WHIFS from other forums

[PR19_Kit]

Tailwheel jets are pretty rare, the Supermarine Attacker was the only one to ever see service in the UK forces AFAIK.

AFAIK, the Yak-15/17 was the only other type in service - and both were more or less hastily conversions of piston-driven fighter designs. The Yak-15 is more obvious, but the Attacker was based on the Spiteful - even though just the wings were the only visible remnants.

Besides, Polish Navy paint schemes are highly recommended if you want a colorful whif. As sick as the Attacker looks, this is authentic, and only one of the possible color combos. Did a MiG-19 in such a guise some time a go, and it looks great! 

Ah yes, I'd forgotten the two Yaks. Stupid of me as I'd built the twinned Yak-15Db some years ago. 

I've always fought shy of doing an Attacker, probably because one tried its best to kill me and its pilot when I was a lad, and when it failed in the attempt it went and landed all by itself in a huff. 

[Dizzyfugu]

Prototype Me 262 was a taildragger.  I had thought it was just the piston engined version that was configured this way but then I was watching Nazi Megastructures - Hitlers Jet Caves and they used footage of a tail dragging 262 with Jumo 004s.

The earlier He 178 was a tail-dragger, too, but just a prototype. IIRC there was also a Soviet tail-dragger rocktplane (also only a prototype).

[KJ_Lesnick]

Go4fun,

Here is one a guy is working on in a group of mine about model vehicles. It started as a drawing and went from there.

That's a really good drawing, you got skills.


Dizzyfugu,

Stumbled across this interesting Cold War interpretation of MiG-29 satellite images:

I actually like this design a lot!

[TheChronicOne]

Wow... that's glorious! I like it, too.   

[zenrat]

And of course the Me 163 was a taildragger.  At least on takeoff.

[Dizzyfugu]

Nice to see that the Arawasi blog appreciates the idea of Hikoki '46 whifs, and this one here just turned up: a Mitsubishi G4M2-E "Kamo" (Duck)



More pics and backgorund info here: http://arawasi-wildeagles.blogspot.de/2016/12/mitsubishi-g4m2-e-kamo-duck-by-george.html

[TheChronicOne]

I like that!! 

[Tophe]

I like that!!

I feel different sorry... I love that

[Caveman]

Haha, duck, I get it!

[Dizzyfugu]

Cool build. And it almost looks as if they had an R2 unit aboard?! 

[TheChronicOne]

I was thinking the same thing!  Bloop beep bloop.

[Dizzyfugu]

My fans from the Ukraine got hold of the recent Gladiator floatplane from the Old Kit GB:

https://translate.google.de/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Falternathistory.com%2Falternativnye-gidrosamolety-istrebiteli-gloster-gladiator-mkii-hidro-velikobritaniyaportugaliya&edit-text=

Alternatively, the original link to the post:
http://alternathistory.com/alternativnye-gidrosamolety-istrebiteli-gloster-gladiator-mkii-hidro-velikobritaniyaportugaliya

[kerick]

My fans from the Ukraine got hold of the recent Gladiator floatplane from the Old Kit GB:

https://translate.google.de/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Falternathistory.com%2Falternativnye-gidrosamolety-istrebiteli-gloster-gladiator-mkii-hidro-velikobritaniyaportugaliya&edit-text=

Alternatively, the original link to the post:
http://alternathistory.com/alternativnye-gidrosamolety-istrebiteli-gloster-gladiator-mkii-hidro-velikobritaniyaportugaliya

Are they taking your pics and writing all they text? At least I saw they give you credit.

[zenrat]

Cool build. And it almost looks as if they had an R2 unit aboard?! 

Yes, shades of Y-Wing.

[Dizzyfugu]

Are they taking your pics and writing all they text? At least I saw they give you credit.

As far as I can tell, it's a completely newly written or at least highly edited and sometimes also modified text - even though some facts from my description are taken over.