Estes XF-302 Interceptor mean nothing for a Frenchman (sorry...)  

[John Howling Mouse]

Yes, fantastic idea!

And, the Estes rockets, how did you get the two different scale versions?  Is one scratchbuilt??

 

[anthonyp]

Awesome rockets, M3!  I had one of those growing up.  Launched once.  It had a spectacular death.

The XF-15 is turning out quite nice.  I like the direction you've veered wildly onto with it    

[MMM]

Lovely "whatif" X-15! But what the hell are those cool rockets ?
Estes XF-302 Interceptor mean nothing for a Frenchman (sorry...)

The Estes Model Rocket company (based in Estes, Colorado, USA) came up with a design for a near-space interceptor rocket in the early  '70's, with molded styrene nosecone/tail cones/exhaust and two EXTENSIVE decal sheets. She's a big favorite of anyone who was building model rockets during this period. Sadly, they've been OOP for awhile...

Instructions and decals here.

Dig the crazy zero-length launch dio:

Zero-Length Launch Diorama

"Improved" parts here

[Brian da Basher]

Wow that's some truly outa-sight stuff there Triple M! I'm very impressed with your plans for that X-15 and I' really lookingforward to your next update.

Brian da Basher

[Archibald]

Lovely "whatif" X-15! But what the hell are those cool rockets ?
Estes XF-302 Interceptor mean nothing for a Frenchman (sorry...)

The Estes Model Rocket company (based in Estes, Colorado, USA) came up with a design for a near-space interceptor rocket in the early  '70's, with molded styrene nosecone/tail cones/exhaust and two EXTENSIVE decal sheets. She's a big favorite of anyone who was building model rockets during this period. Sadly, they've been OOP for awhile...

Instructions and decals here.

Dig the crazy zero-length launch dio:

Zero-Length Launch Diorama

"Improved" parts here

Thanks for the infos!! And I'm really fond of the X-15, too!!!