Whiffs found on Facebook

[TheChronicOne]

Found on the ARC Aircraft Resource Center page. By M Razali Ahmad.

"This is my 1/72 Scale Converted Lockheed F/B-22N "Sea Raptor". This is another one of my "what-if"s plane. A Proposed Raptor navalized variant swing-wing derivative of the F-22 Raptor was considered for the United States Navy through the "Navy Advanced Tactical Fighter" (NATF) program but was formally dropped from contention in 1993.
I used both 1/72 Scale HobbyBoss F-22 + the F-14B and combined the swing wing of the Tomcat to fit to the Raptor. No 3D machine was used here.
This is my original conversion airplane."


This is a PUBLIC group, so the link should work and there are a good number more pics here:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/215551215532252/permalink/496179704136067/

[Tophe]

That Dan Thompson's Batplane, the model is over twenty years old, it got a 2nd in
Hypothetical at the 1996 IPMS-USA Nationals:
http://www.ourworlds.net/batman/batplane/batplane40.html

Yes, but... a single engine was not enough for the powerful Batman!

[TheChronicOne]

Found on the Facebook Scale Modellers page, by Veli Vahap Saltik.

[TheChronicOne]

Mystery plane found on the Greatest Planes That Never Were page:

[Tophe]

VLO-ly wow!

[PR19_Kit]

Awesome!

It should stay airborne for at least......oooh 5 mins after taking off vertically. 

[Snowtrooper]

Mystery plane found on the Greatest Planes That Never Were page:

It's the Lockheed CL-704 project proposed for NATO Basic Military Requirement 3 (NMBR-3), the same for which P.1154, VJ 101 and a whole lot of other weird concepts were proposed. The project actually resulted in a full-size mockup and the engine pods were tested on a vanilla Zipper but there never was a "genuine" CL-704 prototype built from ground up. Project was terminated after the P.1154 was chosen to fulfill NBMR-3, then P.1154 was discontinued in turn (and NMBR-3 withdrawn) and we got the Harrier instead.

[jcf]

Awesome!

It should stay airborne for at least......oooh 5 mins after taking off vertically. 

Have a race with this one to see who'd be first over the airfield fence, or could reach the fence.

[PR19_Kit]

And they really did build and fly RA490, the largest span Meteor ever built (apart from the PR19s of course  ) '490 had its Derwents mounted 8 feet (!) further forward and the exhausts could be diverted down at an angle to improve its take-off performance.

You can see the extra ducts under the wing here.

[jcf]

Yep, one of my favourite WTF? machines.   

[Knightflyer]

This is one of the EWR VJ 101s(the West German 'entry') in the restoration hanger at the Deutsches Museum Flugwerft Schleissheim near Munich, see recently by me 

when I was young (way back in the 70s) my uncle used to pass on his old copies of Flight International to me - I was VERY fascinated by all these exotic VTOL projects - the VJ101 did look like Thunderbirds come to life!





They also have the Dornier Do 31 (to NBMR-4) and the VFW VAK 191B - a brilliant place

[TheChronicOne]

By Stan Chung found on the ARC Aircraft Resource Center page.

"
She is done..if the Navy took the F-16 and color it in their Blue Angels coat..."

[TheChronicOne]

By Dean McEvaddy  found on the Facebook Scale Modellers page.

"something different 😀"

[TheChronicOne]

Last one for now, and I save the best for last. I haven't even read it yet, but he wrote a hell of a story to go with it and I adore the paint job, etc...


By Snorres Scalemodel Mayhem found on the Snorres Scalemodel Mayhem page.


"Before you start reading: this is a fictional story, based on things that actually happened... some of the facts have been altered slightly to make a better story. Now... happy reading 🙂

It was a Crisp winter morning. Colonel Gösta Lindblom had woken up early and been laying beside his wife in the dark a while before he got out of bed. He ate a small breakfast and had a cup of coffee before kissing his wife Elena goodbye and walking out the front door. He got in his Saab 900 and headed for the Base. He was attached to the 7th Air wing, based at Såtenäs airbase on the southern shore of Lake Vänern. He listened to the radio while driving but his mind was elsewhere.. The radio spoke of a Blizzard in Ohio, Indiana and several other states Far away in USA, but he was too lost in his own mind to register it. He only had a short drive from home to the base, and he arrived at the Main gate a little after 6 in the morning. The gate guard saluted him, and let him through. He parked the car in front of the officers mess hall and went in. The coffee was good. It was the one thing they knew how to make there. He talked to a few of the other pilots there but was not in the mood for too much chatter, so he went over to the briefing-area to start preparing for the mission he was going to fly later in the day.

8.59 AM. He looked out over the instrument panel watching the Light drizzle of snow coming down. He was lined up on the runway, waiting for the Take off clearance. Sitting there, strapped into the seat, he could hear the hissing from the Oxygen mask, and feel the vibration from the turbine that was spinning somewhere behind him inside the body of the plane. He checked the map that was strapped to his knee, and looked out the HUD again as the takeoff Clearance came in. He acknowledged it, released the bakes and pushed the throttle all the way forward. Somewhere behind him the Volvo RM8 stopped Vibrating, as the RPM of the Turbine increased, and the Gentle Rumble Turned into a Violent Roar as the engine started spraying jet fuel straight into the Exhaust lighting that Massive afterburner. Colonel Lindblom Smiled from ear to ear as he was sucked back into the seat when the Plane Accelerated down the runway. He loved that feeling. Every care in the world disappeared and he was focused on what he was going to do on this mission as he pulled back on the stick and the Mighty Saab Viggen climbed upward and headed through the clouds. He looked to his right confirming that his wingman was there.

The mission was shooting practice over Lake Vänern. They started with a couple of simulated strafing runs as planned. His wingman all of a sudden reported a warning lamp had come alive and as the standard procedure was, he had to head back towards the base. As The SOP stated, he was to accompany his wingman back to base, making sure he got there, but In a Cloudbank over Vänern Gösta Decided to make his move. He had been planning it for a while, watching the Superpowers of the world gearing up for the ultimate confrontation. He couldn't just sit there in neutral Sweden and do nothing. He broke Hard to the right and headed for the deck, leaving his wingman to fend for himself. He headed straight east. He was flying low. Scary low, even for a seasoned pilot. The only way to beat the radar was to fly so low that you could blend in to the surroundings, and he did. Flying at approximately 400 mph he knew he´d be in Tallinn in a little under an hour, if he could avoid getting caught.

His wingman returned to Såtenäs and debriefed. Search and rescue was launched to find the missing plane and Pilot that had disappeared off radar somewhere over Vänern. The Plane and Pilot was of course never found. The official report stated that Saab AJ-37 Viggen Sn 37036 had crashed into the lake, and sunk to the bottom. There were scattered reports about a Low-lying plane bending treetops south of Örebro and a loud rumble scaring dogs south west of Huddinge, but there were no official actions taken regarding that. Two weeks later the Lindblom Widow Moved out of the house, packed the car and headed east. She was last seen on the Baltic Sea ferry.

A few years later on the 13th of August a Sr-71 on a Classified Photo-mission over Murmansk had to divert to Bodø in the north of Norway and landed there Whit a badly damaged engine. The official story was Hydraulic Failure in the left engine. But both the Pilot and the RSO later swore that they had been shot at by a strangely colored Swedish plane, over Russian territory. They were never believed.

Behind one of the hangars at the Kilp-Yavr Airbase near Murmansk stand a few broken and old planes. Memories of a bygone era. You can find a few Mig-15, a couple of Mig-23M, one Mig-17PF that someone has tattooed with Graffitti. You can even find the remains of a LA-11 and two almost airworthy Su-27 from the 941st Fighter aviation Regiment. If you walk further down along that Road, and continue through some bushes, all the way back against the fence at the end of the base, you will find a strangely shaped plane with Russian markings and colors, but it is clear that the design is not Russian. If you look closely you can still make out the number 37036 under the faded blue paint at the base of the tail."













For some reason, there are pictures of a couple other builds in the series, one would appear to be a stock SR-71 but then there's this:





Fresco! 


I like this dudes style..



EDIT:  This hit a new page, be sure to go back a page for the other new ones I found!

[Snowtrooper]

^ that Fresco reminds me of this RW whiff, a Lim-5 in front of the Finnish Air Force Museum (no, we never flew them) and painted as suggested by elementary school pupils:
https://www.ilmailumuseot.fi/tuotteet.html?id=20170/275180