A whif in the cover of a book

[ysi_maniac]

http://www.amazon.com/Planes-Gliders-Helicopters-Flying-Machines/dp/1856978699/ref=sr_1_10?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1330971342&sr=1-10

Is that plane in bottom of cover a canceled project? Which one?

[The Wooksta!]

More a nearly was.  Think it's a fixed wing Tornado.

[Nick]

Here's another one I spotted last week,

Wilbur Smith's Eagle In The Sky is a stirring tale of a young man who becomes a jet pilot in the South African Air Force flying Mirages..... So what is that on the cover? 
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Eagle-Sky-Wilbur-Smith/dp/0330244043/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1330991163&sr=1-1

[PR19_Kit]

I've got an earlier copy of 'Eagle in the Sky' and a darn good read it is too, but my printing has a Mirage IIIE on the cover.

[ysi_maniac]

... So what is that on the cover? ...

A f-18 I would say

[rickshaw]

I've got an earlier copy of 'Eagle in the Sky' and a darn good read it is too, but my printing has a Mirage IIIE on the cover.

Second that!  Great book, like most of Smith's.

[perttime]

A f-18 I would say

Definitely a Hornet 

... it's been a while since I last saw one flying over the house.

[The Rat]

More a nearly was.  Think it's a fixed wing Tornado.

That should be a dead simple whif, has anyone ever done it?

[Mossie]

I think there's one in the works.

Here's another one I spotted last week,

Wilbur Smith's Eagle In The Sky is a stirring tale of a young man who becomes a jet pilot in the South African Air Force flying Mirages..... So what is that on the cover? 
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Eagle-Sky-Wilbur-Smith/dp/0330244043/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1330991163&sr=1-1

Dale Brown's Day of the Cheetah had a similar thing going on.  The first cover had a picture of a F-18 in a fetching test scheme of pale grey with purple and yellow stripes.  But the aircraft the title is talking about is the XF-15F Cheetah, basically an operational F-15 SMTD.  Later covers corrected it, but weren't as striking.

[Mr.Creak]

And then there's John Nichol's Tempest...

[kitbasher]

More a nearly was.  Think it's a fixed wing Tornado.

That should be a dead simple whif, has anyone ever done it?

Aeroplanedriver's RAF Tornado FG.5

Never one for needless self promotion...but here is my Tornado FGA.2





Duncan

More a Tornado/Jaguar mash up to me.  Doesn't the FG.5 use F-18 wings?  The FGA.2 build thread explains how A-5 wings were used in that instance.  I'm doing one for the Cosford show that uses inverted F-4 wings to create some TSR.2 lineage. 

[chrisonord]

That fixed wing tornado on the book cover gives me an idea, twin tails from a mig 29 or 31, mig-31 wings, mig-29 engines. A pair of Mig-29 or SU-21 wings might work too.
Chris.

[The Rat]

More a nearly was.  Think it's a fixed wing Tornado.

That should be a dead simple whif, has anyone ever done it?

Aeroplanedriver's RAF Tornado FG.5

Never one for needless self promotion...but here is my Tornado FGA.2





Duncan