Lego Reskyukyu

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Jacky #10: push-pull with 4 booms again

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Jacky #11: asymmetric push-pull pod-and-boom

[TheChronicOne]

Thanks. I hope you will show us pictures...

HA!!   They've all been disassembled many many years ago!  That said, I do believe I still have the bulk of my LEGO and could probably pretty closely replicate some of the stuff I built back then. I might build one!

As far as that goes, I was contemplating a few months back getting into buying LEGO kits again. Especially trying to get some of the stuff I had back as a child. One that stood out for me was an airplane from the Town line:





Jacky's airplanes are great, especially #2. 

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Jacky #12 (last, of yesterday at least): very asymmetric push-pull

[TheChronicOne]

Jacky #11: asymmetric push-pull pod-and-boom

There we go!! He's been learnin' from Pops. 

[Tophe]

Thanks!
This morning, my son played again...
Jacky #13: another push-pull, with booms on the fuselage


Jacky #13 again: the underside, to prove this is a flying boat (with the kid's hands to show the "scale")


Jacky #14: similar but with rear engines, push-pull for fun (and no intermeshing propellers)


Jacky #15: I said this one is impossible to fly but he said this is a boat, that has to go in every direction, all right...


Jacky #16: push-pull and drag, no booms alas...


Jacky #17: very asymmetric twin-boomer


Jacky #18: this one may be a triple boomer, but STOL with orientable pusher propeller


Jacky #19: this flying wing seaplane is showing its rear door


Jacky #20: very asymmetric canard again


Jacky #21: triplex boom asymmetric twin-pusher


Jacky #22: the same with staggered wings for improved balance...

This is all (for this morning at least)...

[NARSES2]

Brilliant 

[Tophe]

Thanks!
Dear Chronic1, my (filipino) son Jacky was jealous of your 4-engined twin-boom plane, so he considers mixing this new (2-engined) twin-boom seaplane with his former (2-engined) twin-boom landplane:


Here is the first result, using Daddy's way (asymmetric for fun)


And the second mix:

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beautiful combinatorics !

[TheChronicOne]

Like Tim "The Toolman" Taylor says, you can never have enough POWER! 

Good lookin' birds there and cute kid!   


I'll probably dig my bucket of known LEGO out today and see if I by some amazing happenstance have all the stuff still to make that 4 engine medic, or if not, something close to it. Either way I'm buyin' one off eBay. 

[Weaver]

Nice ones - you're both obviously having lots of fun. Lego is a great toy.

By way of inspiration, I think I'm right in saying that there's a configuration you've not tried yet, and it's a relatively sane one too. See if one or the other of you can figure out what it is....

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We have not tried "tail-sitter" and "floatplane" but this is not easy for a flying boat.
Biplane may be another way, yes, maybe
No? ANother one?

[Weaver]

We have not tried "tail-sitter" and "floatplane" but this is not easy for a flying boat.
Biplane may be another way, yes, maybe
No? ANother one?

Nope, there's another much simpler one than that.

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There are simpler ways with a single engine, but my son doesn't like "not using all the parts" (I insisted to make the picture "flying wing" before he transformed it in something else, "finished" according to him).

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Jacky #25, not going simple but 3 pusher engines and one tractor: