WHIFS found while Google-ing

[rickshaw]

A beautiful whif that I saw some time ago.  There's certainly a bunch of oddities there to be sure.

Regards,

Mav

Nose cockpit from early Sikorsky helicopter (H-5/SO3).  Engine cowling from Griffin-engined Spitfire.  Spinner looks too pointed for Spitfire, mmmm, early P-38?  Booms and tail, definitely Vampire/Venom.  Inner-wing from a Whirlwind perhaps?  Outer-wing, not sure about.  Cockpit looks like it comes from something I'm familar with but not sure what.

[JayBee]

To my eye the cockpit looks a bit like an F4U Corsair.

[beowulf]

so there i was googling about fw flitzers...............ended up on a french modelling site...couldnt read a word but the pics were nice  .....someone had this as his sig on there.

[Taiidantomcat]

Thats a beauty! Thank you for sharing that 

[pyro-manic]

Ohh, yes indeed!

[Weaver]

I was playing Google tag, you know, you start searching for one thing, then click through links until you're onto something completely different?

I began at the x-planes blog, which ran a piece last week about a modeler who scratchbuilt an aircraft from the sole existing photo (in this case, the Nakajima B4N, an experimental torpedo plane from the 30s).  From there I bounced over to HS for the original story and photos.  I wondered if there were any more photos unearthed since the posting of that model.  No joy, but in the course of my searches I ran across a listing of real and fictional Japanese military aircraft, and that in turn led me here:

http://www.warbirds.jp/kakuki/kyosaku/21ki/21th.seiroku.html

I give you the De Havilland Gadfly:



This cannot have been a real aircraft, right?

1. Could the Gadfly be inspired by this?



Pic from here: http://richard.ferriere.free.fr/3vues/P-3vues.html

Wiki entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potez_75


2. I suspect the shape of the Gadfly's engine cowling  is based on those of the Bell Airacuda.

3. I think the front end of the Gadfly's booms started life as Alizé undercarriage fairings.

[frank2056]

1. Could the Gadfly be inspired by this?

Pic from here: http://richard.ferriere.free.fr/3vues/P-3vues.html

Wiki entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potez_75
...

They are similar. My aeronautical question of the day - why does the Poetz have the elevator raised out of most of the propeller's airstream? You'd think that you'd want it in the airstream, to give a greater/quicker elevator response (possibly in exchange for greater turbulence/shakey controls). In the Poetz, lowering the nose would put the elevator in a good chunk of the prop's flow, but pulling it up would take it out of most of the flow.

[Maverick]

Perhaps they were considering the Potez for conversion to jet power?  That would be a good reason to have the tailplane out of the way.

From what I've read, it was designed as a ground attack aircraft armed with Nord SS-11 ATGWs which it didn't to very well but ended up being used by the French in Algeria armed with rockets where it performed adequately enough but wasn't selected for production.

Regards,

Mav

[NARSES2]

Always liked that Potez, must remember that Atakombo kit it, next time I see Adrian Hampton at a show

[ChernayaAkula]

JGSDF AH Hellhound from Patlabor 2!  More pics available >>HERE<<.

[Taiidantomcat]

Soooo Cool!! 

[pyro-manic]

I really need to get a couple of those Kotobukiya kits.

[GTX]

More

Regards,

Greg

[The Rat]

That Buc is definitely in the 'should have been' category!

[GTX]

Found all these in a single search (though didn't actually find what I was after):









Regards,

Greg