Whiffs on Ebay

[lenny100]

if it goes for that then a few of mine re going up.....

[Captain Canada]

Cool model. But too right Lenny, maybe it's time to start selling lol

[Jesse220]

Woah

[JayBee]

Believe it or not that was, they thought, a good way to know just the right height to fly over the ground for ground attack. DOH!

[zenrat]

IIRC the boom aaas attached to the elevators and was intended to maintain a fixed height above ground.

[kerick]

Or catch on something and pull the ac nose first into the ground! Easy defense against ground attack, just lay cables and hooks along the ground....

[Madoc]

Well, here's something you don't see every day!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Experimental-Twin-Tailed-T-33-Jet-1-72-Airfix-Revell-Monogram-Hasegawa-/152154123144?hash=item236d17ab88:g:QD4AAOSwRQlXeYjg

Now, upon first glance a twin tailed T-33 seems quite the WhIf.  A bit of Googling though, and it turns out to be a real machine - if something of a one-off and only created out in the field.

http://www.tailsthroughtime.com/2009_10_01_archive.html - look to about the middle of the page.

Still though, I think it belongs here.

[reddfoxx]

Never heard of a twin-tail T-33!  Very very cool.

[Dizzyfugu]

Both are interesting finds.  I also never heard of this conversion/project.

[loupgarou]

Interesting find AND aircraft!
BUT "Beautifully built "... The builder is not a master of PSR...

[Old Wombat]

He's not a Master of Glue or Fitting the Parts Correctly, either - one of the wing tanks is barely touching the end of the wing.

[PR19_Kit]

Interesting find AND aircraft!
BUT "Beautifully built "... The builder is not a master of PSR...

My sentiments exactly, I was building better models than that when I was 15! 

[ysi_maniac]

Looks nice :-)

[Captain Canada]

Very cool, I had no idea. I'll have to read the story, but I do love the look of it and would like to build my own some day ! His description is pretty funny as well...beauty in the eye of the beer holder I guess 

[Madoc]

Yeah, the construction "quality" leaves a tad to be desired.  Looking at his other "pro built" kits shows even worse.

But, it's an interesting subject none the less.