Future engined warbirds

[Tophe]

I plan to draw Mustangs and Lightnings with "impossible" (future ? in 1946) engines, based on microwaves or ultrasound...

[Tophe]

Here are the SCI-38A, B, C:

SCI was not meaning "Science Fiction" in 1945-46, but "Science", very serious, even if top secret...

[Tophe]

The SCI-38D and E were also using incredible engines, mixed or full...

[Weaver]

Hah, nice one.

Reminds me of an idea I had for a biplane floatplane with a salvaged-from-a-UFO engine driving the prop, which has just landed in a fantasic landscape because the 'engine' has done other things besides making it go fast....

[Rick Lowe]

Hah, nice one.

Reminds me of an idea I had for a biplane floatplane with a salvaged-from-a-UFO engine driving the prop, which has just landed in a fantasic landscape because the 'engine' has done other things besides making it go fast....

"We're not in Kansas anymore..."

Oh, come on - enough groaning out there - you had to have seen that one coming! 

[Tophe]

Of course, in the future, there would be VTOL with revolutionary engines (for lift and speed). The 2 versions are feasibility prototype and commercial one.

[zenrat]

 Hey Tophe, how about microwave engines that can also cook in flight snacks?
Or maybe they microwave corn for fuel which provides thrust with it's popping action?  You'd need to include a following flock of greedy seagulls...

[Tophe]

Thanks zenrat, your words are funny, but not easy to illustrate...

[Tophe]

Other mysterious (dangerous?) engines...

[Tophe]

No historian knows what this engine was, but obviously it was dangerous for the pilot...

[Tophe]

The AWa-38A, Z, M seem to refer to Angular Waves 38, regular, zwilling, mistel, but this is not sure, this is still secret...

[Tophe]

I don't know what Aerodynamic push means, but the 3 models below seem to be: glider-test, airplane-test, Real Thing! (ahem, "Real" maybe is not the good word, because this was too expensive and was never built, up to now 70 years later).

[Tophe]

What a hell is this power project?! The code is Mgn-38 (versions A, B, C), but did that mean Magnetic or Magnesium or else?
(If this is a tool to break the space-time continuum, maybe the speed is above the speed of light, 761 million miles per hour...)

[Tophe]

Futuristic Lightnings with double solenoids making a huge force (no matter drag) from the Earth electrical field...

[AXU]

Imagination has no limits...keep them coming Cristophe !