LCM & sails, red : hybrid aircraft/animals e.a.

[PR19_Kit]

I've always wondered how Electras flew with such short wings, and with that that heavyweight fuselage (and especially that FIN) I'm even more surprised that the turbo-B-50 can. 

[ericr]

the RB-50 is the reco version 

Looks like a Reno Racer version?

ah yes, in retrospect, good idea ! 

[NARSES2]

Ideal for flying through those narrow mountain passes 

[McColm]

it is often said that any aircraft can be improved by fitting longer wings, and/or a longer fuselage,
but it is not exactly the case here ...

Wow! All that needs is the Grumman E-2 Hawkeye rotodome,  I'm going to have to buy another two kits!

[ericr]

 
aha with an Awacs thing it would look at least as good for sure

[ericr]

the Orion fuselage received Stirling wings ...

[PR19_Kit]

So the Stirling will get the B-50s wings and engines?

That'd be a HUGE improvement on the original! 

[McColm]

That looks as if it was meant to be   

[ericr]

So the Stirling will get the B-50s wings and engines?

this time I try to be a little less predictable ...

[Mossie]

I misread that as onion & Stirling.  And I didn't think that was unusual!

[ericr]

I do have a plastic carrot in my stash ...

(and a few miniature bananas as well)

[NARSES2]

That looks as if it was meant to be   

Yes, from some angles, but it does make you realise how short the Stirling's wingspan was having been made to fit in with existing hangar dimensions.

[PR19_Kit]

Yes, from some angles, but it does make you realise how short the Stirling's wingspan was having been made to fit in with existing hangar dimensions.

I've read somewhere that that wasn't actually the case, but it was a convenient 'excuse' for the Stirling's lack of altitude performance.

I think it was an Aeroplane Magazine article, but I'm not 100% sure.

[NARSES2]

Yes, from some angles, but it does make you realise how short the Stirling's wingspan was having been made to fit in with existing hangar dimensions.

I've read somewhere that that wasn't actually the case, but it was a convenient 'excuse' for the Stirling's lack of altitude performance.

I think it was an Aeroplane Magazine article, but I'm not 100% sure.

That's interesting Kit. To be honest I've always assumed it was true because it sounded like the type of thing the MOD and other Government bodies would do, but there again those various bodies also have a long history of spin (before the word was used in that sense) and excuse making 

[JayBee]

I misread that as onion & Stirling.  And I didn't think that was unusual!

Ditto!