Printed at last

[nev]

Oooooh, now that is funky!

I have no idea how it would fly, but it sure looks good    

[Tophe]

using longer single struts (much like those on the Spitfire floatplanes) rather than two smaller ones per float.

It reminded me Alvis' Float-Lightning  
Of course, the 'final' what-if project from Lockheed was a little different for the sluts and rear booms, but no doubt several shapes have been considered...
The float-Lightning was intended to be sent to the Philippines , to save my father in law, I guess  

[NARSES2]

like my Caudron Renault 714 Floatplane fighter which will make her debut at Telford.

Do you have a picture? And from which box were the floats coming from?

Final pieces need adding Tophe and then there will be photo's.

The floats came from the Airfix Auster Antarctic

Chris

[elmayerle]

using longer single struts (much like those on the Spitfire floatplanes) rather than two smaller ones per float.

It reminded me Alvis' Float-Lightning  
Of course, the 'final' what-if project from Lockheed was a little different for the sluts and rear booms, but no doubt several shapes have been considered...
The float-Lightning was intended to be sent to the Philippines , to save my father in law, I guess

Yeah, if memory serves me correctly, the final floatplane P-38 design had the raised tail section that was actually flight tested

[Tophe]

the final floatplane P-38 design had the raised tail section that was actually flight tested

had been flight tested and... had killed the test pilot, during the first flight
not a page of glory, there will probably never be a commercial kit...  

[Tophe]

It reminded me Alvis' Float-Lightning Of course, the 'final' what-if project from Lockheed was a little different

One more tribute to our dear Alvis: his biplane Corsair   was not crazy, as the Nakajima B3N1 was designed this way... (the picture is from the nice Putnam book 'Japanese aircraft 1910-1941')

[elmayerle]

It reminded me Alvis' Float-Lightning Of course, the 'final' what-if project from Lockheed was a little different

One more tribute to our dear Alvis: his biplane Corsair   was not crazy, as the Nakajima B3N1 was designed this way... (the picture is from the nice Putnam book 'Japanese aircraft 1910-1941')

Outside of not having any interwing struts, it's not that far off, either, from the study Beech did for a fighter derived from their Model 17.  Granted, only the top wing was "bent", it retained the negative stagger, and it had an Allison but the basic concept was there.

[nev]

Thanks for posting that Nakajimi B3N1, it sure is an interesting looking plane

*wonders if Choroszy Modelbud do one being as they are big into inter-war Japanese types*

[Tophe]

Received!    "The end of Forked Ghosts" is at home   . So, I plan:
- tonight: making the parcel of both books for Captain Canada, TSR-Joe, Glenn-Lyn, Alvis3.1, Libelula [to be posted tomorrow evening, slow rate...]
- till the end of this week: making the parcel of the twin-boom book for Nev, Martin H, JHM, Supertom, Sisko, Jschmus, Linzifox, Aircavpinkteam, The-Wooksta, D-ONUT (& Tony Buttler, Igor Shestakov, Justo Miranda, Dan Johnson...), making the parcels with many books of mine for Ollie, JCC and other friends speaking French [to be posted next monday evening].
- next week: write the procedure to get my last twin-boom book for free, as print-it yourself on your home-printer.
- someday (if they send me by mail their address... ) send the twin-boom book to Allan, JoeP, Swamphen, Joesus, Jeffryfontaine, DarylJohnson.
Busy weeks to come... I have started to write an addition to the Asymmetric aircraft web site of Unicraft , but I must stop . Maybe in December, we will see.

[Tophe]

Oops... I have not forgotten our dear Evan, but there will be a special envoice for him, in December, with the source pictures from different books, to find and gather and copy. Please wait, Evan, I don't forget...

[Ollie]

Merci Tophe!

J'attends ton colis avec impatience!

 

[Captain Canada]

Thanks for posting that Nakajimi B3N1, it sure is an interesting looking plane

You got that right...is it ever different looking !

Would make one heck of a sight on the warbird circuit, eh ?

 

[Captain Canada]

Thanks Tophe ! looking forward to seeing them !

 

[Ollie]

Tophe!

J'ai reçu ton paquet, ils sont vraiment chouettes tes livres!!

Merci mille fois!

       

[Tophe]

Tophe! J'ai reçu ton paquet, ils sont vraiment chouettes tes livres!! Merci mille fois!        

Thanks a lot! But they are not exactly MY books, but OUR books, celebrating the ideas of many ones among us. Thanks to all...