Whiffs found surfing

[kitnut617]

The Shootinpfeil is very credible!

That's the one I like best as well 

It would have to have very tall gangly u/c though wouldn't it   ----

Very much so, but somehow if the Do 335 had entered service in sufficient numbers you can imagine it being the USAAF's answer to it ? Well I'm beginning to anyway 

I've read (somewhere) that there was a heavy fighter version planned of one of these below, it's the same size as the Do355 too -- 

[NARSES2]

I've read (somewhere) that there was a heavy fighter version planned of one of these below, it's the same size as the Do355 too -- 

I suppose it could have been an interceptor rather than a pure fighter ? I always smile when I see photo's of the XB-42. When the Anigrand kit first came out I felt quite chuffed when I turned up at a show with my finished kit for the SIG table only to find Mike McEvoy had finished 3 of them 

[PR19_Kit]

..........only to find Mike McEvoy had finished 3 of them 

I bet at least one of them RAF too. 

[Knightflyer]

Not a whiff as such (except in the fertile imagination of the members on here!) , but just saw this on Evilbay and couldn't help thinking .......Kit/PR19....where are you! ?! 

[PR19_Kit]

I'm on it! 

Many thanks. 

[kitnut617]

I've read (somewhere) that there was a heavy fighter version planned of one of these below, it's the same size as the Do355 too -- 

I suppose it could have been an interceptor rather than a pure fighter ? I always smile when I see photo's of the XB-42. When the Anigrand kit first came out I felt quite chuffed when I turned up at a show with my finished kit for the SIG table only to find Mike McEvoy had finished 3 of them 

Yeah, I've got their XB-42 and XB-43 kits too, but Execuform, Eagles Talons and VP Productions all did a vacuform long before Anigrand did theirs Chris --- 

[PR19_Kit]

I have the VP vacforms of both the Mixmaster and the Jetmaster.

One day I may even finish building them.....

[NARSES2]

Moved on behalf of Dizzy. Apologies but this was the easiest way to do it.

Chris

Quote from: Pellson on April 23, 2021, 07:19:23 am
Quote from: Gondor on April 23, 2021, 07:13:54 am
...an Interceptor or a Fighter Bomber...

OK, that triggered me. Now you have to explain exactly what, obviously apart from ordinance, that separates the two. I thought they worked like the F-4's, i.e. just hang it up and shoot depending on what you've just hung..

At least from a 1:72 perspective.. 


The aircraft in question based on the XB-42 was Douglas' "Model 1011" from late 1945, all-weather interceptor with radar. Beyond the wto Allison engines and the pusher props this one would have had a pair of jet engines under the wings as boosters, a tandem seat cockpit in the nose. AFAIK, remotely-controlled armament was four movable 0.5" machine guns firing forward, and two more firing backwards, all radar-guided. But there was a bomb bay for a pair of 1.000 lb bombs, too.

[jcf]

Then of course there was the original DC-8, the Skybus.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080909210514/http://dc-8jet.com/0-dc8-skybus.htm

[PR19_Kit]

I've always liked the idea of the Skybus, but I'm not sure that any passengers would have felt the same with those two zonking Allison V-1710s right there INSIDE with them! 

One would almost be buildable in plastic with a butchered XB-42 or -43 kit to hand. I've got one of each, but I'd rather build them OOB.

[Pellson]

I might be
a) last in a long line of linkers, or
b) linking a fellow forum members own page

..but nevertheless - i really like quite a few of these builds. Hence - I'm linking regardless. 

>>CLICK HERE FOR NICE BUILDS<<

[PR19_Kit]

I don't know who that guy is, but he sure builds some EXCELLENT stuff! 

Most impressed, and thanks for the link too. 

[Tophe]

Great link! Thanks a lot!

[Scotaidh]

That was a visual feast!   Thanks, Pellson!     

[Weaver]

McDonnell Douglas's MD-12: 1990s proposal for a twin-deck 'super jumo' that looks hauntingly familiar:

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