unconventional float planes or flying boats

[martinbayer]

How about a flying boat with a nuclear rocket engine that could bring 10.000 tons payload per flight into low Earth orbit - a.k.a. the Aldebaran: http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/08/in-praise-of-large-payloads-for-space.html

Martin

[McColm]

Hi Guys,
I know where I've been going wrong with my planned builds, the wing needs to be shoulder mounted. Rather than rig something up why not use a kit that has a high wing, hence the B-47.
As you know I'll be using the engines on other builds. By moving the new engines above the wings/fuselageie CFMs on pylons or Speys from an BAe Nimrod kit. Creating a T-tail at the rear, a raid in the spares bin for wing tip floats. A new cockpit built either from a S-3 Viking or F-111. The landing will be used on the kitbashed Mach2 Valiant AEW (Bison look-a-like).
If I can finish this in time, it's going to Hendon, as the PB-47 Seajet.

[Daryl J.]

One could turn 1/72 BD-5 kits upside down and the entire fuselage could become the floats for some entirely different aircraft.

[McColm]

Just had a thought of adding floats from the Spitfire float plane conversion kit and add them to the Airfix Lockheed U-2 kit.  I could raid the spares bin for two wing tip tanks from an F-104 kit .

[kitnut617]

How many floats are you planning to put on it ?


Mk.V Spit Max' take-off weight 6700 lbs
U-2 Max' take-off weight 40,000 lbs

[McColm]

3
Two under each wing and one to keep the tail pipe out of the water.

[kitnut617]

You'd need six ---

[Diamondback]

You'd need six ---

Off-th-cuff answer: Cut and splice end-to-end, so you have three doubles. Almost same displacement.

Of course, not being intimate with details of Spit floats, it may be a good bit more complex... LOL

[McColm]

Those floats are just the right size for what I have in mind.

[kitnut617]

You'd need six ---

Off-th-cuff answer: Cut and splice end-to-end, so you have three doubles. Almost same displacement.

Of course, not being intimate with details of Spit floats, it may be a good bit more complex... LOL

You'd be better off getting some 1/48 scale Spit' floats, that might be about the right size. But still using three of them mind ---  Out of interest, the empty weight of a U-2 is the same as 'two' fully loaded Spitfires, plus a bit

[Captain Canada]

3
Two under each wing and one to keep the tail pipe out of the water.

2 under each wing and one under the tail equals 5 

[McColm]

Thanks.

[zenrat]

Don't you hate it when reality interrupts your dreams?
I was thinking about putting a Wyvern on floats until I looked up what they weigh.
The usual quote is "weighs the same as a DC3" which isn't strictly true, but it's close.

[kitnut617]

Don't you hate it when reality interrupts your dreams?
I was thinking about putting a Wyvern on floats until I looked up what they weigh.
The usual quote is "weighs the same as a DC3" which isn't strictly true, but it's close.

And you can get DC-3 floats too  ------



Which I've also put on this one;

[McColm]

That's very interesting,thanks.