Duck monoplane & He70, yellow : hybrid aircraft/animals e.a.

[ericr]

thanks !

Good for the remaining parts! So much better in your creative hands than in the garbage can!

I never ever throw any part into the garbage 

[ericr]

the other way round, simply :

[PR19_Kit]

That works VERY well, you can just imagine that blasting off from the catapult on some massive carrier. 

[Tophe]

Won-der-ful!
i am clapping my hands so much, it hurts...

[ericr]

thanks 

[NARSES2]

That works VERY well, you can just imagine that blasting off from the catapult on some massive carrier. 

Indeed  I'm visualising it in Armée de l'Air colour's as a Mirage IV rival/replacement ?

[Cobra]

These are Awesome i could Picture either one in an Episode of Thunderbirds,Stingray,Captian scarlet,or Joe 90 Not to Mention Jonny Quest! Keep up the Superb Work Dan

[steelpillow]

Its wing area is not far off that of the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, but its weight is a lot less. Those pure turbojets would have really come into their own at high altitudes too, but its range would have been less, not so much from the US to Russia but say from France to Russia. It is obviously the little-known and never-admitted Dassault Mirage VI Merle high-altitude reconnaissance craft. Not quite as fast as its US namesake (Merle is French for Blackbird), but with an operational ceiling some 50,000 ft higher.

[ericr]

thanks again, and thanks for the cover story proposal 

[PR19_Kit]

But why does it have an arrestor hook though?

[ericr]

a potential navalization 

[NARSES2]

But why does it have an arrestor hook though?

Seriously didn't a few land based aircraft of the time have them ?

[Snowtrooper]

But why does it have an arrestor hook though?

Seriously didn't a few land based aircraft of the time have them ?

A "few". F-100*, F-102*, F-104*, F-105, F-106*, F-111, F-117, F-15, F-16, F-22, Jaguar, Tornado, and Draken all have tailhooks (probably even more have them, but those I know of...)

*) Installed as part of upgrade program and/or in later models

[PR19_Kit]

Yes, but land based aircraft's hooks tend to be less stressed than the full-on carrier types. Ericr's Hustlercat has a full-on F-14 hook.

[steelpillow]

An arrester system was found necessary because of the plane's unique characteristics. Like all long-endurance, high-altitude planes, after a mission its wing loading is unusually low. With a high-speed, low-drag type this creates a tendency to float along in ground effect, still quite fast, when attempting to land. In the case of the tailless delta, landing flaps must be kept small to avoid pitch trim issues and the problem is traditionally overcome by pitching the nose steeply up - in effect the whole plane becomes its own airbrake. The Merle is an extreme example and pitches up especially steeply, making it impossible for the pilot to judge the approach accurately. A late touchdown is all too likely, hence the need for an arrester system towards the far end of the runway. The chosen solution was arrester wires across the last 100 metres or so of runway, together with a tailhook.
Don't any of you guys read the history books?