Project Aurora........

Shasper · June 05, 2010, 06:40:54 AM

Dam son . . . you HAVE my attention!

(Now where's my XR-7 kit? *starts rummaging*)

redstar72 · June 06, 2010, 01:47:27 AM

An excellent work!
And it's a surprize also for me - how big this monster is...

anthonyp · June 06, 2010, 09:44:39 AM

That's awesome! Gives me a third scheme to paint up an XR-7 in.

LemonJello · June 06, 2010, 07:16:01 PM

Wow. Just wow. That is, as the kids say, ridonkulous.

General Melchet · June 11, 2010, 01:09:53 AM

Thanks fellas, there's a couple more XR-7's in different configurations and schemes to come plus an even bigger 'something' on the horizon

........'here there be giants'

Andy

Tophe · June 19, 2010, 03:45:13 AM

Belated congratulations!

McColm · July 23, 2010, 12:38:08 AM

Fantastic model.
Just one slight niggle. The ejection sequence, the're sitting back-to-back. Who would clear first?

General Melchet · July 23, 2010, 02:21:14 AM

Thanks chaps, McColm, good point, have to toss a coin in the crew briefing room for that one!!.The problem also being that the rear man would have to eject into the airstream, (but at least that would be away from the XR-7 if still attached

).....maybe the seat could swivel, though hard to perform if the thing is breaking up around you!

McColm · July 23, 2010, 06:02:47 AM

Quote from: General Melchet on July 23, 2010, 02:21:14 AM
Thanks chaps, McColm, good point, have to toss a coin in the crew briefing room for that one!!.The problem also being that the rear man would have to eject into the airstream, (but at least that would be away from the XR-7 if still attached ).....maybe the seat could swivel, though hard to perform if the thing is breaking up around you!

It could eject sideways like the Douglas B-66 Destroyer.

anthonyp · July 23, 2010, 06:56:07 PM

Knowing USAF, the rear wound be the first to get out, but it may be a capsule eject (considering the whole plane is a WHIF, I say capsule for both).

McColm · July 24, 2010, 11:59:13 PM

Maybe the crew are expendable. Ejecting at high altitudes at high speed, hasn't been documented or has it?
Does anyone know the highest altitude a pilot has ejected out and survived ?

bearmatt · August 03, 2010, 01:29:19 AM

Or then eject downwards

, like they do on the B-52...

CAO 700 · August 05, 2010, 02:18:17 PM

Oh my God! It's incredible! It's enormous! It's magnificent! It's GREAT! I love it!

Geoff · August 05, 2010, 03:45:20 PM

Quote from: McColm on July 24, 2010, 11:59:13 PM
Maybe the crew are expendable. Ejecting at high altitudes at high speed, hasn't been documented or has it?
Does anyone know the highest altitude a pilot has ejected out and survived ?

I believe the highest admitted to was from a Mig-25 but I don't remember the height - except it exceeded the limits of the seat used by a lot.