F-16 Dérivatives

[Tophe]

Did you know the Eurofighter was a F-16 derivative (of the canard version like the Lavi)?
Below is the proof (that I found in Secret archives in Mydreams Town).

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/eurofighter1000_typhoo.jpg
Due to copyright £ billions charge, this Eurofighter 1000 Typhoo was cancelled and a twin-engined version came (Eurofighter 2000 Typhoon)

I have added it of course to my F-16 what-if site http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/f16ofil.htm

[PR19_Kit]

Close up, a Typhoon is NOTHING like an F-16, but then this is Whiff World..............

[Tophe]

Yes, in my what-if universe, I have today added my 4th MiG of the (extended) F-16 family:

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/MiG-29M1.jpg

[Tophe]

Of course these MiG F-16s were jokes, but... the Sukhoy F-16 was serious (seriously whif):

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/su27m-1.jpg

[Tophe]

Even more seriously, let us go to space!

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/F-16drwD_es.jpg

[Tophe]

Why an air intake on a rocket?
Ahem, the engine is more complex than that, it is rocket+ramjet:
- rocket only at launch
- ramjet in the atmosphere
- rocket in outer space

[ericr]

 

[Tophe]

Thanks!

Now seriousness is off, let us be delirious. Below is the first electric F-16:

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/F-16drwD_eu.jpg
Ahem, this is not a flying machine powered by electric engine, this is a desk toy looking like the symbol of electricity

[PR19_Kit]

Perhaps a stock F-16 with a pantograph on the top to collect power from the overhead wires? 

[Tophe]

Yes! Thanks!

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/F-16drwD_ex.jpg

[PR19_Kit]

Hehehehe, LOVE it! 

[Tophe]

Thanks!

Before drawing the F-16 locomotive to cure Kit's need, I was working on a less serious project: a F-16 smoothing iron (what-if only, not to use actually)

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/F-16drwD_ew.jpg

[ericr]

 

let us have a try to doing it in plastic !

[Tophe]

Thanks!
But do you know a flying "smoothing iron" have actually been built and flown? (or several, in many countries)
See https://www.midilibre.fr/2013/02/20/un-ovni-dans-le-ciel-de-perpignan-non-juste-un-fer-a-repasser-volant,647703.php
They are true flying models with the shape of a smoothing iron but probably they cannot be used to smooth clothes.

[Tophe]

Then a F-16 with a canard foreplane hold by twin-booms:

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/F-16drwD_ey.jpg

Of course happens the question: "why such a design?".
The answer is: to answer another question: "what-if this was tried?"