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Turbo-propped early jets

Started by Weaver, March 07, 2011, 01:08:16 AM

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The Wooksta!

#15
March 08, 2011, 04:30:57 AM
Yak 15?  It's already a tailsitter!
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#16
March 08, 2011, 05:13:27 AM
Quote from: NARSES2 on March 08, 2011, 01:38:26 AM

I to like that Sud SO 8000. Have to have a look out for the Akatombo kit. Only place I know does them, apart from direct order, is in Paris. Anybody know any other sources ?


I've not found them anywhere else except here (and direct of course, I used to get a news letter from him every now and then but not recently)

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#17
March 08, 2011, 07:23:37 AM
Thanks for that. I asked Adrian at Lonewulf if he could get them last time I saw him. He was going to enquire.
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#18
March 08, 2011, 08:03:52 AM
Quote from: The Wooksta! on March 08, 2011, 04:30:57 AM
Yak 15?  It's already a tailsitter!

Good point. You could also equip it with a Hispano-type reduction gearbox that raised the prop axis a bit (and gave you a prop-centre cannon, of course  ;))
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#19
March 08, 2011, 08:55:28 AM
Quote from: Weaver on March 07, 2011, 10:58:52 AM
Indeed - didn't somebody do a pusher-prop Vampire and ground clearance was much-discussed?


Yes one of the guys in the Swedish AF SIG.





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#20
March 08, 2011, 09:02:29 AM
Have a look a the third pic down showing the Thunderscreech's prop clearance, or lack of it! :blink:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_XF-84H_Thunderscreech
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#21
March 08, 2011, 09:23:21 AM
Quote from: Mossie on March 08, 2011, 09:02:29 AM
Have a look a the third pic down showing the Thunderscreech's prop clearance, or lack of it! :blink:

I'll bet that didn't help the AWFUL noise it made one bit!
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#22
March 08, 2011, 12:02:58 PM
Yes as was misspellingly reported in Air International some years ago "It had a supersonic AIRCREW which caused nausea in anyone within a few hundred yards"  :rolleyes:
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Any aircraft can be improved by giving it a SHARKMOUTH!

The Wooksta!

#23
March 08, 2011, 12:05:44 PM
The prop Vampire is by a guy called Ted Burnett.
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#24
March 08, 2011, 12:33:10 PM
Quote from: JayBee on March 08, 2011, 12:02:58 PM
"It had a supersonic AIRCREW which caused nausea in anyone within a few hundred yards"  :rolleyes:

Aircrew do that at any speed!
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#25
March 29, 2011, 12:36:31 PM
Quote from: kitnut617 on March 07, 2011, 05:43:38 AM
The Sabre Dog would be an excellent subject.  This is actually my RR Crecy Fighter (24 cylinder two-stroke 'X' engine), but a turbo-prop engine would work just as well---  Fitting it with FJ-4 Fury u/c gives it plenty of prop clearance



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#26
April 02, 2011, 08:54:40 AM
The DC-8 would be sweet as a turboprop, Tu-95 style.   

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#27
April 02, 2011, 08:58:08 AM
Quote from: Daryl J. on April 02, 2011, 08:54:40 AM
The DC-8 would be sweet as a turboprop, Tu-95 style.   

Hm, now there's an interesting idea, specially on a Stretch 8.......
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#28
April 02, 2011, 09:12:46 AM
QuoteHm, now there's an interesting idea, specially on a Stretch 8.......

Yes indeed.   

sequoiaranger

#29
April 02, 2011, 09:35:30 AM
I just had to throw my hat into the ring. My current project for the 1946 GB is just such a beast:

http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,31972.0.html

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