RL V-Bomber Whifs?!?!?!

[MilitaryAircraft101]

Hey guys, found a site, looks pretty good and has a few ideas for never-were V-Bomber concepts, but also some planned modifications to existing ones....
http://www.vectorsite.net/avval.html
Any more V-Bomber concepts/mods post here! 

[PR19_Kit]

The index page for that site covers lots of other aircraft too.

http://www.vectorsite.net/idx_smap.html#m2

[albeback]

 

Here's one I prepared earlier!!

[Mossie]

Yeah, good site ain't it?  As Kit mentions, covers a lot of aircraft including many projects.

Have you got British Secret Projects Jet Bombers?  It's out of print at the mo & pricey, but it's well worth getting if you're into V-Bomber variants.  Chris Gibson's Vulcan's Hammer expands on this too, focuses more on the proposed weapons to be carried.

[albeback]

Yeah, good site ain't it?  As Kit mentions, covers a lot of aircraft including many projects.

Have you got British Secret Projects Jet Bombers?  It's out of print at the mo & pricey, but it's well worth getting if you're into V-Bomber variants.  Chris Gibson's Vulcan's Hammer expands on this too, focuses more on the proposed weapons to be carried.

Used to have the book!! I think it disappeared during one of my annual clear outs!!

I have a more radical Vulcan Whif in mind - thought I'd try fairing over the wing root intakes & using the underwing R R Olympus pods from the Airfix 1/72 Concorde. It'll inolve a bit of butchery on the wings but, a preliminary test fit shows its feasible to fit them inboard of & behind the undercarriage. Don't know about practical but, where there's a whif, there's a way!!

[ChrisF]

Whats that six engined monster in the back of the one photo albeback ?

[andyreb3]

That Six Engined Monster looks like the Old Dog Modified B-52 from the Dale Brown Novels

[scooter]

Its an Old Dog variant.  Just look at the V-tail.

And there's always potential for V Bomber whiffs.  But the Vulcan, like the Skyray, looks sexy just as she is.

[ChrisF]

Any links to more pics of this old dog ? Im a big fan of Dale Brown stuff i gotta admit...

[The Rat]

Often thought about extending the front fuselage of the Vulcan and putting canards on. One of our local shops has the Cyber-Hobby 1/200th example, might pick it up and have a go.

[albeback]

Whats that six engined monster in the back of the one photo albeback ?

Ah! You mean this? Just something I cobbled together last year!!

[ChrisF]

I like it !!    "old dog" nose art i take it ? 

[RussC]

Wonderous. The B-52 is like that leftover in the back of the fridge, gets into more recipes than anything else- good even when served cold.
 
6 engines? geez thats going to be a fast buff. I remember on the old dogfights series on History channel a proposed B-1 "fighter" version with a V tail. It could carry half the USAF AMRAAM stockpile in one load, pepper a hostile formation over the horizon in an old fashioned broadside.
 
Been looking at those 1/200 Vulcan kits too, I see there is one with pre-colored and marked parts and a standard kit now.
 
As one post said, the Vulcan looks good in any form. You would need a serious goal, planning and techniques to make one look bad.

[PR19_Kit]

Didn't the B-52 in the original book, 'The Flight of the Old Dog' IIRC, have 4 engines? CF-6s spring to mind, but that could all have happened later in the series.

[scooter]

Didn't the B-52 in the original book, 'The Flight of the Old Dog' IIRC, have 4 engines? CF-6s spring to mind, but that could all have happened later in the series.

The original B-52I "Old Dog" IIRC still had 8 TF-33s in Flight of the Old Dog.  Fatal Terrain had the 4 CF-6s