Corsair & Ducks à la BV P170, red : hybrid aircraft/animals e.a.

[Tophe]

Wow! A DC-707???!!
(if civilian, I mean)
This is like "the missing link I was hoping to discover someday" (without being conscious of what was missing in the world)... Thank you so much!

[ericr]

 

[steelpillow]

Wow! A DC-707???!!
(if civilian, I mean)
This is like "the missing link I was hoping to discover someday" (without being conscious of what was missing in the world)... Thank you so much!

Took me a good few seconds of staring at a perfectly good aeroplane before I could figure out the whiff. Congratulations Eric.

[zenrat]

That really does work well.  Excellent job.   

[NARSES2]

That really does work well.  Excellent job.   

It is brilliant 

[PR19_Kit]

I'm sorely tempted to build one just like that, finish it in an RW airline scheme and see what the Airliner SIG makes of it at Telford! 

[ericr]

thanks all !

the concept might be tried in 1/144 as well of course 

[ericr]

thanks all !

the concept might be tried in 1/144 as well of course 

I mean :
a 1/144 B707 instead of 1/72 with a 1/96 C-47 instead of 1/48 (if the latter exists ...)
or
a 1/72 C-47 with a 1/108 B707  (if the latter exists ...)

[ericr]

the reciprocal : maybe slightly less believable, but well, it had to be tried, by symmetry 

[Tophe]

This new one is wonderful also! as missing link between old-style and modern!

maybe slightly less believable

I don't like this bad word "believable"...
I believe in dreams...
Isn't it what is written on our banknotes here? : "In Dream we trust!"

[steelpillow]

Wonderful undercarriage combo. Clearly designed to carry something heavy.

This was the US consortium's submission to the EU to carry all its Parliamentary papers between Brussels and Strasbourg for each sitting. The Dakota-style fuselage was included as a reference to the Berlin Airlift, in an emotive appeal to transatlantic solidarity. The plan was ultimately rejected because it would show up the late-running fiasco of the Parliamentary Records Digitisation programme (RPO - Registres Parliamentaires a l'Ordinateur). It was even suggested that the "taildragger" configuration was a sly reference to the RPO dragging its tail and the McDonnell-Douglas-Boeing consortium replied that on the contrary, it expressed the EU's vision that the RPO would one day take off and fly, you must remember the news headlines! 

[NARSES2]

Tut, tut Mr Pillow 

That is marvellous although perhaps it needs some form of undercarriage under the wing tips ? They look mighty close to the ground

[PR19_Kit]

THAT  is amazing Ericr! I just love it! 

[ericr]

thanks a lot !

[zenrat]

Tut, tut Mr Pillow 

That is marvellous although perhaps it needs some form of undercarriage under the wing tips ? They look mighty close to the ground

I had the same thought.  Although as it got rolling they would flex upwards as lift was generated.