Floaty flyey things

[pyro-manic]

Now I like the sound of that - it would really mess with people's heads.


What about a Supermarine S.7 - based on a late Spitfire or the Spiteful, with low-profile canopy, clipped wings, and a massively tweaked Griffon? Or a Hawker machine, with a Sabre or Crecy engine. Lose the draggy chin radiator, and use evaporative cooling instead.

[scooter]

Actually develop CL-130s?

[Cliffy B]

OH MY!!!!!    That begs for some profiles.  Who wants to build one?

[tigercat]

how about a Me 323 flying boat

[PR19_Kit]

And on that principle...... Blackburn Beverley......

Somewhere there's a piccie of a couple of 47 Sqdn Bevs on the ramp at Abingdon after it had rained BUCKETS, and they look just as if they were flying boats, having such low ground clearance! The original ramp there was only temporary while they built proper hangars tall enough to take the Bevs, so the place wasn't drained too well. Instead the water hung around in huge pools, that which hadn't overflowed into the adjacent Married Quarters anyway......... 

[rallymodeller]

Another suggestion: IL-28 Beagle. Fit a hull, then move the engines to the top of the wing.

It'd probably look a lot like the Beriev R-1:



and that was later developed into the operational Be-10 Mallow:

[NARSES2]

Always liked the idea of the retractable planing hull as used by the Blackburn B.20 myself

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackburn_B-20

[Weaver]

Another suggestion: IL-28 Beagle. Fit a hull, then move the engines to the top of the wing.

It'd probably look a lot like the Beriev R-1:

Yep - that's the idea! You could call it Illushin's competing design. A lot of people would know that there was something real that was vaguely along those lines, but it wouldn't look quite right...

With Tamiya/Ben Hobby's nice little 1/100th example about, it'd be relatively easy to do it by using a 1/72nd or 1/48th float too. In 1/72nd, I'd avoid the Airfix Beagle though: the upper halves of it's engine pods are moulded to the wings...

[tigercat]

couldn't you just reverse the wings and mount them upside down.

[kitnut617]

couldn't you just reverse the wings and mount them upside down.

What I've done on my DHC-8 floatplane, was to cut the wings off as close to the nacelles as possible, then flip the nacelles upside down.  I then also cut the rear of the nacelles off and turn them back to how they originally were, so the exhaust exited up and backwards.  This is another project I should get back onto, it's been packed away now for over three years (for a house move)

[Weaver]

couldn't you just reverse the wings and mount them upside down.

It's doable (I was playing with one last night). The wing section isn't symetrical, but it's close and it's thin, so the PSR to get the wing roots to match is within reason. On the whole I think it'd be better to adapt an Italeri or Trumpeter one that has fully separate nacelles, but either would work.

[Weaver]

How about a B-24 Liberator? High wing, deep fuselage... seems like a natural.

ThinK that's what a PB2Y3 Coronado is Weaver

Hmmm kind of, but the Coronado's wing is very different. A flying boat Liberator would still make an interesting whiff.

[PR19_Kit]

Always liked the idea of the retractable planing hull as used by the Blackburn B.20 myself

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackburn_B-20

Absolutely Chris, it's a pity no-one has ever kitted it, not even in vacform AFAIK.

[rallymodeller]

Always liked the idea of the retractable planing hull as used by the Blackburn B.20 myself

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackburn_B-20

Absolutely Chris, it's a pity no-one has ever kitted it, not even in vacform AFAIK.

I have it in Flight Sim...

[Daryl J.]

Who said it has to be military?

Why not a Cessna 195 with a cleanly mounted pair of Edos?    (Yeah...it's likely been done, I'm just unaware of it)
Wendell-Williams racer or Mr. Mulligan.