Fix The Flaws Group-Build

[jcf]

A B-17 with shoulder mounted wings to allow for a larger bomb bay and payload.

Boeing Model 299J

An HP Hampden with a widened fuselage that would give the other crew members internal access to the cockpit if the pilot was killed or injured and unable to continue flying the aircraft. From all I've heard, it was that lack of internal access to the cockpit that was the Hampden's biggest drawback.

Proposals were made in 1938 for a variant with a wider fuselage and either Merlin XX or Hercules engines, bombload of 2,000 lbs at an all-up-weight of 21,000 lbs and a maximum speed of 315 mph.
The Douglas DB-7/A-20/Boston series also had a narrow fuselage without "internal access" to the cockpit from the other crew areas and I've not read anything about that being a particular drawback, why would it be so on the Hampden?

Jon

[jcf]

It's Trigger's Old Broom Syndrome, isn't it, or, as it's known in the States, Super-Hornet syndrome:

"Well yes, it's got a new centre-fuselage, new engines, new outer wings, new fins, new radar, new forward fuselage, new tailplanes, new inner wings, new undercarriage and a new rear fuselage, but basically it's just a modified version of the old Hornet. Congressman." 

Just playing the "derivative" game, the commercial airliner constructors have been doing it for decades.

Jon

[B777LR]

Lets see:

Bf-109: no rivets
B737: cargohold from an A320
A340: Different engines. Can you say "Superfan"?
Alitalia: The impossible challenge. Alitalia cant be fixed.
F-16: make it less boring, and give it colours
World War II: D-day invasion is beaten back by German forces. War lasts until 1954.
Chamberlain: Doesnt become PM

Etc.

[ysi_maniac]

A B-17 with shoulder mounted wings to allow for a larger bomb bay and payload.

Boeing Model 299J

I love that bomber
Thanks for posting

[kitnut617]

The Douglas DB-7/A-20/Boston series also had a narrow fuselage without "internal access" to the cockpit from the other crew areas and I've not read anything about that being a particular drawback, why would it be so on the Hampden?

Jon

hmm!  Maryland, Baltimore spring to mind too.  Mind you to remedy these you get the A-26 Invader and B-26 Maruader wouldn't you?

[gunfighter]

Mirage F1 with SNECMA M53? 

[ysi_maniac]

^^^^^ As a plane it did exist: Mirage-F1E. Its service would be whiff however. But what about with J79? 

[dy031101]

Didn't know such a GB proposal exists......

I wonder that, even given the technological isolation of France, if ARL-44 could have been improved......