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AS.12

#300
September 12, 2018, 02:06:33 AM
A workaround for the Marineflieger, to avoid having to hack the kit about, would be a three-mile runway leading to the coast with a ski-ramp at the end...

Weaver

#301
September 12, 2018, 05:30:21 AM
With the long pointed nose and the looks, if not the capability, for high performance, it would make an intriguing alternative Angel Interceptor... (IIRC the long pointed nose on the latter is a 'Mysteron Detector')
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Madoc

#302
September 12, 2018, 10:11:56 AM
Dizzy,

True but we don't want to go too far from the aesthetic of the Stiletto and that super long nose combined with that "hot rod" cockpit window set up is really its signature feature.
Wherever you go, there you are!

TheChronicOne

#303
September 12, 2018, 06:27:08 PM
Twin Boom Stilleto!!!   ;D :mellow:   High wing in the back and all that.......   longer main wings....    :wacko:


Don't mind me...  not feeling too well.  :o ;D
-Sprues McDuck-

PR19_Kit

#304
September 12, 2018, 10:59:20 PM
Bi-plane Stiletto, with rigging of course?  ;D ;)
Kit's Rule 1 ) Any aircraft can be improved by fitting longer wings, and/or a longer fuselage
Kit's Rule 2) The backstory can always be changed to suit the model

...and I'm not a closeted 'Take That' fan, I'm a REAL fan! :)

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Dizzyfugu

#305
September 13, 2018, 01:42:43 AM
Quote from: Madoc on September 12, 2018, 10:11:56 AM
Dizzy,

True but we don't want to go too far from the aesthetic of the Stiletto and that super long nose combined with that "hot rod" cockpit window set up is really its signature feature.

Who is "we"?  :unsure:

zenrat

#306
September 13, 2018, 02:52:12 AM
Quote from: Dizzyfugu on September 13, 2018, 01:42:43 AM
Quote from: Madoc on September 12, 2018, 10:11:56 AM
Dizzy,

True but we don't want to go too far from the aesthetic of the Stiletto and that super long nose combined with that "hot rod" cockpit window set up is really its signature feature.

Who is "we"?  :unsure:

Madoc and I for a start.
:mellow:
Fred

- Can't be bothered to do the proper research and get it right.

Another ill conceived, lazily thought out, crudely executed and badly painted piece of half arsed what-if modelling muppetry from zenrat industries.

zenrat industries:  We're everywhere...for your convenience..

Old Wombat

#307
September 13, 2018, 04:15:05 AM
Quote from: zenrat on September 13, 2018, 02:52:12 AM
Quote from: Dizzyfugu on September 13, 2018, 01:42:43 AM
Quote from: Madoc on September 12, 2018, 10:11:56 AM
Dizzy,

True but we don't want to go too far from the aesthetic of the Stiletto and that super long nose combined with that "hot rod" cockpit window set up is really its signature feature.

Who is "we"?  :unsure:

Madoc and I for a start.
:mellow:

Add me to the list.


I've been watching people posting all the things they'd change & all I could think was "Buy a bl@@dy Starfighter & stick 2 engines on it!"

The Stiletto has a "look", you change almost anything &, suddenly, it doesn't look like a Stiletto any more.

To me she has a wonderfully unique look, does the X-3.


Remember, too, that the F-104 benefited directly from lessons learned from the performance of the X-3.

Oh, & note the "X" designation; this little baby was built in 1952 to trial new, untested developments in aviation engineering &, sometimes, the engineers get it wrong.


Further development of the X-3? Make her bigger, stick bigger, better engines in her, slap on a couple or 4 missiles & call her a point defence interceptor!
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Weaver

#308
September 13, 2018, 05:20:10 AM
Actually I'd contend that the Douglas engineers didn't get much wrong at all. This is a pretty decent plane to build if you want to investigate high-speed flight in 1952 IF you can get enough power into it. It was the Westinghouse engineers who got it badly wrong in their development of the J-46 engine, thus forcing the use of the anemic J-34.
"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot."
 - Sandman: A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Neil Gaiman

"I dunno, I'm making this up as I go."
 - Indiana Jones

kitnut617

#309
September 13, 2018, 06:08:27 AM
Quote from: TheChronicOne on September 12, 2018, 06:27:08 PM
Twin Boom Stilleto!!!   ;D :mellow:

Don't mind me...  not feeling too well.  :o ;D

Started to look at that some time ago

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TheChronicOne

#310
September 13, 2018, 07:07:38 AM
Ah ha!!! That's looks pretty damn cool to me.  :mellow: :mellow:    Perhaps one day this will see its way into plastic.
-Sprues McDuck-

rickshaw

#311
September 13, 2018, 07:10:18 AM
What the X-3 reminds me of is the entry by Avro the A.V.117 into the F155T competition:


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NARSES2

#312
September 13, 2018, 07:26:01 AM
I'm just going to build it out of the box and pose it with my SR.53 as an example of the point interceptor the USAF, and others, used to defend their airfields in Europe. I'll just say it had a developed engine that did what it was meant to do  ;)
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Madoc

#313
September 13, 2018, 10:41:26 AM
Quote from: Old Wombat on September 13, 2018, 04:15:05 AM
Further development of the X-3? Make her bigger, stick bigger, better engines in her, slap on a couple or 4 missiles & call her a point defence interceptor!

Emphasis on the "point" part of being a "point" defence interceptor!

Yes, it's that gorgeous needle nose and those hella stylish cockpit windows which really set the Stiletto apart.  Altering those and you've made it no longer be a Stiletto!
Wherever you go, there you are!

Weaver

#314
July 13, 2019, 11:32:00 AM
"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot."
 - Sandman: A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Neil Gaiman

"I dunno, I'm making this up as I go."
 - Indiana Jones
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